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Safety coffin — A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that he has been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th and 19th… … Wikipedia
Coffin ship — is the name given to any boat that has been overinsured and is therefore worth more to its owners sunk than afloat. These were hazardous places to work in the days before effective maritime safety regulation. They were generally eliminated in the … Wikipedia
Safety (American and Canadian football score) — This article is about a form of scoring in football. For the defensive position, see Safety (American football position). A safety or safety touch is a type of score in American football and Canadian football and is worth two points (with one… … Wikipedia
Safety Camera Partnership — See also: Traffic enforcement camera A Safety Camera Partnership (also Casualty Reduction Partnership, Safer Roads Partnership) is a local multi agency partnership between Local Government, police authorities, HMCS, Highways Agency and the… … Wikipedia
Coffin corner (football) — In the game of American football, a coffin corner may refer to the corner of the playing field just in front of the end zone. A punter may try to place the ball so that it lands and goes out of bounds, or is downed, near this corner, thus forcing … Wikipedia
Premature burial — Animals and humans may be buried alive intentionally (as a form of torture, murder or execution), voluntarily (as a stunt, with the intention to escape), accidentally (e.g. under rubble due to a disaster or collapse of a building or cave), or… … Wikipedia
Margaret Garner — Thomas Satterwhite Noble s 1867 painting, The Modern Medea was based on Garner s story. Margaret Garner (called Peggy) was an enslaved African American woman in pre Civil War America who was notorious or celebrated for killing her own daughter… … Wikipedia
Fear of being buried alive — is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as taphophobia (from Greek taphos , meaning grave ), which is… … Wikipedia
Punter (football) — Shane Lechler of the Oakland Raiders punts the ball in November 2008 … Wikipedia
MythBusters (2008 season) — Country of origin Australia United States No. of episodes 20 (includes 8 specials) Broadcast Original channel Discovery Channel … Wikipedia
