It was originally named after Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who was condemned to be tortured on a wheel and died in the year 307.
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Ths spiked wheel was an instrument or torture used by the Romans. Learn more about Catherine of Alexandris at the link below.
St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Mount St. Catherine in Egypt, and the Catherine Wheel firework are named after Catherine of Alexandria. She is also the patron saint of scholars, philosophers, and preachers.
Fireworks have catherine wheels and rockets.
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It refers to a "breaking wheel", a torture device used for capital punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by bludgeoning to death. Legend has it that St Catherine of Alexandria was sentenced to be executed on one of these devices, which thereafter became known as the Catherine wheel.
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A "Catherine wheel" is a pinwheeling fireworks display, so both it and some rockets are types of fireworks. Other than that, they are totally dissimilar.
Catherine Breillat is a french filmmaker and novelist and was born on July 13 1948. She was originally from Bressuire, Deux-Sevres and grew up in Niort.