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Historical Methods of Torture and Execution Europe is the place to visit if this is what you're into. Many cities and towns have medieval torture museums. We liked one that we visited at Mont St. Michel in France. For those of you who can't afford to travel, check out the movie version of Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum starring Lance Henrickson. Don't know how historically accurate it is, but it's great atmospherically. Beheading by

the King which delays his revenge even further. Hamlet begins to wonder why he has not completed his task of killing Claudius yet. He expresses his confusion when he says, "Of thinking to precisely on th’ event/ (A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom/ and ever three parts coward), I do not know/ why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,';/ Sith

William Wallace, a Scottish patriot, is known around the world as a national hero in Scotland, because he fought and died to free Scotland from the English rule. Even with his simple beginnings Wallace became a prominent rebel leader. He was known for being the leader of country folk against English rule in hopes of regaining freedom for Scotland. Through his actions and choices he was later captured and made an example of by the English. He was captured and executed in August of 1305 in London.

Mary Queen of Scots was executed on the 8th February 1587 after she was implicated in the Babington Plot against Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth of England did not give her explicit consent to the execution of Mary, however, Elizabeth did sign the death warrant. The execution of a sister monarch at the hands of Elizabeth I was a significant event because it had consequences that affected not only England but mainland Europe as well. The major cause of the execution was the threat that Mary posed to

Leonardo Da Vinci is famous as a painter, sculptor and inventor. In reality he was so much more, with the range of topics in his arsenal of knowledge being anatomy, zoology, botany, geology, optics, aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to name a few. He did play a large role in the development of knowledge about anatomy and the human body. He was one of the greatest anatomists of his time, although unrecognized for it during his lifetime. Anatomical studies were primarily for the purpose of better depiction

He was taken to London, where, after a brief trial, he was hung, drawn and quartered, with the pieces of his body being sent to Perth, Stirling, Newcastle and Berwick. Almost 23 years later on the 1st of May 1328 Edward III of England was forced by then Scottish king Robert the Bruce to to sign the Agreement of Edinburgh-Northampton

differences about the original bill of rights as they were originally framed and those that are contained in the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868. Amar tries to construct a theory of Bill of Rights that is comprehensive by focusing on the implications that are drawn from constitutional text as well as its structure. Amar points out, “The main goal of the Federalists was to forge set of the federally enforceable rights which were against the abusive state governments and this resulted to Fourteenth Amendment” (4)

Tower of London The age old fortress stands as a monument of English and European history. Through monarchs, bloody battles, from prisoners to executions and a touch from all London’s prominent events in history, the Tower Of London is renowned for more than just its magnificent appearance. The tower was founded by William, Duke of Normandy when he conquered England in 1066. He began building the stronghold as a declaration of his power to the English people who were resentful of his reign. William

Guy Fawkes was born in York on the 13 April 1570. A protestant by birth, he became a Roman Catholic after the marriage of his widowed mother to a man of Catholic background. In 1593 he enlisted in the Spanish Army in Flanders and in 1596 participated in the capture of the city of Calais by the Spanish in their war with Henry IV of France. He became implicated with Thomas Winter and Robert Catesby and others in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, as a protest against the anti-Roman Catholic

2.3.2. Panoptical System and Oppression The Panopticon was a metaphor that allowed Foucault to show the relationship between the people in a disciplinary situation and the systems of social control. From his view, the concept of power/knowledge comes from observing others. Michel Foucault is one of the European philosopher/historian who wrote prodigiously and influentially on the origins or ‘archaeology’ of European social orders since the seventeenth century. For understanding of his work on social