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Kilmainham Gaol. Many dissidents were held and executed here from both the Easter uprising and the civil war.
Florentine Painter after Francesco Rosselli , The Execution of Savonarola and Two Companions at Piazza della Signoria 16th–17th century, Galleria Corsini, Florence on display at the Auckland Art Gallery
Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, oil on canvas, 246 x 297 cm (The National Gallery, London)
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.
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.
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.
The Registan Square is located in the centre of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Legend has it that the square was a place of public executions from the 15th to the early 20th centuries, and it was strewn with sand to absorb the blood shed there. Therefore, the square was named Registan: reg (‘sand’) and stan (‘place’) - ‘a sand place’. It was also a place where people, summoned with trumpets, gathered to listen to government decrees.
Initially, at the beginning of the 15th century, the square did not have the grand madrasahs standing on its three sides today. These were built later, in the 15th and the 17th centuries.
The Registan Square, paved with fired bricks and cobbles, and the architectural ensemble of its three edifices, masterpieces of medieval Islamic architecture, have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2001. The central building of the ensemble is Tilla-Qori Madrasah (also spelled Tilla-Kori, Tillya-Kori, Tilya-Kori, Tilla-Kori); Ulugbek Madrasah (also spelled Ulugh Beg, Ulughbeg, Ulugh-Beg) and Sher-Dor Madrasah (also spelled Sher Dor, Sherdor, Shir Dor, Shirdor) stand to the left and right of it respectively.
The madrasahs date from different times. Ulugbek Madrasah, the earliest of them, was built in 1417 - 1420 by order of Ulugbek, Tamerlane’s grandson. Two centuries later, by order of Samarkand governor Yalangtush Bahadur (also spelled Yalangtush Bakhodur, Yalangtosh Bahodir) Sher-Dor Madrasah and Tilla-Qori Madrasah were built. These replaced the khanaka, a Sufi hospice and monastery, and the caravanserai that had been built under Ulugbek. Each of the madrasahs features unique decorations: fascinating tile mosaics, delicate stone carvings and splendid gilt ceilings.
There was a period when Registan Square madrasahs stayed in a state of disrepair and were empty. In the 17th - 18th centuries, Samarkand was in crisis: the khanate’s capital had been moved to Bukhara, and the Silk Road highway passing through the city had ceased to function. At the end of the 18th century Samarkand came back to normal life again, with a lot of shops and other small facilities opened in the square. In 1875, the square was levelled and paved, and became the major city centre again.
Today various festivals, holidays and shows are held in the square. The madrasahs have been fully restored and are open for visitors. There is a number of shops offering local handicrafts housed in them.
Ulugbek Madrasah was built by order of Ulugbek, Tamerlane’s grandson, in 1417-1420. Called a scientist on the throne, Ulugbek was a prominent astronomer of his times and an ardent promoter of education, science and art in his kingdom. The madrasah turned out to be probably the most beautiful building he had ever built.
The facade of the structure facing the Registan Square features a magnificent 34.7-meter-high pishtaq portal (a projected rectangular portal) of the main iwan entrance (a vaulted space in it). The portal is covered with intricate geometric and star-shape mosaic designs, as well as bands of calligraphic inscriptions - all made of glazed tiles in prevalent shades of blue (as on most other Samarkand historic buildings).
The either end of the facade has a minaret covered with geometric designs all over it too. There were minarets at every corner of the buildings but only these two and part of the northwestern rear one survive. The front minarets, affected by the elements, had been leaning quite badly until they were fixed in 1922 and 1965.
The building is rectangular; there is also a smaller iwan entrance on each of the three other sides. Decorated with tile mosaics, the iwan opposite the main portal is the entrance to the domed mosque the madrasah incorporates. There were also lecture halls and two stories of 48 hujra dormitory cells along the square courtyard of the madrasah. During the 18th-century riots the second storey and the four large domes of the lecture halls in the corners of the courtyard were removed: the local ruler was afraid that the insurgents might shoot at his palace from them. In the 1990s the second storey, except for the domes, was restored.
Though missing the domes, the building is a perfect example of Islamic elite architecture of the early Timurid times. The architect of it remains unknown though. According to some historical sources, Ulugbek himself took part in designing it.
The madrasah was one of the world’s best Islamic colleges in the 15th century. The famous scholar and poet Jami (Nur ad-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami or Djami) was one of its graduates, for instance. It was also a centre of secular education and research during Ulugbek’s reign. Among his lecturers were Ulugbek himself and Qadi Zada al-Rumi (actual name: Salah al-Din Musa Pasha), the ‘father’ of Samarkand scientists and ‘Plato of his times’, as he was called by his contemporaries.
Ulugbek, much more successful as an astronomer than a king, whose world-famous star catalogue was the best between Ptolemy’s and Brahe’s, was killed by order of his son Abdulatif on October 25, 1449. His body was left on the doorstep of his modest home inside the madrasah.
Yalangtush Bahadur ordered the building of the Tilla-Qori Madrasah (‘gilded’) on the site of Mirzo Caravanserai, also dilapidated, in 1646 - ten years after Sher-Dor Madrasah had been finished. They completed Tilla-Qori Madrasah in 1660, after the governor had already died.
The madrasah had been designed to complete the architectural ensemble in the square, adorning its northern side. However, the architect did not plan to make it a replica of either of the other two madrasahs. Though its main portal is similar to the ones of its mates, it is smaller, while the two-story wings, each with a short minaret at the end, are longer and have arched niches of 16 hujra cells.
The madrasah is square in plan, featuring a mosque with a portal and a large blue dome on the left of the main portal and behind it. They wanted the structure to serve as both a madrasah and a Friday communal prayer mosque.
The mosque is a cross in plan, featuring a beautifully decorated mihrab - a niche in the wall of a mosque that shows the direction Tilla-Qori Madrasahof Mecca Muslims should face when praying - and an 11-stair marble minbar pulpit. The interior walls and cupola of the mosque boast rich gilt ornaments; hence the name of the madrasah translates as ‘gilded’.
The four-iwan yard is surrounded with hujra cells: the main facade wings have two storeys of them; the other three sides have only one. The inside and outside yard facades are covered with brick and tile geometric, floral and mosaic designs.
At the beginning of the 19th century a strong earthquake destroyed the upper part of the main portal of the madrasah. It was restored during the reign of emir Khaidar (1800 - 1826), except for the mosaic decoration though. The restoration work on the décor and exterior ornaments continued and was completed in the 20th century: in the 1920s, 1930s, 1950s and 1970s. Today Tilla-Qori Madrasah houses the Registan restoration museum.
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 court had ordered additional torture just prior to Grandier’s execution, and Laubardemont urged him to confess to avoid the worst. Grandier acknowledged he was a sinner but refused to confess to witchcraft, even under “extraordinary” torture. As he was being consumed by the flames, the crowd mocked his suffering and professions of faith.
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).
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.
Three Anti-treaty IRA men from Wexford were among 77 prisoners executed by firing squad by the Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War 1922-1923. They were executed at this spot.
Zwei Galgensäulen - Ruinen des Galen Vicosoprano ( Letzte Hinrichtung 01. Oktober 1795 - forca gibet gallows Richtstätte lieu d'exécution luogo di esecuzione place of execution ) in der Waldlichtung Cudin bei Vicosoprano in der Gemeinde Bregaglia im Bergell im Kanton Graubünden - Grischun der Schweiz
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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.
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)
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 unsollicited documenta art work "THE EMERGENCY WILL REPLACE THE CONTEMPORARY"
is now part of a great art collection : It has been purchased by the art museum in Mannheim / DE , Kunsthalle Mannheim . This art work created debates and curatorial decisions in d13 (occupy camp inclusion and exclusion ) and in d14 (marble tent etc ...) .It converge the work of Biennalist and Emergency Room format
The artwork is now exhibited in the Edouard Manet room in front of the painting " The Execution of Emperor Maximilian " ,by so it questions the capacity and the role of the artist to stop and hopefully even prevent accidents .( in advance of the broken arm ). One of the side of the tent says " ART IN DELAY HAS NO IMPACT . " Manet depicted in his painting an excecution ,a wonderful art work that comes unfortunatly after the accident .
The Museum curator and art historian Mr Sebastian Baden has been actively engaged in this art work since 2012 .He is also the winner of the prestigious AICA International Prize for Critics in 2013 on dOCUMENTA . More about this tent and links to different texts. here:
www.emergencyrooms.org/documenta_kassel.htmlhttp://www.em...
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.