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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.
"Execution of Justice" by Emily Mann (U of M Alumna 1976), directed by Dominic Taylor. Performed April 16 - 24, 2010 in Rarig Center's Proscenium Theatre.
Photos by Cody Baldwin
The lever on the gate in the middle of the room makes an eerie squeak, as it releases the trap doors underneath the person being executed.
This would have been one of the last sounds the 500+ executed in Fremantle Prison heard.
" I was injured by the Felucians, and brought to an Imperial outpost that was captured and burnt down earlier today. I was hung from my feet above the fire, being cooked like a marshmallow on a summer day back on Tatooine. I felt a sharp pain in my left leg, someone had thrown a metal shard at me! I reached up and ripped it out, and used it to cut through the primitive rope holding me. I took out one of the guards with my signature roundhouse, and stabbed the other with a looted spear. The sacrificial leader pulled out a nasty looking sword and charged at me! I ran, deeper into the outpost, until I came across the one place that I knew best, the Cafeteria. As the Felucian leaped over a fallen wall, I turned and planted one end of the spear into the ground, driving the other end straight through him. I dropped the spear, and ran to what used to be the communications room, finding a dinosaur of a communication device, and used it to signal the nearest outpost, warning it of an attack."
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Macabre bit of history - not so long since we used to execute people as a public spectacle. They chose a place near the Cathedral!
DS: If there is only one photo I get today its got to be you on your knees with a gun at the back of your head. Me: Okay!
The set is here
"Execution of Justice" by Emily Mann (U of M Alumna 1976), directed by Dominic Taylor. Performed April 16 - 24, 2010 in Rarig Center's Proscenium Theatre.
Photos by Cody Baldwin
This is the known execution site of Anne Boleyn (second wife of Henry VII and mother of Elizabeth I) and Cathrine Howard (5th wife of Henry VII).
Our tour guide shows where the convicted were executed in the old Portuguese fort on Ilha de Moçambique. When the bodies were piled high,they would be loaded onto a boat at the nearby dock and taken to be dumped out at sea.
"Execution of Justice" by Emily Mann (U of M Alumna 1976), directed by Dominic Taylor. Performed April 16 - 24, 2010 in Rarig Center's Proscenium Theatre.
Photos by Cody Baldwin
Execution Rocks Lighthouse
National Lighthouse Museum
Signature "Halloween" Tour
Out of Staten Island, NY
October 30, 2021
"Execution of Justice" by Emily Mann (U of M Alumna 1976), directed by Dominic Taylor. Performed April 16 - 24, 2010 in Rarig Center's Proscenium Theatre.
Photos by Cody Baldwin
Berry Pomeroy Castle, a Tudor mansion within the walls of an earlier castle, is near the village of Berry Pomeroy, in South Devon, England. It was built in the late 15th century by the Pomeroy family which had held the land since the 11th century. By 1547 the family was in financial difficulties and sold the lands to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. Apart from a short period of forfeit to the Crown after Edward's execution, the castle has remained in the Seymour family ever since, although it was abandoned in the late 17th century when the fourth baronet moved to Wiltshire.
After lying in ruins for a hundred years, in the 19th century the castle became celebrated as an example of the "picturesque", and it became a popular tourist attraction, a status which it retains today—aided by its reputation of being haunted. Between 1980 and 1996 the castle was subjected to extensive archaeological excavations that clarified much of its history and overturned previously held beliefs regarding its age and cause of destruction. © Wikipedia
Mounting sculpture outside was a way for aristocrats to display their wealth, taste and learning beyond the private realms of their home. The first sculptural status symbols to greet any visitor to Knole are these statues mounted in the Green Court cast in lead after two of the world's most famous antiquities: the Crouching Venus and the Borghese Gladiator.
Although several antique versions of the Crouching Venus are known, the Knole cast is closest to the second-century AD marble version in the Royal Collection (but on display in the British Museum). The Royal Collection version was bought by Charles I in 1631 and then by the painter Sir Peter Lely after the king's execution. Around the same time as acquiring Venus, Charles I also made the Borghese Gladiator an overnight success by commissioning Hubert Le Sueur to cast it in bronze. Soon copies started appearing in stately homes across the nation.
According to a receipt dated 6th September 1697, the sculptor Richard Osgood was responsible for 'the case for the Venus and pedestal' and 'For the Gladiator as agreed'. Osgood's workshop at London's Hyde Park Corner was situated within spitting distance of the workshop of Britain's leading sculptor in lead John Nost, so it is likely that the casts were a collaborative effort, as Nost went on to carve a near identical Venus in marble five years later. Osgood personalised the Knole Gladiator with a lead shield ornamented with the Sackville coat of arms, an embellishment of the original from antiquity which has no armour. National Trust
Knole /noʊl/ NT is a country house situated within Knole Park, a 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) park located immediately to the south-east of Sevenoaks in west Kent. The house apparently ranks in the top five of England's largest houses, under any measure used, occupying a total of four acres.[1] Vita Sackville-West, who grew up there, recounts a legend that it is a calendar house: 'its seven courtyards correspond to the days of the week, its fifty-two staircases to the weeks of the year, its three hundred and sixty-five rooms to the days of the year, but 'I do not know that anyone has ever troubled to verify it.'[2] The meticulous planning of a calendar house, certainly does not fit well with the organic growth and reconstruction of the house over more than 500 years.
The current house dates back to the mid-15th century, with major additions in the 16th and, particularly, the early 17th centuries. Its grade I listing reflects its mix of late-medieval to Stuart structures, and particularly its central façade and state rooms. It is currently undergoing an extensive conservation project, to restore and develop the structures of the buildings, and thus help to conserve its important collections.[3] The surrounding deer park has also survived with varying degrees of management in the 400 years since 1600.