He was known to be a heavy drinker, and alcoholism is likely the best explanation for his erratic career.
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Accusations of alcoholism were used to discredit political rivals. Prominent Roman alcoholics included Marcus Antonius,Phillipa pp. 57–63 and Cicero's own son Marcus (Cicero Minor). Even Cato the Younger was known to be a heavy drinker.
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Douglas condemned the changes to the natural landscape he saw occurring in Westland and he became increasingly embittered as old age and illness began to curtail his later explorations. When he was not exploring he was known to be a heavy drinker.
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He stayed at the Surratt boarding house in February 1865 (for one night or several, sources differ), but he proved to be a heavy drinker, and Surratt evicted him after just a few days.Heidler and Heidler, p. 1910.Griffin, p. 186; Gamber, p. 109; Ownsbey, p. 54.
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Strzelczyk was known to be a heavy drinker, like his father Connie. After being waived by the Steelers, Strzelczyk hunted for ways to fill the time. He began cooking buffalo wings and barbecue sauces. He also rode his motorcycle to the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota.
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In the 1897 season, Peel was suspended by Yorkshire for drunkenness. Alcohol was popular with many professional cricketers, and the careers of several Yorkshire players in this period, including Peate, had been ended for this reason. Peel was always known to be a heavy drinker, but his behaviour had been tolerated.Pope, p. 97.
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Woolcock turned out to be a heavy drinker, a bully and a wife- beater. Elizabeth attempted to leave him several times but he continued to find her and bring her back to Moonta. Depressed and feeling alone, since her mother and stepfather moved to Adelaide, Elizabeth attempted suicide. She was given Morphine to help with insomnia and melancholy.
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According to his contemporaries, alcoholism was an occupational disease for physicians in this era. Hall, known to be a heavy drinker, began to fail in the spring of 1809. Attempting to visit a patient in June 1809, he fell from his horse and died of his injuries on June 29, aged 45. He was buried in the Liberty Street Cemetery in Middletown.
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In March, he divorced his wife Josephine in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Two weeks later, he married Mary Beatrice Martinelli (born Passadori) of Oakland, California. Noonan was rumored to be a heavy drinker. That was fairly common during this era and there is no contemporary evidence Noonan was an alcoholic, although decades later, a few writers and others made some hearsay claims that he was.
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Thomas Logan lives in Alberta, Canada during the late 19th century and is the groundskeeper for the Howlett estate. Logan is a very short tempered man and is known to be a heavy drinker. He is the father of Dog Logan, but his exact date of birth is unknown. Thomas is abusive towards Dog, often beating him severely and introduces the boy to alcohol.
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Since high school, Nicu was reputed to be a heavy drinker. Ion Mihai Pacepa, who defected to the United States in 1978, alleged that he scandalized Bucharest with his rapes and car accidents. He claimed that his father heard about Nicu's drinking problem, but his solution was the one given to every problem in Romania: work harder. He also allegedly lost large sums of money gambling around the world.
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She was reputed to be a heavy drinker. Afraid they would be arrested under the Mann Act, they told police they had been raped by nine black men who were aboard the train. White southerners argued that the women's history of prostitution should not impact the case, in the words of one contemporary account "[she] might be a fallen woman, but by God she is a white woman." The mob that gathered to lynch the men was dispersed only by assurances of a speedy trial.
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In 1185, Georgian nobles headed by Abulasan, Catholicos Mikel MarianidzeEdge of Empires: a History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield and Rusudan, daughter of Demetre I arranged a marriage of Prince Yury with Queen Tamar of Georgia. As her husband, he commanded, in 1186–1187, a Georgian army which successfully raided the Seljuk possessions of Rüm in the west and the Eldiguzids in Arran in the east. However, Tamar soon was disappointed in her husband and divorced him in 1187. Yuri was said to be a heavy drinker, ambitious, involved in sexual misdeeds, torture and sodomy,Histories and Eulogies of the Sovereigns, M216r.
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At age 44, Maitland was one of the oldest pilots to see combat in World War II, personally leading four of first five missions of the 386th in a B-26 nicknamed the Texas Tarantula, but his tenure was cut short when he was relieved of command on November 18, 1943, possibly for excessive drinking.Bartsch noted that Maitland was commonly known to be a heavy drinker (December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor, pp. 65-66). Maitland received the Silver Star, a second award of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and five Air Medals. The first group history, The History of a Bombing Outfit, said of its first commander: > His leadership of the group had been strong and colorful.
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In 1966, the US Project Gemini had reversed the Soviet lead in human space exploration, Korolev initially lobbied for a crewed circumlunar mission, which was rejected. He was eventually successful on 3 August 1964 when the Central Committee finally passed a resolution titled "On work involving the study of the Moon and outer space" with the objective of landing a cosmonaut on the Moon in the 1967 to 68 time frame, ahead of the American Apollo missions. After Korolev died in 1966 due to complications after minor surgery, work on N1-L3 was taken over by his deputy, Vasily Mishin. Mishin did not have Korolev's political astuteness or influence and was reputed to be a heavy drinker.
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