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2. Gibbeting - Wikipedia

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   Similarly, following his execution by hanging in 1738, the corpse of Jewish financier Joseph Süß Oppenheimer was gibbeted in a human-sized bird cage that hung outside of Stuttgart on the so-called Pragsattel (the public execution place at the time) for six years, until the inauguration of Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, who permitted the ...

3. Bhutesvara Yakshis - Wikipedia

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   One of them is seen holding a bird cage. Another one looks at herself in a mirror while adjusting a piece of earring. Yet another serves wine to the couple above and holds a grape. The yakshi in the half-pillar in Mathura holds a huge sword; possibly this relates to the various literary references to female royal bodyguards or harem guards. [12]

4. Birdcage - Wikipedia

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   A birdcage (or bird cage) is a cage designed to house birds as pets. Antique (or antique-style) birdcages are often popular as collectors' items or as household decor but most are not suitable for housing live birds, being too small, improper shape, using unsafe materials or construction. [ 1 ]

5. Cage - Wikipedia

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   For example, cage dancing "refers to a scantily-clad feminine dancer, perhaps wearing a mini-skirt or hot- pants, and (supposedly) trapped inside of a hanging bird cage". [9] Cage fighting involves two combatants, usually engaging in mixed martial arts , inside a cage-like structure, and "conjures up the image of two combatants trapped in a ...

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7. Crow's nest - Wikipedia

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   However, other naval scholars have found no evidence of the masthead crow cage and suggest the name was coined because Scoresby's lookout platform resembled a crow's nest in a tree. [ 5 ] Since the crow's nest is a point far away from the ship's center of mass , rotational movement of the ship is amplified and could lead to severe seasickness ...