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Sept. 22, 2011---The day after the state of Georgia murdered Troy Davis, an innocent man--Boston,Mass. protest against the death penalty.
But much better than graffiti.
25 works of public art interpreting the famous speech on the “Seven Ages of Man” from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” (Act II, Scene 7), sponsored by Keep Minneapolis Beautiful and Hennepin Theatre Trust.
Art is installed on utility and transformer boxes between Spruce Place and Washington Avenue, downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The execution wall in Auschwitz. The wall where prisoners were humiliated and executed in Auschwitz. To steal the clothing of those on death row the Germans would have their captives strip naked and stand in front of this wall where they were shot.
Site of execution scaffold, Trinity Square Gardens.
According to legend, Britain's protector - variously said to be the mythical Trojan leader Brutus or the head of the ancient king Bran - lies buried beneath Tower Hill and so long as that remains the case the country is safe from invasion.
The hill was also the site of more than 125 executions. One famous ghost story tells of a phantom procession bearing the body of an executed man back to the grim Tower of London.
For details, see my Haunted London.
At a Powell's shop in the Portland airport.
I was disappointed not to see more books I'd designed here, but it's a very small shop, and mostly paperbacks, so I guess it's a miracle that I had even two books in there.
Sept. 22, 2011---The day after the state of Georgia murdered Troy Davis, an innocent man--Boston,Mass. protest against the death penalty.
The Execution Rocks Lighthouse at the western end of Long Island Sound has a dark past. Legend states that American revolutionaries were allegedly shackled to the rocks and left to drown at high tide. Read more at www.us-lighthouses.com/displaypage.php?LightID=456.
"And besides," said Red Death as he pulled out a button from his robes. "If you even move a muscle I'll set off this bomb. It will trigger dozens of explosions through this base that will kill tons of your Law Enforcers."
None of the animals on the farm are killed for their meat etc., but live to ripe old ages - which is nice.
Nine people were executed inside the Tower of London, the three executed by Tudors were:
Ann Boleyn- 1536
Margaret Pole- 1541
Catherine Howard- 1542
Jane Boleyn- 1542
Lady Jane Grey- 1554
Robert Devereux- 1601
Old High Kirk Churchyard, Inverness - Executions after Culloden
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Traditionally deserters and rebels were executed in the churchyard after Culloden.
The musket was said to have been rested on a headstone with a groove in the top and the prisoner sat on or knelt by the one with two grooves on top. Marks of musket balls can be seen in the rear wall
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ID:MHG31453
Type of record:Monument
Name:Old High Kirk, Inverness, graveyard
Grid Reference:NH 6643 4549
Map Sheet:NH64NE
Civil Parish:INVERNESS AND BONA
Geographical Area:INVERNESS
Inverness, Church Street, Old High Kirk, Churchyard
Alternative Names Inverness Parish Churchyard; Robertson Of Inches Burial Ground
Site Type BURIAL GROUND, MAUSOLEUM
Canmore ID 98321
Site Number NH64NE 13.01
NGR NH 66477 45511
Council HIGHLAND
Parish INVERNESS AND BONA
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District INVERNESS
Former County INVERNESS-SHIRE