Impalement was a method of torture and execution whereby a person is pierced with a long stake.

Impalement was frequently practiced in Asia and Europe throughout the Middle Ages.

Impalement is known to have been employed in several regions of southern Asia, such as in the Bengal region, where it was known as Shul ( Bengali: শ ূ ল ) and in ancient Tamilnadu, in present-day India, where it was referred to as Kazhuvetram.

Impalement was the usual sentence for the crime of treason against the king.

Impalement was also used in other European countries, though to a more limited degree.

The tour was followed shortly thereafter by the Grotesque Impalement EP, which the band released on their own Blunt Force Records label imprint.

Disgorge played many shows throughout 1995 to broaden their fan base, and in 1996 recorded the first four tracks of Cranial Impalement which was not released at the time but was later distributed by Extremities Productions.

Impalement of Judea ns by Assyrian soldiers ( Assyria | Neo-Assyrian relief )

Impalement is the traumatic penetration of an organism by an elongated foreign object such as a stake, pole, or spear, and this usually implies complete perforation of the central mass of the impaled body.

He soon became involved in a virulent dispute with historian Nicolae Iorga, when the latter issued harsh criticism regarding Carol's January 1939 initiative to dress large sections of the society, including Romanian Academy members, in various uniforms ( a measure backed by Călinescu ); Iorga remarked with irony: " I'm prepared to wear the FRN uniform, but allow me to wear a speared helmet on my head, on which to place is, to Impalement | impale the Minister of the Interior ".

Arms of Chichester Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling Copleston: Baron: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair a crescent sable for Difference ( heraldry ) | difference ( Chichester ); Feme: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure ( Copleston ), surmounted by the Coronet | coronet of a viscount showing 9 of its 16 pearls.

Heraldic escutcheon on tomb of Hugh Oldham ( d. 1519 ), Bishop of Exeter: Dexter and sinister | Dexter: Gules, a sword erect in pale argent, hilted or surmounted by two keys addorsed in saltire of the last ( See of Exeter ) Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling: Sable, a chevron or between three owls argent on a chief of the second three roses gules ( Oldham ).

He is actually helpful to Ayame, Sakon and Ryoma, guiding them throughout the story and helping with his chants, until he is Impalement and killed by Ranmaru

In the French commune of La Tour-du-Crieu, there is up to the present a street named " Rue du Pal " (" Impalement Street "), reflecting the use made of the site during the town's earlier history.

Impalement replaced the earlier dimidiation – combining the dexter half of one coat with the sinister half of another – because dimidiation can create ambiguity between, for example, a bend and a chevron.

Impalement of Judean s in a Neo-Assyrian Empire | Neo-Assyrian relief.

Initial from the charter granting Gaveston the Earl of Cornwall | earldom of Cornwall, showing the Coat of arms of England | arms of England at top, and Gaveston's coat of arms Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaled with those of de Clare below.

Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, involves the body of a person being pierced with a long stake.

Impalement of Judeans in a Neo-Assyrian relief.

Impalement and other methods of torture were intended to intimidate civilian peasants at a local level into cooperating with the Viet Cong or discourage them from cooperating with the South Vietnamese Army or its allies.

File: Impalement demo. svg | The same two coats impaled

Heraldic escutcheon on easternmost of north aisle piers in Powderham Church, Devon, showing the arms of Courtenay of Powderham Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling Bonville: Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules.

Heraldic Escutcheon ( heraldry ) | escutcheon incised on tombstone of Reginald de Botreaux ( d. 1420 ) showing the Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaled arms of his parents: Baron: Argent, a griffin segreant gules armed azure ( Botreaux ); Femme: Azure seme of fleurs-de-lis a lion rampant or ( Beaumont )

Achievement ( heraldry ) | Heraldic achievement of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue, showing arms of Fortescue Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling Grenville, c. 1800, Possibly from a bookplate: Baron: Azure, a bend engrailled argent plain cottised or ; Femme: Vert, on a cross argent five Roundel | torteaux.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.