A more recent account of the Stendhal syndrome was in 2018, when a visitor to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence suffered a heart attack while admiring Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.
Stendhal syndrome: can art really be so beautiful it makes you ill?
A man is recovering from a heart attack after looking at Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus – the latest case of a medical condition thought to be unique to Florence
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July 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A more recent account of the Stendhal syndrome was in 2018, when a visitor to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence suffered a heart attack while admiring Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus.
His defense, which was accepted by the US Track Federation (??), but not the IAAF, was that the previous night he had, "five bottles of beer and sex with his wife at least four times... it was her birthday, the lady deserved a treat" (2/2)
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January 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
His defense, which was accepted by the US Track Federation (??), but not the IAAF, was that the previous night he had, "five bottles of beer and sex with his wife at least four times... it was her birthday, the lady deserved a treat" (2/2)
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Can't imagine being this soft in life
January 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Can't imagine being this soft in life
"That man will never set foot in Perugia again," he fumed. "He was a phenomenon only when he played against Italy!
"I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him. (2/2)
"I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him. (2/2)
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"That man will never set foot in Perugia again," he fumed. "He was a phenomenon only when he played against Italy!
"I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him. (2/2)
"I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him. (2/2)
Which is all very fine I guess. But...why would you challenge your guests with a riddle and a wager at your own wedding?
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Samson's riddle - Wikipedia
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November 23, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Which is all very fine I guess. But...why would you challenge your guests with a riddle and a wager at your own wedding?
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Samson then goes off to another city and kills 30 of their tribesmen and takes their clothes to pay off the debt owed to his wedding guests. Then, angered by his wife's betrayal, he returns to his own family, and the woman is given instead to one of the guests.
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November 23, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Samson then goes off to another city and kills 30 of their tribesmen and takes their clothes to pay off the debt owed to his wedding guests. Then, angered by his wife's betrayal, he returns to his own family, and the woman is given instead to one of the guests.
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Samson's wife passes the solution on to the wedding guests, who repeat it to Samson before sunset on the seventh day. Samson replies (rather strangely imo), “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle”
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November 23, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Samson's wife passes the solution on to the wedding guests, who repeat it to Samson before sunset on the seventh day. Samson replies (rather strangely imo), “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle”
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However, the guests threaten Samson’s new wife to discover the solution for them, threatening to burn her and her father's house if she fails. he accordingly pleads with Samson to tell her the answer to the riddle, and on the seventh day Samson capitulates.
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November 23, 2024 at 5:48 PM
However, the guests threaten Samson’s new wife to discover the solution for them, threatening to burn her and her father's house if she fails. he accordingly pleads with Samson to tell her the answer to the riddle, and on the seventh day Samson capitulates.
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The reason for this is that solution is impossible to discern through deduction alone, since it is based on a private experience of Samson's, who had previously killed a young male lion and found honeybees and honey in its corpse.
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November 23, 2024 at 5:48 PM
The reason for this is that solution is impossible to discern through deduction alone, since it is based on a private experience of Samson's, who had previously killed a young male lion and found honeybees and honey in its corpse.
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Samson wagers that the guests will not be able to guess the solution to the riddle within seven days (the duration of the feast); the stakes of the wager are thirty linen garments and thirty outfits of clothes.
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November 23, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Samson wagers that the guests will not be able to guess the solution to the riddle within seven days (the duration of the feast); the stakes of the wager are thirty linen garments and thirty outfits of clothes.
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