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  2. Pillory - Wikipedia

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    The pillory sits in an elevated position to increase its visibility, while the whipping post is at ground level to provide more room for the whipper. There was a variant (rather of the stocks type), called a barrel pillory, or Spanish mantle, used to punish drunks, which is reported in England and among its troops. It fitted over the entire ...

  3. Drunkard's cloak - Wikipedia

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    Drunkenness was first made a civil offence in England by the Ale Houses Act 1551, or "An Act for Keepers of Ale-houses to be bound by Recognisances". [nb 1] According to Ian Hornsey, the drunkard's cloak, sometimes called the "Newcastle cloak", [3] became a common method of punishing recidivists, [1] especially during the Commonwealth of England.

  4. Sepsis - Wikipedia

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    Sepsis was the most expensive condition treated in United States' hospital stays in 2013, at an aggregate cost of $23.6 billion for nearly 1.3 million hospitalizations. [132] Costs for sepsis hospital stays more than quadrupled since 1997 with an 11.5 percent annual increase. [133]

  5. Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published a Hindi translation online. In 2016, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses as a complete Bible translation in Hindi. [13] This replaced the earlier partial translation comprising only the New Testament. [14]

  6. Category:Pillories - Wikipedia

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  7. Bankruptcy barrel - Wikipedia

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    The bankruptcy barrel is similar to a drunkard's cloak, an actual punishment seen from medieval times forward (but now obsolete) as a sort of pillory to punish drunkards and other offenders. Depictions of the drunkard's cloak usually show a barrel with a hole cut into the top for the head to pass through at the neck and two small holes cut in ...

  8. Bible translations into the languages of India - Wikipedia

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    In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published a Gujarati translation online. [12] In 2016, the New Testament of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses in Gujarati. [13] [14] [15] with mobile versions released through JW Library application in App stores.

  9. Postpartum infections - Wikipedia

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    The most common infection is that of the uterus and surrounding tissues known as puerperal sepsis, postpartum metritis, or postpartum endometritis. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Risk factors include caesarean section (C-section), the presence of certain bacteria such as group B streptococcus in the vagina, premature rupture of membranes , multiple vaginal exams ...