Torture - Information from Answers.com
A variety of torture instruments including, at right, the iron maiden of Nuremberg.
.... of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.
... either to hide from the court that Smeaton had been tortured on the rack for four
hours, .... The entire process was said to last three days, and to total 3600 cuts.
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A Miscellany of Men: Information from Answers.com
The wind awoke last night with so noble a violence that it was like the war in ......
the idea of being absorbed into an Empire; an Austrian, a Spanish, a British, or a
...... We are constantly being told that theologians used racks and thumbscrews,
and ... Christianity no more created the mediaeval tortures than it did the Chinese ...
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What's Wrong with the World: Information from Answers.com
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance
of the future. ...... It cultivated that completest art that does not conceal the art. .....
may reestablish legal torture with the whole apparatus of rack and fagot. ......
great distress because in a gay moment I once called Edmund Burke an atheist. I
need ...
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Eugenics and other Evils: Information from Answers.com
A man would rather be tortured with a thumbscrew until he chose to see reason
...... They are held as slaves, but rather as the hero and heroine of a Spanish or
..... That is, the more he goes into the inner chambers, and the more he closes the
... It was not for nothing that even their princes of art and letters had about them ...
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