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"Now go away in the peace of God, which shall be between you and me, go back to the place where you came from" -part of a medieval prayer to Saint Corona, whose feast day today is

November, 2019: Setting for Blade Runner. "I want more life, father." #cinema

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong" -Friedrich Nietzsche, whose birthday this is (15 Oct 1844)

Boris Johnson's great grandfather, the Turkish intellectual/politician Ali Kemal, was lynched by a nationalist mob in 1922 ow.ly/Zas950v99Or

Many fathers have strained relationships with their sons, but at least your kid didn't try to stage your "suicide" so that you could take the rap for the murder he committed ow.ly/2W9M30oiPkj #FathersDay

For Juneteenth, this horrific slave gibbet story comes from the New York Weekly Museum, 17 Oct 1789 ... full pdf here: ow.ly/XhjX50jpd7B

Happy St. George's Day ow.ly/LiZM30ovFcx patron of many nations 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇪🇪🇹🇵🇹🇧🇷🇵🇸🇹🇷🇱🇹🇷🇺🇲🇩🇧🇬🇷🇸🇲🇪 plus many cities/regions of 🇪🇸🇮🇹🇲🇹🇬🇷🇸🇮 - & Sankt Georgen 🇩🇪 & Sfantu Gheorghe 🇷🇴 & Svaty Jur 🇸🇰 & Beirut 🇱🇧 where he slew the 🐉

It is said on before the execution of Mose Caton, [Robert] Fowler danced a jig on the gallows and said: "Within 24 hours Caton will be in hell. Who in the hell will be the next one?" ... the answer turned out to be Robert Fowler ow.ly/QTb930ovrUl 🇺🇸

#Ireland has admitted the #innocence of Harry Gleeson, whom it hanged for murder 23 Apr 1941 ow.ly/lmj530ovrSZ 🇮🇪

I am guilty, But not in the way you think. I should have earlier recognized my duty; I should have more sharply called evil evil; I reined in my judgment too long. -German Resistance intellectual Albrecht Haushofer, hanged 23 Apr 1945 ow.ly/mhDv30ovrUW

23 Apr 1943: #Ukraine Banderist militia ethnically cleanse Poles from the village of Janowa Dolina ow.ly/3mtM30ovrRV

The last execution in #Hawaii was that of @USArmy Private Garlon Mickles #otd 22 Apr 1947 ow.ly/O1mP30ouLkB

The Life and Confession of Cato, a slave of Elijah Mount, of Charlestown in the county of Montgomery, who was executed in Johnstown on the 22d day of April 1803, for the murder of Mary Akins ow.ly/yeWy30ouLlC 🇺🇸

Thirteen officials from the deposed #Liberia regime were publicly shot on the beach #onthisday 22 Apr 1980 ow.ly/wu5M30ouKU4 🇱🇷

#OTD 22 Apr 1997 #Peru paramilitaries stormed the Japanese embassy where leftist rebels had taken hostages -- and summarily executed all the rebels ow.ly/6iZR30ouL09 🇵🇪

#RhodeIsland-born pirate Charles Gibbs hanged on Ellis Island #onthisday 22 Apr 1831; his skull resides today at NYC's John M. Mossman Lock Museum ow.ly/JKLA30ouLen 🇺🇸

The "Cauer filter", a variety of network synthesis filter, was named for a German mathematician shot in the last days of #ww2 ow.ly/sEMu30ouL8J

A Roaring Twenties version of CSI #forensics noosed the Garage Murderer #OTD 22 Apr 1930 ow.ly/w2in30ouL6h 🇬🇧🔬