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John of Strathbogie earl of Atholl
Atholl, John of Strathbogie, earl of (d. 1306). Scottish earl who played a leading if inconsistent role in the Wars of Independence. He was captured at the battle of Dunbar (1296) and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Reconciled with Edward I, he became warden of northern Scotland in 1304. He... Read more |
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Richmond (England)
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Cleveland (England)
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Anthony Babington
Anthony Babington , 1561-86, English conspirator. A member of the Roman Catholic gentry, he served as a youth in the household of the earl of Shrewsbury at Sheffield Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned. In 1586 he became involved in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I, to free Mary,... Read more |
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Prince of England Charles Edward
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Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe) , 1764-1820, American architect, b. Yorkshire, England. He is considered the first professional architect in the United States. Latrobe received his training both in architecture and in engineering in England and Germany and then practiced... Read more |
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Protestant Episcopal Church
Protestant Episcopal Church, the U.S. institution of the Anglican Communion, directly descended from the established Church of England. The creeds are the Apostles' and the Nicene, and the standards of doctrine are the Thirty‐Nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer. Church of England... Read more |
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Robert Southwell
Robert Southwell 1561?-1595, English Jesuit poet, venerated by Roman Catholics as a martyr, b. Norfolk. He was brought up a Catholic and educated abroad, mainly at Douai. In 1580 he made his simple vows as a Jesuit, and in 1586 at his own request, desiring martyrdom as he said, he was sent to... Read more |
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New England Electric System
New England Electric System 25 Research DriveWestborough, Massachusetts 01582U.S.A.(508) 366-9011Fax: (508) 366-9011, extension 2698 Public Company Incorporated: 1926 as New England Power AssociationEmployees: 5,666Sales: $1.86 billionStock Exchanges: New York Boston Pacific Cincinnati... Read more |
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body snatchers
...Infamy’ to public execution itself — to be inflicted upon the worst of murderers. Only beheading; hanging, drawing and quartering; or burning alive exceeded it in severity. There was a widely held belief in some incorporeal association... |
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Executions savage values.(By John D. O'Hair)
...death penalty, governments have been impaling, disemboweling, boiling, stoning, drowning, poisoning, beheading, burning, hanging, shooting, gassing and electrocuting wrongdoers. And murder and violence are still all too common occurrences... |
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Six Sense: Evil Rears Its Pretty Little Head, Again, in a Slick Remake of...
...under by His Satanic Majesty. Impalements, burnings, beheadings, hangings, all those nasty things done to witches in days...first on his own, then with Thorn. Cue the beheading machine. Anyway, soon enough Daddy begins to... |
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A Passionate Faith.(Review)
...and thoroughfares, there was the continual sound of bells." Other peculiarities of the age emerge. Beheadings, hangings, and burnings were exacted in full public view, including the children's, and one scaffold was only yards from More... |
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CRESSELL'S DEFENSE RESTS; HE DOESN'T TAKE THE STAND ; JUDGE REFUSES TO...
...capital murder charge after Ceparano pleaded guilty to burning and beheading the black former Marine, will likely learn his fate...remaining silent - a potential death sentence still hanging over his head after the judge refused to dismiss a... |
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Raiders of a cruel lot Alistair Moffat refuses to fly the flag for the Border...
...impossible not to feel some sympathy for their situation. But it was an age of violent extremes, when hangings, beheadings and burnings were common, and the reivers were men of their times. Families such as the Armstrongs, Kerrs, Grahams... |
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Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese sailors who butchered 20,000 Allied...
...Somewere taken out to sea and fed to sharks. Others were killed by sledgehammer,bayonet, beheading, hanging, drowning, burying alive, burning or crucifixion. 'I also unearthed details of medical experiments by naval doctors, withprisoners... |
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THE NExt generation WHODUNIT?(Daily Break)
...network television's first attempt at a by-the-book splatterfest. ... Between the beheadings, bisections, eviscerations, live burnings and hangings, the traditional gore boundaries of network TV are lost amid the blood trails and body... |
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Closed circuit TV of McVeigh execution raises questions
...masses the evil of certain crimes, and to demonstrate the ultimate penalty for committing them. The public hanging, or beheading, or burning at the stake, was meant to strike fear in the heart of the would-be criminal. Will McVeigh's execution... |
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Mattoo murder verdict: Death penalty in aggravating circumstances
...beating to death, stoning, burning alive and impalement. In 10th century AD, hanging became the usual method of execution...Common methods used were boiling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, and drawing and quartering... |
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AUTHORS SOUND KNELL FOR EXECUTIONS.(Books)(Review)
...sordid history. Early forms included beheadings, hanging, being drawn and quartered, dismembering and burning at the stake. In the Middle Ages...Hampshire and Washington - still use hangings, and three other states - Utah, Oklahoma... |
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