Originally published at Lughnasa 1998. Henbane, whose botanical name is Hyoscyamus niger, is a member of the Solanaceae order of plants which includes such innocuous members as the humble potato and tomato but also highly poisonous and notorious ones such as belladonna, mandrake and the daturas.
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. English: The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-BarthÃ©lemy in French) was a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Protestants).
Massacre Date Location Number of Victims Perpetrator(s) (end result of crime) 1: Bath School Bombing: May 18, 1927 Bath Township, Michigan 45 killed: Andrew Kehoe (suicide on scene) 2: Virginia Tech Shooting: April 16, 2007 Blacksburg, Virginia 33 killed: Seung-Hui Cho (suicide on scene) 3: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: December 14th, 2012 Newtown Connecticut 26 killed: Adam Lanza (suicide on scene) 4: Marjory Stoneman DouglasHhigh School Shooting: Feb 14th, 2018 Parkland, Florida 17 killed: Nikolas Cruz (arrested by the police) 5: University of Texas Tower Shooting: Aug 1, 1966 Austin, Texas 14 killed: Charles Whitman