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Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators and the psychological torture of the victims, captives were bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship.
Howard Pyle's illustration of pirate walking the plank, a form of murder or torture that was practiced by pirates and other rogue seafarers.It involved the victim being forced to walk off the end of a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship, thereby falling into the water to drown, sometimes with bound hands or weighed down, often into the vicinity of sharks (which would often ...
From the lede: "Although forcing captives to walk the plank is a motif of pirates in popular culture in the 19th through 21st centuries, few instances are documented, except in the early days of the U.S. Navy where walking the plank was used to execute sailors convicted of serious crimes like mutiny or murder so the frequency of the practice is ...
Doing the plank is simple—you don't need any equipment, and once you're in position, you won't move—but you won't get the most out of the exercise unless you're a stickler for proper ...
Walk the Plank may refer to: Walking the plank, a method of execution practiced by rogue seafarers; Walk the Plank, a South African television game show; Walk the Plank (theatre company), an English pyrotechnics and theatre company; Walk the Plank, a card game by Green Ronin Publishing
This 31-day plank challenge for beginners to advanced fitness levels is a full-body workout to boost metabolism, build core strength, tone abs and. ... >>Download a printable calendar.
If walking for 30 or 45 minutes is too much physically, or your schedule doesn't allow for it, you can break it up throughout the day. Three, ten- or 15-minute bursts is equally as effective as ...
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