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Edmund Brooks was the surviving sailor in the Mignonette lifeboat case who refused to participate in the killing of Richard Parker but partook in the meal and served as state's witness against Dudley and Stephens.
Edwin Stephens was the first mate of the Mignonette who participated in the killing of cabin boy Richard Parker alongside Captain Dudley and stood trial in R v Dudley and Stephens (1884).
Richard Parker was the 17-year-old orphaned cabin boy on the Mignonette who was killed by Captain Dudley to sustain the crew after their shipwreck in 1884.
Thomas Dudley was the captain of the yacht Mignonette who, after a shipwreck in 1884, killed the dying cabin boy Richard Parker so the crew could survive, leading to a landmark murder trial.
Ken Auletta's 2001 account of the US government's antitrust case against Microsoft — covering the trial, the lawyers, the government strategy, and Bill Gates's famous deposition — providing the definitive narrative of the most important antitrust case in technology history.
The Burr-Hamilton Duel was a fatal encounter between two prominent American political figures, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, in 1804, which dramatically underscored the intense personal and political rivalries of the early American republic.