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Famous last Words.....

Famous and unusual ways people have met their end....

Attila the Hun (406 - 453)
He was one of history's most notorious villains. By 450, he had conquered Asia, destroying every village in his path and pillaging the countryside from Mongolia to the outer edges of the Russian Empire.

He died of a nosebleed on his wedding night. The men who buried him and his treasures in 453 were put to death immediately so that the feared barbarian's grave would never be discovered.

George Sanders (1906 - 72)
The british actor won an academy award for his role as a sarcastic theatre critic in All About Eve. He also played the lead in the 1956 film Death of A Scoundrel and a schoolteacher who takes his own life in Village of The Damned. According to the short note found in his room where hie died, he killed himself because he was bored !!

Pancho Villa (1878 - 1923)
After having been shot in battle, the mexican revolutionary turned to a journalist who was nearby and shouted: Don't let it end like this! Tell them I said nothing" emoticon

John Sedgwick (1813 - 64)
The General union commander was killed in battle during the US Cival War. His last words were 'They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance'. emoticon

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
he spoke his last words on his deathbed but we will never know what they were - his nurse didn't speak German. emoticon