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23 hours ago · There are various reports of cannibalism during the Great Famine of 1315–1317 in Europe, including cases of desperate people killing and consuming their own family members. [36] [37] According to the 14th-century traveller Odoric of Pordenone , the inhabitants of Lamuri , a kingdom in northern Sumatra , purchased slave children from foreign merchants to "slaughter them in the shambles and ...
23 hours ago · Yu Wing Chan. A 57-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her 66-year-old husband in a murder-suicide bid yesterday in their Mid-Levels flat. The husband is in intensive care at Queen Mary ...
23 hours ago · Murder pamphlet, 1812. Zhang Yingyu's The Book of Swindles (c. 1617) is a late Ming dynasty collection of stories about allegedly true cases of fraud. Works in the related Chinese genre of court case fiction (gong'an xiaoshuo), such as the 16th-century Cases of Magistrate Bao, were either inspired by historical events or else purely fictional.
