Posted on 03/23/2018 9:26:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Yes. In a parking lot.
He had scoliosis....So do I. I can assure you, I am not a hunchback!
Estimates on prevalence of scoliosis is 2.5% to 25%.
I read several articles at the time (probably here.) that stated it wasn’t that curved.
So women in those days were only 4’11”?
I wonder if this is one of those cases where the inch was the length of the king’s thumb and then they got a new queen (so possibly Mary was 71 of her own thumb-lengths tall?)
There’s a page for nearly everything now, it seems.
Henry VIII reigned 13,796 days. The 60K figure works out to 4.34 executions per day; it is a shallow attempt by someone to equate every single *alleged* death in the kingdom — including deaths in combat during uprisings, which are not executions anyway — to what Bloody Mary was doing, which was burning Protestants at the stake, until the public backlash frightened her (the execution method changed). Even by Tudor standards, she was a sick bitch.
The old treason punishment included having the condemned’s entrails cut while still living and shown to them (that was actually mentioned in “National Treasure”). About a century after Henry VIII died there was the English Civil War; during the Protectorate (Oliver Cromwell, then Richard his son as hereditary Protector) the already-underused penalty for treason fell into disuse, and when it was imposed for the first time in living memory, during the tail end of the Jacobean dynasty, it was so appalling to the spectators I believe it was never used again (AFAIK it remains on the books though). That’s why we have that “cruel and unusual” thing in our Constitution — it doesn’t refer to execution, it refers to showing someone their entrails just before they’re quartered.
That’s gotta be a rhetorical question. ;^)
HMMMmmm...
Matthew 5:5
Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,
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