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433ServersWho was the brazen bull used on?
Roman persecution of Christians The Romans have been claimed to have used this torture device to kill some Christians, notably Saint Eustace,...
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435LaptopWhen was the Judas Cradle used?
The Judas the Cradle began to be used in 16th century Spain after the institution of Inquisition was established in the country....
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431UncategorizedWhat is a knee breaker?
Knee-Breaker was a middleweight robot built by Team Coolrobots that competed at Long Beach 1999, and again from Season 4.0 onwards of...
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503BeachballHow was the breast ripper used?
The breast ripper was often heated during torture. It contained four claws, which were used to slowly rip the breasts from women...
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442HealthWhat is the most humane method of execution?
Of all the many and varied types of execution – electrocution, hanging, shooting, gassing, stoning – lethal injectionlethal injectionLethal injection is the...
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539MacHow painful is a wooden horse?
The victim was stripped of all clothing and forced to straddle the cross plank of the triangular ‘horse’. Weights or additional restraints...
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482SportsWhat is the Spanish donkey method?
A wooden horse, Chevalet (as it was called in Spain), Spanish donkey or cavaletto squarciapalle, is a torture device, of which there...
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622EntertainmentWho invented the Judas Cradle?
If you were Ippolito Marsili, the inventor of this torture, known as the Judas cradle, you could tell yourself you had invented...
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468NeedWhat crimes was the Judas cradle used for?
The iron chair was also used as punishment. Crimes that are punishable by the iron chair include adultery, witchcraft, murder, etc. It...
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473WheelWhat are the six realms in the wheel of life?
Buddhist cosmology typically identifies six realms of rebirth and existence: gods, demi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hells. How many realms are...
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