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	Beheading - LoveToKnow Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beheading is said to have been introduced into England from Normandy by William the Conqueror.
		Beheading was only a part of the common-law method of punishing male traitors, which was ferocious in the extreme.
		Beheading is also the mode of executing capital punishment in Denmark and Sweden.
	2.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BEHEADING.htm (1092 words)

	Maiden (beheading) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maiden on display at the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
		The maiden (also known as the Scottish maiden) was a gibbet (primitive type of guillotine) used as a means of execution in Scotland.
		From 1564 to 1708 when it was withdrawn from use, over 150 people were executed on the maiden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maiden_(beheading) (184 words)

	maiden - definition by dict.die.net
		Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
		Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body.
		The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear, though in respect to comeliness distinctly inferior to the rainbow, and, with regard to the part of her that is audible, bleating out of the field by the canary -- which, also, is more portable.
	dict.die.net /maiden (448 words)

	Iron Maiden Biography,info
		One of Iron Maiden's trademarks is the double "twin lead" harmonising guitar stylings of Murray and Smith, a style pioneered by Wishbone Ash and Thin Lizzy, and developed further by Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.
		At Iron Maiden's last Ozzfest performance (August 20th 2005 at the Hyundai Pavilion at Glen Helen in San Bernardino, CA), the band had their sound turned off several times, eggs were thrown towards the stage, and chants of "Ozzy" were shouted through the PA system.
		Maiden have however announced extensive dates in the UK and Scandinavia, the latter possibly a reward for the area's staggering support for the band on previous tours.
	www.danceage.com /biography/Iron_Maiden.html (5175 words)

	MEDIEVAL MAYHEM
		Although indelibly associated in literature, the cinema, television and the European cultural tradition generally with the French Revolution, 1789-93, and with the death penalty in France, the machine that beheads by means of a bIade that falls between two grooved vertical columns is in reality much older.
		Beheading by sword or axe, a public entertainment in central and northern Europe until a hundred and fifty years ago, but in many extra-European countries to this very day, is done with a horizontal slash.
		Beheading, an "easy" death if carried out with skill, was reserved exclusively for condemned nobles or people of importance...plebeians were executed -and we are speaking now only of those executions that did not intentionally prescribe painful methods- in ways that caused prolonged agonies.
	www.angelfire.com /goth/nitecreatures/torture.html (2562 words)

	app2
		During the anarchy caused by a corrupt Court and the oppression of the people this instrument, precisely on the model of the Maiden, was in mercy applied to the King and Queen, their nobles and the clergy, who it was calculated engrossed three-fourths of the wealth of their nation.
		Beheading was a military punishment among the Romans, known by the name of decollatio.
		In France during the revolutionary government, the practice of beheading by means of an instrument called a guillotine (so denominated from the name of its inventor) was exceedingly general.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/newgate2/app2.htm (938 words)

	BEHEADING - Online Information article about BEHEADING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		petition to be beheaded was refused and he was hanged.
		Gardiner incline to the view that such a block was the one used at Charles I.'s execution.
		Scotland they did not behead with the axe, nor with the sword, as under the Roman law, and formerly in See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BEC_BER/BEHEADING.html (1553 words)

	PlanetPapers - Evolution of Capital Punishment
		As a final point, the condemned was beheaded, and his body cut into quarters.
		In Scotland, the Maiden was used for beheading.
		The Maiden was an early form of the guillotine.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5917.php (1685 words)

	No. 71: Guillotine
		William the Conqueror brought beheading to England, where it was also set aside for nobility -- for people like Lady Jane Grey and Anne Boleyn.
		When the English beheaded the lower classes, it was only to finish off a victim who'd first been tormented in ways too nasty to talk about here.
		But it took the egalitarian French Revolution to bring beheading to the common man. Joseph Guillotin was a physician and a member of the Constituent Assembly in the early days of the French Revolution.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi71.htm (433 words)

	torture
		Iron Maiden Female effigies constructed of wood or iron with the inside hollowed out and filled with sharp iron spikes.
		The iron maiden would be opened up and the offender placed inside.
		The person would then be embraced by the iron maiden, being impaled by all the stakes.
	www.geocities.com /drkglaive/torture.html (1128 words)

	Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In gratitude to the maiden, Herod swore that he would give her whatever she asked, even unto one half of his kingdom.
		Tradition has it that the mouth of the severed head of the prophet of repentance opened just once more to utter these words: 'Herod, thou shouldst not have the wife of Philip thy brother." Salome took the head on the salver and brought it to her mother.
		In order to commemorate the beheading of St. John the Baptist, the Church observes that day as a feast day and prescribes strict fasting as an expression of the sorrow the Christians feel over the violent death of the great Prophet.
	www.stjohndc.org /russian/saints/e_8809.htm (647 words)

	No. 1448: Guillotin/Guillotine
		The story of beheading is all mixed up in class distinctions.
		William the Conqueror brought beheading to England, where it was, again, set aside for nobility -- for people like Lady Jane Grey and Anne Boleyn.
		Inventors were devising beheading machines at least as early as 1300.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1448.htm (523 words)

	Golden Grail Gala - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As dawn cast its splendour across the majestic field of storied Cur Shit Park on the fifth mourn of Shamalamadingdong, archers drew their bows for a chance to sip the spoils of victory from the coveted Lord Stanley's Golden Grail and lay the Virgin Maiden of Del Playa.
		Lord Stanley's Islavistingham Foote Patrol Knights stormed onto the scene instantly, and an unfair and speedy trial was conducted as the rants, raves, and cheers of the echoing crowd demanded the guillotine.
		After sipping the ecstasy of the Golden Grail, Sir William chose his maiden and settled in for an eventful night of tavern-hopping and maiden-fornicating.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /print_article.php?a=4777 (383 words)

	Mary Mary Quite Contrary Nursery Rhyme
		The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden.
		Margaret Pole (1473 - 1541), Countess of Salisbury did not go willingly to her death and had to be chased and hacked at by the Executioner.
		The Maiden had long been in use in England before Lord Morton, regent of Scotland during the minority of James VI, had a copy constructed from the Maiden which had been used in Halifax in Yorkshire.
	www.rhymes.org.uk /mary_mary_quite_contrary.htm (377 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Maiden. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A machine resembling the guillotine for beheading criminals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; brought to Scotland by the Regent Morton from Halifax, in Yorkshire, for the purpose of beheading the laird of Pennycuick.
		Referring to Regent Morton, who introduced this sort of guillotine into Scotland, erroneously said to have been the first to suffer by it.
		Thomas Scott, one of the murderers of Rizzio, was beheaded by it in 1566, fifteen years before Morton’s execution.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/10814.html (125 words)

	Maiden - definition from Biology-Online.org
		Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
		maiden assize, a west indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes.
		maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, especially.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Maiden (262 words)

	WORD FOR THE DAY, Thursday, September 23, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Maiden is the word and I must use it in a sentence...
		Maiden is also an adjective, but I was too lazy to put in all the definitions.
		No, I think the Iron Maiden was to made'em damn holes in the maiden after she had gotten accused on bein' made'on whilest her maid was waitin' on the the maiden who was made'on when the Iron Maiden was getting made on....
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1224680/posts (1352 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		An old English word " may," meaning a kinsman or kinswoman, and also a virgin or girl, represents the original.
		A " maiden " assize, circuit or session is one at which there are no prisoners for trial; a " maiden over " or " maiden " in cricket is an over from which no runs are scored.
		A " maiden speech " is the first speech made by a member of parliament in the house.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=42484 (201 words)

	55 JCB John Carter Sunday Pages
		In the center of the village courtyard the bird-men had commenced a savage, fanatical ceremony that would quite obviously culminate in the beheading of their new captive, the helpless girl from the outside world.
		All of his own experience in the sad affair with the humans, coupled with his study of Vovo's private notes, told Oman that the next few hours would be the most crucial ones in determining the fate of Dejah Thoris and John Carter.
		The feathered tormentors thrust the maiden's neck down upon the log with obvious delight, then one of them brought forth a metal-bladed hatchet and set about sharpening it on a grindstone he set up in the shade of the only tree the savages had left standing in their courtyard.
	www.johncolemanburroughs.com /jc/55.html (1425 words)

	Mdellert-dot-com: Archetypal Patterns in Gawain and the Green Knight
		The beheading game and the magical powers associated with severed heads can be tied to the archetypal ritual of the king who is annually sacrificed and the god who is killed to be reborn.
		Traditionally, this Celtic new year’s celebration included the ritual of the harvesting of mistletoe, which typified the emasculation of the Old King by his successor, suggestive of the castration of Uranus by Cronos, which signified the end of an age and the beginning of another.
		Bertilak's wife is the Nubile Maiden or Clotho, the natural, instinctive, or "fleshly"/material aspect of the personality, while Morgan le Fay is the Crone or Atropos, representing both the intuitive or inspirational faculty, and the destructive aspect of death and decay.
	www.mdellert.com /Essays/gawain_and_the_green_knight.htm (871 words)

	CHAPTER XXVIII. THE STORY OF THE BAPTIST, FROM HIS LAST TESTIMONY TO JESUS TO HIS BEHEADING IN PRISON
		The maiden steals out of the banquet-hall to ask her mother what it shall be.
		But he had sworn to the maiden, who now stood before him, claiming that the pledge be redeemed, and every eye in the assembly was now fixed upon him.
		The maiden hath withdrawn to await the result with her mother.
	truthinheart.com /EarlyOberlinCD/CD/edersheim/III.CHAPTERXXVII_1.htm (8698 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		[1913 Webster] She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens.
		maiden voyage the first regular service voyage of a ship.
		[1913 Webster] Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=maiden (501 words)

	BellaOnline Forums: Islamic Extremists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In light of the beheading of an American civilian by Islamic extremists (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040511/ts_nm/iraq_usa_beheading_dc) I was just wondering how that affects those of you who are Muslim.
		So the rightfully imprisoned Iraqi citizen (his own opinion) who was released after several months of humiliation and interrogation under torture because he was not a terrorist, but because he was against what he still perceives as an occupation force in his country, does not hate Americans.
		I think Islam as a whole is practiced as a peaceful religion, but there are those whose main objective is to defy the One True God through any means necessary and they use some of the teaching of Islam to justify their actions.
	forums.bellaonline.com /showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=22828682&Main=784569 (3094 words)

	Sun.Star Zamboanga - Military chief to meet local media
		SOUTHERN Command chief Major General Generoso Senga will meet with the local press in his maiden news conference since his July 16 assumption as the highest military commander in the Mindanao region.
		One of the major highlights is to enlighten media practitioners, covering the military beat, on their vital role in shaping the community through information dissemination.
		He was even mentioned as behind the reported beheading of Catholic priest Fr.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/zam/2004/08/10/news/military.chief.to.meet.local.media.html (496 words)

	56 JCB John Carter Sunday Pages
		He fixed his gaze upon the maiden's defiant face and took her courage for his example.
		All eyes were on the leader as he raised the sharpened hatchet to behead the first human they had ever captured who was large enough to serve as a sacrificial victim.
		Before any of the bird-men could guess what was happening, the Earthman was upon the maiden's bent back, hacking at the confining leather strap with his sharp long-sword.
	www.johncolemanburroughs.com /jc/56.html (1213 words)

	Justice from the middle ages to the 19th Century - Mucri - Criminology Museum
		Instruments of torture (some of which are authentic while others are reproductions) are evidence of the cruelty of early forms of punishment that were based on the use of torture and execution.
		The exhibits in this first section include some pillories, a whipping block, an axe used for beheading, the sword of justice used to decapitate Beatrice Cenci in 1599, a copy of the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg and a spiked collar.
		The so-called “Hungarian” torture chair, of which the museum has a copy, is only one of the countless instruments of torture used from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century to extract confessions from women accused of witchcraft.
	www.museocriminologico.it /origini_uk.htm (208 words)

	The Carle of Carlisle: Introduction
		Besides giving witness to the continuing appeal of chivalric plots among popular audiences, Carle is especially valuable for including a crucial episode that the extant version of Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle omits.
		This is the beheading scene (lines 379 ff.), which resembles similar motifs in Turke, Greene Knight, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
		In Carle, Gawain's obliging beheading of his host is the act of courtesy that breaks the spell, restoring the erstwhile good warrior to his proper identity.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /CAMELOT/TEAMS/carintro.htm (571 words)

	Arrow In The Head's movie review of Phenomena: Jennifer Connelly/Jennifer, Donald Pleasance/John, Daria Nikolodi/Mrs ...
		On top of most of her classmates acting like bitches, there’s also a serial killer roaming about and he loves beheading schoolgirls (everybody has to have a hobby).
		With the help of a wheelchair-bound entomologist (Pleasance) and her insect friends (forgot to mention, she has a psychic link with bugs), Jennifer goes on the hunt for the loony tune.
		The gore is plentiful with heads crashing through windows in slow motion and one awesome surprise beheading.
	www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=582 (1157 words)

	Chapter Mahoun' <i>to</i> Make the Ice of M by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Maiden A machine resembling the guillotine for beheading criminals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; brought to Scotland by the Regent Morton from Halifax, in Yorkshire, for the purpose of beheading the laird of Pennycuick.
		One in which there is no person to be brought to trial.
		We have also the expressions maiden tree, one never lopped; maiden fortress, one never taken; maiden speech; etc. In a maiden
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1178/23387/1.html (463 words)

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