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He puts my feet in the stocks, he watches all my paths. [3] The stocks were employed by civil and military authorities from medieval to early modern times including Colonial America. Public punishment in the stocks was a common occurrence from around 1500 until at least 1748. [4]
The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1]
In St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. A finger pillory is a style of restraint where the fingers are held in a wooden block, using an L-shaped hole to keep the knuckle bent inside the block. [1]
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Why Denny's stock crashed to within inches of its lowest price in over 10 years today. As of 3:15 p.m. ET, Denny's stock was down 22% and was within a few percentage points of hitting its lowest price in over a decade. The big-picture problem is that many Denny'…
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An example of a television news ticker, at the very bottom of the screen. News ticker on a building in Sydney, Australia. A news ticker (sometimes called a crawler, crawl, slide, zipper, ticker tape, or chyron) is a horizontal or vertical (depending on a language's writing system) text-based display either in the form of a graphic that typically resides in the lower third of the screen space ...