Top Items About Public Executions
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| Anecdotes | Model Citizen? | In November, 2002, a group of noisy PETA anti-fur protesters crashed a New York fashion show carrying signs reading... | Anonymous | 144 | |
| Anecdotes | Famuos Lsat Wrods | Commissioned to negotiate a loan that would enable Louis XVI to escape at the outbreak of the French Revolution, the... | Anonymous | 125 | |
| Anecdotes | Spartacus`s Death | In 73 BC, the famed Thracian gladiator Spartacus led a slave revolt in Italy. After defeating Roman armies in the south,... | Anonymous | 50 | |
| Anecdotes | Alfred Packer | During the heavy winter of 1874, the famous nineteenth-century Colorado pioneer Alfred Packer was enlisted to guide... | Anonymous | 25 | |
| Anecdotes | Louis Riel | "I don`t know when the last public hanging [in Canada] was, but I do know there was a huge public hanging in Regina for a... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Anecdotes | Cool Under Pressure | Jean Bailly, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, became the first mayor of Paris following the French Revolution... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Anecdotes | Blackwell`s Head | For his role in a mysterious plot in Sweden, Alexander Blackwell was tortured and sentenced to be beheaded. Approaching... | Anonymous | 18 | |
| Anecdotes | Raleigh`s Execution | Sir Walter Raleigh`s vituperative verbal attacks on Spain were silenced by James I in 1603: his death sentence commuted... | Anonymous | 17 | |
| Anecdotes | Horse Play | While visiting the celebrated Sitwell family one day, Sir Edwin Lutyens, noted for his penchant for practical jokes,... | Anonymous | 13 | |
| Anecdotes | William Brodie: The Drop | William Brodie, a respected figure in Edinburgh, lived a double life as a highly skilled burglar. His cover blown when... | Anonymous | 6 |
