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Perished

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Past of perish

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He eventually perished in the deep to Sakande before striding off, bat raised towards the pavilion and the phalanx of photographers.

More than 400 people perished, over 14,000 homes were destroyed, and the city incurred losses amounting to £1.2bn.

Mary was previously married to King Francis II of France, though historians aren't sure if the marriage was consummated: he was a sickly youngster of just 15 when they wed, and soon perished of a brain abscess.

The toll brings to more than 1,500 the number who have perished already this year, making 2015 far deadlier than 2014, which itself was a record year for tragedy on the Mediterranean, with more than 3,000 deaths.

It states: "As a result of the Post's online article, readers around the world have now been led to believe that thousands of migrant workers in Qatar have perished, or will perish, building the facilities for World Cup 2022 – a claim that has absolutely no basis in fact".

Joyce perished for 43 after pulling Sharif Asadullah to midwicket, while O'Brien was dismissed three balls later, with Andrew Poynter falling soon after.

In one incident 500 perished off the coast of Malta.

Not only have at least 130,000 Syrians perished, and as many as 11m been forced to flee their homes.

In a separate incident 200 migrants were thought to have perished off the coast of Libya.

Radiocarbon dating of these skeletons suggested that their owners had perished between 1028 and 1280.One hypothesis about the origin of New World tuberculosis is that the first Americans actually did bring a version of the disease with them, but that the strain was so mild it was later swamped by the virulent form endemic in Europe.

In the American assault that followed, the architectural legacy of the old kingdom was turned to rubble, while a quarter of the population perished.

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