The so-called Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, in which the young Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander Ruthven were killed by James's attendants for a supposed assault on the King, triggered the dismissal of their sisters Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven as ladies-in-waiting to Anne, with whom they were " in chiefest credit.

A more recent example is the so-called Satanic ritual abuse scare of the 1980s — beginning with the memoir Michelle Remembers — which depicts Satanism as a vast ( and unproven ) conspiracy of elites with a predilection for child abuse and human sacrifice.

Although there are many legitimate examples of hidden messages, many so-called hidden messages are merely the fanciful imaginings of conspiracy theorists.

In the United Kingdom, following the Peterloo Massacre of August 16, 1819, the British government acted to prevent any future disturbances by the introduction of new legislation, the so-called Six Acts which labelled any meeting for radical reform as " an overt act of treasonable conspiracy ".

Unjustly involved in the so-called " Armfelt conspiracy " he was condemned to two years imprisonment ; but was fully reinstated when in 1796 Gustav IV attained his majority.

The Belgian tabloids also developed another conspiracy theory based on one of Belgium's most famous urban legends, the so-called pink ballets (" roze balletten " in Dutch ).

In 1973, Tomlinson was sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of ' conspiracy to intimidate ' as one of the so-called Shrewsbury Two.

Historians have found no evidence whatever of any such conspiracy, but they do report that in Texas, in 1860, a statewide hysteria over nonexistent slave revolts led to the lynching of 30-100 slaves and whites in the so-called Texas Troubles.

She starred as the inscrutable femme fatale Anna Raven in the 1989 BBC miniseries of Never Come Back, a noirish conspiracy thriller based on the celebrated 1941 novel by John Mair, which takes place on the eve of the London Blitz during the so-called " Phony War " of 1939 – 40.

The story involves a radio station in New Orleans with the eponymous call sign which is apparently involved in a so-called " right-wing conspiracy ".

In contrast, the SS demonstrated its enthusiasm for Hitler ’ s war against the so-called Jewish conspiracy by bombing seven Synagogues in Paris on the night of 2 / 3 October 1941.

In the so-called " Liangguang Incident ", Chen was forced to resign as governor of Guangdong after Chiang bribed many of Chen's officers to defect and the conspiracy collapsed.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

Historical records indicate that Copernicus was unaware of the fundamental aspects of his so-called ' revolution ', unaware perhaps of its historical importance, he rested content with having produced a simpler scheme for prediction.

The other, a shallow concave gradient ( Fig. 1 ), was produced with a so-called `` cone-sphere '' apparatus, the `` cone '' being a 2-liter Erlenmeyer flask and the `` sphere, '' a 2-liter round-bottom flask.

Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

But then the so-called coffee was bad enough at best, cold it was all but undrinkable -- especially that cup!!

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

One of the enduringly influential early resolutions of the conference was the so-called Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1888.

This work resumed however with the development of the so-called " Second Quest ", among whose notable exponents was Rudolf Bultmann's student Ernst Käsemann.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

In particular the so-called Plague of Justinian had ravaged the region and conflict remained endemic, with the Three-Chapter Controversy sparking religious opposition and administration at a standstill after the able governor of the peninsula, Narses, was recalled.

His reign was marred by a constitutional struggle with the Aragonese nobles, which eventually culminated in the articles of the Union of Aragon-the so-called " Magna Carta of Aragon ", which devolved several key royal powers into the hands of lesser nobles.

Ampicillin was the first of a number of so-called broad spectrum penicillins subsequently introduced by Beecham.

The second of the so-called J-missions, the mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

During the same period as the building of the Erechtheum, a combination of sacred precincts including the temples of Athena Polias, Poseidon, Erechtheus, Cecrops, Herse, Pandrosos and Aglauros, with its so-called the Kore Porch ( or Caryatids ' balcony ), was begun.

It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon ( 208 l ) barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called " Rainbow Herbicides ".

The project was a blow to Yuri Andropov's so-called " peace offensive ".

In an interview conducted by Alan Jackson for The Times Magazine in 2001, before the album was released, Dylan said " these so-called connoisseurs of Bob Dylan music ... I don't feel they know a thing, or have any inkling of who I am and what I ’ m about.

In his youth he took part in the so-called " massacre of the ditch ", when from 700 to 5, 000 people come to pay homage to the princes who were killed by order of Al-Hakam.

" An example of a so-called " Jonah " would be that of the sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who was cursed to be lost at sea after he killed an albatross.

On 21 July 1973, in the so-called Lillehammer affair, a team of Mossad agents mistakenly killed Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan man unrelated to the Munich attack, in Lillehammer, Norway, after an informant mistakenly said Bouchiki was Ali Hassan Salameh, the head of Force 17 and a Black September operative.

Another incident which is claimed by Macedonian government to be a war crime was that of the so-called Vejce massacre where Albanian guerrillas ambushed and killed 8 Macedonian special forces from the Lions unit.

* Kapapamahchakwew ( Kā-papāmahcahkwêw, Kapapa Machatiwe, Papamahchakwayo, French: ‘ Esprit Errant ’, better known as Wandering Spirit, war chief of the Plains Cree under Mistahimaskwa, born 1845 near Jackfish Lake, Saskatchewan, committed on 2 April 1885, the so-called Frog Lake massacre, killed the Indian Agent Thomas Quinn and eight whites and one Métis, surrendered in July at Fort Pitt, was hanged on 27 November 1885 in Battleford, Saskatchewan )

* Roberto Calvi, so-called " banker of God ", allegedly killed by the Mafia.

Local tradition in English Cumbria recounts how Dunmail ( presumably Dyfnwal III ) the so-called " Last King of Cumbria " was killed at the Battle of Dunmail Raise in 945.

In February 1945, the so-called Porzus massacre occurred, in which the Yugoslav partisans and the Italian Communists killed several members of the Italian non-Communist resistance members.

This document, the so-called Höfle Telegram, confirms 434, 508 Jews were killed at Belzec in 1942

A classic textbook example for this, in German law, is the so-called Sirius case on which the Federal Court of Justice ruled in 1983: The accused had convinced an acquaintance that she would be re-incarnated into a better life if she killed herself.

If a camp did not have a gas chamber of its own, the so-called Muselmänner, or prisoners who were too sick to work, were often killed or transferred to other concentration camps for extermination.

During this so-called " pacification ", he was responsible for the construction of several concentration camps and labor camps, where thousands of Libyan prisoners died, some killed directly by hanging, like Omar Mukhtar, or bullets, but most indirectly by starvation or disease.

A committed Royalist, he was instrumental in putting down rebellion in Metz, and led forces that controversially crushed a military mutiny in the so-called " Nancy Affair " in August 1790, in which both soldiers and civilians were killed.

Meanwhile, Herod orders that all male children of Bethlehem under the age of two be killed, in the so-called " Massacre of the Innocents ".

The so-called " Terror Files " ( Portuguese: " Arquivos do Terror ") – a whole set of 60, 000 documents, weighting 4 tons and making 593, 000 microfilmed pages which were discovered by a former Paraguayan political prisoner Marti Almada, in Lambare, Paraguay, in 1992 – provides even higher numbers: the total result of Southern Cone Operation Condor had left up to 50, 000 killed, 30, 000 missing and 400, 000 arrested.

: vengeance for the crimes committed by the Ustaše was executed immediately after the war, with the terrible massacres at Bleiburg in Austria and during the so-called Way of the Cross ( Death Marches ), when many innocent opponents of the Communist regime were also killed.

The killings perpetrated by the " Black Reichswehr were justifed under the so-called Femegerichte ( secret court ) system in which alleged traitors were killed after being " convicted " in secret " trials " that the victim was unaware of.

Initially, the camp did not have a gas chamber of its own and the so-called Muselmänner, or prisoners who were too sick to work, after being maltreated, under-nourished or exhausted, were then transferred to other concentration camps for extermination ( mostly to the infamous Hartheim Castle, which was away ), or killed by lethal injection and cremated in the local crematorium.

On August 23, Van Meter was ambushed and killed by police in St. Paul, Minnesota, leaving Nelson as the sole survivor of the so-called " Second Dillinger Gang ".

His role in as a member of the so-called " eradicator " faction, advocating all out war against the insurgency during the Algerian Civil War that killed more than 150, 000 on both sides, earned him criticism by some Western Human Rights groups.

Antisemitism in the USSR reached a peak in 1948 – 53 when several hundred Yiddish-writing poets, writers, painters and sculptors were killed in a campaign against the so-called rootless cosmopolitan.

In August 1933 Sidqi ordered the Iraqi Army to march to the north to crush so-called " militant Assyrian separatists ", in the town of Simele, near Mosul, which led to 3, 000 Assyrian civilians being killed throughout the region in the Simele massacre.

The Star Trek episode “ The Enterprise Incident ” includes a scene in which Spock administers the so-called " Vulcan death grip " to Kirk to convince Romulan onlookers, apparently unfamiliar with Vulcan techniques, that Kirk had been killed.

However as the political climate changed and ethnic republics were seen as a threat to the future of the USSR, many of these immigrants were killed in the so-called Stalin's Purges in 1935-1938.