Jump to content

Search results

View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Thumbnail for Thumbscrew (torture)
    accused of witchcraft were tortured before her to make her confess her crime in the manner following: Her son was put in the buits where he suffered fifty...
    7 KB (893 words) - 22:03, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torture
    definitions are restricted to acts carried out by the state, but others include non-state organizations. Most victims of torture are poor and marginalized...
    60 KB (7,321 words) - 01:18, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Breast torture
    Breast torture (also called breast play, nipple torture or tit torture) is a BDSM activity in which sexual stimulation is provided through the intentional...
    26 KB (2,902 words) - 09:39, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for And yet it moves
    is the celebrated Galileo, who was in the Inquisition for six years, and put to the torture, for saying, that the Earth moved." A. Rupert Hall, "Galileo...
    7 KB (756 words) - 17:19, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
    detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the killing...
    141 KB (14,847 words) - 19:36, 29 May 2024
  • 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"...
    10 KB (1,248 words) - 05:42, 31 May 2024
  • White torture, often referred to as white room torture, is a type of psychological torture technique aimed at complete sensory deprivation and isolation...
    20 KB (1,870 words) - 01:28, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torture chamber
    A torture chamber is a room where torture is inflicted. The medieval torture chamber was windowless and often built underground, dimly lit and specifically...
    48 KB (5,453 words) - 16:52, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cock and ball torture
    Cock and ball torture (CBT) is a sexual activity involving the application of pain or constriction to the male genitals. This may involve directly painful...
    19 KB (2,050 words) - 23:23, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rack (torture)
    priest holes, died under torture on the rack in the Tower of London in 1606. Guy Fawkes is also thought to have been put to the rack, since a royal warrant...
    8 KB (961 words) - 17:59, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Strappado
    The strappado, also known as corda, is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind their back and the victim is suspended by a rope...
    16 KB (1,659 words) - 03:55, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torture during the Algerian War
    Elements from the French Armed Forces used deliberate torture during the Algerian War (1954–1962), creating an ongoing public controversy. Pierre Vidal-Naquet...
    61 KB (6,947 words) - 19:51, 9 May 2024
  • Law of majestas (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    from liability to be put to the torture, and from having his slaves tortured to make them testify against him. The punishment from the time of Tiberius...
    5 KB (802 words) - 12:24, 16 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Chinese Water Torture Cell
    The Chinese Water Torture Cell is a predicament escape made famous by Hungarian-American magician Harry Houdini. The illusion consists of three parts:...
    13 KB (1,716 words) - 12:15, 31 October 2022
  • who was torture-murdered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania as an act of revenge in February 2010. Daugherty, who was mentally disabled, was tortured and murdered...
    26 KB (2,552 words) - 01:48, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lingchi
    "death by a thousand cuts", was a form of torture and execution used in China from around the 10th century until the early 20th century. It was also used in...
    50 KB (6,100 words) - 00:15, 22 May 2024
  • torture in which iron combs designed to prepare wool and other fibres for woolen spinning are used to scrape, tear, and flay the victim's flesh. The tradition...
    5 KB (555 words) - 05:13, 18 December 2023
  • systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed...
    172 KB (16,958 words) - 23:24, 6 May 2024
  • Tickle torture is the prolonged use of tickling to abuse, dominate, harass, humiliate, or interrogate an individual. While laughter is popularly thought...
    11 KB (1,474 words) - 03:43, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
    Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and Interrogation Program and its use of torture during interrogation in U...
    108 KB (11,878 words) - 01:25, 28 April 2024
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)