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lichtrausch
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19 May 2010 at 10:27pm | IP Logged

nescafe wrote:

Hiraga Gen-nai 平賀源内, I do not know what he shold be called. A very versatile person. He was fascinated at electromagnetism he learned from a Datch book 蘭学書, and used it for a medical treatment (nevertheless he was not trained as a medical profession). He caused an accident with so called an Elekiter(エレキテル), a galvanizeing machine, in his medical activity and one guy died in this accident. He arrested for murder and executed. He was also a pioneer of copy writing.

According to Wikipedia he killed two people because he was drunk and mistakenly thought that they stole his repair plans for the elekiter.

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安永8年（1779 年）夏には橋本町の邸へ移る。大名屋敷の修理を請け負った際に、酔っていたために修理計画書を盗まれたと勘違いして2人を殺傷し� �ため、11月 21日に投獄され、12月18日獄死、享年52。

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19 May 2010 at 10:31pm | IP Logged

Hahaha, thanks Lichtrausch, Ive learned Gennai killed his patient by Elekiter from a manga and I have believed it up to now.

Edited by nescafe on 19 May 2010 at 10:39pm
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egill
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19 May 2010 at 11:46pm | IP Logged

Egill Skallagrímsson, who is the inspiration for my handle, was a quasi-legendary
Icelandic viking, poet, and general all-around badass.

Stories say that his father was a wolf shapeshifter, that he composed his first poem
when he was three, and that he killed a playmate with an axe after being cheated in a
game when he was seven. He then went on a bloody rampage/epic adventure, that took him
to Scandinavia and England, where he invoked the ire of both the king of Norway and the
king of Northumbria. The latter sentenced him to death but he was spared on account of
his poetic prowess, which he demonstrated to the king by composing a poem in the jail
cell the night before that was so great he had no choice but to let him go. He is even
supposed to have hidden a cache of silver somewhere in Iceland, which is still supposed
to be buried somewhere near Mosfellsbær. Also, as the saga makes very clear, he was
incredibly and extremely ugly.

Not quite as historically solid as the other entries—but I thought I'd contribute
nonetheless!

Edited by egill on 19 May 2010 at 11:51pm

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