The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one or both ends. The...
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their mentor, his court historian Callisthenes, tortured on the rack in 328 BC. The rack is a torture device that consists of an oblong, rectangular,...
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Look up rack or racks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rack or racks may refer to: Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which...
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Generalized Procrustes analysis One size fits all Procrustes analysis Rack (torture) Xenia (Greek)—the Greek concept of hospitality that Procrustes was...
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Abacination (category Physical torture techniques)
the free dictionary. Abacination is a form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction of intentional damage to...
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Rat torture is the use of rats to torture a victim by encouraging them to attack and eat the victim alive. The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats"...
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common methods in Europe included the rack and strappado. In most societies, citizens could be judicially tortured only under exceptional circumstances...
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Duke of Exeter's daughter (category European instruments of torture)
The Duke of Exeter's daughter was a torture rack in the Tower of London. Its presence is said to have been due to Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, constable...
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excessive rent (the word "rack" evoking the medieval torture device), usually one paid by a tenant farmer. The two conceptions of rack-rent both apply when...
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the court that Smeaton had been tortured on the rack for four hours. The Crown continued to issue warrants for torture into the 17th century. When Guy...
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Foot roasting (redirect from Foot torture)
burns. Swain, John, The Pleasures of the Torture Chamber, New York: Dorset Press, 1931. Abbott, Geoffrey, Rack, Rope, and Red-Hot Pincers, Cadwell, ID:...
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A torture chamber is a room where torture is inflicted. The medieval torture chamber was windowless and often built underground, dimly lit and specifically...
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Jiagun (category Instruments of torture)
evidence" (Mathews 1931, 82) "formerly, an instrument of torture, a rack" (Lin 1972) "leg-rack applied to criminals" (DeFrancis 1996) "leg squeezer" (Theobold...
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accept them, then the activity is considered risk-aware consensual kink ("RACK"). Edgeplay may involve the consequences of potential short or long-term...
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The Rack is a 1956 American war drama film, based on a television play written by Rod Serling. It was directed by Arnold Laven and stars Paul Newman, Wendell...
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Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and Interrogation Program and its use of torture during interrogation in U.S. government communiqués on detainees in CIA...
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Mancuerda (category Torture)
Mancuerda was a method of torture. A tight cord was wound around the arms of the condemned. The executioner would then throw his entire weight backwards...
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The Torture Museum, Amsterdam is located in Amsterdam, near the Bloemenmarkt overlooking the Singel. It exhibits historical instruments of torture. The...
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Risk-aware consensual kink (redirect from RACK)
Risk-aware consensual kink (RACK, also risk-accepted consensual kink) is an acronym used by some of the BDSM community to describe a philosophical view...
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Breaking wheel (redirect from The wheel (torture device))
wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through...
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Persecution of Falun Gong (category Torture)
confinement, shocks with electric batons, abusive forced feedings, "rack" torture and the "tiger bench", wherein the person is bound to a board and their...
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threats. Ximénez intends to torture the woman with "the rack", but Cardinal Biggles instead produces a dish-drying rack. This rack is tied to Cleveland and...
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Skevington's gyves (category European instruments of torture)
Skevington's gyves, iron shackle, stork, or Spanish A-frame was a type of torture device invented during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. The Scavenger's...
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Guy Fawkes (section Torture)
manacles, but more severe if necessary, authorising the use of the rack: "the gentler Tortures are to be first used unto him et sic per gradus ad ima tenditur...
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Backbreaker (redirect from Argentine backbreaker rack)
on their other knee. This submission hold, better known as a Torture Rack or simply a rack, sees the attacking wrestler carrying the opponent face-up across...
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Randy Savage to submit with the Torture Rack. Elizabeth interfered while Luger first put Savage in the Torture Rack and pulled him down. Immediately...
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Anne Askew (category English torture victims)
like-minded women but refused. The torturers, Lord Chancellor Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Richard Rich, used the rack, but Askew refused to renounce her...
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Inquisition (section Methods of torture used)
apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and customs considered deviant. Violence, torture, or the simple threat of its application, were used by the Inquisition...
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Gynaecological table Hoist Inversion table Massage tables Queening stool Rack Sawhorse Seated cross Smotherbox Spanking horse Stocks and pillories Whipping...
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Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton,...
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