Death of an Executioner
TUB following " grim" biography is taken from the Melbourne Argus of Thursday:— William Bamford, who died in the Melbourne Hospital on Tuesday, had been the hangman…
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Obituaries & funerals, 1873
5 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers
Book the Second,—1644-45. "The Geeat Rebellion." Proem.—june, 1643. the Death of John Hampden
THE sword is drawn, and English swords are stained with English blood. War, of all war the most abhorrent, is raging east, west, north, and south; and each man's hand is…
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The ancint Persians disposed of their dead by interment. Some of the royal tombs still existing have often been described. That of Cyrus is unique, being a sepulchral chamber…
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Reporting the funeral of the late Halil Pasha, the Levant Times says:— The interment of the late Grand Master of Artillery did not take place at the early…
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RICHARD II., in the play of that name, disheartened by his calamities, responds to all the encouraging words of his lords and followers with a bitter satire on the…
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