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Seven people in Zambia were killed by a group, who stated that the accused killed a local ruler. The ruler was giving a speech when he was struck down by lightning and subsequently died (Zambia Daily Mail, 2011). The death toll of victims accused of witchcraft by vigilantes in Zambia is...
victims, some said, of her unwillingness to negotiate with other legislators. “Every year I’d introduce this (insurance) bill, every year it got killed.” Molina says. “I knew it would. The point was, this had to be introduced. People are suffering in my community because of insurance...
The English Protestants who colonized the New World feared hunger, illness, and childbirth, which killed one out of eight expectant mothers and a third of their children who were born alive by their fifth birthdays. They feared the raw wilderness and its indigenous inhabitants, who the...
At the starting of the Black Legend there have been millions of people killed by the Spanish Inquisition (always 'Spanish' , that HAD to be remarked as the war propaganda biased against the Spanish Monarchy it was, don't forget it). Of course, there never existed inquisitions -both catholic...
At some point in his life, likely near the end, Peter moved to Rome to spread the word of Christ, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia. It was in Rome that Nero, the Roman emperor who persecuted the church, killed Peter. Tradition holds he was crucified upside down. Through his death,...
They looted everything they found and killed the hermit that was living there by throwing him off a cliff to the rocks and water below. San Juan de Gaztelugatxe also played a role, albeit small, during the Spanish Inquisition. Witches and their ritualistic meetings known as Akelarre in ...
Or a portrait of a city in the grip of something feverish, something so powerful that it has altered the very geography, shifting buildings and the landscape around to create a stage set in which the main actor is the sky? And what a sky. More than a meteorological curiosity, it ...