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Poena Cullei: The Worst Roman Punishment.
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Throughout history Man has shown extraordinary imagination in inventing penalties and sentences for crimes committed by fellow man. The Romans in particular had an almost theatrical quality in the way these punishments were dolled out. One of the worst was reserved for parricide—the killing of a parent— in which the…
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The Inquisition of the fifteenth – seventeenth centuries burned all women whose knowledge was related to medicine, plants, astronomy, Solar Snakes…
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All of our sisters Megalith kwoledge died because them. Even in medieval times, women exercised all medical professions, practiced all branches of medicine. But with the Inquisition, some villages were completely emptied of any woman, any parent, any girl, any sister. They forbade women all education, social life, all religious…
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11 Insanely Brutal Methods Of Execution Used In The Past
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The story 11 Insanely Brutal Methods Of Execution Used In The Past appeared first on StoryPick. Since earlier times, different cultures have been using different methods of execution, some humane and some grotesquely inhumane. However, methods of execution have always been a subject of debate. Nowadays, the most commonly adopted…
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Medieval Torture
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In the middle ages torture was used to extract information, force confessions, punish suspects, frighten opponents, and satisfy personal hatred. The word ‘torture’ comes from the French torture, originating in the Late Latin tortura and ultimately deriving the past participle of torquere meaning ‘to twist’. Many tortures rely on a…