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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)
Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam The Netherlands – Architects: Brinkman and Van der Vlugt – masterplan 1914 – 1923; design 1923 – 1925; execution 1925 - 1931
The Van Nelle Factory is one of the highlights of the Modern Movement in the Netherlands. The impressive glass building is not only an example of functionalism and rational production, but also improved working conditions for workers in the twentieth century. The restored building is now one of the most important monuments of Rotterdam
The Firm Van Nelle was selling coffee, tea, tobacco and snuff in Rotterdam since 1782. The entirely new complex consists of the actual factory building, an office building, a warehouse, expedition and storage depots along the canal, a boiler house and several workshops. A cafeteria and sports fields were also to be found in the area. The factory building consists of three elongated in height sloping parts separated by stairwells. Tobacco has eight, coffee five and tea factory three floors. The staircases house the washing and changing facilities, toilets and lifts, separated for men and women. This allowed for continues factory floors and easily adjustable layouts. By using a concrete frame the non-load bearing facades could be made almost entirely of glass with only thin steel frames. Light and air could penetrate deep into the building. The expedition and storage strip along the water is connected to the main building by overhead conveyor bridges. Another sky bridge connects the plant to the office at the entrance of the complex. The office consists of a strip with two layers of offices and a large open space with glass walls and glass meeting rooms. The office follows the curve in the road. During construction, a tea room on the roof of the tobacco factory was added.
In 1942, low-rise warehouses designed by Brinkman and Van den Broek were realized. In 1974 at the back of the building, a new distribution centre was built. In 1951 other products such as pudding and chewing gum made their entrance. After a takeover by the American Standard Brands in 1989, Van Nelle competitor Sara Lee / Douwe Egberts, sold the complex in 1995, so it could finally get the status of national monument. Using the name Van Nelle Design Factory, the complex started a new life. The factory complex was restored by Wessel de Jonge and Claessens Erdmann. The transparency of the factory floor was maintained as much as possible by the new climate walls on the inside. The new inner facades are made of aluminium and therefore clearly identifiable as new elements. On the floors office spaces of various sizes have been realized for the creative sector. The ground floor is used for exhibitions and conferences. The adjacent buildings have been restored and are used by a number of architectural firms.
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.
Execution here is pretty wretched. Whether the real problem is fabrication or design, I couldn't say. Some of the panel intersections are out of alignment (and plane) by 3 cm or more. Odd that the majority of reviewers missed this - maybe critics no longer bother to visit the buildings they write about.
In Denali, the bears are referred to as grizzly bears, as opposed to Katmai NP and other coastal areas. The difference is primarily in what the bears eat. In Denali, there are no salmon streams or fish of any kind, so the bears will feed on the grasses, shrubs, berries, and the occasional animal or carcass. In the fall, the berries, which grow wildly, are abundant and the bears feast fairly much non-stop on them. Can you imagine how many berries it takes to satisfy a grizzly bear?!
The grizzly bears are quite skillful at stripping the berries off of the stems that they grow on. Grabbing the branch with its large claws, it then bites onto the branch, then pulls its head away in a manner such that it strips the berries right off - so clean and efficient. So fascinating to observe. They are so focused on this behavior that it's difficult to catch them with their heads up. This year, they said that the berries were not as plentiful. I know that we were very aware of it, so did not feast on berries ourselves (didn't want to take from the bears).
Denali is a very rugged landscape, with severe and harsh winters - the wildlife fight for survival. Here's hoping that this bear got its fill of food before the winter takes over and he dens down for a bit.
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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.
Al Nusra Front Executions. Image, as released by Al Nusra Front, posted at Threat Matrix.
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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)
"During his consulship the royal family made an attempt to regain the throne, firstly by their ambassadors seeking to subvert a number of the leading Roman citizens in the Tarquinian conspiracy. Amongst the conspirators were two brothers of Brutus' wife Vitellia, and Brutus' two sons, Titus Junius Brutus and Tiberius Junius Brutus. The conspiracy was discovered and the consuls determined to punish the conspirators with death. Brutus gained respect for his stoicism in watching the execution of his own sons, even though he showed emotion during the punishment. His colleague Collatinus was removed from office for his lack of harshness on the conspirators."
Source: Wikipedia
"The Royal Palace of Amsterdam in Amsterdam (Dutch: Koninklijk Paleis van Amsterdam or Paleis op de Dam) is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which are at the disposal of the monarch by Act of Parliament. It is situated on the west side of Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam, opposite the War Memorial and next to the Nieuwe Kerk.
"The palace was built as a city hall during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The building became the royal palace of King Louis Napoleon and later of the Dutch Royal House.
"The structure was built as the Town Hall of the City of Amsterdam 'facing the landing wharfs along Damrak, which at that time would have been busy with ships'. The town hall was opened on 29 July 1655 by Cornelis de Graeff, the mayor of Amsterdam. The main architect was Jacob van Campen, who took control of the construction project in 1648.
"After the patriot revolution which swept the House of Orange from power a decade earlier, the new Batavian Republic was forced to accept Louis Napoleon, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, as King Louis I of Holland in 1806. After holding his court at The Hague and Utrecht, Louis Napoleon moved to Amsterdam, and converted the Town Hall into a royal palace for himself.
"The King of Holland did not have long to appreciate his new palace. He abdicated on 2 July 1810; his son, Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, then succeeded him, as King Louis II, before the Netherlands were annexed by France ten days later. The palace then became home to the French governor, Charles François Lebrun.
"Prince William VI (son of Prince William V of Orange), returned to the Netherlands in 1813, after Napoleon fell from power, and restored the palace to its original owners. After his investiture as King William I of the Netherlands, however, Amsterdam was made the official capital of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (the seats of government being Brussels and The Hague). The new king realised the importance of having a palace in the capital, and the Town Hall again became a royal palace."
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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.
On of the many smaller jizo statues at the site of the Kotukappara execution grounds.
Minami Senju has a long history of notable events, many of them rather nasty. One place that stands out is the Kotsukappara (also called Kozukappara) execution grounds, one of three such places in Tokyo that was in use during the Edo era (one of the others was Nishikigamori, near present-day Shinagawa, at the opposite corner of the city, and the third was Owada, near the far-western suburb of Hachioji).
According to traditional geomancy practices, the north-east was supposedly the direction that evil influences came in from, and since this neighborhood was directly north-east from the palace, many of the city's undesirable (but still necessary) fixtures were placed here. In addition to the execution grounds, this neighborhood is where the Yoshiwara red-light district was designated. Arakawa and Taito Wards were also home to large Burakumin neighborhoods (as evidenced by the many traditional leather goods shops still around today), although I don't know if that was by official decree or by necessity (the area around the Shinagawa execution grounds also had a sizable Burakumin population, with a large slaughterhouse still located between the high-rise office buildings surrounding the station).
This execution ground was in use from 1651 (right at the changeover between the 3rd and 4th Tokugawa shoguns) until probably about 1871 (during the Meiji era, when the government was trying to convince western nations to lift their unequal treaties). It has been estimated that as many as 200,000 people were executed here during that time.
The execution grounds are very likely the source of the names of the nearby Namida-bashi (Bridge of Tears) and Kotsu-dori (Bone street).
During the late 1700s, medical pioneers Genpaku Sugita, Jun'an Nakagawa and Hoshu Katsuragawa (whose home in Chuo Ward near Tsukiji has an historical marker that I've photographed here) came here to conduct dissections while researching their historic medical textbook, Kaitai Shinsho, a translation of the Dutch Tafel Anatomie.
In 1741, a 3-meter tall stone Buddha was placed to pacify and watch over the souls of the thousands of prisoners that had died here. Although the statue survived the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, which hit close to Tokyo, it was badly damaged by the Great Eastern Earthquake in March 2011. One arm of the statue (which had been built in sections that fit together) dropped off, and the upper body was shifted to the side, coming dangerously close to toppling over completely. It was completely disassembled shortly afterwards, and after lengthy restoration work was re-assembled in late 2012.
Rainey Bethea walks up the stairs with guards for his public execution, in this Aug. 15, 1936, file photo in Owensboro, KY. The era of public executions in the United States sputtered to a halt after 20,000 turned out for the 1936 hanging of Bethea, a black man convicted of raping and killing a white woman. (AP file photo)
This photograph shows the execution of the Namoa pirates outside the Kowloon Walled City on 17 April 1891 = 這幀照片正是在一八九一年四月十七日「南澳號」海盜在九龍城寨外的海灘上被滿清政府處決後攝得
Police Report of 1890 made by W.M. Deane, Captain Superintendent of Police, to the Governor, which recorded the Namoa Piracy in details. According to the Report, among the suspects arrested, five were Hakkas who lived in Shaukeiwan, Hong Kong.
警察司田尼向港督報一八九零年的香港治安報告詳細記錄了海盜劫掠「南澳號」客輪案件的始末。根據記載，被逮捕的多名疑犯中有五人為居住在筲箕灣的香港居民；然而，由於案中證人未能辨認出疑犯的面貌，在證據不足的情況下，涉案疑犯全被釋放。可是，他們隨即被駐守九龍城寨的滿清官兵拘捕，其後更被判斬首。行刑當日，有些香港居民特地渡海前往九龍寨城外海灘上的刑場，觀看專程從福建前來的劊子手負責斬首的場面。這幀照片正是在一八九一年四月十七日該等海盜在九龍城寨外的海灘上被滿清政府處決後攝得。相中歐籍人士就是刑場上的圍觀
I think that people were executed or something here. I don't know what it was, but it looked like a pretty brutal place.
The Church Of Sant Felip Neri was used as an execution wall during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Today we can still see the gunshots on the wall.
The square and the church were both constructed over a Medieval Cemetery.
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My life continues to twist and turn down paths I have never walked before, the unknown lies around every corner. My emotions and mind are working against me, I feel like I am being internally executed by myself...
prisoners who could not be waited upon for the gas chamber were executed here at once. what you see is the black bullet obsorbig panels.
Execution of Graham Slater. Keith Moldenhauer holds the axe while Ian McGiles and Rob Speirs hold the victim. Bertie Venter looks on in the background.
Members from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District talk with Maj. Gen. Michael Wehr, (center) Deputy Chief of Engineers/Deputy Commanding General, about the progress being made on contracts to repair damage caused by Hurricane Florence at Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, N.C. Oct. 5, 2018. -U.S. Army photo by Russell Wicke