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History of Torture Definitions of Torture  Effectiveness of Torture

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torture. Jurists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were happy to repeat the story [13] . The Romans accused Tarquinius of many crimes, but they never accused him of inven

History of Innocent until Proven Guilty

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in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, the theoretical answer was invariably the same: Jews had the same rights of due process as Christians. And if proofs failed, they were pres

Thomas Carlyle's "Signs of the Times"

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The Spaniards of the sixteenth century were indisputably the noblest nation of Europe: yet they had the Inquisition and Philip II . They have the same government at this day; and

Luminist Archives: Anarchism by Peter Kropotkin

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of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Chojecki, Denk and many others, took the anarchist position as regards the state and property rights, deducing his conclusions from the g
Anarchism by Peter Kropotkin

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might be found. The sixteenth section in each township was to be set aside for the support of education. Each purchaser was to receive with his deed a definite description of his

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 0

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there was none; for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were incurious as to "the men of the time," a reproach against which the nineteenth has, at any rate, secured itself, i
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The Sun Never Set on the British Empire

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accounted for only a sixteenth of India's needs and did not deter Indian entrepreneurs from opening textile factories in Bombay and Ahmedabad, or prevent British India from becomi

Meditopia -- Chapter 4, Section 3

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problem is roughly sixteenth to eighteenth century, but the many of the important parts of the story can be found outside these chronological boundaries. Vogel begins his work wit

Sex and Character, by Otto Weininger

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on the stage in the sixteenth century, and actresses date from that time. "At that period it was admitted that women were just as capable as men of embodying the highest possible

COMMUNICATING BY LIGHT

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had to wait for your sixteenth birthday to operate ham radio legally in Australia.  If, like me, you were 13 years old in 1967 and had electronic experimenter friends nearby,

Precursors

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chronographers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who preceded Whiston: Abraham Rockenbach, Henricus Eckstormius and David Herlicius; and he refers to them as the factual

Life of John Sterling, by Thomas Carlyle

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from his ninth to his sixteenth year they all died; and in 1821 only Anthony and John were left. 5 How many tears, and passionate pangs, and soft infinite regrets; such as are app


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