Game Over - When fun turns fatal
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Game Over - When fun turns fatal
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A Greek lawmaker is so popular that the crowd throws their coats at him to show their love — and he suffocates under the pile. An Olympic champion wins his third title in the ancient combat sport of pankration — except that he is already dead when the judges crown him. A Chinese prince is beaten to death with a board game by the future emperor during a drunken argument about the rules — triggering a civil war twenty years later. And a king of Aragon eats a plate of eels, hears a joke about a deer, laughs so hard he cannot stop — and dies, leaving no heir and plunging his kingdom into a succession crisis. Four games, four deaths, twenty centuries, and proof that Death does not care whether you are on a battlefield or at a dinner table. Easy English for intermediate learners — with vocabulary tips and a false friend of the week.