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Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India is a book authored by Mala Sen, and published by Rutgers University Press in 2002. It begins with the story of Roop Kanwar . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death and Female Infanticide in Modern India is a book authored by Mala Sen, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and inspired by the death of Roop Kanwar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
The Executioner is a monthly action-adventure paperback book series created by American author Don Pendleton.Every other month the series was complemented by the release of a "Super Bolan", titles that were twice the length of a standard Executioner novel.
The Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Jesus, his execution by Pontius Pilate, and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals (written c. AD 116), book 15, chapter 44. [1] The context of the passage is the six-day Great Fire of Rome that burned much of the city in AD 64 during the reign of Roman Emperor ...
William Tyndale (/ ˈ t ɪ n d əl /; [1] sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – October 1536) was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution.
An 18th-century illustration of a wicker man. Engraving from A Tour in Wales written by Thomas Pennant. According to Julius Caesar, the ancient Celts practised the burning alive of humans in a number of settings. In Book 6, chapter 16, he writes of the Druidic sacrifice of criminals within huge wicker frames shaped as men:
The story won several awards, including First Prize in the Maclean's fiction contest, and became the basis for Execution. McDougall wrote Execution between 1952 and 1957, keeping copious notes on its development that are now preserved in the McDougall Papers at the Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Libraries.
The Executioner's Song (1979) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore for murder by the state of Utah. The title of the book may be a play on "The Lord High Executioner's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.