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The “Inquisition’s Chair,” known as the “witch’s chair,” was highly regarded as a good remedy against silent women accused of witchcraft. This common tool was especially widely used by the Austrian Inquisition.

Hope the designers who implemented this are now taking their joyrides - for the rest of whatever

PS -  looks like something Cleveland Sport Fans have endured since '48 & '64 respectively

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Edward VIII Becomes King (1936)
Edward VIII became king of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, George V, in 1936. He enjoyed immense popularity until the announcement of his intention to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American in the midst of divorcing her second husband. The government opposed the marriage, and the two sides clashed until Edward executed a deed of abdication, ending a 325-day reign as the first English monarch to relinquish his throne voluntarily.

***Hospodář ***
The photo is of Czechoslovak Publishing, home of the West News, and specifically,
The West News, Centennial Edition 1890-1990, November 1990. From the Sonny Helm Collection
The Hospodář was founded by Jan Rosicky in Omaha, Nebraska in 1890/91 and then continued publishing in West, Texas. The paper continued publication in the Czech language until 1985. During the communist control the paper was mailed to Czechoslovakia, in part to help challenge propaganda being spread there.
Now if the word hospodář means farmer, then how do we get hospóda as the word for tavern? What is the connection? Note that *hospóda also means house. *In Hungry the word hospod means Lord (God). So in the Slavic languages this very well is used as be the base of the word and how it came into use for “lord of the house” (or property, farm or tavern).
The word for lord or master came from the Proto-Slavic word gospodü. In Czech the archaic term for master was hospodář Note that in the various Slavic languages some use the h beginning and some use the g.
The Czech hospodář (archaic term for "master"). All forms stem from the Proto-Slavik word gospodü In Czech, the word Hospodin (capitalized) is another address to God.
And so the use of the word hospodář for the Czech newspaper, means more than just farmer, it essentially means lord of the land.
Oh, and the Czech word for tavern, hospod, has nothing to do with being a place of worship (while there are some who may disagree).

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Elva Zona Heaster Discovered Dead (1897)
Shortly after marrying drifter Erasmus Shue, Heaster was found dead and was soon buried. Her mother, who suspected foul play, claimed to have had a vision in which her daughter's ghost stated that Shue had broken her neck, killing her. When the body was exhumed, an autopsy confirmed that Heaster's neck had been broken, and Shue was tried for murder. the ghost—since known as the Greenbrier Ghost for Heaster's hometown of Greenbrier County, West Virginia

can ya get a bag of kolaches there to soak up the beer

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Japanese WWII Soldier Found Hiding in Guam Jungle (1972)
Shoichi Yokoi was a Japanese soldier who went into hiding in the jungles of Guam in 1944 as Allied forces took the island; 28 years later, he was still there. He had hidden in an underground cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that WWII had ended. In 1972, he was found by hunters and returned to Japan. He was the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after the war, before Hiroo Onoda and Teruo Nakamura.

Pirate Mary Read
Read, an Englishwoman who was born in the late 17th century, spent much of her life disguised as a man and working in industries generally reserved for men. She was on a ship bound for the West Indies when it was captured by pirate captain Calico Jack Rackham. Read joined his crew and became one of the most notorious female pirates of the time. When Rackham's ship was captured and the crew sentenced to death, Read received a stay of execution after she “pled her belly,”