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from Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (1727):
The force of this engine is so strong, the head of the ax being loaded with a weight of lead to make it fall heavy, and the execution is so sure, that it takes away all possibility of its failing to cut off the head; and to this purpose, the Hallifax people tell you another story of a country woman, who was riding by upon her doffers or hampers to Hallifax Market, for the execution was always on a market day (the third after the fact) and passing just as the ax was let fall upon the neck of the criminal, it chopt it thro' with such force, that the head jumpt off into one of her hampers, and that the woman not perceiving it, she carry'd it away to the market.
All the use I shall make of this unlikely story, is this, that it seems executions were so frequent, that it was not thought a sight worth the peoples running out to see; that the woman should ride along so close to the scaffold, and that she should go on, and not so much as stop to see the ax fall, or take any notice of it. But those difficulties seem to be much better solved, by saying, that 'tis as reasonable to think the whole tale is a little Yorkshire, which, I suppose, you will understand well enough.
Galgen Zofingen ( Letzte Hinrichtung 25. Januar 1796 - forca gibet gallows Richtstätte Richtplatz lieu d'exécution luogo di esecuzione place of execution ) im Wald auf dem Galgenberg bei Zofingen im Kanton Aargau der Schweiz
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B.urgentour durch den K.anton A.argau am Donnerstag den 05. November 2009 :
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Mit dem Z.ug von B.ern nach Z.ofingen
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Weiter mit dem F.ahrrad zum S.chloss M.arienburg in W.ikon und auf der R.ückfahrt
B.esuch der e.hemaligen R.ichtstätte am G.algenberg bei Z.ofingen und B.esuch der
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Mit dem F.ahrrad zumg S.chlösschen A.ltenburg , anschliessend nach W.indisch -
V.indonissa - B.esuch der R.uine des A.mphitheaters und weiter mit dem F.ahrrad
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Mit dem F.ahrrad zurück nach B.rugg und weiter mit dem Z.ug nach B.ern
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Karla Faye Tucker was the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War. She was put to death in 1998. The photo was taken a few weeks before her execution.
Plötzensee
Berlin
The Plötzensee prison was found in 1868 and became an execution site in 1890, where 36 people were sent to death before Hitler took power in 1933. From then on, the number of executed increased – 2891 people found death between 1933-1945. Initially, victims were brought till death with an axe. It was Hitler who commanded in 1936 that a guillotine should be used – which was brought over in the deepest secret to Berlin in 1937.
Among the victims were famous resistance members, such as the circle of the Red Orchestra and a number of actors within the 20 July plot to kill Hitler in 1944. Also the foreign resistence circles – such as the 670 executed Czechs – made out a significant number of the victims. A more anonymous group of victims are the farmers who helped forced labourers to go into hiding. Sometimes, an ‘ordinary’ murderer found death here – for example August Eckert, who killed his jewish collegue and her daughter in 1943.
When the nazi’s arrested the members of the Red Orchestra in 1942, the nazi’s erected sinister meat-hooks where the resistance members could be hanged on and suffer more before they died. The most bloody night within the prison was on the seventh and eighth of September 1943 – when 186 prisoners found death. Because the guillotine was destroyed in an air-raid only four days before, these victims were also hanged on the sadist meat-hooks. For being executed – a prisoner had to pay RM300. The executioner was paid RM60-65 for taking a life. Most of the corpses were used for anatomical studies in the Humboldt university.
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.
The image is an interpretation of M. C. Escher's Belvedere image, courtesy of Dave Barlow's World of Impossible . I added the images of two victims of the Iranian Justice system, who had been publicly hanged for trafficking in opium and heroin.
Lacika is 2.5 years old and this was the first time he lost a friend, the snowman. Cryed for 10 minutes after that!
The Bladed Grate is a particularly cruel manner of execution. Victims are dropped into a pool of stagnant water and the Bladed Grate is slowly lowered down until it is just below surface level. The poor victim is faced with impalement or drowning as the amount of breathable oxygen the victim has access to steadily decreases. And yet, if the victim would merely get a hold of himself and swim to the bottom of the tank. He would find a great wheel, a valve, a chance to live again. But oh too often do the victims do nothing but thrash about and beg for mercy. Such cruelty...
Helped a friend work on a Rap music video yesterday. One of the things I did was run the Fog Machines for this girl's entrance shots. My friend is using a RED ONE camera, one of the finest available for digital cinema. The girl with the gun was awesome, she was gorgeous and talented (and very nice).
epa00825284 Members of Mobile Brigade (BRIMOB) police forces prepare their gear as they leave Bali airport in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday 23 September 2006, to reinforce security in Atambua, West Timor, Indonesia. Execution of three convicted Christian militants, Fabianus Tibo, Marianus Riwu and Dominggus Silva in Palu has triggered violence in Atambua. Three Christian militants convicted of killing more than 200 people at an Islamic boarding school during Muslim-Christian clashes in Poso were executed by an firing squad early Friday. EPA/MADE NAGI
Dostawca: PAP/EPA.
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.
English Civil War Society
By kind permission of the Royal Parks Department, the King’s Army Annual March and Parade will again follow the route taken by Charles I from St James Palace on the Mall to the place of his untimely death at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, London. This event is an established part of the London calendar and has followed a similar format now for forty years. The parade assembles from 11am outside St James Palace on The Mall and marches to form up on Horse Guards Parade, a considerable privilege for an organisation such as ourselves, from where a wreath is carried across Whitehall and placed at the execution site. A short service follows and awards and commissions are conferred on deserving members of the King’s Army.
Keynote speaker waiting in the wings. Her talk exemplified the difference between the more business oriented side of our organization and the service emphasis. Even so I seriously disagreed with her premise and her execution. She started off by urging us to become perfectionists—perfect home office, perfect closets, what have you. (In my experience if your confidence comes from how tidy your own office is you are likely to run late because still tidying something.)
Then she wanted us to maximize our profits by targeting the clients who paid the best and gave us the least trouble so forget the chronically disorganized; we want clients who are ready for change. That's what all the go getter organizers say.
She proceeded to give us her own business example of how she discovered that her best clients went to a certain country club so she asked to meet with a client there, which then gave her the opportunity to greet several other clients who were dining there. This was supposed to create buzz about who she herself was that she knew so many people at this exclusive club. Now if you are an organizer who has pledged confidentiality what would you be doing outing all your clients at their country club? But we were to take it that what she did was more akin to interior design so no shame in that.
She also used someone else's success as a jumping off point which I dislike in print stories as well. She had us all gather around her laptop so we could watch the latest miracle performer, Paul Potts, but the way she pronounced his name I kept thinking Pol Pot. Anyway the point of that was to encourage us to let out our inner genius.
To end she told a little anecdote on herself just to show she wasn't a perfectionist after all, but it was a very strange story about how she was all dressed up for a ball (emphasis on the perfect outfit) and ended up running into a plate glass window in front of the entire party. Presumably she bounced off, but she didn't say what the outcome was.
She was a good speaker in that she was extremely confident and high energy, moved well and had presence. But she lacked substance and her talk was very formulaic. It had all the ingredients, but no real narrative thread to hold it together; she was just stringing together stories to complete the formula. It was interesting to have that illustrated for me. It showed me that a keynote speech is a lot like an essay. And it doesn't take much to perform one, but you get paid a lot for these "inspirational" talks so speakers are always aspiring to be the keynote.
FILE--Florida's lethal injection gurney is shown in an undated handout photo taken in the redesigned death chamber which will accomodate either the electric chair or the gurney at Florida State Prison. (AP Photo/Fla. Dept. of Corrections)
A video grab taken from al-Iraqiya television shows ousted Iraq president Saddam Hussein moments before being hanged in Baghdad, 30 December 2006. Iraqi state televsion showed a brief film of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein being placed in a noose by masked hangmen today, cutting away just before his execution. AFP PHOTO/DSK
Cowichan River Estuary Conservation Area, Duncan, BC
The hunter, hiding in the bushes, shot down a Canada Goose as it flew over. The goose was only wounded and could not fly, but it tried to run. Standing well behind the fearsome beast the mighty hunter shot it again, then carried the corpse off in triumph, to feed his starving family.
Here is everything all planted. Tomatoes are on the left plant stand. Along the top row is rosemary, basil, and Italian parsley. The second shelf is oregano and spinach. The bottom will have carrots and zucchini.
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"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."
Source: Wikipedia
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.
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