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    punishment in political protests and for the figures burned in certain traditions around New Year, Carnival and Easter. In European cultures, effigies were...
    20 KB (2,571 words) - 16:03, 15 November 2024
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    Zozobra (category Festivals in New Mexico)
    giant marionette effigy constructed of wood, wire and cotton cloth that is built and burned on the Friday of Labor Day weekend prior to the annual Fiestas...
    13 KB (1,475 words) - 03:47, 8 November 2024
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    Burning of Judas (category Antisemitism in Europe)
    that originated in European Christian communities where an effigy of Judas Iscariot is burned. Other related mistreatment of Judas effigies include hanging...
    15 KB (1,427 words) - 16:25, 26 October 2024
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    William Lloyd Garrison (category 19th century in Boston)
    in type without first writing them out on paper.: 57  Much like the martyred Elijah Lovejoy, a price was on Garrison's head; he was burned in effigy and...
    58 KB (6,410 words) - 14:28, 11 November 2024
  • she finds out that it was going to be burned in effigy, Bart lies, but Lisa forgives him anyway. She burns the effigy along with the pole and the restraining...
    12 KB (1,186 words) - 01:53, 30 September 2024
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    Guy Fawkes (category Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism)
    which has been commemorated in the UK as Guy Fawkes Night since 5 November 1605, when his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied...
    37 KB (4,528 words) - 05:47, 18 November 2024
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    Lewes Bonfire (category Organisations based in East Sussex)
    tried to fan the flames of conflict by handing out anti-Catholic pamphlets. His intervention back-fired and the following year he was burned in effigy. Today...
    24 KB (2,757 words) - 18:43, 14 November 2024
  • with the effigy being a flowerpot that participants could fill with their own "flowers," individual works of art intended to burn. Alma Burn (official...
    56 KB (7,237 words) - 09:49, 15 November 2024
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    that between the years 1484 and 1525 alone, 28,540 were burned in person, 16,520 burned in effigy and 303,847 penanced. However, after extensive examinations...
    18 KB (2,115 words) - 19:20, 25 October 2024
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    Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (category Paintings in the Baltimore Museum of Art)
    1913 in New York City. The painting, which may be classified as Fauvist, was controversial; it was burned in effigy in 1913 at the Armory Show in Chicago...
    3 KB (218 words) - 07:38, 24 October 2024
  • Pikey (category Antiziganism in the United Kingdom)
    "pikeys" were a running theme in the 2000 Guy Ritchie film Snatch. In 2003 the Firle Bonfire Society burned an effigy of a family of gypsies inside a...
    13 KB (1,476 words) - 13:01, 19 October 2024
  • Effigy of the Forgotten is the debut full-length album by New York–based death metal band Suffocation, released in 1991. The album features several tracks...
    9 KB (722 words) - 04:32, 16 November 2024
  • Queene's Day (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    and culminate with a bonfire in the adjacent field, upon which is burned an effigy of the Devil. Accession Day tilt "Queene's day revival continues"....
    2 KB (109 words) - 02:26, 20 August 2024
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    Jones County, Mississippi (category Separatism in the United States)
    Powell voted for secession. Legend has it that, for his vote, he was burned in effigy in Ellisville, the county seat. The reality is more complicated. The...
    26 KB (2,130 words) - 18:44, 27 September 2024
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    Bohemian Club (category 1872 establishments in California)
    guest list and its eclectic Cremation of Care ceremony which mockingly burns an effigy of "Care" (the normal woes of life) with grand pageantry, pyrotechnics...
    18 KB (1,939 words) - 14:34, 7 November 2024
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    an insult to the nation of India, and burned an effigy of President Bush in protest. The Bushes did not change the cat's name in response to the demonstrations...
    6 KB (532 words) - 23:08, 10 November 2024
  • Penthouse (magazine) (category 1965 establishments in the United Kingdom)
    up, and they also burned an effigy of Bob Guccione in front of a bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. In late 1985 the group began to focus on the printer...
    33 KB (3,484 words) - 23:51, 11 November 2024
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    tomb effigy (French: gisant ("lying")) is a sculpted effigy of a deceased person usually shown lying recumbent on a rectangular slab, presented in full...
    54 KB (6,699 words) - 23:30, 27 October 2024
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    Spanish Inquisition (category 1478 establishments in Europe)
    condemned to be burned in person, and 117 in effigy, most of them for judaizing. In the reign of Philip V, there were 125 autos de fé, while in the reigns...
    177 KB (23,079 words) - 08:17, 17 November 2024
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    Asaduddin Owaisi (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
    Mata Ki Jai': Asaduddin Owaisi To Mohan Bhagwat". NDTV.com. B.V.S. Bhaskar (15 March 2016). "BJP leaders burn effigies of Asaduddin Owaisi". The Hindu...
    58 KB (5,057 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2024
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