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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Only a Poor Old Man, post: 6594966, member: 111037&quot;][USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER] great thread, but as others have noted, your criteria pretty much includes everyone! This thread is going to get long! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] suggested, we can break it into sub-categories and we can make a fun-game out of it. I have a perfect candidate for the &#039;died from unnatural causes while taking a bath&#039; category. Romanos III didn&#039;t marry out of love and he didn&#039;t die loved either, especially by his wife Zoe, who was the likely culprit. There is a cool solidus of her and her sister in the upcoming Roma auction, for those that can possibly afford it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1265815[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot of nasty things you can say about emperors, but in an era where personal hygiene was not a priority, many of them enjoyed taking baths despite the many evident dangers.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course in a thread about violent deaths I could not possibly leave this guy out:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1265820[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think if he had the choice, he would certainly have opted for a bathtub death. Here is a copy of the wikipedia entry regarding his death:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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