This gruesome penalty was first used by King Edward I ('Longshanks') in his efforts to bring all of Great Britain under English rule. It was first inflicted in 1283 on the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd, and on Sir William Wallace two decades later. One of the most savage uses of this method of execution was carried out in September 1586 in the aftermath of the Babington plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I and replace her on the throne with Mary Queen of Scots. On hearing of the appalling agony which the first seven conspirators were su ...

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This gruesome penalty was first used by King Edward I ('Longshanks') in his efforts to bring all of Great Britain under English rule. It was first inflicted in 1283 on the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd, and on Sir William Wallace two decades later. At least one of the members of the Babington plot of 1586 to murder Queen Elizabeth I, one Chidiock Tichborne, is documented to have been executed in th ...

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Hanging is a form of execution or a method for suicide. As form of capital punishment hanging has been used throughout history. There are four methods of hanging: the long drop the short drop the standard drop suspension hanging A long-drop hanging may break the neck (cervical fracture) causing traumatic spinal cord injury ...

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Quarters is a popular drinking game which involves players bouncing a quarter off of a table in an attempt to have the quarter land, without another bounce, in a drinking glass (or cup) on that table. The game is popular at parties, especially in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The player bouncing the quarter is referred to as the "shooter". In some variations the glass is empty and each player has a separate glass to drink from, while in other variations the glass that the shooter is aiming for conta ...

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Wire drawing is a manufacturing process used to reduce or change the cross section of a wire by using a series of draw plates or dies. Other related archivesdraw plates, wire

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In music, a quarter note is played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note. Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. The stem is usual pointed upwards if it is below the middle line, or downwards if it is on or above the middle line. However, this may be changed if there is more than one part to differentiate between the parts. The head of the note also reverses it ...

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In British and Irish tradition, the quarter days were the four dates in each year on which servants were hired, and rents and rates were due. They fell on four religious festivals roughly three months apart. The English quarter days (also observed in Wales) are: Lady Day (March 25) Midsummer Day (June 24) Michaelmas (September 29) Christmas (December 25) Lady Day was also the first day of the year in the British Empire until 1752. The British tax year still starts on 'Old' Lady Day (6 April under the Gregorian calendar c ...

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The Armenian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. It might appear that the Armenian quarter would be a part of the Christian Quarter, since virtually all Armenians residing in Jerusalem are Christians, yet for historical reasons the Armenian quarter has remained separate and has not suffered the same disruptions as the other quarters over the last thousand years. Although the smallest of the four quarters, with the fewest residents, the Armenians and their patriarchate remain staunchly independent and pres ...

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The French Quarter is the oldest and most famous section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The area is also known as the Vieux Carré ("Old Square" in French) and the Barrio Latino ("Latin Neighborhood" in Spanish). To many it is simply called "The Quarter." French Quarter - Boundaries. The most common definition of the French Quarter includes all the land stretching along the Mississippi River from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue (12 blocks) and inland to Rampart Street (7 to 9 blocks). ...

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Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. In automatic drawing, the hand is allowed to move 'randomly' across the paper or Etch-A-Sketch. In applying chance and accident to mark-making, drawing is to a large extent freed of rational control. Hence the drawing produced may be attributed in part to the subconscious and may reveal something of the psyche, which would otherwise be repressed. Examples of automatic drawing were produced by ...

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The American Quarter Horse is a breed of horse originally bred specifically to race the quarter mile. It is commonly believed to be the world's fastest horse, some having been clocked at 55 mph at the finish line in racing events. It is today equally well known for its performance in rodeos and horse shows. The compact body of the Quarter Horse is well-suited to the intricate and speedy maneuvers required in roping, reining, cutting, working cow horse and other stock-horse events. Riders are also known to show Quarter Horses in Englis ...

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A cross-quarter day is a day falling halfway between one of the four main solar events (two solstices and two equinoxes) and the next one. These originated as pagan holidays in Northern Europe and the British Isles, and survive in modern times as neopagan holidays. The cross-quarter days traditionally mark the start of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, respectively, and are: Imbolc or Imbolg (February 1) Beltane or Bealtaine (May 1) Lughnasadh o ...

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Winter Quarters, Nebraska, was an encampment formed by approximately 3,500 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as they awaited better conditions for their trek westward during the winter of 1846-1847. Over 800 shelters were built at the settlement just outside of Omaha and it remained populated until 1848. Today, Winter Quarters is a tourist attraction. It is the home of the Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Cutler's Park, and the Mormon Pion ...

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Box drawing characters are widely used in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes. In graphical user interfaces these characters are useless, because it is much simpler to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs; besides, box drawing characters work only with fixed-width fonts. Unicode includes 128 such characters: In all MS-DOS codepages box drawing characters are present, but their number is limited to 40: │┤╡╢╖╕╣║╗╝╜╛┐└┴┬├─┼╞╟╚╔╩╦╠═╬╧╨╤╥╙╘╒╓╫╪┘┌ or even to 22: │� ...

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Close Quarters Combat - Military Usage. Close Quarters Combat, or CQC, is used to describe an up-close military hand-to-hand fighting system, also known as combatives. Similar up-close fighting with weapons is known as CQB or Close Quarters Battle. Close Quarters Combat - CQC in Pop Culture. In the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, CQC was told to be created by The Boss and Naked Snake as a mean of eliminating enemies in proxi ...

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Hanging has been used as punishment throughout history; it is known to have been invented and used by the Persian Empire. The typical sentence involving hanging is that the condemned person "be hanged by the neck until dead". A more elaborate sentence, once used for particularly heinous crimes (e.g., high treason in Britain), was for the person to be "hanged, drawn and quartered" – here the victim was saved from asphyxiation in o ...

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Hanging - Britain. Until 1808 the law in Britain offered the death penalty for some 200 offenses, including: Attempting suicide Being in the company of gypsies for one month Vagrancy for soldiers and sailors "Strong evidence of malice" in children aged 7–14 years old A variety of loopholes in British criminal law, together with judicial leniency, tempered the law's tendency to prescribe hanging for what many would today consider minor offences. First-time of ...

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Hanging is commonly the method of executing penalties of death in Commonwealth countries that still have it, e.g., Malaysia and Singapore. A recent case of capital punishment by hanging is that of Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who was convicted of the 1990 murder and rape of a 14 year old girl in Kolkata(Calcutta) in India. Although the Supreme Court of India has suggested that capital punishment be given in the rarest of rare cases, Chatterjee was executed on August 14, 2004 in the first ...

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