John Fry (regicide) 1657. At the restoration in 1660 he was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act. Dario Pfanner in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states: He is an ancestor of the writer and actor Stephen Fry. John Fry (regicide) John Fry (1609–1657) was a Member of the English Parliament and sat as a Commissioner (Judge) during the trial of King Charles I of England. John Fry, son of William Fry of Iwerne Minster, was born in 1609. He was Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in the Long and Rump Parliaments, sat through most of the trial of King Charles I,
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story is a work of non-fiction written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2005. The title is a reference to the 1973 song "Killing Yourself To Live", by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It is Klosterman's third book and focuses on the premise of writing about the relationship between love and death, particularly deaths involving music celebrities. The original feature, published in "Spin" in 2003, shares some ideas and language with the book. Klosterman's analysis focuses less on the actual