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Immurement (from the Latin im-, "in" and murus, "wall"; literally "walling in"), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment...

An immured anchorite, considered by many to be a myth, is a Tibetan monk who has taken a vow to spend his life permanently sealed inside a small walled...

translated as The Supplication of Daniel the Exile or Praying of Daniel the Immured (Russian: Моление Даниила Заточника, romanized: Moleniye Daniila Zatochnika;...

with Salim, the son of Mughal Emperor Akbar, who had her executed by immurement. The character often appears in movies, books and historical fiction,...

external walls of (mostly religious) buildings and are thus also known as immured vessels. Bacini represent one of the traits of the Pisan Romanesque style...

execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row". Etymologically...

Skywalker Ranch – have been compared to Kane. Xanadu's symbolic meaning of a prison built to immure oneself resonates to this day. Bill Gates' house has been...

an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment...

form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. Stoning appears to have been the standard method of capital punishment in ancient Israel. Its...

lethal shot. To avoid disfigurement due to multiple shots to the head, the shooters are typically instructed to aim at the heart, sometimes aided by a...

and to bury it is to bury the life or soul of the man, who, deprived of it, must die. Thus the custom is a substitute for the old practice of immuring a...

can be called immurement, although this word mainly means entombing people alive, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or...

method of ritual execution as detailed in late skaldic poetry. According to the two instances mentioned in the Christian sagas, the victims (in both cases...

techniques used varied greatly from place to place, generally involving placing heavy weights upon a person with the intent to kill. A common method of death throughout...

and legs to carts moving in opposite directions), zhǎn (斬; waist chop), and shā (殺; beheading). Sometimes, the chopping was not limited to one slice...

which may range from a few days to months, or many years. This list shows all known serial killers from the 20th century to present day by number of victims...

Singh, were taken to Wazir Khan's palace and were executed by the Mughal ruler of Sirhind. Wazir Khan gave orders that the masons immure both sons into a...

dilapidation of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it. It may date back to bridge-related rhymes and games of the Late Middle Ages, but...

prisoner may, within reason, select what the last meal will be. Contrary to the common belief that all last meal requests, regardless of their complexity...

usurping his brother and rightful heir to the throne, Moggallana, in a palace coup. He imprisoned and later immured his father. Kashyapa was also known as...