Opponents to annexation, he argued, were trying to stop the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions ().
So Zoe Barnes died in House of Cards season 2 episode 1. And we all freaked the heck out. Because she didn't just die, she was murdered by the Vice President of the United States, Frank Underwood. It's an unbelievable decision on the part of the show's creators. Unbelievably bold, that is.
In the year leading up to Vincent Van Gogh's death (1890), he had fits of despair and hallucinations. On July 27, 1890, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. The bullet passed through his chest without doing major damage to his internal organs. Van Gogh was rushed to the hospital and died the next day of an untreated infection. His death is generally accepted as a suicide.