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  2. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.

  3. Aniconism in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Medieval Muslim artists found various ways to represent especially sensitive figures such as Muhammad. He is sometimes shown with a fiery halo hiding his face, head, or whole body, and from about 1500 is often shown with a veiled face. [38] Members of his immediate family and other prophets may be treated in the same way.

  4. File:Adult male diagram template (drawing).svg - Wikipedia

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    By this method, body diagrams can be derived by pasting organs into one of the "plain" body images shown below. This method requires a graphics editor that can handle transparent images, in order to avoid white squares around the organs when pasting onto the body image. Pictures of organs are found on the project's main page. These were ...

  5. Everybody Draw Mohammed Day - Wikipedia

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    An "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" Facebook page was created by Jon Wellington. By the morning of April 26, the page had almost 6,000 confirmed guests. By April 25, someone (whose identity is unknown) had started a "Ban Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" counter-protest page on Facebook, which had 800 confirmed guests. [18]

  6. Hang Tuah - Wikipedia

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    A bronze mural of Hang Tuah that exhibited at the National Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.. Hang Tuah (Jawi: هڠ تواه ‎, from /tuha/ or /toh/ (توه) [1]), according to the semi-historical Malay Annals (Sejarah Melayu), was a warrior and Laksamana (equivalent to modern-day Admiral) who lived in Malacca during the reign of Sultan Mansur Shah in the 15th century. [2]

  7. Box-drawing characters - Wikipedia

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    Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterized by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with adjacent characters, which requires proper alignment.

  8. Eunuchs in China - Wikipedia

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    The prostitute's body was kissed all over by Zhang Lande as he lifted her and "threw himself on her like a wolf". [178] It was also reported that the eunuch Xiao Dezhang (Hsiao Teh-chang) (Zhang Lande) was suggested by Cixi (Tsu-hsi) as a sexual partner for the Longyu empress (Lung-yu) since the Guangxi emperor (Kuang Hsu) was impotent. [ 179 ]

  9. Body art - Wikipedia

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    Body art is art in which the artist uses their human body as the primary medium. [1] Emerging from the context of Conceptual Art during the 1970s, [1] Body art may include performance art. Body art is likewise utilized for investigations of the body in an assortment of different media including painting, casting, photography, film and video. [2]