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Where danish members of the resistance where executed by the german soldiers and gestapo during WW2 and the occupation of Denmark april 9 th 1940 - may 5th 1945.
Notice the poles have been shot through in chest height. A white cloth was fastend to the chest of the person/persons, so the shooters had no problem aiming for the heart.
The Postcard
A postcard published by H. Aymotte & Co. Ltd. of Portsmouth.
The card was posted in Southsea on Sunday the 30th. October 1949 to a recipient who lived at:
67, Riddlesdown Road,
Purley,
Surrey.
Dear Sis,
Having a day out.
All being well I shall be
with you from towards
the end of this week.
A&R are coming on
Saturday.
Best wishes, E.L."
The card shows the original floral clock at Southsea that once displayed a marvellous selection of colour and flora. In the background is the former Castle Restaurant and Cafe.
Southsea
Southsea is a seaside resort located in Portsmouth at the southern end of Portsea Island, Hampshire. The name originates from Southsea Castle, a fort located on the seafront and constructed in 1544 to help defend the Solent and approaches to Portsmouth Harbour.
When Henry VIII was in the castle he witnessed the sinking of the warship Mary Rose in the Solent.
By the mid to late Victorian era, Southsea had become a largely middle-class neighbourhood, with many naval officers and other professionals in residence. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle moved from Portsmouth to Southsea in 1882 with less than £10 (about £900 today) to his name. He set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove.
Southsea Common
Southsea Common was created when about 480 acres (2sq. km.) of marshland was drained. Because the castle required clear lines of fire, the area was not built on, and remains today as a park and garden.
The Common is home to a remarkable collection of mature elm trees, believed to be the oldest and largest surviving in Hampshire. They escaped Dutch elm disease because of their isolation.
The Ladies' Mile was set out within the Common in 1925. The Ladies' mile is home to several semi-mature date palms. Planted in 1996, these palms are now some of the largest in the UK, and for the last few years have fruited and produced viable seeds, the first time this species of palm has been recorded as doing so in the UK.
The Southsea Floral Clock
The clock was presented to the citizens of Portsmouth for their bravery during the Second World War, and was constructed starting in 1949.
The clock mechanism was electric, and was presented to the city by Smiths, the well-known clock company. The city paid for its construction.
In flowers around the outside were inscribed the words 'Southsea For The Best Time'. These words are visible in the photograph.
The Moving of the Clock
In 1963 the restoration of Southsea castle had begun with a walkway from the main road to the castle.
The designers were the director of parks, E.W. Studley, always known as John, and the city architect Bill Werdon. Between them they decided to enlarge the clock and move it to make an outstanding entrance to the new driveway to the castle.
That drive is now called Brian Kidd Way. Brian said:
‘I worked on the scheme with Don
Reynolds of the City Architects
Department. Don was in charge of
special projects.
It was the first design I worked on
after passing out of college. John
Studley was my boss.’
Brian also said his father Len was in charge of restoration of the castle stonework at the same time as Brian was working on the landscaping.
They used to say that Southsea Castle was built by Henry VIII and rebuilt by Len Kidd.
Larry Gene Bell
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 30th. October 1949, Larry Gene Bell was born.
Larry was an American double murderer in Lexington County, South Carolina, who was electrocuted for the murders of Sharon "Shari" Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick.
Bell forced Smith to write a "Last Will and Testament" before he murdered her and taunted her family by telephone.
-- Larry Bell's Victims
Bell kidnapped 17-year-old Sharon Faye "Shari" Smith at gunpoint from the end of her driveway on Platt Springs Road in Lexington County, South Carolina at 3:38 p.m. on the 31st. May 1985 while she was collecting mail from the mailbox.
Her car was found abandoned at the curb near the mailbox, still running. Mail was scattered on the ground. Shari's parents, Bob and Hilda Smith immediately contacted the Lexington Sheriff's Department to report their daughter missing.
Two days after Shari's kidnapping, the Smith family received a phone call from her abductor, Bell. Bell called in a distorted voice from a payphone 20 miles from the Smith home in Columbia.
Over the next few days, Bell called the Smith family regularly from a payphone to tell them Shari was fine, and to taunt them. In fact, Shari likely was killed within twelve hours of her abduction.
He told the family to expect a letter in the mail the following day with more information about their missing daughter. The letter, which was two pages in length and written on paper from a yellow legal pad, was in Shari's handwriting.
Across the top she had written, "Last Will and Testament". Several times throughout the letter, Shari emphasized to her family how much she loved them. She wrote that they should never let her kidnapping ruin their lives. She also requested that she have a closed casket at her funeral.
Six days after her disappearance, Bell called the Smith family and provided specific directions to follow which led to Shari's remains. Her body was found behind an old Masonic Lodge in Saluda County, 18 miles west of the Smith home.
The autopsy showed that Shari had been dead for about four days. Authorities were unable to determine the cause of death, but a residue of duct tape on Shari’s face suggested she had died of suffocation by having had duct tape wrapped around her face.
Two weeks after Shari was kidnapped from outside her home, on the 14th. June 1985, Bell kidnapped 9-year-old Debra May Helmick from her front yard near her family's trailer on Old Percival Road in Richland County, 24 miles from the Smith home.
He killed her, and again called the Smith family after midnight on the 23rd. June, to tell them where he had left Helmick's body just off a dirt road, amongst thick brush.
Debra was also suffocated to death with duct tape around her face.
Bell was also a suspect in three other disappearances: Beth Hagen, Sandee Elaine Cornett, and Denise Newsom Porch.
On the 18th. November 1984, Sandee Cornett, then aged 26, was last seen arriving home from supper with her fiancé at 6:30 p.m. Later that evening, her fiancé attempted to reach her on the phone but received no response as he drove back to his house in Greenville, South Carolina.
The following day, when she failed to show up for work, her neighbor reported her missing. There were no indications of a break-in or struggle at her house. Her checkbook, house keys, and driver's license were all close, and her brown pocketbook was on her bed with the TV on.
There were only three items missing: an ATM card, a dictaphone, and a dark blue Velour jogging suit (probably worn by Sandee).
Because she was not the sort to open her door to a stranger, investigators inferred that she was taken away from her home by someone she knew.
Authorities spent two days looking for Sandee in the neighborhoods and neighboring woods, but they were unsuccessful. The lost ATM card was used twice at an unidentified Charlotte bank. Employees remembered seeing a woman who was not Sandee use it twice and a man use it once.
The main suspect in Sandee's disappearance was Larry Gene Bell. Bell was reportedly her previous boyfriend's co-worker at Charlotte's Douglas International Airport, and had attended a party at her home, despite the neighbors' denials of seeing the two go out together or him at her house.
Bell denied abducting and killing her, but made statements, including drawing a map, that suggested where her body was buried.
Denise Porch, 21 years old, was last observed in Charlotte, North Carolina on the 31st. July 1975. She worked as the manager of Yorktown Apartments on Tyvola Road, and lived in the complex at the time.
Denise informed her spouse in a note that she was leaving to show an apartment to a potential tenant. She was last observed showing a man about the property in the late afternoon.
Denise was never to be seen again. Inside her own apartment, there were no indications of a scuffle, and the television and air conditioning were both left on. Denise had abandoned everything, including her purse and Camaro, when she left.
Only a list of open apartments that she would show potential tenants and the keys to the complex's vacant flats remained.
No information regarding her whereabouts was found. Since she had recently celebrated her first wedding anniversary and, according to her relatives, was content with her life at the time of her disappearance, it is unlikely that Porch left on her own volition.
Seven years after her disappearance, in 1982, her family had her proclaimed legally dead.
In the middle of the 1980's, Larry Gene Bell became a potential suspect in the Porch investigation. He was a former electrician who, in 1975, resided around 300 yards away from Yorktown Apartments on Cherrycrest Lane.
Bell maintained his innocence in Porch's case, and was never formally charged in connection with her disappearance.
He was also the prime suspect in the disappearance and presumed murder of several other young women in North Carolina. Porch physically resembled Bell's other victims, and authorities believe he was involved in her case. Both Porch and Cornett vanished in Charlotte, North Carolina, and remain classified as missing.
-- Larry Gene Bell's Arrest and Trial
During the largest manhunt in South Carolina history, Bell made eight telephone calls to the Smith family, often speaking with Shari's sister Dawn.
During one of his phone calls with Dawn, he accidentally let it slip that, "All I wanted to do was make love with Dawn," instead of "All I wanted to do was make love with Shari."
Dawn and Shari had a striking resemblance, and so it is thought he mistook Shari for Dawn. Bell's fixation with Dawn only grew as time passed, and he made many more calls.
During one of these alls, Bell eventually gave exact directions to the locations of both of the bodies, and described to the family how he had killed Smith.
On the 27th. June 1985, Bell was arrested after forensics were able to find indentations of an incomplete phone number on the stationery of the letter that was sent to Smith's family.
Filling in the missing digits led the Federal Bureau of Investigation to a couple who hired Bell for some work and had him house-sit for them while they were away. Six hairs microscopically similar to Shari Smith's hair were found in Bell's apartment.
During his six-hour testimony at his trial, Bell blurted out bizarre comments and carried on nonstop theatrics, rambling continuously and refusing to answer questions.
He later made statements indicating that he may have been attempting to fake mental illness in order to receive a more lenient sentence. He claimed to be Jesus Christ until his death.
-- The Execution of Larry Gene Bell
Larry Gene Bell chose to die by the electric chair rather than lethal injection. Bell was electrocuted to death on the th. October 1996, at the age of 46. He had no final words.
There were no more electric chair executions in the state until 2004, when James Neil Tucker was executed for the double murders of Rosa Lee "Dolly" Oakley and Shannon Lynn Mellon.
Photographer unknown: Execution in Old Shanghai, September 1904. Major criminals were sometimes left to die publicly as an example to the innocent. A “cage” was constructed so that the inmate could either stand on tiptoe to relieve the pressure around his neck or finally suspend himself until he strangled.
Source: The Face of China As Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912, p. 89
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During early 1645, Melcombe Regis and Weymouth fell to the Parliamentarians. Many Royalists were taken prisoner, among them a Melcombe Alderman John Cade and John Mills, a Weymouth Constable. These 2 men were hanged for Treason in February 1645 at the gate of Nothe Fort. Mills 'Most desperately threw himself of the ladder, not showing any signs of humiliation, or calling upon God for mercy...' and Ince the chaplain remarked 'There be not many of the Villains left, but their sins have found them out'.
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#5 Execution in the Ghetto n 2003, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the genocide of Jews in Lithuania, Kaunas Ninth Fort seven bronze bas-reliefs, created by the famous artist Arbit Blato in 1978 for the victims of the Holocaust were revealed in the courtyard They were donated by Arbit Blato’s widow Regina Resnik - Blat (www.9fortomuziejus.lt/)
هذا رجل اطفاء ما كان يؤدي عمله بشكل جيد فقررت إعدامه ليكون عبره للآخرين :)
وأحب أشكر أبو ناصر على المعاونة العظيمة في الورشة شكرا جزيلا لك .
Executioner's Hood Melbourne Cut poem
In a land of salutary terror
Instruments of violence were employed
To inflict class suppression
Onto the poor by the rich
For acts of rebellion against owners
Putting the fear of death into them
Terrifying and teaching them a lesson
Employing execution for pacification
The tactics of imperial rule
Resistance is demonstratively not tolerated
Settler violence is reasoned
Public executions are legitimized
Violent acts are defended by the dominant participant
When power is in jeopardy
Protect the exclusive class
By
Building prosperity in the enemy's land
By
Assigning blame onto the victim
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My execution of the club competition named "Out of the crowd"
Taken in the "Binnenhof", which is where the Dutch government resides. Advice: Although it's part of the public road even, the police came to question us to find out our intentions. So if anybody wants to do something like this, inform the local police officer (there's always one around so near the binnenhof) to ask "permission"
Yes, that's me on the stilts. And many thanks for my girlfriend, who functioned as camera trigger.
Strobist info: SB 24 on the right, at about 1/8th, 420 EZ with a red gel on the left at 1/8.