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`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.
A succession of highly publicized scandals has aroused the public within the last year.
* 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
As VanSlyck ( 1991 ) showed, the last years of the 19th century saw acceptance of the idea that free libraries should be available to the American public.
BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5. 1 " Dano ", which was under development before Be's sale to Palm and included the BeOS Networking Environment ( BONE ) networking stack, was leaked to the public shortly after the company's demise.
By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.
The 11th Party Congress would prove to be the last congress chaired by Lenin, he suffered one stroke in May 1922, was paralysed by a second in December later that year, was removed from public life in March 1923 and died on 21 January 1924.
However, if a service ( e. g. public transport ) operates from for example, 6: 00 to 1: 00 the next day ( which may be noted as 25: 00 ), the last hour may well count as being part of the previous day ( also for the arrangement of the timetable ).
During the last half of the 19th century, government assumed expanding responsibilities for public welfare and public works improvements.
In her later years, she also visited the Empire State Building frequently, once visiting in 1991 as a guest of honor at the building's 60th anniversary, and also in May 2004, which was among her last public appearances.
Central banks, such as the Federal Reserve System banks in the United States and Bank of England in the United Kingdom, are strong players in public finance, acting as lenders of last resort as well as strong influences on monetary and credit conditions in the economy.
Fichte gave a wide range of public and private lectures in Berlin from the last decade of his life.
Most only became public in the last decades of the twentieth century, in his collected works.
And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.
" books, scholarships, fellowships, and mosques " ( for example, " more than 1500 mosques were built and paid for with money obtained from public Saudi funds over the last 50 years "), along with training in the Kingdom for the preachers and teachers who went on to teach and work at these universities, schools, mosques, etc.
* 1969 – The Beatles ' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London.
His last public work, the mosaic mural New York in Transit, was installed in October 2001 in the Times Square subway station in New York City.
In 1976, he appeared for the last time in a motion picture, playing a movie crewman who is fired by a movie mogul, played by Art Carney, in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, and he also made his final public appearance in that year when he was inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame.
In his last years in office, Adenauer used to take a nap after lunch and, when he was traveling abroad and had a public function to attend, he sometimes asked for a bed in a room close to where he was supposed to be speaking, so that he could rest briefly before he appeared.
As discussed by Reinhart and Rogoff ( 2009 ), excessive debt, public and private, internal and external, has repeatedly led to financial crises in almost all countries throughout the last two centuries.
London Transport was taken in to public ownership and became part of the British Transport Commission, which brought London Transport and British Railways under the same control for the first and last time.
Even though it has only come to the attention of the general public in the last few decades, lucid dreaming is not a modern discovery.
* In the United States, Memorial Day, a public holiday, is on May 30, but observed on the last Monday in May.

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These are placed at the entrance of houses ( for instance, hanging above the door ) to last until the following year's Palm Sunday.
San Marino carried out the last execution in its history in 1468 ( by hanging ).
** The last execution by hanging in Canada takes place.
* August 12, 1814 – In England, the last hanging under the Black Act is carried out, of William Potter for cutting down an orchard ( even the judge petitioned for reprieve ).
* August 12 – In England, the last hanging under the Black Act is carried out, of William Potter for cutting down an orchard ( although the judge petitioned for reprieve ).
* May 1 – The last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain is meted out to the Cato Street conspirators for treason ( only hanged and beheaded ).
Given this announcement the prisoner can deduce that the hanging will not occur on the last day of the week.
However, in order to reproduce the next stage of the argument, which eliminates the penultimate day of the week, the prisoner must argue that his ability to deduce, from statement ( A ), that the hanging will not occur on the last day, implies that a last-day hanging would not be surprising.
When the prisoner wakes up on any given day, on which the last possible hanging day is tomorrow, the prisoner will indeed not know for certain that he will survive to see tomorrow.
* October 3 – Death by hanging, drawing and quartering is first used as a form of capital punishment ( for the newly created crime of high treason ) by King Edward I of England in his execution of Dafydd ap Gruffydd, the last ruler of an independent Wales, at Shrewsbury.
When jumping down, they keep hanging on to a branch this way until the very last moment.
This last condition causes a rich vapor concentration in the ullage ( the unfilled volume ) of the gas can, and a discharge from the can to the grounded hanging hardware ( the nozzle, hose, swivels and break-a-ways ) can thus occur at a most inopportune point.
In this last mission, Cher Ami delivered the message despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood and with a leg hanging only by a tendon.
A dimly lit incandescent bulb with a pull-chain switch was shown hanging from a wire, and the voice of Ken Roberts would gravely state, " And now, the last word.
According to custom, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas ; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it is replaced the following Christmas Eve.
On August 14, 1936, downtown Owensboro was the site of the last public hanging in the United States.
Paris was the site of the last public hanging in Arkansas before the first electric chair in Little Rock.
* Logan County Museum is the restored jail and the site of the last state-sanctioned hanging in Arkansas ( in 1914 ).
Birger was hanged in Benton on April 19, 1928, at 9: 48 a. m., in the last public hanging in Illinois.
It is the birthplace of author Edwin Wiley Fuller, home of the International Whistlers Convention, and site of the last hanging in North Carolina, chronicled in the book The Day The Black Rain Fell, by William F. Shelton and James S. Warren.
Nine women were burned to death for witchcraft in the town in 1659, and two centuries later in 1868, Dumfries was the site of Scotland's last public hanging.
This was the last public hanging of Canada.
to which, Mr. Donne was not able to make a present answer: but, after a long and perplext pause, did at last say, I have seen a dreadful Vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms: this, I have seen since I saw you.

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