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In 1325 a medieval gong farmer named Richard the Raker was emptying his own personal cesspit when he accidentally fell in, drowning to death in his own gong. Gong farming did have one upside in that they were well rewarded, earning around a sixpence a day, a weeks wages for the average laborer.
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Perhaps most famously, gong farmer Richard the Raker drowned in a pit whose ceiling had rotted in 1325. In the case of Newcastle Castle, the fort was largely abandoned by the 1500s with enough excrement to fill 30 modern-day shipping containers left behind. In the end, human innovation did away with any need for a gong farmer.
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A Dauphin County jury convicted Richard Raker, 59, of sexually assaulting an "intellectually disabled" 15-year-old girl in his Millersburg home four years ago.
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After only thirty-five minutes of deliberation, a jury today convicted Richard Raker, 59, of molesting a 15-year-old girl in his Millersburg home in 2016. The jury found Raker guilty of aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, and corruption of minors following a two day trial before Judge Deborah E. Curcillo.
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County Judge Deborah E. Curcillo ordered Richard Raker, 59, of Millersburg, to spend 3 to 6 years behind bars, followed by 3 years of probation, Chief Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Gettle said.
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Sadly, in 1326, according to Greg Jenner's A Million Years in a Day, one gong farmer known as "Richard the Raker" fell into his own cesspit while making a contribution to it and drowned in his own.
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Five hundred years after the fact, London was slowly re-creating the horrific demise of Richard the Raker: it was drowning in its own filth. ALL OF THOSE HUMAN LIVES CROWDED TOGETHER HAD AN inevitable repercussion: a surge in corpses. In the early 1840s, a twenty-three-year-old Prussian named Friedrich Engels embarked on a scouting mission for.
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Unfortunately for Richard the Raker (died 1326), he had a stupid death. In medieval England, cess pits were frequently placed under toilets for human wastes. Unfortunately for Richard the Raker.
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One account from history detailed the death of Richard The Raker, a gong farmer who fell into a cesspit and drowned in human waste. Apart from literal crappy conditions, they had figuratively.
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One notable incident occurred in 1326, when a gong-farmer named Richard the Raker fell into a cesspit whose ceiling had rotted, and drowned while collecting feces. Due to the unsavory nature of the job, gong-farmers were typically well-paid, but they were not well-respected and were often avoided by others in their community.