perished

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A helpful map of the globe points out notoriously treacherous waters, including those off the southern tip of South America, where countless sailors have perished in the turbulent seas around Cape Horn.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The memorial service will honour more than 540 residents and all 35 engineers and electricians who perished when the ship sank on 15 April 1912.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Memorial was founded in the late 1980s to document victims of Soviet-era political repression during which millions of people perished in the Gulag penal system.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Official records list disease as the cause of death for most of the boys who perished.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Their father, her brother Rhaegar, perished even earlier, slain by the Usurper on the Trident.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin