Keep this article away from Hillary.
Posted on 12/27/2004 6:33:57 AM PST by bedolido
CHICAGO - (KRT) - One imagines the Persian queen smiling warmly as she passes the food down the table to her daughter-in-law. Queen Parysatis, during the reign of her son, Artaxerxes II (405 to 359 B.C.), was trying to influence a power struggle within the kingdom and had felt the need to be rid of her daughter-in-law. She poisoned one side of a knife that then was used to bisect a roast bird at dinner. Taking the untainted half for herself, she passed the rest, knowing - hence the smile - that her problem was all but solved.
Recorded instances of poison as a remover of human obstacles go back 6,500 years and remain as current as the headlines about the attempted assassination by poisoning of a presidential candidate in Ukraine.
"Poisoning," said John H. Trestrail III, "goes back as far as politics goes back. Poison penetrates power."
Trestrail, trained as a pharmacist with 29 years of study in toxicology and a more recent specialization in forensic toxicology, is the world's nexus of murder by poison. About once a day, an e-mail arrives at his office at the Center for the Study of Criminal Poisoning in Battle Creek, Mich. It will be from a fellow toxicologist somewhere on the globe and will detail yet another intentional poisoning.
Trestrail's database has 1,036 such cases as this is written, and the huge database in his head allows him to summon up from memory - like Milton Berle could with jokes or Julia Child with recipes - astonishing bursts of information.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotte.com ...
Keep this article away from Hillary.
Pass the mushrooms please!!!
Note to self...do NOT eat the chicken when visiting mother-in-law's house....
Note to self...do NOT eat the chicken when visiting mother-in-law's house....
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Do NOT eat the mother-in-law either !!! ;-))
Kurou Anabaseôs
I. Dareiou kai Parusatidos gignontai paides duo, presbuteros men Artaxerxês, neôteros de Kuros: epei de êsthenei Dareios kai hupôpteue teleutên tou biou, ebouleto tô paide amphoterô pareinai.
traduca por favor
Timely article what with current headlines on the Yushchenko poisoning.
Does anyone know if it is available anywhere on DVD? I taped it several years ago when it re-ran on PBS, but the tapes are of horrible quality, and I am missing parts of two episodes due to a VCR malfunction.
Are YOU the one that's getting cat hair all over everything????
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One would need to heed whether they carved left handed or right handed.
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