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They held him down. Then, as pictured, one came up behind him and sheared his head off. They carried the head around the brick wall they had claimed as their own. They seemed quite pleased.
Kilmainham Gaol was built in 1796 as a replacement for an older prison. It has a sorrowful past with deplorable conditions. It is the place of imprisonment and subsequent execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. This yard is where these executions were carried out.
A man's worth has its season, like fruit. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I've had this idea for weeks. WEEKS. I wanted to cut a shape into an apple and fill it with pieces of my favorite Clementine oranges. I love fruit; especially those two kinds of fruit and I thought what better way to represent the theme "Food/Nourishment" than by doing something fun and creative? As you can see, it didn't work out so well; the photo that is. The cutting out the apple part and inserting the orange part worked out pretty great actually, but the execution of the photo ... not so much.
I have to laugh... For whatever reason, no matter how aesthetically unpleasing this photo may be, it seems to cheer me right up and I was already full of cheer. ;)
p.s. Hey, it's not b&w! ;p
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Do check out my friend Toby who is my partner in crime for this 50-week, 50mm project. He is wildly talented and has an eye for things typically unseen, unnoticed, and uncared for. A brilliant eye that guy has. www.flickr.com/photos/tobymarsh/. Go on and click it, you know you want to. ;p
THE EXECUTION
According to some witnesses, Agnes was unconscious when she was executed. It is said that the reverend, who accompanied her, held her hair away from her neck while she was decapitated. Agnes was the last person to be executed in Iceland.
AFTAKAN
Að sögn vitna féli Agnes í ómegin áður en hun var tekin af lifi. Sagt er að presturinn sem fylgdi henni hafi haldið hárinu frá hálsinum á meðan hún var höggvin. Agnes var síðasta manneskjan sem tekin var af lífi á Islandi.
One of the most famous exhibits at the Tower of London is the executioners block and axe. This was used to take off the heads of those who had been condemed to die either inside the Tower grounds or on Tower Hill.
Photo of the execution site on Tower Hill:
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: Execution of 3 Korean spies
Date: 1905
Type: Photographs
Description: Three resistance fighters facing a Japanese firing squad. They are accused of spying and executed. According to the source cited below, they were charged with destroying the Seoul-Pusan railroad two days after its completion, on January 1, 1905. This is a rather well-known image which was also reproduced in Western newspapers. Source: Sajin uiro ponun tongnip undong, 1996. V. 1, p. 81.
Inscription/Marks: Inscription in ink, presumably in WDS hand: 'Execution of 3 Korean spies'
Identifier: 1260.60.09.31.04
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xm7
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
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So I went back to the warehouse today but this time I took a Brownhorse and a Yellow Bear with me.
I’ve had the idea of shooting a version of Eddie Adams Pulitzer Prize winning shot for a while but wanted to add a bit of a twist, not just a mock up with a gun but a different take on it altogether, a bit more of a comment on peoples discomfort in front of a lens (including mine).
Got together with Adam as it’s clearly a two man job so keep a look out for his 365 version which may be a bit more light hearted. EDIT: And here it is.
This was my first properly lit shot and it was good to learn a few new things, Adam’s just done Dark Daze lighting course so had a load of new advice on hand. Here's a light set-up shot. Would have benefited from a more direct light on the cine camera but I can't really complain.
Street photography, Padstow Cornwall UK.
Morris dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins. Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two men, steps are performed near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid across each other on the floor.
English records date back to 1448, when 7 shillings were paid to morris dancers by the Goldsmiths' Company in London. Further mentions of morris dancing occur in the late 15th century, and there are also early records such as visiting bishops' "Visitation Articles" mention sword dancing, guising and other dancing activities, as well as mumming plays. Furthermore, the earliest records invariably mention "Morys" in a court setting, and a little later in the Lord Mayors' Processions in London. The court records mention both men and women as dancing. It is only later that it begins to be mentioned as something performed in the parishes. There is certainly no evidence that it is a pre-Christian ritual, as is often claimed.
In modern day, it is commonly thought of as a mainly English activity, although there are around 150 morris sides (or teams) in the United States. British expatriates form a larger part of the morris tradition in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong. There are isolated groups in other countries, for example those in Utrecht and Helmond, Netherlands; the Arctic Morris Group of Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden; as well as in Cyprus; and Alsace, France.
This pesky outlaw has been captured and brought to the castle, where he will be beheaded in front of all it's inhabitants.
These photos of the aftermath of Mussolini's execution at the end of WWII were in the final pages of my Uncle Louis' WWII photo album. I know he was in North Africa and Italy, not sure where he was at the end of the war. These are actual photographs he had, not just something he ripped out of a magazine. I read somewhere that large numbers of these photos were sold to American GI's.
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I'll be honest, I'm not sure about the legality of posting these pictures.
These were all photographs and posters from the Natzweiler Concentration camp in France. There were no signs disallowing photography, but the fact is, I didn't take these original pictures. I don't know who the credit goes to but I feel compelled to share them.
The Natweiler concentration camp was a grim experience, yet powerful and worthwhile. We visited on a gray, rainy day which added to the mood.
I share these with the intent of spreading information and helping to show things to people who might not ever be able to make a trip to Europe or be able to tour a camp museum.
When political powers try to deny that these horrid events occurred it is one more reminder that we can't forget these events. We can't forget what many of our grandfathers fought for. We can't deny the grave human injustice that was perpetrated.
Iranian Majid Kavousifar bids farewell to his relatives before being hanged in public in central Tehran 02 August 2007. Two men convicted of murdering a top Iranian judge in 2005 were hanged in public in central Tehran, the first such public executions in the Iranian capital in five years. The men were executed for the murder of Hassan Moghaddas, a hardline deputy prosecutor and head of the "guidance" court in Tehran, who was shot dead by two men as he getting into his car in August 2005. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI
日本台南測候所 - 八角樓 / 一個不曾接觸的時代 - 文化卻影響了我的一生
Japanese Tainan meteorological station - eight angles tower / An era of never touching - The culture has affected my life
日本台南は所を観測します - 8隅櫓 / １つのかつて接触したことがない時代 - 文化は私の一生に影響しました
Japonesa Tainan estación meteorológica - ocho ángulos torre / Una era de nunca tocar - La cultura ha afectado mi vida
Japanische Tainan meteorologischen Station - acht Winkel Turm / Eine Ära, nie berühren - Die Kultur hat mein Leben beeinflusst
Japonaise station météorologique Tainan - huit angles Tour / Une ère de ne jamais toucher - La culture a affecté ma vie
Tainan Taiwan / Tainan Taiwán / 台灣台南
管樂小集 2013/04/13 台南孔廟演出 Tainan Confucius Temple performances
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家住安南鹽溪邊
The family lives in nearby the Annan salt river
隔壁就是聽雨軒
The next door listens to the rain porch
一旦落日照大員
Once setting sun according to Taiwan
左岸青龍飛九天
The left bank white dragon flying in the sky
Protest against Trump, London, June 2019
According to the International Bar Association's Human Right Institute, as reported in the Law Society Gazette in July 2019, the Saudi authorities have carried out at least 134 executions so far in 2019. 55 were of non-violent drug offenders. Another 37 were political activists killed in a mass execution on 23 April 2019 following lengthy periods of detention, torture, and 'grossly unfair' trials. The report notes that, among numerous ways in which the Saudi penal code contravenes international law, at least six of the 37 executed in April were under 18 at the time of their alleged offences.
ift.tt/1q0e9P3 #Nazi General Anton Dostler is tied to a stake before his execution by a firing squad, Italy, 1945 [680x558] via /r/#HistoryPorn #history #retro # ift.tt/22u6DNR via Histolines
There is a natural progressive functionality to Dachau Concentration Camp's Barrack X - the Desinfektionskammern (where prisoners would have stripped and had their clothes deloused for reuse), to the gas chamber (depicted here through the door and under the sign Brausebad - meaning shower), to the death chamber (a room used to store the dead bodies before they could be cremated), and finally to the cremation room.
What we know now, is that this highly efficient death factory was never used to it's full potential. 30,000+ deaths were registered at Dachau (many more were never registered) since it's inception in 1933 until the liberation in 1945, but most were not subjected to the gas chamber. Firing squad executions, disease, sheer exhaustion and some of most vial human subject experimentation ever conceived was the cause behind the vast majority of deaths. The gas chamber was tested on prisoners from time to time, and while it had the potential to inflict homicide on up to 150 people at a time, it was never employed to capacity. Honestly, none of this negates the horrific fact that Barrack X was built in 1943 with the intent to mass exterminate the undesirables.
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La Fontana di Trevi è la più grande e, secondo il mio modesto parere, insieme alla Fontana Dei Quattro Fiumi del Bernini, una delle più note fontane di Roma, ed è considerata all'unanimità una delle più celebri fontane del mondo. La fontana, progettata da Nicola Salvi e adagiata su un lato di Palazzo Poli, è un connubio di classicismo e barocco e fu commissionata da Papa Clemente XII, nel 1731, dopo un combattuto bando di concorso.
L'opera era impostata secondo un progetto che raccorda influenze barocche e riprende l'idea di fondo di papa Urbano VIII e di Bernini, cioè quella di narrare, tramite architettura e scultura insieme, la storia dell'Acqua Vergine. In prima istanza le sculture furono affidate all'esecuzione dello Scultore Giovanni Battista Maini, morto insieme all'architetto prima della fine dei lavori, e concluse dallo scultore Pietro Bracci, coadiuvato dal figlio Virginio. La fontana viene finalmente ultimata dopo l'esecuzione del complesso scultoreo centrale, durante il pontificato di papa Clemente XIII il 22 maggio 1762, dopo tante tribolazioni e cambi di progetti durante la realizzazione, dopo trent’anni di cantiere, l’opera fu finalmente mostrata al pubblico in tutta la sua maestosità.
The Trevi Fountain is the largest and, in my humble opinion, along with the Fountain of the Four Rivers by Bernini, one of the most famous fountains of Rome, and is unanimously considered one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain, designed by Nicola Salvi and lying on one side of the Palazzo Poli, is a blend of classicism and baroque and was commissioned by Pope Clement XII in 1731, after a hard fought competition notice, the aforementioned architect Nicolò Salvi.
The work was set according to a project that connects Baroque influences and incorporates the idea of Pope Urban VIII and Bernini, which is to narrate, through architecture and sculpture collection, the history of the Acqua Vergine. In the first instance the sculptor was entrusted with the execution of the sculptor Giovanni Battista Maini, who died before the end of the work, and concluded by the sculptor Pietro Bracci, assisted by his son Virginio. The fountain was finally completed after the execution of complex sculptural center, during the pontificate of Pope Clement XIII May 22, 1762, after many tribulations and changes of projects during execution, after thirty years of construction, the work was finally shown to the public in all its majesty.
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Execution Scene, Shanghai, 1870s.
Photographer: attributed to W. Saunders
Source: Imperial China, p.63
Spanish dime novel depicting the execution method known as "blowing from a gun." Los Cinco Invencibles (The Five Invincibles) No. 6, circa 1931 from El Gato Negro (Barcelona), La Victima de un Traidor (The Traitor's Victim), anonymous but credited to Antonio Oller Bertran. The cover is by Masgoumiery Daniel Pena (signed Niel), who before going mainstream drew cartoons for Spanish anarchist publications.
Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833, oil on canvas, 246 x 297 cm (The National Gallery, London)
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Marble, AD 70-80
After Nero’s death, his images were defaced or destroyed in an act of damnatio memoriae, the offcial suppression of his memory. Others were removed and reworked into the portraits of later emperors. This marble portrait of Vespasian, made for insertion into a full-length statue, was re-carved from a likeness of Nero. It retains Nero’s deep-set eyes. Small traces also remain in the surface of the marble at the back of the neck. They show that a longer section of hair, characteristic of Nero’s coiffure, was removed.
[British Museum]
Nero: the Man Behind the Myth
(May - Oct 2021)
Nero is known as one of Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty, debauchery and madness.
The last male descendant of the emperor Augustus, Nero succeeded to the throne in AD 54 aged just 16 and died a violent death at 30. His turbulent rule saw momentous events including the Great Fire of Rome, Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, the execution of his own mother and first wife, grand projects and extravagant excesses.
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Through some 200 spectacular objects, from the imperial palace in Rome to the streets of Pompeii, follow the young emperor’s rise and fall and make up your own mind about Nero. Was he a young, inexperienced ruler trying his best in a divided society, or the merciless, matricidal megalomaniac history has painted him to be?
Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar). Nero is known as one of Rome’s most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and debauchery. He ascended to power in AD 54 aged just 16 and died at 30. He ruled at a time of great social and political change, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica’s rebellion in Britain. He allegedly killed his mother and two of his wives, only cared about his art and had very little interest in ruling the empire.
Most of what we know about Nero comes from the surviving works of three historians – Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. All written decades after Nero’s death, their accounts have long shaped our understanding of this emperor’s rule. However, far from being impartial narrators presenting objective accounts of past events, these authors and their sources wrote with a very clear agenda in mind. Nero’s demise brought forward a period of chaos and civil war – one that ended only when a new dynasty seized power, the Flavians. Authors writing under the Flavians all had an interest in legitimising the new ruling family by portraying the last of the Julio-Claudians in the worst possible light, turning history into propaganda. These accounts became the ‘historical’ sources used by later historians, therefore perpetuating a fabricated image of Nero, which has survived all the way to the present.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. Both Gnaeus and Agrippina were the grandchildren of Augustus, making Nero Augustus’ great, great grandson with a strong claim to power.
Nero was only two years old when his mother was exiled and three when his father died. His inheritance was taken from him and he was sent to live with his aunt. However, Nero’s fate changed again when Claudius became emperor, restoring the boy’s property and recalling his mother Agrippina from exile.
In AD 49 the emperor Claudius married Agrippina, and adopted Nero the following year. It is at this point that Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In Roman times it was normal to change your name when adopted, abandoning your family name in favour of your adoptive father’s. Nero was a common name among members of the Claudian family, especially in Claudius’ branch.
Nero and Agrippina offered Claudius a politically useful link back to Augustus, strengthening his position.
Claudius appeared to favour Nero over his natural son, Britannicus, marking Nero as the designated heir.
When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor just two months before turning 17.
As he was supported by both the army and the senate, his rise to power was smooth. His mother Agrippina exerted a significant influence, especially at the beginning of his rule.
The Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all claim that Nero, fed up with Agrippina’s interference, decided to kill her.
Given the lack of eyewitnesses, there is no way of knowing if or how this happened. However, this did not stop historians from fabricating dramatic stories of Agrippina’s murder, asserting that Nero tried (and failed) to kill her with a boat engineered to sink, before sending his men to do the job.
Agrippina allegedly told them to stab her in the womb that bore Nero, her last words clearly borrowed from stage plays.
It is entirely possible, as claimed by Nero himself, that Agrippina chose (or was more likely forced) to take her own life after her plot against her son was discovered.
Early in his rule, Nero had to contend with a rebellion in the newly conquered province of Britain.
In AD 60–61, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe led a revolt against the Romans, attacking and laying waste to important Roman settlements. The possible causes of the rebellion were numerous – the greed of the Romans exploiting the newly conquered territories, the recalling of loans made to local leaders, ongoing conflict in Wales and, above all, violence against the family of Prasutagus, Boudica’s husband and king of the Iceni.
Boudica and the rebels destroyed Colchester, London and St Albans before being heavily defeated by Roman troops. After the uprising, the governor of Britain Suetonius Paulinus introduced harsher laws against the Britons, until Nero replaced him with the more conciliatory governor Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The marriage between Nero and Octavia, aged 15 and 13/14 at the time, was arranged by their parents in order to further legitimise Nero’s claim to the throne. Octavia was the daughter of the emperor Claudius from a previous marriage, so when Claudius married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero, Nero and Octavia became brother and sister. In order to arrange their marriage, Octavia had to be adopted into another family.
Their marriage was not a happy one. According to ancient writers, Nero had various affairs until his lover Poppaea Sabina convinced him to divorce his wife. Octavia was first exiled then executed in AD 62 on adultery charges. According to ancient writers, her banishment and death caused great unrest among the public, who sympathised with the dutiful Octavia.
No further motives were offered for Octavia’s death other than Nero’s passion for Poppaea, and we will probably never know what transpired at court. The fact that Octavia couldn’t produce an heir while Poppaea was pregnant with Nero’s daughter likely played an important role in deciding Octavia’s fate.
On 19 July AD 64, a fire started close to the Circus Maximus. The flames soon encompassed the entire city of Rome and the fire raged for nine days. Only four of the 14 districts of the capital were spared, while three were completely destroyed.
Rome had already been razed by flames – and would be again in its long history – but this event was so severe it came to be known as the Great Fire of Rome.
Later historians blamed Nero for the event, claiming that he set the capital ablaze in order to clear land for the construction of a vast new palace. According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Nero took in the view of the burning city from the imperial residence while playing the lyre and singing about the fall of Troy. This story, however, is fictional.
Tacitus, the only historian who was actually alive at the time of the Great Fire of Rome (although only 8 years old), wrote that Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started, but returned to the capital and led the relief efforts.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all describe Nero as being blinded by passion for his wife Poppaea, yet they accuse him of killing her, allegedly by kicking her in an outburst of rage while she was pregnant.
Interestingly, pregnant women being kicked to death by enraged husbands is a recurring theme in ancient literature, used to explore the (self) destructive tendencies of autocrats. The Greek writer Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian king Cambyses kicked his pregnant wife in the stomach, causing her death. A similar episode is told of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Nero is just one of many allegedly ‘mad’ tyrants for which this literary convention was used.
Poppaea probably died from complications connected with her pregnancy and not at Nero’s hands. She was given a lavish funeral and was deified.
Centred on greater Iran, the Parthian empire was a major political and cultural power and a long-standing enemy of Rome. The two powers had long been contending for control over the buffer state of Armenia and open conflict sparked again during Nero’s rule. The Parthian War started in AD 58 and, after initial victories and following set-backs, ended in AD 63 when a diplomatic solution was reached between Nero and the Parthian king Vologases I.
According to this settlement Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, would rule over Armenia, but only after having travelled all the way to Rome to be crowned by Nero.
The journey lasted 9 months, Tiridates’ retinue included 3,000 Parthian horsemen and many Roman soldiers. The coronation ceremony took place in the summer of AD 66 and the day was celebrated with much pomp: all the people of Rome saw the new king of Armenia kneeling in front of Nero. This was the Golden Day of Nero’s rule
In AD 68, Vindex, the governor of Gaul (France), rebelled against Nero and declared his support for Galba, the governor of Spain. Vindex was defeated in battle by troops loyal to Nero, yet Galba started gaining more military support.
It was at this point that Nero lost the support of Rome’s people due to a grain shortage, caused by a rebellious commander who cut the crucial food supply from Egypt to the capital. Abandoned by the people and declared an enemy of the state by the senate, Nero tried to flee Rome and eventually committed suicide.
Following his death, Nero’s memory was condemned (a practice called damnatio memoriae) and the images of the emperor were destroyed, removed or reworked. However, Nero was still given an expensive funeral and for a long time people decorated his tomb with flowers, some even believing he was still alive.
After Nero’s death, civil war ensued. At the end of the so-called ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (AD 69), Vespasian became emperor and started a new dynasty: the Flavians.
[Francesca Bologna, curator, for British Museum]
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