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Book Synopsis A Trip to the Gallows in East Tennessee by : Dr John McElhaney
Download or read book A Trip to the Gallows in East Tennessee written by Dr John McElhaney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives the actual account of murders that received the death penalty with the facts of the case and the events of the hangings. The facts are real with the actual names of the victims and the perpetrator along with the sheriff, judges that sentenced them and others that were involved. The hangings listed here cover a period of about forty years in East Tennessee. One of the men that was hanged build the scaffold he was hanged on for someone else two years before. One of the men that was hanged had the rope to break twice so he was hanged three times before he was dead. Some of the most horrendous murders ever committed are detailed here. Twenty-nine hangings, nine are black men and twenty are white, sixteen are single hangings, five are double hangings, and one is a triple hanging.
Book Synopsis Against the Gallows by : Paul Christian Jones
Download or read book Against the Gallows written by Paul Christian Jones and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Against the Gallows, Paul Christian Jones explores the intriguing cooperation of America’s writers—including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E. D. E. N. Southworth, and Herman Melville—with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital punishment in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. In an age of passionate reform efforts, the antigallows movement enjoyed broad popularity, waging its campaign in legislatures, pulpits, newspapers, and literary journals. Although it failed in its ultimate goal of ending hangings across the United States, the movement did achieve various improvements in the practices of the justice system, including reducing the number of capital crimes, eliminating public executions in most northern states, and abolishing capital punishment completely in three states. Although a few historians have studied the antebellum movement against capital punishment, until now very little attention has been paid to the role of America’s writers in these efforts. Jones’s study recovers the relationship between the nation’s literary figures and the movement against the death penalty, illustrating that the editors of literary journals actively encouraged and published antigallows writing, that popular crime novelists created a sympathy toward criminals that led readers to question the state’s justifications for capital punishment, that poets crafted verse that advocated strongly for Christian sympathy for criminals that coincided with an antipathy to the death penalty, and that female sentimental writers fashioned melodramatic narratives that illustrated the injustice of the hanging and reimagined the justice system itself as a sympathetic subject capable of incorporating compassion into its workings and seeing reform rather than revenge as its ends.
Download or read book The Newbery House Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norse gods written by Johan Egerkrans and published by B. Wahlströms Bokförlag. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johan Egerkrans long dreamed of illustrating the Norse mythology, and when he released Norse Gods in Swedish it was an immediate success. Egerkrans re-tells the most exciting and imaginative sagas of the Norse mythology: From the creation myth in which the first giant Ymer is hacked to pieces by Odin and his brothers, to the gods' final destruction in Ragnarök. This is a gorgeously illustrated book in which gods, giants, dwarves, monsters and heroes are presented in all their glory. A book for those who already know and love these stories, as well as for those who have yet to discover Scandinavian mythology. A definitive work for readers of all ages. “It is a pleasure to be enchanted by the suggestive visualizations of Angerboda, Hel, Freya, Utgarda-Loki, Mimer and Surt." Dick Harrison, Svenska Dagbladet
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Book Synopsis God for Grown-Ups by : Simeon J. Maslin
Download or read book God for Grown-Ups written by Simeon J. Maslin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one, no matter how brilliant, saintly or charismatic, ever has or ever will prove the existence – or non-existence -- of God. If the infinite God posited by Judaism since ancient times does, in fact, exist, then that God is by definition beyond human comprehension. And so this book does not attempt to prove the existence of God but rather takes an instinctual leap of faith, along with Moses, the Psalmists, Job, Maimonides and, yes, Albert Einstein, passing over the question of God’s existence and asking instead the questions that have fueled the authentic religious enterprise for more than a hundred generations: What can we know of God and what does God require of us? A religion for adults seeks to probe the meaning and purpose of life. The very same may be said of science. Both reject pious platitudes and seek truth. Albert Einstein phrased it very nicely: “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” What the author seeks to do, honoring both religion and science, is to introduce the reader to a God for Grown-ups.
Book Synopsis The Origin of the Aryans by : Isaac Taylor
Download or read book The Origin of the Aryans written by Isaac Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magazine of Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Bible written by Henry Wace and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book McClure's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pathway to God's Plan by : Lenya Heitzig
Download or read book Pathway to God's Plan written by Lenya Heitzig and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible study and journaling questions guide women through Ruth and Esther, and help them apply biblical truths to their lives. With 12 weeks' worth of material that is perfect for small-group or individual use, the volumes in the Women's Bible Journal series contain more material than many small-group Bible studies.
Book Synopsis The Triumphal Sun by : Annemarie Schimmel
Download or read book The Triumphal Sun written by Annemarie Schimmel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on Rumi's life, his poetry, his thought, and his influence. Rumi's work forms one of the pillars of the Sufi orders, particularly the Mevlevi order, better known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes. In this book Rumi emerges not only as a spiritual master, but also as a fully human being grounded firmly in the Koran and in classical Islamic mysticism. The light of the Divine Sun, in its Beauty and Majesty, manifested itself for Rumi through the person of Shams of Tabriz. Transformed by this light, consumed by this fire, Mowlana Rumi saw the world in a new light. Everywhere he perceived God's Grandeur and his Grace. The book also discusses the theological premises upon which Rumi's work rests, his attitude to the problems of free will and predestination, and his analysis of the mystical stages and stations. The book not only gives a very rich analysis of Rumi's language and poetical art, but also a picture of medieval Konya, whose features the mystical poet transforms and transfigures.
Download or read book Norse Mythology written by Neil Gaiman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable.… Gaiman has provided an enchanting contemporary interpretation of the Viking ethos.”—Lisa L. Hannett, Atlantic Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki—son of a giant—blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator. Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose, these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.
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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lives of the English Martyrs by : Edwin Hubert Burton
Download or read book Lives of the English Martyrs written by Edwin Hubert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
