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This bodies were left hanging for six hours.
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The Semiramis Hotel attack in Damascus. On Sunday the 26th of September 1976 four Palestinian guerrillas from “The Black June” terror group opposed to Syria’s intervention in Lebanon, seized a hotel and 90 hostages at the Hotel Semiramis in downtown Damascus. The government reported that the leader of the guerrillas…
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Before you call yourself a General overseer..
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Do you know that prophet Isaiah was cut into half, for the gospel we are enjoying today, Do you know that John the evangelist was thrown into a pot of boiling oil.. for this same gospel of salvation of mankind. Do you know that Peter was crucified head down..And that…
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Longitude and Transverse Impalement
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Impalement is one of the earliest forms of execution, use from the second millennium BC. Impalement by deliberately driving a stake or pole into the body took two forms: longitudinal and transverse. Longitudinal impalement went through the anus and came up near the head through the chest or shoulder blades…
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The only way a dead person will know that he is dead.
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The dead will not recognize him dead the first time, because it will feel like in a dream, he will see him crying, and moving back to the bath, and taken to the ancestors, he will all see it in a dream, He didn’t believe that he became a corpse,…
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Sky burial
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Sky burial (“bird-scattered”) is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures and corvids. Comparable excarnation practices are part of Zoroastrian burial rites where deceased are exposed to the elements and scavenger birds on stone structures called Dakhma. Sky burials are endemic…
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In Uganda their way of life is different and their ethics of marriage is not comparable as to other culture.
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In Uganda if you want to marry a lady after everyone is seated they will ask your elder sister to go and have a test of the person who wants to get married to her younger sister to see how the man does in bed and to still confirm it…
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Today marks the anniversary ( old style 26th of July) of the execution to James Scott, Duke of Monmouth just nine days after he and his rebel army were defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor.
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When the Duke had rode off from the scene of the battle early morning on the 6th of July 1685 a price had already been placed on his head of £5000 pounds. After reaching the relative safety of Downside, a few hours rest was achieved at the ‘safe’ house of…
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“The Miracle”
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It’s the Untold story of how a Mexican mechanic saved Ferrari. In 1950, the Pan American Race emerged. One of the most demanding endurance races in history that tested the best cars and the most experienced and daring drivers of the time. Umberto Maglioli in his Ferrari 375 Plus was…
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We Remember Seymour W. Terry of Little Rock, Arkansas, a Captain in the U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on May 11, 1945, in Okinawa.
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Terry joined the Army in June 1942 and was assigned to the 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. On March 6th, 1945, he was appointed the executive officer of Company H, 382nd Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. His unit invaded Okinawa on April 1st, and he was promoted to company commander…
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Lingchi slow slicing
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Lingchi meaning the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, and also known as death by a thousand cuts, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly 900 CE up until the practice ended around the early 1900s. It was also used in Vietnam and Korea. In this form of execution, a…