Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair. Glasgow smile. "Chelsea grin" redirects here.
For the band, see Chelsea Grin. A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea smile, or a Glasgow, Chelsea, or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making small cuts on the corners of a victim's mouth, then beating or stabbing him or her until the muscles in the face contract, causing the cuts to extend up the cheeks to the victim's ears. This leaves a scar in the shape of a smile, hence the name.[1][2][3] The act is usually performed with a utility knife or a piece of broken glass,[4] leaving a scar which causes the victim to appear to be smiling broadly and may lead to death by exsanguination if left untreated. The practice is said to have originated in Glasgow, Scotland,[citation needed] but became popular with English street gangs (especially among the Chelsea Headhunters,[5] a London-based hooligan firm, where it is known as a "Chelsea grin" or "Chelsea smile").
In media[edit] British metalcore band Bring Me The Horizon has a song called "Chelsea Smile". Lists of weapons. Lists of weapons From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search There is a bewildering array of weapons, far more than would be useful in list form.
Therefore, a particular weapon is best found within one or more of the following sub-lists: Contents. History of crime. Forensic Science. Ching Shih. Ching Shih Ching Shih (1775–1844)[1] (simplified Chinese: 郑氏; traditional Chinese: 鄭氏; pinyin: Zhèng Shì; Cantonese: Jihng Sih; "widow of Zheng"), also known as Cheng I Sao (simplified Chinese: 郑一嫂; traditional Chinese: 鄭一嫂; pinyin: Zhèng Yī Sǎo; Cantonese: Jihng Yāt Sóu; "wife of Zheng Yi"), was a prominent pirate in middle Qing China, who terrorized the China Sea in the early 19th century.
She commanded over 300 junks manned by 20,000 to 40,000 pirates[2] another estimate has Cheng's fleet at 1800 and crew at about 80,000[3][4]— men, women, and even children. Water dropwort. Oenanthe crocata The water dropworts, Oenanthe /ɔɪˈnænθiː/, are a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae.
Most of the species grow in damp ground, in marshes or in water. Several of the species are extremely poisonous, the active poison being oenanthotoxin. The most notable of these is O. crocata, which lives in damp, marshy ground, and resembles celery with roots like a bunch of large white carrots. List of serial killers in the United States. List of serial killers by country. Thomas Neill Cream. Dr.
Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian serial killer, who claimed his first proven victims in the United States and the rest in England, and possibly others in Canada and Scotland. Cream, who poisoned his victims, was executed after his attempts to frame others for his crimes brought him to the attention of London police. Unsubstantiated rumours suggested his last words as he was being hanged were a confession that he was Jack the Ripper—even though he was in prison at the time of the Ripper murders. Early life[edit] Born in Glasgow, Cream was raised outside Quebec City, Canada, after his family moved there in 1854. Murder in Ontario[edit] Cream went to London in 1876 to study at St. Murder in Chicago[edit] Cream established a medical practice not far from the red-light district in Chicago, offering illegal abortions to prostitutes. Daniel Stott Died June 12, 1881 Aged 61 Years, poisoned by his wife and Dr.
Notes. H. H. Holmes. Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861[1] – May 7, 1896[2]), better known under the name of Dr.
Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 200.[3] He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was less than two miles away, to his "World's Fair" hotel.
Early life[edit] Risus sardonicus. Risus sardonicus Risus sardonicus or rictus grin is a highly characteristic, abnormal, sustained spasm of the facial muscles that appears to produce grinning.[1] The name of the condition derives from the appearance of raised eyebrows and an open "grin" - which can appear sardonic or malevolent to the lay observer - displayed by those suffering from these muscle spasms.
Causes[edit] It is most often observed as a sign of tetanus.[2] It can also be caused by poisoning with strychnine.[3] In 2009 scientists at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Italy claimed to have identified hemlock water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata) as the plant historically responsible for producing the sardonic grin.[4][5] This plant is the most likely candidate for the "sardonic herb," which was a neurotoxic plant used for the ritual killing of elderly people in pre-Roman Sardinia.