历史名人的30种最奇怪死法_幽默滑稽_生活休闲.doc

30 Strangest Deaths in History. Update 1/16/08: Hello, Diggers! While you ’ re here, please take a look at Neatorama ’s homepage for more fun stuff or subscribe toour RSS Feed . Death by Embracing the Reflection of the Moon Chinese poet Li Po (701-706) is regarded asone of the two greatest poets in China ’s literary history. He was well known for his love of liquor and often spouted his greatest poems while drunk. One night, Li Po fell from his boat and drowned in the Yangtze River while trying to embrace the reflection of the moon in the water. Death by Beard Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world ’s longest beard (it was feet or nearly m long) and for dying because of it. One day in1567, there was a fire in town and in his haste Hans forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died! Death From Holding a Pee In Danish nobleman and astronomer Tycho Brahe [wiki] was one interesting fellow. He kept a dwarf asa court jester who sat under the table during dinner. He even had a tame pet moose. Tycho also lost the tipof his nose ina duel with another Danish nobleman and had to wear a "dummy" nose made from silver and gold, but that ’s another story. It was said that Tycho had to hold his pee during one particularly long banquet in1601 (getting up in the middle ofa dinner was considered really rude) that his bladder, strained to its limits, developed an infection which later killed him! Later analyses suggested that Tycho died because of mercury poisoning but that ’snot nearly as interesting as the original story. Death by Conductor ’s Cane While conducting the hymnal Te Deum for French King Louis XIV in1687, Jean-Baptiste Lully was so focused in keeping the rhythm by banging a staff against the floor (this was the method before conductor ’s baton came into use), that he struck his toe hard but refused to stop. The toe developed an abscess, which later turned gangrenous, but Lully r