The most common story of what happened to the boys is that they were killed by or on the orders of their uncle, Richard III. This was the official Tudor-era explanation when they were trying to establish legitimacy for their own reign. However, it is a perplexing explanation, because Richa...
To this day, many people believe that Richard III had his young nephews murdered in order to ascend to power—a position he held for only two years before he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. There, Richard III succumbed to the forces of Henry VII, who would succeed him on t...
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Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your weary men?’”16And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he[i]taught the men of Succoth.17Then he tore down the tower ofPenuel and killed the men of the ...
/ But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.” / Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with ...
11On that day the number of those who were killed in the city of Susa where the king lived was told to the king.12And the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and the ten sons of Haman in Susa. What then have they done in the rest of the kin...
In London: 1905, 1907 Local tube stop: Whitechapel What he did next: Became the second leader of the Soviet Union, killed millions of his own people, turned the country into a nuclear superpower From Britannia and Eve, 1 March 1950. (c) Illustrated London News Group. Courtesy of the Brit...
Things never go well for the unicorn. In the famous fifteenth-century Unicorn Tapestries, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the unicorn is brutally killed and taken to the castle. He even has his horn – the source of magical healing – cut off. Allegorically, the hunter...
Behn is buried in the East Cloister, not far from the steps into the Abbey.The Unknown Warrior The burial of an unidentified British soldier killed during the First World War is the first example of a tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He represents the thousands of individuals who died during th...
Remember that it is less than a century ago since the Elector of Hesse sold his subjects to the King of England, who required men to be killed in America. Kings went to the Elector of Hesse as we go to the butcher to buy meat. The Elector had food for powder in stock, and hung ...