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  2. Jan Luyken - Wikipedia

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    Jan Luiken made the engravings for the popular "sailor's bible" called "Lusthof des Gemoeds", by Jan Philipsz Schabaalje, 1714 Jan Luyken's print of the peat boat used as a ruse by the Dutch to gain possession of Breda from the Spanish in 1590. He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken. [1]

  3. Martyrs Mirror - Wikipedia

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    The 1685 edition of the book is illustrated with 104 copper etchings by Jan Luyken. Thirty-one of these plates survive and are part of the Mirror of the Martyrs exhibit at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas. [3] Two of the copper plates are located at the Muddy Creek Farm Library [4] established by Amos B. Hoover in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. [5]

  4. Anna Utenhoven - Wikipedia

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    She is the subject of the 1598 poem De uytspraecke van Anna vyt den Hove by the Dutch poet Jacobus Viverius, which served as a rallying cry to the Dutch against the Spanish control of the Southern Netherlands.Viverius used Utenhoven's death to argue that the Spanish could not be negotiated with to prevent the Dutch Republic's Estates General ...

  5. File:Anneken van den Hove te Brussel levend begraven (Jan ...

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    Etsprent van Jan Luyken (Noordelijke Nederlanden, ca. 1683 - 1685) Uit: Theatre des martyrs, depuis la mort de J. Christ jusqu'à present (Leiden, ca. 1715) Hove zu Brussel levendich in die erde vergraben, Ao. 1597

  6. Forced confession - Wikipedia

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    The teacher Ursula painfully tortured, whipped, beaten, and finally burned in Maastricht, AD 1570 engraved by Jan Luyken for the Martyrs Mirror, 1685. A forced confession is a confession obtained from a suspect or a prisoner by means of torture (including enhanced interrogation techniques) or other forms of duress. Depending on the level of ...

  7. Two federal death row inmates refuse Biden's commutation in ...

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    Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency.. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who ...

  8. Anabaptism - Wikipedia

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    Felix Manz was executed by drowning within two years of his rebaptism Birching of Anabaptist martyr Ursula, Maastricht, 1570; engraving by Jan Luyken from Martyrs Mirror [56] Roman Catholics and Protestants alike persecuted the Anabaptists, resorting to torture and execution in attempts to curb the growth of the movement. The Protestants under ...

  9. Jan Woutersz van Cuyck - Wikipedia

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    Engraving by Jan Luyken from the 1685 Martyrs Mirror. Jan Woutersz van Cuyck (or Kuik) (ca. 1540–1572) was a Dutch Renaissance painter from Dordrecht. He became famous as a Mennonite martyr of the Protestant Reformation who was executed in 1572. His heart-rending letters from prison were published in the Martyrs Mirror.