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Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.
Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.
Just one girl from the thousands of photos displayed in Tuol Sleng
Holocaust Museum near Phenom Penh, Cambodia. Around 18,000-20,000
people pased though the Tuol Sleng detention centre where they were
photographed before being tortured and executed. 7 people survived.
We will never know what this particular girl's "crimes" were. She
looks kind of smart as well as dignified and composed in the face of
death. Maybe her father could read and write: enough for the whole
family to be executed as "intellectuals".
The chair where Josef Jakobs, the German Spy was executed during 1941. This was the last execution in the Tower of London.
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.
The stone (plaque) where the shooters stood says:
"Boys you boys
you lit for Denmark
In the darkest night
a bright dawn".
From the exhibition catalog: "Hrair Sarkissian's series Execution Squares depicts public execution squares in three Syrian cities -- Aleppo, Lattakia, and Damascus. Taking in the early morning hours, the time the executions usually take plae, the quiet images reveal a fragile paradox that exists between the beauty and constancy of the physical environment and the political and social realities that they obscure."
(The installation consisted of 12 Lambada prints mounted on aluminum; work is dated 2008.)
Idiris, a Somali Christian, was publicly executed in a stadium in front of many people, including school children, for saying that Muhammad is not a prophet of God.
Direction 1: model planes
Project...Developing the look and feel of a site and its response to navigation and visual executions. Again this is a screen shot of the site in the intret of a hobby and in this case "Model Planes". THe site will cover the grounds of building a community, building tips, about the site and the option to purchase model planes.
An art, a hobby, a passion, this is what some say as a small-scale modeler. Individuals interested in building or even just buying small-scale models are very passionate about this hobby. They typically are interested in private aircraft, and airliners, as well as models from the WW I, WW II, Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf eras. The individuals typically have some history dealing with planes whether it is an interest in planes, having a family member that flew a particular plane or they have flown the plane themselves.
Individuals that have this passion seem to like keeping up on the latest and greatest.
The ones that enjoy building like to know the latest new techniques in building and new tools out there to make building easier but not taking away from the fun that one get out if building. So knowing this, the website will be based around the community building theme. The site will have the capabilities to network and communicate with
people all around the world. Members will have the opportunity to create a profile where they can share the models they have build or have purchased along with their testimonials and opinions about scale models planes.
Most sites out on the web that revolve around scale model planes tend to be very cluttered with advertisements and lack of hierarchy. Also there are multiple types of sites out there from store where you can just purchase planes, purchase model plane kits, and how to build. With Hobbies’ scale models site, there will be an opportunity to learn how to build, tips and trends, models planes to purchase, and a online community to connect to. So I have developed navigation that focuses on these sections. As you proceed through the site, sections extend, giving the viewer the additional information one might be looking for. The functionality and usability will not only be pleasing to the eye (Nice clean pages) but also very user friendly.
I will be utilizing the Centered layout design along with the design all above the Fold line and the main viewing screens will be 960x768 but adaptable to other screen sizes ranging up to 1024×768.
Mr. Ghassemi-Shall faces imminent execution in Iran. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Diane Ablonczy issued a joint statement asking Iran to release and halt the execution of Hamid Ghassemi-Shall.
Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was arrested in late May 2008 while visiting his mother in Iran. This arrest took place approximately two weeks after the arrest of his brother, Alborz Ghassemi-Shall.
In November 2009 Hamid’s wife in Canada received reports that both Hamid and Alborz were convicted of espionage and sentenced to death. The legal proceedings were deeply unfair and neither Hamid or Alborz had a meaningful opportunity to defend themselves. His conviction appears to be based on a document of an alleged email exchange between Hamid and Alborz. Hamid has unequivocally stated that the document is a complete fabrication and that he never sent any such message. Testing and analysis by his lawyer reportedly confirm that to be the case.
Hamid and Alborz were in solitary confinement for 18 months until the end of November 2009 when they were transferred to a general population section in Tehran's Evin prison. On 20 January 2010 Alborz died in prison, reportedly of stomach cancer. Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall reported that both he and Alborz were subject to “extreme pressure” during their detention.
Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was sentenced to death. His case has undergone a number of reviews, but the family confirmed in March 2012 that the death sentance has not been lifted.
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Write the Iranian authorities. Request that they:
Guarantee that Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall will not be executed.
Release Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall immediately unless he is promptly brought to trial on recognizably criminal charges in legal proceedings that fully conform to international fair trial standards.
Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader
Islamic Republic Street – End of Shahid
Keshvar Doust Street
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Salutation: Your Excellency
Email: info_leader@leader.ir AND tweet @khamenei_ir
Copies to:
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Office of the Head of the Judiciary
Pasteur Street, Vali Asr Avenue, south of
Serah-e Jomhouri
Tehran, 1316814737
Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: bia.judi@yahoo.com or info@dadiran.ir (In the subject line, write FAO Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani)
Salutation: Your Excellency
Copies to:
Mr Kambiz Sheikh Hassani
Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy for the Islamic Republic of Iran
245 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2K2
Fax: (613) 232-5712
Email: executive@iranembassy.ca
More Background
The Canadian government has sponsored a resolution censuring Iran at the United Nations General Assembly human rights committee, every year since the 2003 torture and death while in custody, of Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi in Iran. The resolution has expressed deep concern at serious ongoing human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The violations include torture, flogging, amputations, stoning, and "pervasive gender inequality and violence against women." Canada has also "particular concern" with the Iranian government's failure to launch a thorough investigation of alleged human rights violations in the wake of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contested re-election in 2009.
In a new year’s statement on January 1, 2011 the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed deep concern for the “deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.” He expressed particular concern for the uncertain fate of two Canadians of dual nationality who remain in prison in Iran. (Hamid Ghassemi- Shall and Hossein Derakhshan). He further referred to reports that Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian permanent resident, has been condemned to death and that his sentence could be carried out at any time. Minister Cannon encouraged the Iranian authorities to show mercy and compassion to those who are in Iran’s prisons without just cause, and called on Iran to respect its international human rights obligations in law and in practice and to foster a more open dialogue with the international community.
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Summers & Koontz Executions
On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended. Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz, and two other armed veterans of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, robbed six Federal
cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock. The horses were returned the next day to the 192d Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Rude’s Hill. Despite assurances that all was forgiven, Lt. Col. Cyrus Hussy, temporarily commanding the 192nd, later ordered the men arrested. The others escaped, but Summers and Koontz were shot without trial here on 27 June. Thirty years later, Capt. Thomas J. Adams and friends erected the nearby monument to commemorate their deaths.
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." ~Faith Whittlesey
BR large logo liveried 50015 "Valiant" at Bury Bolton Street station on the 11th of September 1999 during the ELR/EWS "Stay of Execution" gala
Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, c.1623-5
Artemisia Gentileschi
This magnificent painting is the pinnacle of Artemisia's response to the powerful naturalism, bold use of colour and dramatic lighting effects made popular by Caravaggio and his followers. Here, by the light of a single candle, Judith and her maidservant prepare to make their escape from the enemy camp under cover of darkness. The monumental scale of this canvas and the figures' theatrical gestures contrast with the claustrophobic intimacy of Artemisia's earlier rendition of the subject.
[National Gallery]
From Artemisia
(October 2020 to January 2021)
"I will show Your Illustrious Lordship what a woman can do"
In 17th-century Europe, at a time when women artists were not easily accepted, Artemisia was exceptional. She challenged conventions and defied expectations to become a successful artist and one of the greatest storytellers of her time.
Artemisia painted subjects that were traditionally the preserve of male artists and for the male gaze; transforming meek maidservants into courageous conspirators and victims into survivors.
In this first major exhibition of Artemisia’s work in the UK, see her best-known paintings including two versions of her iconic and viscerally violent ‘Judith beheading Holofernes’; as well as her self portraits, heroines from history and the Bible, and recently discovered personal letters, seen in the UK for the first time.
[National Gallery]
Right outside block 11 in Auschwitz you will find the infamous 'Death Wall'. Thousand of lifes were taken at this very spot. Walking around Auschwitz-Birkenau camps will give you chills down to the bone, but it is also a powerful experience, and a sobering reminder of what we read in the history books. via 500px bit.ly/2aIR7dl - bit.ly/ibtblog
please click and see it in large.
do not use this photo without my approval. copyright by sylvie lorenz.
Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.
33202 "The Burma Star" stands at Castlecroft, Bury during the ELR/EWS "Stay of Execution" gala on the 11th of September 1999
Of all the signatures left on the walls of Nine Mile Canyon, these are likely the most significant. They represent the epitome of the Wild West, a story of intrigue, greed, fraud, and tragedy.
Students of western history will likely recognize the name of Samuel Gilson, for whom a shiny black rock is named - Gilsonite. In actuality, it was already named Uintahite by the first geologist to describe it properly, but Samuel Gilson sent a bribe to the Smithsonian and they entered "Gilsonite" in the official record and by that name it is known today.
Gilson was a rancher, part-time federal law officer, and full-time fame seeker. He claimed to have arrested Brigham Young for the Mountain Meadows Massacre, been present at the execution of John D. Lee, and witnessed the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit (Brigham Young was never actually arrested, so this puts his other claims in doubt). He also dabbled in flying machines.
His partner in this 1885 voyage up Nine Mile Canyon to the Uinta Basin was Bert Seaboldt. Bert is a fascinating character. He claimed for most of his life to be a mining engineer. In truth, he was neither a miner nor an engineer. The full extent of his vocational training was as a telegrapher at the Lehigh Valley Railroad depot where his father was station agent. Entering adulthood, he wandered west and tried his hand conducting trains on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway out of Provo for less than a year. This position ended with disgrace in 1884 when he made up fake train orders that resulted in a head-on collision between two trains in Spanish Fork Canyon, killing a few and maiming several. After a criminal court case holding him responsible for the accident he somehow fell in with Samuel Gilson and the two embarked towards Indian Country.
At that time all known Gilsonite deposits were located within the bounds of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservations. The American public was not permitted to mine, ranch, farm, nor settle within the boundaries of the reservations. Gilson and Seaboldt flagrantly ignored federal law (enforced by a military garrison at Fort Duchesne) and staked claims in the reservation, mining Gilsonite illegally and freighting over 3,000 tons of it to Price by 1886, to the protest of the Indian agents assigned to the Uintah and Ouray reservations. The agents and their assistants finally figured that violence was the only enforcement these people understood and rode out to the contraband mines and destroyed them, forcing all of the miners off the reservation at gunpoint.
Bert Seaboldt's response was to purchase a railroad ticket to Washinton, D.C. Among his personal effects was a small black bag containing $25,000 (more than $800,000 in today's value). When he returned, he no longer possessed the little black bag, but he did have claim to a large section of the Indian Reservation, which Congress confiscated from Ute ownership without consulting them. This location became known as "The Strip," since it was a narrow band of real estate within the boundaries of the reservation. The name is appropriate for another reason though, since it was literally stripped from the Indians contrary to a ratified military treaty that Congress is obligated to honor.
Congress did provide one stipulation, however. Seaboldt needed the signatures of two-thirds of the Ute population to finalize his right to mine the Strip. He notified all the Utes to gather on his illegal Gilsonite mine for a meeting, offering them a cup of whiskey in exchange for their presence. The manufacture, sale and distribution on of all alcohol was illegal on the reservation, but Seaboldt convinced the Indian Agents that since he was "donating" the fire water as a "gift of goodwill" that it did not violate any laws. On the appointed date a handful of Utes arrived, received their allotment of whiskey, and left their marks on the paper. There certainly were not two-thirds of the entire Ute population present there, and not everybody who partook in the gifted beverages were in favor of ceding more land to the white man, but in spite of an elderly Ute woman making an impassioned speech against the plan, Congress and the Bureau of Indian Affairs counted their $25,000 bribe and looked the other way.
Long story short, Seaboldt got rich and Gilson lives on in fame, his name stamped across every industry that uses his namesake mineral. But where these formerly obscure western rogues found the capital to pull this land heist off is a mystery. Archaeologist Jerry Spangler suspects that they were funded by Seaboldt's former employer, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway. When Gilson and Seaboldt left their names on this rock the D&RGWRy was emerging from a dispute with its sister railroad in Colorado that left both companies in bankruptcy and receivership and was desperate to find income sources in the otherwise empty Utah deserts. While the partners wheeled and dealed with Washington politicians, the railroad's agents were active in the capitol as well, advocating for a new new military road from Fort Duchesne to their railroad station at Price, over which ALL government traffic to and from the Indian reservations would go. When the road was approved, the railroad also bid for and won several contracts for its construction. A combination of government freighting and Gilsonite shipping proved to be massively profitable. Over time, more and more land was stolen from the reservations to allow for expanded mining. Look at a land ownership map of the Uinta Basin today and it is a horrifying Frankenstein of a monster with tribal, private, state, county, and federal lands all intermingled in confusing blocks and strips at every angle, all thanks to Samuel Gilson, Bert Seaboldt, and a little black bag bound for the United States Congress.
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Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.