New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- Death comes for people in the strangest of places, in the most unexpected ways. And in 1016 CE, legend has it, it came for Edmund Ironside, king of the English, while he was seated on his toilet. The facility was probably of the typical, unfussy medieval type-a wooden board with a hole, placed over a pit. Except that unknown to poor, relaxed Edmund, concealed below was an assassin. Indeed, the story goes, shortly after his bottom moved into position for the royal expulsion, he was "stabbed.from beneath with a sharp dagger". And "leaving the weapon fixed in (the king's) bowels", the killer fled the scene. Interestingly, Edmund was nicknamed "Ironside" for his great daring and prowess. But when relieving themselves, ev...