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A TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 PHOTO PROVIDED BY ISNA, A SEMI-OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Maryam Hosseinzadeh, right, and her husband Abdolghani, left, removing the noose from the neck of blindfolded Bilal who was convicted of murdering their son Abdollah in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
This room contains 131 nooses hanging from the ceiling, representing the 131 government opponents who were executed under apartheid South Africa's antiterrorism laws.
The government claimed that many other political prisoners had committed suicide. It is well known and accepted now that many were tortured to death.
Executions through shots in the back of the neck were carried out at an earthen wall or in a ditch. In the fall of 1944 the SS shot 92 Soviet officers, members of a resistance organization.
Nice idea, maybe let down a bit by the execution - boy this is a sad facade. Anyway, the whole idea here has to do with the sunlight coming in from above; unfortunately, the current owners have paneled over the skylights on the interior, as they desired a darker space. I guess they're entitled; they have to put up with the building's faults (temperature control, for example) and were quite understanding about my wanting to snap a few photos. Still, a little bit of a disappointment. Thanks to Michael A. for turning me on to this one.
Birkerts, by the way, had a fascinating pedigree - trained in West Germany (after fleeing his native Latvia in anticipation of the advancing Red Army), he bounced through a series of high-profile American offices based in the Midwest: Perkins and Will, Eero Saarinen, Minoru Yamasaki. He established his firm in the early 60s and is still doing business, with a couple of high-profile projects back in Riga currently in progress. His work of the 60s, while not doctrinaire, is generally more abstract and severe than that of his former employers; to whatever extent Saarinen's eclecticism rubbed off on Venturi, it didn't reach Birkerts. There's certainly some symbolic loading of this church facade, and an obvious reckoning with the historical basilica type - but beyond the quotation there's not much to soften the blow of the concrete forms (now painted). Presumably the daylight angling inside from above was to lend this a spiritual dimension; in its current condition the "industrial barn" quality is perhaps a little too dominant.
East Huron Street & Fletcher Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 PHOTO PROVIDED BY ISNA, A SEMI-OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Maryam Hosseinzadeh, right, and her husband Abdolghani, left, removing the noose from the neck of blindfolded Bilal who was convicted of murdering their son Abdollah in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
In the face of inevitable death, the prisoners behaved with calm dignity. They were shot singly or in pairs in the back of the head. The place of execution was the yard between Blocks 10 and 11, which was sealed off by two walls.
Here there was a wall, specially painted black, built of wood, sand and insulating board. At the foot of the wall, sand was sprinkled to soak up the blood of the victims. This wall was known as the “Wall of Death” or “Black Wall”.
Miniatur Wunderland, the largest model railway in the world, in Speicherstadt ("warehouse city", meaning the warehouse district), Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg, Germany.
Special exhibition "Geschichte unserer Zivilisation" (History of our Civilization): 1600-1789 Barockzeitalter bis zur französischen Revolution - Postkutsche und Hinrichtung (Baroque Era up to the French Revolution - Stagecoach and Execution)
This memorial takes the form of a glass pillow resting on a polished glass disk. It is intended to remember all those who were executed near this spot, with particular reference to the seven famous figures who were beheaded here and three army deserters shot by firing squad. Around the disk are the words--
Close to this site were executed:
William, Lord Hastings 1483
Queen Anne Boleyn 1536
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1541
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford 1542
Queen Katherine Howard 1542
Lady Jane Grey 1554
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex 1601
Highlander Farquhar Shaw 19 July 1743
Highlander Samuel Macpherson 19 July 1743
Highlander Malcolm Macpherson 19 July 1743
Signal the firing squad awesome band from the sunshine coast, that will pretty much make your ears melt off the only way they should melt off through pure brutality and utter madness, you can check these guys out on there MySpace here (http://www.myspace.com/signalthefiringsquad) and catch them on the Brisbane leg of the Summer Slaughter Tour on the 14th of March at the red room with the red shore
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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.
This picture was taken outside the gates of San Quentin Prison in California on the eve of the Execution of Stanley Tookie Williams, one of the founding members of the Crips.
It had been 10 year since an Execution had taken place at the prison. I went there to protest and to take pictures.
A banner to commemerate Anne Boleyn's death this scene was soooo sad - seriously as I say to my freinds the beheadings get to me, I've cried in all of them except Dereham's and Culpepper's theirs was just way to gruesome to watch and the shock at what I was watching took over and I didn't cry. Natalie captivated this woman like no other actress.
Harold's Cross is an urban village and inner suburb on the south side of Dublin, Ireland.
Harold's Cross is situated north of Terenure and Rathgar, west of Rathmines, east of Crumlin and Kimmage, and directly south from the Grand Canal at Clanbrassil Street. It lies within the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council, and straddles the boundary of Dublin 6, Dublin 6W and Dublin 12 postal districts.
One explanation of the origin of the name Harold's Cross is that it is derived from the name given to a gallows, which had been placed where the current Harold's Cross Park is situated. Harold's Cross was an execution ground for the city of Dublin during the 18th century and earlier. In the 14th century the gallows there was maintained by the Archbishop.
Harold's Cross stands on lands which formed, like those of Rathmines, part of the Manor of St. Sepulchre, and its name is said to have originated in a cross which marked the boundary of the lands of the Archbishop of Dublin, and warned the Harolds, the wild guardians of the border of the Pale near Whitechurch that they must not encroach.
The De Meones family, who gave their name to Rathmines, also owned lands at Harold's Cross in the fourteenth century.
Another explanation is that it is derived from a stone cross that marked the boundary of lands held by the Danish Viking Harold family of Rathfarnham in early medieval times, reputedly located at what is now the five-road Kenilworth junction on Harold's Cross Road.
Harold's Cross Park, a small well maintained city park, occupies the site of the original village green.
Another 4 executions by puppet administration in Iran through last two days.
They prove not only their unfaithfulness to the
god but also they believe in Darkness.
Site of the pawpaw tree incident where three McCoy brothers were tied to the trees and shot in 1882. This was just on the Kentucky side of the river outside of Matewan, WV.
The historical marker at the site reads: "Pawpaw Tree Incident: This episode is result of 1882 election-day fight. Tolbert, a son of Randolph McCoy, exchanged heated words with Ellison Hatfield, which started a fight. Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph McCoy Jr. stabbed Ellison to death. Later the three brothers were captured by Hatfield clan, tied to the pawpaw trees, and shot in retaliation."
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