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The Maiden (also known as the Scottish Maiden) is an early form of guillotine, or gibbet, that was used between the 16th and 18th centuries as a means of execution in Edinburgh, Scotland. The device was introduced in 1564 during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots, and was last used in 1716. It long predates the use of the guillotine during the ...
John the Baptist was executed by beheading by Herod Antipas on the request of Herodias' daughter. His disciples buried his remains and told Jesus. Mark 1:14, 6:17–29. John the Baptist criticised king Herod Antipas for marrying his brother's ex-wife Herodias. John the Baptist was therefore arrested by Herod Antipas.
As of 10 March, Oleksandr Ihorovych Matsievskyi ( Ukrainian: Олександр Ігорович Мацієвський ), a 42-year-old Ukrainian soldier deployed to Bakhmut in November 2022 and who also disappeared, remained a credible alternative due to contextual and visual similarities. [6] Matsievskyi disappeared earlier while bearing ...
Holofernes. In the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, Holofernes ( Ancient Greek: Ὀλοφέρνης; Hebrew: הולופרנס) was an invading Assyrian general, known for having been beheaded by Judith, a Jewish widow who entered his camp and decapitated him while he was drunk.
Mary Hamilton awaiting execution, painting by Pavel Svedomsky (1904) Mary Hamilton, or Maria Danilovna Gamentova (died 14 March 1719), was the lady-in-waiting of Empress Catherine I of Russia and a royal mistress of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. She was executed for abortion, infanticide, theft and slander of Empress Catherine.
1935–1936. Invitation to a Beheading ( Russian: Приглашение на казнь, lit. ' Invitation to an execution ') is a novel by Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov. It was originally published in Russian from 1935 to 1936 as a serial in Sovremennye zapiski, a Russian émigré magazine. In 1938, the work was published in Paris ...
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is an oil painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio. Measuring 3.7 m by 5.2 m, it depicts the execution of John the Baptist. It is located in the Oratory of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta . According to Andrea Pomella in Caravaggio: An Artist through Images (2005), the work is widely ...
