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It's fairly common for the Cobra organisation to have regular executions. Especially spies and deserters don't have to count on any sympathy from the commanding officers......
The Postcard
A postcard that was photographed and published by Judges of Hastings.
The card was posted in Hastings on Friday the 5th. February 1909 to:
Miss V. Butterfield,
66, Chaucer Road,
Bedford,
Bedfordshire.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"I am just sending this to
show you how Hastings
was when London and
Bedford were covered in
fog. Rye was like it too.
I have been in Hastings
all day today, and I have
had a rather busy week.
I will try and write tonight.
Don't forget to read what
I wrote in the Centenarian
in the S.E.A.
Love from Vic".
The Birth of Bakelite
So what else happened on the day that Vic posted the card?
Well, on the 5th. February 1909, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society at the Chemists' Club at 108 W. 55th Street in New York, Dr. Leo Baekeland announced his synthesis of a new chemical which he called Bakelite. The polymer that Baekeland had created was the first commercially useful artificial substance, and the first plastic.
The Execution of an Embezzler
Also on that day, Germany's legation (embassy) in Chile was destroyed by fire, and a charred body, thought to be that of Chancellor Wilhelm Beckert, was found in the ruins.
After an investigation showed that a large amount of money had been embezzled, and that the corpse was not Beckert's, a manhunt for the diplomat began.
Beckert was caught one week later in Chillán, and the victim turned out to be Exequiel Tapia, a Chilean porter employed at the legation. Germany turned its former diplomat into the Chilean justice system, and Beckert was executed on the 5th. July 1910.
Timothy Holt.
Title: Execution Instrument #1.
Medium: Hardboard, nails and white primer paint.
Dimension: Variable.
Location: Variable.
Date: 2010.
© Timothy Holt, 2010.
This video shows the electronic high voltage execution of a very pesky varmint. Don't watch if you are squeamish.
Frogs at "Layar" Seafood Restaurant, Surabaya, East Java. This place provides fresh (and live) fish, crabs, oyster, lobster and others.
"Execution of Justice" by Emily Mann (U of M Alumna 1976), directed by Dominic Taylor. Performed April 16 - 24, 2010 in Rarig Center's Proscenium Theatre.
Photos by Cody Baldwin
Execution Rocks Light is a lighthouse in the middle of Long Island Sound on the border between New Rochelle and Sands Point, New York. It stands 55 feet tall, with a white light flashing every 10 seconds. The granite tower is painted white with a brown band around the middle. It has an attached stone keeper's house which has not been inhabited since the light was automated in 1979.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as Execution Rocks Light Station.