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  • 71Gibbet — See also Halifax gibbet, a kind of guillotine. The reconstructed gallows style gibbet at Caxton Gibbet, in Cambridgeshire, England. A gibbet (pronounced /ˈdʒɪbɪt/) is a gallows type structure from which the dead bodies of exec …

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  • 72Tom Horn — (November 21, 1860 ndash; November 20, 1903) was an American Old West lawman, scout, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw and assassin during his lifetime. On the day before his 43rd birthday, he was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming for a murder… …

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  • 73Gorakhpur — This article is about the municipality in Uttar Pradesh, India. For its namesake district, see Gorakhpur district. ‹ The template below (Cleanup spam) is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus.›… …

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  • 74Claude Frollo — The Hunchback of Notre Dame character Claude Frollo, holding a baby Quasimodo. Art by Luc Olivier Merson …

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  • 75ballad — balladic /beuh lad ik/, adj. balladlike, adj. /bal euhd/, n. 1. any light, simple song, esp. one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. 2. a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in… …

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  • 76gibbet — [jib′it] n. [ME gibet, gallows, forked stick < OFr, dim. < Frank * gibb, forked stick] 1. a gallows 2. a structure like a gallows, from which bodies of criminals already executed were hung and exposed to public scorn vt. 1. to execute by… …

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  • 77Envoi — In poetry, an envoi is a short stanza at the end of a poem used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.FormThe envoi is relatively fluid in form, depending on the overall form of the poem… …

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  • 78Kevin Barry — Kevin Gerard Barry ( ga. Caoimhín de Barra; 20 January 1902 1 November 1920) was the first Republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. cite book | title = Irish Political Prisoners, 1848 – 1922: Theatres of… …

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  • 79The Tale of the Shifty Lad, the Widow's Son — Infobox Folk tale Folk Tale Name = The Tale of the Shifty Lad, the Widow s Son Image Caption = AKA = The Shifty Lad Aarne Thompson Grouping = Mythology = Country = Scotland Region = Origin Date = Published In = Popular Tales of the West Highlands …

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  • 80A Ballade of Suicide — is a ballade by G. K. Chesterton.The textThe gallows in my garden, people say,Is new and neat and adequately tall;I tie the noose on in a knowing wayAs one that knots his necktie for a ball;But just as all the neighbours on the wall Are drawing a …

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