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The film shows young Armenian girls being "crucified" by being nailed to crosses. However, almost 70 years later, Mardiganian revealed to film historian Anthony Slide that the scene was inaccurate: The Turks didn't make their crosses like that. The Turks made little pointed crosses. They took the clothes off the girls.
The Big Bust Out is the US title of an Italian women in prison film, The Crucified Girls of San Ramon (Io Monaca... per tre Carogne e Sette Peccatrici). The US rights were bought by Roger Corman for New World Pictures, who cut out 20 minutes for the US release. [1] Roger Corman later said the film was not very good, but he managed to make money ...
Aurora Mardiganian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915–1923, recalled sixteen young Armenian girls being "crucified" by their Ottoman tormentors. The film Auction of Souls (1919), which was based on her book Ravished Armenia , showed the victims nailed to crosses.
Boiling to death was employed again in 1542 for a woman who also used poison. [6] [7] It was also used for counterfeiters, swindlers and coin forgers during the Middle Ages. [8] A large cauldron was filled with water, oil, tar, tallow or molten lead. The liquid was then boiled. Sometimes the victim would be placed in the cauldron before it was ...
[a] Women and young girls were not only subjected to rape, but also forced marriage, torture, forced prostitution, slavery and sexual mutilation. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Heinrich Bergfeld, the German consul to Trabzon , reported "the numerous rapes of women and girls," a crime he regarded as being part of a plan for "the virtually complete extermination of ...
According to Plutarch, women would put themselves in their way to receive blows on the hands, believing that this would help them to conceive or grant them an easy delivery. [50] The eunuch priests of the goddess Cybele , the galli , flogged themselves until they bled during the annual festival called Dies Sanguinis . [ 51 ]
Thayil said that the video was one of the few Soundgarden videos the band was satisfied with. [15] He stated that "on the "Jesus Christ Pose" video we did a lot of experimenting at different kinda fun, cool things. I guess it seems fun to me because I didn't end up getting disappointed by it." [16] The video was released in October 1991. [17]
Aurora Mardiganian was the daughter of a prosperous Armenian family living in Chmshgatsak (Çemişgezek), in the Ottoman Empire's province of Mamuret-ül Aziz.She witnessed the deaths of her family members and was forced to march over 1,400 mi (2,300 km), during which she was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Anatolia.