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It is believed some of the jewels in the necklace sold on Wednesday were the original ones at the centre of the "affair of the diamond necklace" scandal in the 1780s, that may have hastened Marie Antoinette's demise.

In Tampa Heights, on Floribraska Avenue, the hip coffee shop King State had already planned to close for good at the end of October; its impending demise was hastened when Milton sent a massive tree crashing through the building’s roof.

His departure was then hastened by a Copa América loss to Panama last June.

The oft-injured Fosse later claimed that lingering effects from his shoulder injury hastened his retirement.

Reconstruction’s demise is often thought to have been hastened by the contested presidential election of 1876, in which the Hayes-Tilden Compromise included an agreement to remove the last of the federal troops from the South, leaving freedmen and women to their own devices with a hostile white population.