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  • Thumbnail for Third Amendment to the United States Constitution
    (Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent, forbidding the...
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    Criminalis Carolina specifies how every dismemberment (quartering) should ideally occur: Concerning quartering: To cut and hack apart his entire body into four...
    28 KB (3,589 words) - 13:25, 2 July 2024
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    Solomatin (9 February 1995 – ?? April 1997), Chief of Construction and Quartering of Troops Vladimir Churanov (17 January 1995 – 16 June 1997), Chief of...
    21 KB (1,221 words) - 08:57, 7 July 2024
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    Nobility (redirect from Noble quarterings)
    chivalry to noblemen who could demonstrate that their lineage had extended "quarterings", i.e. several generations of noble ancestry, to be eligible for offices...
    89 KB (10,372 words) - 15:23, 5 July 2024
  • between Americans including gruesome instances of hanging, drawing, and quartering on both sides. As early as 1789, David Ramsay, an American patriot historian...
    168 KB (2,526 words) - 13:31, 7 July 2024
  • Age of Sail, the quarterdeck was the preserve of the ship's officers. quartering sea Seas approaching a vessel from between 105° and 165° to port or starboard...
    252 KB (31,646 words) - 10:16, 3 July 2024
  • Eventually quartering gained usage, and in the height of its popularity during the Victorian era, some coats of arms featured hundreds of "quarterings" (see...
    20 KB (2,289 words) - 13:07, 8 April 2024
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    and a lesser version. The shield displays the "Three Crowns of Sweden" quartering the "Lion of Bjelbo", with an inescutcheon overall of the House of Vasa...
    14 KB (1,361 words) - 02:15, 6 May 2024
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    "wyvern was the standard of the Kingdom of Mercia", and that it was "a quartering in the town arms of Leicester". However, in 1897 the Railway Magazine...
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  • between Americans including gruesome instances of hanging, drawing, and quartering on both sides. As early as 1789, David Ramsay, an American patriot historian...
    113 KB (2,827 words) - 09:01, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gibbeting
    decomposed, after which the bones would be scattered. In cases of drawing and quartering, the body of the criminal was cut into four or five portions, with the...
    27 KB (3,427 words) - 14:18, 13 May 2024
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    the form of the Quartering Act which required colonial legislatures to provide quarters and supplies for the troops. The Quartering Act stirred little...
    65 KB (8,437 words) - 12:32, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coat of arms of England
    expressed his claim in heraldic form by quartering the royal arms of England with the arms of France. This quartering continued until 1801, with intervals...
    41 KB (3,497 words) - 08:19, 12 June 2024
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    Quarterly (1979) 36#2: 164–193 online Archived June 25, 2023, at the Wayback Machine. Gary Alan Fine, "Difficult reputations: Collective memories of the evil...
    104 KB (11,428 words) - 17:13, 4 June 2024
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    many nations historically drew their corps of top commanders, viz. the quartering of the commander-in-chief of the forces and secretary at war in the Horse...
    13 KB (1,397 words) - 06:04, 29 April 2024
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    Alexander Hamilton obituary Archived February 25, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, September 26, 1878. "The Rundown on Alexander Hamilton's...
    190 KB (21,026 words) - 18:30, 11 July 2024
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    Pimlott "Polishing Their Image" Archived 10 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine, extract from The Queen, HarperCollins (1996) reprinted on the PBS Frontline...
    78 KB (6,017 words) - 11:45, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Bill of Rights
    by law. The Third Amendment restricts the quartering of soldiers in private homes, in response to Quartering Acts passed by the British parliament during...
    115 KB (11,235 words) - 01:09, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of serving generals of the Pakistan Army
    Wayback Machine, 2008 August Archived 15 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine, 2009 March Archived 29 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 2009 August...
    97 KB (936 words) - 12:23, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
    Constitution totally prohibits certain kinds of punishment, such as drawing and quartering. Under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, the Supreme Court has...
    81 KB (9,981 words) - 21:44, 22 June 2024
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