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History's Strangest Deaths Publisher / Barnes Foundation philosophical and literary backgrounds wereHistory's Strangest Deaths, the debut book from Riley Knight, host of the popular podcast Half Arsed History, highlights the many and varied ways that people have met their end over the years, from the foolish to the absurd. From a classical Greek playwright killed by a tortoise dropping out of the sky to an ancient Chinese duke falling into a toilet; from a Viking raider bitten by a severed head to a lawyer shooting himself to prove a legal point;