Many old inhabitants of the kasbah still remember watching their neighbours dragged out and beheaded on the whim of a French general. |
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Charles I was beheaded by Parliament on January 30, 1649, but he was unkinged by his own actions long before that. |
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Bragadino's nose and ears were sliced off after he had watched his officers and staff being beheaded. |
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They might have beheaded heretics and adulterers and amputated the limbs of petty thieves but they didn't bother us. |
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He would have been beheaded along with the other prisoners, had it not been for the intercession of Tipu's mother and her maulvi. |
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Valentine was beheaded on February 14, on the eve of the Lupercalia festival. |
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Anyone found, still foolhardy enough to use their name, and be known to use it, could be summarily killed, and beheaded. |
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The executioner was beheaded outside the pub by Royalists and had his head placed on a pike outside as a warning to other rebels. |
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He was impeached of high treason by the Long Parliament in 1640, committed to the Tower in 1641, tried in 1644, condemned, and beheaded. |
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Fisher was deprived, attainted, and beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church. |
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Part of me aches to see all Royals beheaded, and I recommend regicide as a fitting career path for my students. |
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Within three years he had tired of Anne Boleyn and she was beheaded in 1536, accused of treason and adultery. |
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His father was beheaded simply because he happened to be the head of a religious body. |
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They hold hands as the line in front of them thins, as the prisoners are beheaded one by one. |
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Charles I was beheaded in January 1649 and in May of that year Brouncker's mother died. |
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On 30 January 1649 the King was beheaded in front of a huge crowd at Whitehall. |
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The captured coast watchers were beheaded by the Japanese in retaliation for an American air raid on Betio. |
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Alonso eloquently regrets the sororicide and uxoricide he committed before he is beheaded. |
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In the movie, Machete, an ex-Mexican federale, watches his wife get beheaded by a drug lord. |
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The remains of Henry VIII and the beheaded Charles I are entombed there, along with the bodies of the Queen's parents, George VI and the Queen Mother. |
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Arrested, summarily tried in early September 1792, then enlarged it will be seized by the mob fury, killed, beheaded and disemboweled. |
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He was drawn for treason, hanged for homicide, disemboweled for sacrilege, and beheaded and quartered for plotting the king's death. |
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Two months later his beheaded body was located in a morgue in a small town not far from Kyiv. |
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People were beheaded and killed during the last five weeks of the war. |
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One of my favourite caricatures by Charlie Hebdo was one featuring the prophet Muhammad being beheaded by an extremist. |
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The west started a bombing campaign after its citizens were beheaded last year in Iraq – the images of these crimes were intolerable. |
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Some residents recalled how Boko Haram had ambushed and beheaded two psychologists sent by the government to help the traumatised inhabitants. |
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After the Act passed in 1774, a group of British Montrealers beheaded the bust. |
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Kim is the third foreign hostage to be beheaded in the Middle East in little over a month. |
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In one of the most brutal incidents, in Zabul province, the headmaster of a co-educational school was beheaded. |
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The same is true for shrimps after they have been beheaded and cooked in brine. |
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Some weeks later, his beheaded body was discovered in a forest outside Kiev. |
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On 21 July 2007, Dahayan Rakan alSubai'i was beheaded in the Governorate of Taif, western Saudi Arabia. |
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Priscillian, pursued by the hatred of two intriguing bishops, Idax and Didax, was beheaded in Trier, in Germany, by Maximus the tyrant. |
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Fifty-six people were burned with special cruelty, tortured, beheaded, and blinded, ears, noses cut, pregnant women bayoneted. |
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Besides, the small statue created by Edvard Eriksen was often plastered, dressed, beheaded and once even assaulted with explosives. |
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This was why the forefathers of faith in the days of the Early Church were able to rejoice even when they were beheaded and fed to lions. |
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Around 50 men, whose bones can be traced back to Scandinavia, were rounded up and beheaded at some point in the 11th Century. |
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Many who fell ill were bayoneted, shot or beheaded by their captors. |
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Twin anti-aircraft gun barrels are coated with red sponge, a compass binnacle lies broken and beheaded and another has rolled away among other debris. |
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I was only in London for four days when I was eleven, and didn't think much of standing next to the chopping block where Henry VIII had a couple of his wives beheaded. |
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They are saying that the women who are now educated, many of whom are actually in the legislature helping to develop a future for their nation, would likely be beheaded and slaughtered. |
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When Anne was beheaded, Henry declared Elizabeth an illegitimate child and she would, therefore, not be able to inherit the throne. |
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Then Santiago's image of being a peaceful Apostle of Christ became that of a slayer of the Moors, whose bodies are crushed by the Apostle's horse and are beheaded by his sword. |
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Two days later, a caretaker of a co-educational school was shot dead and in January 2006 a high school principal was beheaded in the same province. |
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Anne consented to the annulment of the marriage, which had not been consummated, and Cromwell was beheaded. |
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On 13 June Gloucester accused Hastings of plotting with the Woodvilles and had him beheaded. |
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A 10-year-old albino boy, Gasper Elikana, was killed on 21 October by hunters who fled with his leg, which they hacked off in front of his family having first beheaded him to stop him screaming. |
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For example, the memories a man from Angola had of his father, were distorted by the mental image of his being beheaded by the Portuguese in front of their house. |
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His sons demonstrated the courage and also the unscrupulousness of the family by finding the principal leaders of the plot and having them beheaded. |
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Fragments of everyday life, a sculpture made of silent speakers, a beheaded crucifix and a circular carpet of plastic bags are part of a scenario between real life and dreams of another life. |
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The discovery of the beheaded body of Korean businessman Kim Sun Il outside of Baghdad early June 22 morning marks a tragic end to two days of frantic diplomatic efforts and public rallies seeking his release. |
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Beforehand, waiters bring round a platter of rounded cuts wrapped in white linen, looking like the severed necks of the recently beheaded aristocracy. |
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Maybe just nine holes of golf after an American ISIS hostage is beheaded. |
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A TEEN mum-to-be was strangled and her boyfriend beheaded by a man they met through an online small ad. |
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Once beheaded, some unrecognizable shapes were remaining where the crest of the Dire Avenger Exarch was in contact with his armor, but nothing some filing couldn't help. |
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After being torn with wool combers' irons, Blaise was beheaded. |
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Those that were hanged or beheaded were almost never drug barons and kingpins – in most cases they were low-level carriers, almost always selected for their expendability, and often suffering from intellectual disability. |
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In 1649, the English Civil War was in its seventh year and King Charles I was beheaded in Whitehall, London. |
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In this version, Mariotto is caught and beheaded and Gianozza dies of grief. |
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Instead, he was captured by the king's enemies and beheaded and his head was set up on high battlements. |
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After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and beheaded. |
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The plot, masterminded by Roberto di Ridolfi, was discovered and Norfolk was beheaded. |
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Except for the surviving Geoffrey Pole, all the others implicated were beheaded. |
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Secondly, in Russian Daghestan we have once again seen the brutal action of Chechen guerrillas who beheaded the border guard commander and took hostages including local hospital workers. |
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It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. |
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The young Perugian was probably Niccolo di Toldo, beheaded in Siena in 1375 as an alleged agent of the papal governor. |
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He was convicted of treason and beheaded in Salisbury, near the Bull's Head Inn, on 2 November. |
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Mary assembled a force in East Anglia and deposed Jane, who was ultimately beheaded. |
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He intended to seize the queen but few rallied to his support, and he was beheaded on 25 February. |
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He was present at the Siege of Smerwick where he led the party which beheaded some 600 Spanish and Italian soldiers. |
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The Royalists returned to power in 1660, and they had his corpse dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded. |
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Despite his son's diplomatic efforts to save him, Charles I was beheaded in January 1649, and England became a republic. |
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In the beheaded frog the legs twitch as fatally when we touch the skin with acid as do a jumping-jack's when we pull the string. |
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When the judge realized that these tortures would not shake his faith, he ordered that Alban be beheaded. |
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The sword is believed to represent the sword that beheaded Saint Paul who is the patron saint of the city. |
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When she was later beheaded by the hero Perseus, Chrysaor and Pegasus emerged from her neck. |
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He was defeated in battle in 385 and beheaded at the direction of the Eastern Roman emperor. |
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Edward and Hugh the Younger met Lancaster at Pontefract, where, after a summary trial, the earl was found guilty of treason and beheaded. |
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Hess postulated they were once volcanic islands that were beheaded by wave action yet they are now deep under sea level. |
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He was beheaded at Plaine Verte on 15 April 1822, and his head was displayed as a deterrent against future uprisings among the slaves. |
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Japanese mercenaries were hired to deal with the orang kaya, forty of whom were beheaded with their heads impaled and displayed on bamboo spears. |
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Upon Raleigh's return to England, King James ordered him to be beheaded for disobeying orders to avoid conflict with the Spanish. |
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A bit later, in 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the great inspirer, was beheaded for insubordination and treason. |
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They were moved to tourist class, and the skyjackers were beheaded. |
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The executioner beheaded Balboa and his four friends with an axe. |
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When Ivar the impious pirate saw that the noble king would not forsake Christ, but with resolute faith called after Him, he ordered Edmund beheaded, and the heathens did so. |
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In 1536, Queen Anne fell from the king's favour and was beheaded. |
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Audience is invited to trigger the oil pistol to activate the device which leads to hang the polar bear to death and to have the Tuvaluan marine turtle beheaded. |
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He is also noted for his six wives, two of whom were beheaded. |
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While many people may never eat insects even after they've been beheaded, declawed, and dewinged, they might eat insect flour or sports bars fortified with insect protein. |
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The Queen of Hearts then orders the Cat to be beheaded, only to have her executioner complain that this is impossible since the head is all that can be seen of him. |
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The same shock troops who beheaded men's sports in Northridge and breached the walls of academia at Monterey Bay are in charge of setting up the barricades here. |
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The leading personage of the Royal House of Orange was young Prince William who was the grandson of Charles I the lately beheaded king of England. |
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Elizabeth was two years and eight months old when her mother was beheaded on 19 May 1536, four months after Catherine of Aragon's death from natural causes. |
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The 22-year-old BA Fine Art student has created work from a variety of carcasses including turning rabbits into pot plants and a beheaded owl into a desk tidy. |
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A civil court condemned Gruet to death and he was beheaded on 26 July. |
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Some scholars claim that Calvin and other ministers asked that he be beheaded instead of burnt, knowing that burning at the stake was the only legal recourse. |
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The king did not reward him, and instead beheaded the slave. |
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