* 1566 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher ( d. 1612 )

* December 20 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist martyr ( d. 1612 )

* April 11 – Edward Wightman, a radical Anabaptist, is the last person to be executed for heresy in England, by burning at the stake in Lichfield.

* April 11 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher ( burned at the stake ) ( b. 1566 )

Edward Wightman, a Baptist from Burton on Trent, was the last person to be burnt at the stake for heresy in England in the market square of Lichfield, Staffordshire on 11 April 1612.

The last public burning at the stake in England took place in Lichfield, when Edward Wightman from Burton upon Trent was executed by burning in the Market Place on 11 April 1612 for his activities promoting himself as the divine Paraclete and Saviour of the world.

* Edward Wightman, early General Baptist

* Edward Wightman ( 1566 – 1612 ), a General Baptist, became the last religious martyr to be burnt at the stake for ‘ Heresy ’ in England

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

Edward Wightman ( Burbage, 20 December 1566 – 11 April 1612 ) was an English radical Anabaptist, executed at Lichfield on charges of heresy.

Edward Wightman was born at Wykin Hall, Burbage, near Hinckley and like most infants was christened in traditional orthodox fashion.

Edward Wightman was convicted of publicly attacking Christianity while promoting the following views:

# That he, Edward Wightman, was the promised Messiah of the Old Testament ;

# That he, Edward Wightman, is literally the prophet Elijah ;

George Wightman, and hence Edward Wightman, is the ancestor of most people living in the United States under the names " Wightman ," and some called " Whitman ," ( though not including the poet Walt Whitman ).

On April 11, 1611, Baptist Edward Wightman became the last religious martyr to be burnt.

* Edward Wightman ( d. 1612 ), nontrinitarian Baptist pastor, last person burnt at the stake for heresy in England

Some important Baptist figures in the struggle were John Smyth, Thomas Helwys, Edward Wightman, Leonard Busher, Roger Williams ( who was a Baptist for a short period but became a " Seeker "), John Clarke, Isaac Backus, and John Leland.

This was 85 years after the death of Edward Wightman ( 1612 ), the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England.

Legate was the last person burned in London for his religious opinions, and Edward Wightman, who was burned at Lichfield in April 1612, was the last to suffer in this way in England.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Excluding those princesses who have married into overseas Roman Catholic royal families, only one member of the Royal Family ( that is, with the style of Royal Highness ) has converted to Roman Catholicism since the passage of the act: the Duchess of Kent, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.

This principle has frequently been called the " Sapir – Whorf hypothesis ", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity.

Likewise, in Toronto, the Prince Edward Viaduct has five lanes of motor traffic, bicycle lanes, and sidewalks on its upper deck ; and a pair of tracks for the Bloor – Danforth subway line on its lower deck.

Historian Edward Ingram has noted that if Nelson had successfully intercepted Bonaparte at sea as ordered, the ensuing battle could have annihilated both the French fleet and the transports.

In spite of its early meteoric rise, church membership has declined sharply over the past eight decades, according to the church's former treasurer, J. Edward Odegaard.

* Edward Steam, from the anime movie Steamboy, has various parts of his body replaced by machinery following an industrial accident.

The term " Maritimes " has historically been collectively applied to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

Edward S. Herman, political economist and media analyst, has highlighted some examples of doublespeak and doublethink in modern society.

The psychologist Edward B. Titchener in his book 1928 A Textbook of Psychology, explained déjà vu as caused by a person having a brief glimpse of an object or situation, before the brain has completed " constructing " a full conscious perception of the experience.

Founded in 1805 by Father Edward Fenwick, afterwards first Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1821 – 1832 ), this province has developed slowly, but now ranks among the most flourishing and active provinces of the order.

* 1962 musical entitled Swan Esther was written by J. Edward Oliver and Nick Munns and has been performed by the Young Vic and some amateur groups.

It was the first tool showing the AI ​​ defined by Edward Feigenbaum in his book about the Japanese Fifth Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World ( 1983 ): " The machines will have reasoning power: they will automatically engineer vast amounts of knowledge to serve whatever purpose humans propose, from medical diagnosis to product design, from management decisions to education ", " The reasoning animal has, perhaps inevitably, fashioned the reasoning machine ", " the reasoning power of these machines matches or exceeds the reasoning power of the humans who instructed them and, in some cases, the reasoning power of any human performing such tasks ".

Edward Fredkin in the Fredkin Finite Nature Hypothesis has suggested an informational basis for Einstein's hypothetical algebraic system.

instead ; Bogdanovich has often said that he would have cast Edward G. Robinson in the lead had he accepted the film.

* 1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.

Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

* Derek Gregory ( born 1951 ), famous for writing on the Israeli, U. S. and UK actions in the Middle East after 9 / 11, influenced by Edward Said and has contributed work on imagined geographies.

While it has been widely believed that Edward was a homosexual because of his closeness to Gaveston, there is no concrete evidence of this.

Thus, his historian style has been imitated all through the ages, and had a strong impact in Edward Gibbon and Montesquieu.

It has been criticised on the grounds that it in fact excludes most of the islands in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the Azores, and also that the only island referred to by the term that is actually in the North Atlantic Ocean is Ireland.

After the 1991 premiere, reporter Edward Rothstein wrote that " Mr. Adams's music has a seriously limited range.

Since the reign of Edward VII a clerk in holy orders in the Church of England has not normally received the accolade on being appointed to a degree of knighthood.

The Daily Mail reports that Edward has had the photograph independently verified by specialists like a Loch Ness Monster sighting devotee and a group of US Military monster experts.