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• free calendar downloads for December 2009

  
  saaleha.com — Authority: 104
  It’s a bumper year-end edition. I bought the Arabian Geometric Patterns (Pepin Press) source book for Naeem a while back. It’s stuffed with pupil-dilating sweeties, from eye-glutting intricates to simple, soothing repetitions. An all-round pretty practical gifting, we’ve both used it on projects (like this ...
  12 hours ago

• 1945: Anton Dostler, gone commando

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On December 1, 1945, German General Anton Dostler was shot by the American military at Aversa, Italy, for war crimes. Gen. Dostler readied for execution, from the U.S. National Archives. Click for larger image, or click here for the post-execution photo. Specifically, General Dostler was condemned for ...
  14 hours ago

• Rolling Stones Taibbi: Public Executions for Party Crashers; NYT’s Rich: They Are Party Terrorists

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Has the left finally a reason to be impassioned by a threat to our national security? Michaele and Tareq Salahi seem to have provided that reason. After the Salahis literally crashed a White House State Dinner on Nov. 24, the two demonstrated how vulnerable President Barack Obama could be to outside intruders. And ...
  16 hours ago

• Executions for the month of December

  
  In a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — Authority: 423
  2 TX Cecil Johnson Jr. 3 TX Bobby Woods 8 OH Kenneth Biros 9 TN Devon Banks 11 IN Eric Wrinkles 16 PA John Small
  18 hours ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  2 days ago

• 1781: The slaves of the Zong, for the insurance

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  Beginning this day in 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong began throwing his cargo overboard in a still-notorious case combining the horrors of the Middle Passage with the cruel rapacity of capital. The Liverpool-based ship was en route from Africa to Jamaica, there to exchange its human chattel for New ...
  2 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  2 days ago

• Iran: Death Sentence for Zeynab Jalalian Confirmed by the Supreme Court

  
  Alliance for Kurdish Rights — Authority: 413
  Reports coming from Iran indicate that the death sentence of Zeynab Jalalian, a female Kurdish political prisoner, has been confirmed by the Iranian Supreme Court. Zeynab was arrested in May 2008 in Kermanshah and held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Intelligence Office ever since. On January 2009 Zeynab was ...
  3 days ago

• 1871: Louis Rossel, Théophile Ferré, and Sergeant Bourgeois, Communards

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1871, three very disparate men of the recently quashed Paris Commune were shot together at Satory. Louis Rossel (top) and Theophile Ferre. The mysterious Bourgeois will have to be imagined. Louis Rossel ( French Wikipedia link | English ) got the press — the public sighs, the clemency ...
  3 days ago

• 1911: Ah Q

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1911, the fictional title character of Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q was shot in “Weichuang village,” China. Ah Q wins another victory. Image from the Marxist Internet Archive . A modern masterpiece that remains standard reading in China, The True Story of Ah Q was also one of the ...
  4 days ago

• China executes two in child trafficking crackdown

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  China has executed two men for kidnapping and selling 15 children after announcing tough measures to combat a rising tide of child abductions.
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• LOOKING FOR HISTORY – CHECK YOUR GRAND PARENTS’ ATTICS

  
  A Little Touch of History — Authority: 112
  November 26, 2009: Barry Cauchon LOOKING FOR CIVIL WAR DIARIES, LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ARTIFACTS AND KEEPSAKES for possible inclusion in our upcoming book and documentary about the Old Arsenal Penitentiary and the Lincoln Conspirators. Example: Ed Isaacs family has been living in the northeastern United ...
  4 days ago

• 1600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  A few months ago, Executed Today detailed the dreadful fate of the Pappenheimers , a family of poor itinerants swept into a witch scare and horrifically executed. 10- or 11-year-old Hansel Pappenheimer was made to provide some of the testimony that condemned his parents and older siblings to a torturous public ...
  5 days ago

• IGLHRC – Iran: Stop Executions for Sodomy Charges

  
  Gays Without Borders — Authority: 115
  Iran: Stop Executions for Sodomy ChargesJoin the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), Iranian Queers Organization (IRQO) and COC Netherlands in calling on Iranian authorities to stop the numerous executions of minors and adults accused of sodomy. Also join us in calling on Western countries ...
  6 days ago

• Killings of journalists, politicians in the Philippines

  
  Ethiopian Review — Authority: 437
  Amnesty International has condemned the killings of at least 21 civilians, including journalists and members of a politicians family, in the southern Philippines province of Maguindanao, the first reported killings linked to national elections to be held in May 2010. A group of about 45 people were ambushed and ...
  6 days ago

• Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Fonterra

  
  Apartheid New Zealand — Authority: 427
  Co-written by a readerAmnesty International calls on Fonterra and the New Zealand Government to condemn the  San Lu related executions Geng Jinping and Zhang Yujun who were involved in San Lu tainted milk powder scandal were executed yesterday.According to the official Xinhua news agency,  the two convicts were ...
  6 days ago

• Asia Cast for Wednesday 25th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 127
  The melamine-tainted milk scandal which cleared the shelves of most Chinese milk-containing products worldwide, was one of Chinas worst-ever food safety scandals. (By Marc van der Chijs/Flickr) In this Bulletin… - Two are executed for China’s melamine-tainted milk powder scandal; - Iran may swap uranium for ...
  6 days ago

• TEXAS EMPTIES MUCHO TRASH IN NOVEMBER

  
  Angry White Dude — Authority: 138
  ROBERT THOMPSON - TELL ALLAH HELLO FOR US! I do love me some Texas! Down here, we execute more murderers in a week than Massachusetts does in a century! In November, Texas has put the juice to four murderers…and the month isn’t over! Now Angry White Dude doesn’t get all caught up on if the death penalty is ...
  6 days ago

• China executes two for involvement in tainted milk scandal

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  China has executed two people for their roles in the tainted powderedmilk scandal which killed six children and left more than 300000 sick last year.
  1 week ago

• 1326: Hugh Despenser the Younger, King Edward II’s lover?

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  On this date in 1326, the power behind Edward II’s throne — and the presumed lover in his bed — was hanged, drawn and quartered and pointedly emasculated in a grisly public execution as the Queen and her lover took control of England. (Wince.) The younger Despenser, being carved up in an illustration from ...
  1 week ago

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