Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 17 February 1600

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Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 17th of February 1600 425 years ago
Philosopher, mathematician and astrologer Giordano Bruno born as Filippo Bruno is executed by burning at the stake at the age of 52 in Campo de' Fiori, Rome, Lazio, Italy. When the fire had died out Bruno's ashes were dumped into the Tiber river.
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