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THE GREAT EXECUTION OF A WITCHCRAFT IN EUROPE Janet Horne, accused of witchcraft, she was brutally beaten and stoned and was the last person to execute legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. Women have been stoned, banished, disowned, beheaded and for speaking up and being visible.  That’s right, literally burned alive while tied to a wooden stake with rope. Yes.  Janet Horne, accused of witchcraft, died in 1727 as the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. Barbara Zdunk was burned to death for witchcraft in 1811 in Prussia, todays Poland;  Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau was one of the last to be executed for witchcraft in Germany in 1749;  Catherine Repond was strangled and burned to death for withcraft in Switzerland in 1731; Maria Pauer, the last person executed for witchcraft in Austria, was beheaded in 1750;  Anna Eriksdotter, the last person executed for sorcery in Sweden, was killed in 1704 and Bridget Cleary was ki...

The severed head of a Japanese soldier burnt with napalm by American marines - stuck below the cannon of a captured Japanese tank Horrifying: This image of a Japanese soldier's burned head staked on a tank shocked the nation and became a symbol of the brutality of the Battle for Guadalcanal Morse's shocking photo of a burned, severed Japanese head propped up on a Japanese tank at Guadalcanal was one of the most horrific images published during the war. A Japanese soldier's skull is propped up on a burned-out Jap tank by U.S. troops. Fire damaged the rest of the corpse The caption is partially incorrect. This picture was taken by Life Magazine photographer Ralph Morse on Guadalcanal in late 1942 and published in Feb 1943. The first use of Napalm by US forces in the Pacific was December 15,1943 when Marines used flame throwers against Japanese portions New Guinea. It is correct that the head was propped up on the knocked but was burned by the fire that erupted when the tank.w...

Most women give birth lying down - and that's nothing to do with biology or medicine. In fact, the real reason is actually a little creepy and it's all to do with one man's very weird fetish. Back in the 17th century, King Louis XIV of France was obsessed with seeing his children being born. "Prior to this time, the recorded history of birthing indicates upright birth postures were used extensively:" Professor Lauren Dundes writes in the American Journal of Public Health.. more details in comment  There was nothing wrong with the common birthing practices from that for one thing: read more  the king didn't have as good a view of the "action" as he liked to have, if his wives and mistresses weregiving birth in an upright position. According to the American Journal of Public Health, the reclining childbirth position is all his fault and, as such, a relatively new way of giving birth (he ruled between 1643 and 1715). King Louis XIV, the man responsible ...

Azerbaijani troops beheaded Armenian soldier On 16 October, at around 13PM a member of the Azerbaijani armed forces called the brother of an Armenian soldier and said that his brother is with them; they beheaded him and were going to post his photo on the Internet. Afterwards, several hours later, the brother found the photo of on his killed brother’s social media page. The conviction is that these were members of Azerbaijani army who posted the Armenian solder’s photo on his social media page. There were two phone calls with Azerbaijani soldiers who used hate speech with intention to humiliate the Armenian killed soldier’s brother. As the latter informed the Human Rights Defender, the calls were made from the Armenian soldier’s phone number. These are cruel and terroristic methods. The Human Rights Defender of Armenia has recorded other cases of torture and atrocities; these activities are ongoing. All data is duly documented and will be presented to relevant international bodies. Per...

The 12 Most Notorious Executioners In History When state-sanctioned slaughter was big business, networks of professional executioners made a decent living through the ending of others' lives. While the work was far from glamorous, there have historically been times and places in which professional executioners were celebrities of sorts – admired, well-paid, and capable of drawing in a large crowd as they doled out punishment. Whether their methods were gruesome or merciful, the most notorious historical executioners were just as 9 as they were feared. Some were even given awards for their service from political and religious figureheads. Collected in this list are famous executioners with the most confirmed hits under their belts. 12. John Ketch, Who Botched The Executions Of England’s High Born While England’s executioner John Ketch, also known as  Jack Ketch , may not have the highest body count on his resume, his job performance earned him infamy because of its barbaric nat...

1947: Hisakazu Tanaka, Hong Kong occupier March 27th, 2012 Headsman On this date in 1947, Hisakazu (or Hisaichi) Tanaka was shot by the Chinese Koumintang for war crimes committed during the Japanese occupation of China. Tanaka headed the Japanese Twenty-Third Army from March 1943 through the end of the war; for the last year or so of that period, he was also the last governor of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. Captured in Canton at the end of the war, Tanaka was tried by the Allied occupiers for permitting the execution of a downed American airman on April 6, 1945. That unnamed airman had been tried in wartime Japan for targeting civilians during his bombing raid, a judgment that Tanaka’s tribunal vociferously disputed. Though he drew a hanging sentence for that offense, it was not carried out: instead, the doomed general was handed over to the Chinese nationalists to answer for the depredations of his 23rd army. No surprise, the outcome there was pretty much the same. Enjoy Christmas 2...

The Murder of Lawrence of Arabia He was a small man, only 5-foot-5, but he cast a shadow that stretched across the Arabian peninsula.  Dressed in the thobe and ghoutra of an Arab sheikh, he banded together the Arab tribes and led his Bedouin raiders across the desert that had never been crossed, the Nafud, to assault the landward side of Aqaba, a World War I Turkish stronghold. And, after that stunning achievement, with the aid of the British army, he took his ragtag Bedouin force and launched a guerilla campaign that cost the Turks precious manpower and equipment.  His name was Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known now as “Lawrence of Arabia.” But was his death in May 1935 a tragic motorcycle accident or a carefully planned political assassination? T.E. Lawrence was born in 1888, one of five boys born to Sir Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner, a governess to Chapman’s first family. Although the pair never married, Chapman, who adopted the name Lawrence, left his first wife and li...

The moment some of the Nazis' most notorious murderers were brought to justice: Photographs show ' Bitch of Belsen ' and Auschwitz killer Franz Hossler at trial where they were sentenced to hang The woman in the image is Elizabeth Völkenrath , she was the commander of the Bergen Belsen aufseherinnen . She was sentenced to death. Photographs show infamous Nazis being brought to justice One of those in the black and white photos is a smirking Franz Hossler - a commander at Auschwitz concentration camp and then deputy Commandant of Bergen-Belsen in Germany.  Photographs of notorious Nazi war criminals taken during their detainment at the end of the Second World War have surfaced in the belongings of a British Spitfire pilot. The mass murderers were caught on camera along with dozens of other defendants at Celle Prison in Germany by Flight Lieutenant Keith Parfitt. Here are more photos  Enjoy Christmas 2023 with these promotions offers and its benefits. Special offer for our re...

Discovered by chance 94 years on: Bodies of 21 German soldiers in perfectly-preserved First World War trenches Stunned workers were meant to be digging a new road but journeyed instead into a dim and grim past They were meant to be digging a new road but journeyed instead into a dim and grim past. Stunned workers stumbled upon an underground shelter – and inside were the bodies of 21 German soldiers killed in the First World War. Many were found in the position they died when an Allied shell hit their tunnel and caused it to cave in 94 years ago. A large number of personal possessions – preserved by the lack of air and light – were also found in the 300ft tunnel near the small town of Carspach in the Alsace region of France. Michael Landolt , the archaeologist leading the dig, said: “Everything collapsed in seconds and is just the way it was at the time. Here, as in Pompeii, we found the bodies as they were at the moment of their death. “Some of the men were found in sitting positions...

Shocking Photos: Meet The The Girl With 2 (two) Head Abigail and Brittany Hensel are conjoined twins from Minnesota. Being conjoined, they have had many struggles throughout their lives. Soon after they were born, doctors gave their parents the bad news; the twins would not survive very long. The girls are now 25 years old and are featured in a show, titled: Abby and Brittany, which will show viewers how their every days lives are. These girls are one of the rarest set of dicephalus twins in the world! It is very rare to be born conjoined (1 in 40,000) and it is even more rare to survive after birth (1% of the 1 in 40,000)! The fact that Abby and Brittany are alive and well is a miracle. Abby and Brittany came to be when a fertilized egg failed to separate inside th womb. They have two hearts, two spines joined at the pelvis, four lungs, two esophagi, three kidneys, one ribcage, one liver, a partially shared nervous system and a shared circulatory system. From their waist down, all org...