If the database is not up to date, the log files are replayed from the point that the checkpoint file indicates. Jet logging and recovery can still recover a database without a checkpoint, but the checkpoint allows faster recovery by directing recovery to begin closer to logged operations that must be redone.
This article is 6 years old. Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, according to a study published today that shows he died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria and his parents were most likely brother and sister.
3. Elvis, of course. No, he didn't die on the toilet, like everyone says, but it was pretty close. He was sitting there when he became ill (the placement of vomit and vomit stains indicated this in the official report, anyway) and then stumbled a few feet away to where he died.