The 1977 execution was also the last execution in western Europe, and the last legal execution by beheading in the western world.
The individual was Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian farm worker living in France. He was condemned for the torture-murder of his former girlfriend.
The city-state of ancient Carthage was a Phoenician colony located in what is now Tunisia. It was founded around 800BC and prospered until 146BC, when it was destroyed by the Romans. Recent excavations have shown strong evidence that the Carthaginians practiced child sacrifice.
According to Dr Josephine Quinn of Oxford University’s Faculty of Classics, “in the 20th century, people increasingly took the view that this [the practice of child sacrifice] was racist propaganda on the part of the Greeks and Romans against their political enemy, and that Carthage should be saved from this terrible slander. What we are saying now is that the archaeological, literary, and documentary evidence for child sacrifice is overwhelming and that instead of dismissing it out of hand, we should try to understand it.”
Evidence of child sacrifice has been discovered in several pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas, including the Aztec, Mayan, and Inca cultures.
Child sacrifice was supposedly practiced by the Satanic cults of the 1980’s. Women were being raped, impregnated, and forced to have their newborns sacrificed to Satan.
Not only is there no such evidence for this, there is no evidence that the nationwide network of Satanic cults even existed.
In Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), the US Supreme Court held that, under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), facilities that accept federal funds cannot deny prisoners accommodations that are necessary to engage in activities for the practice of their own religious beliefs.
RLUIPA prohibited the federal government from imposing a substantial burden on prisoners’ freedom of religion. Five residents of an Ohio prison, which included two adherents of Asatru, a minister of the white supremacist Church of Jesus Christ Christian, a Wiccan and a **Satanist **filed suit. The men stated in federal district court that prison officials violated RLUIPA by failing to accommodate the inmates’ exercise of their “nonmainstream” religions.
A number of fundamentalist Christians believe that Santa Claus is actually a disguise for Satanic beliefs, meant to distract Christians from belief in Christ. Websites abound with titles such as “Santa Claus and Satan’s Cause”, “Santa Claus or Satan’s Claws?” and “SANTA CLAUS: The Great Imposter”.
SANTA CLAUS: The Great Impostor runs this idea into the ground and back. Instead of a sleigh with eight tiny reindeer and Rudolph, the article speaks of “a chariot drawn by two white goats, named called Cracker and Gnasher.”
“Imposter Syndrome” describes a condition in which an individual doubts their own achievements and fears being exposed as a fraud. The term first appeared in a 1978 paper by Pauline Clance and Suzanne Ime.
The Perils of Pauline is an American melodrama film serial that was shown in weekly installments. Released in 1914, it featured Pearl White as the title character. During the episodes, Pauline is menaced by assorted villains, including pirates and Indians. Although each episode placed Pauline in a situation that looked sure to result in her imminent death, the end of each installment showed how she was rescued or otherwise escaped the danger.
The 1969 Hanna-Barbera animated series “The Perils of Penelope Pitstop” was patterned on the silent movie era melodrama cliffhanger movie serial The Perils of Pauline. It originally was to star also the characters of Dick Dastardly and Muttley though Dastardly and Muttley were later dropped in pre-production. Those characters would be later reused in their own series, “Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.”
“Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines” had only two voice actors: Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and the General, and Don Messick as all of the other characters. Messick had used Muttley’s trademark wheezy snickering laugh for the character of Griswold in an episode of Top Cat.
Griswold v Connecticut was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which struck down a Connecticut law which banned contraceptives on the basis of marital privacy.
It helped to lay the theoretical ground work for the decision in Roe v Wade, which also turned on the concept of a constitutional right to privacy.
Obergefell v. Hodges, is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 5–4 ruling requires all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the Insular Areas to perform and recognize the marriages of same-sex couples on the same terms and conditions as the marriages of opposite-sex couples, with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution each contain a Due Process clause.
The clause in the Fifth Amendment reads:
“No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”
The clause in the Fourteenth Amendment reads:
“…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Mark Fuhrman invoked the Fifth Amendment during the OJ Simpson trial, having testified that he never used “the n-word” and the defense played tapes that showed he had used it. Defense attorney Gerard F. Uelmen asked Fuhrman if his testimony at the preliminary hearing had been truthful, whether or not he had ever falsified a police report, and if he had planted evidence in the Simpson case. Fuhrman’s response to all three questions was: “I wish to assert my 5th Amendment privilege.”
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Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. played the title character in the 2016 FX drama series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Over the course of his career, Gooding has also played a troubled LA youth (Boyz n the Hood), an Army helicopter pilot (Outbreak), a Navy diver (Men of Honor) a bus driver (Rat Race) and a free-spirited football star (Jerry Maguire), among other roles.
Cuba Gooding Sr. was the lead singer for The Main Ingredient (whose name came from a Coke bottle), whose major hit was 1972’s “Everybody Plays the Fool”.
The first card of the Tarot deck is #0 - The Fool. he Fool is a very powerful card in the Tarot deck, usually representing a new beginning – and, consequently, an end to something in your old life. The Fool’s position in your spread reveals which aspects of your life may be subject to change. The Fool portends important decisions ahead which may not be easy to make, and involve an element of risk for you. Approach the changes with optimism and care to gain the most positive outcome.
The Fool is shown walking in a carefree manner, about to step off a cliff.
In the Bugs Bunny short “Wabbit Twouble”, Elmer Fudd tries to go camping at Jellostone National Park (*not *Jellystone Park; wrong cartoon series), on top of Bugs’ rabbit hole. Elmer washes his face but cannot reach his towel because it is hanging on a branch that Bugs keeps at a steady, short distance from him. Elmer blindly follows the towel (“I do this kind of stuff to him all through the picture”, Bugs confides to the audience). He causes Elmer to step off a cliff edge. Elmer looks at the miraculous view of the Grand Canyon, but suddenly realizes he is in midair. He runs back to safety and holds on to Bugs for dear life. Bugs then admits he is the one pulling these gags and runs off, with a furious Elmer giving chase after retrieving a gun from his tent.