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  • Thumbnail for Effigy
    onward, effigies of the countries' leaders have been hanged in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria. In the British colonies in New England, effigy performances...
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    Andrew Oliver (category Harvard College Loyalists in the American Revolution)
    for implementing the provisions of the Stamp Act, for which he was hanged in effigy. He never actually carried out those duties and was later commissioned...
    8 KB (707 words) - 13:08, 2 May 2024
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    Burning of Judas (category Antisemitism in Europe)
    vary, but the effigy of Judas is typically hanged (reenacting Matthew 27:5) on Good Friday, then burned on the night of Easter Sunday. In many parts of...
    15 KB (1,492 words) - 21:54, 4 May 2024
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    England. As he no longer could be punished, Frederick William I hanged Keith's effigy symbolically. He died on 27 December 1756. Baireuth 1888, pp. 83–84...
    3 KB (333 words) - 16:41, 25 October 2023
  • February 2009. Asked For Pardon By 'Phone. The New York Times, published May 30, 1903. Governor Hanged in Effigy. The New York Times, published June 4, 1903....
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  • Ragen's Colts (category Articles lacking in-text citations from November 2022)
    anti-Catholicism. In 1921, "In September, 3,000 people from the stockyards district (of Chicago) watched as the Colts hanged in effigy 'a white-sheeted...
    5 KB (615 words) - 20:36, 23 March 2024
  • hanged in effigy. She was finally executed (1755-08-02)August 2, 1755. After her death, she was remembered as an infamous Breton. Marion was born to Félicien...
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    England against the Bute ministry's 1763 cider tax, with Bute being hanged in effigy. The Grenville ministry, therefore, decided that Parliament would raise...
    79 KB (10,642 words) - 08:01, 12 April 2024
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    Three Percenters (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    (Tweet) – via Twitter. Mills, Kylen (May 26, 2020). "Gov. Beshear hanged in effigy as protesters gathered outside governor's mansion". LEX18.com. Archived...
    60 KB (5,135 words) - 03:28, 3 April 2024
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    Ida Ferenczy (category Austrian ladies-in-waiting)
    and mediation, including Count Gyula Andrássy, who was hanged in effigy for his participation in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and had never petitioned...
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  • Apprentice Boys of Derry (category 1814 establishments in Ireland)
    it is traditional to burn or hang an effigy of Robert Lundy. Before the Troubles the effigy was often hung from, and then burnt in front of, the pillar...
    17 KB (1,914 words) - 20:49, 30 May 2024
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    Prague, Oklahoma (category Cities in Lincoln County, Oklahoma)
    Die! had its world premiere in Prague in an event which featured Adolf Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini being hanged in effigy on Main Street. The town of...
    14 KB (1,295 words) - 12:00, 7 May 2024
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    Gyula Andrássy (category Hungarians in Slovakia)
    Andrássy emigrated to London and then to Paris. On 21 September 1851, he was condemned in absentia to death and was hanged in effigy by the Austrian government...
    28 KB (3,003 words) - 23:47, 16 May 2024
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    In 1831 he was implicated in the revolutionary movement organized by Ciro Menotti, and was condemned to death and hanged in effigy, but escaped to France...
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    Orange Riots (category 1870 crimes in the United States)
    hanged in effigy by Irish Catholics in Brooklyn, and the events began to be referred to as the "Slaughter on Eighth Avenue." Despite their attempt to...
    11 KB (1,238 words) - 13:59, 25 May 2024
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    Samuel Adams (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    was not a member. On August 14, stamp distributor Andrew Oliver was hanged in effigy from Boston's Liberty Tree; that night, his home was ransacked and...
    96 KB (12,426 words) - 19:49, 2 May 2024
  • Hangmen Also Die! (category Articles to be expanded from January 2024)
    being hanged in effigy on Main Street. The mayors of Washington, Kansas, and London and Moscow, Texas attended. The film opened nationwide in the first...
    11 KB (1,276 words) - 12:04, 20 February 2024
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    Daisy Bates House (category Houses in Little Rock, Arkansas)
    burned twice in the yard, and shots were fired through the windows from passing vehicles. Mrs. Bates was hanged in effigy in Ouachita County in July 1958...
    7 KB (947 words) - 04:44, 6 August 2023
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    wooden effigy may be as old as the 17th century, but the effigy may not have always been called "Tom".) W. Reader dates the first Godiva procession to 1677...
    41 KB (4,577 words) - 12:38, 23 May 2024
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    Toulouse and being hanged in effigy. A Protestant company had been making its way from Montauban to support their co-religionists in the acquisition of...
    186 KB (24,923 words) - 20:47, 11 May 2024
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