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This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663. Thirteen women and two men were executed. [ 4 ] The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93, culminating in the executions of 20 people.
During the 17th through 19th centuries, there are at least thirty documented New York Witch Trials, hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in the Province of New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Several of the witchcraft cases in New York pre-dated the Salem witch trials .
The June 19, 2010 issue of The Economist magazine used a photograph of Barack Obama turned away from the camera with an oil rig in the background. The cover story, headlined "Obama v. BP", concerned the BP oil spill. The New York Times reported that the photograph had been manipulated.
Brennan's association with the CIA's interrogation program was controversial and forced him to withdraw his candidacy for directorship of the CIA or National Intelligence in 2008. [4] According to The New York Times, Brennan was the "principal coordinator" of U.S. kill lists. Former Obama administration counter-terrorism official Daniel ...
Cartoonist Barry Blitt has faced controversy in the past, most notably for his cover for The New Yorker in 2008, which depicted Michelle and Barack Obama standing in the Oval Office with ...
Obama recalled the savagery carried out nearly 1,000 years ago in the name of Christ while speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., but his equivocation fell on outraged ears.
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and some big names from the entertainment world teamed up Thursday night to deliver a rousing New York embrace of President Joe Biden that hauled in a record-setting $25 ...