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Once discovered the priest would be forcibly taken from the house ('thrown down the stairs') and treated badly. [3] Amateur historian Chris Roberts suggests further that the rhyme is linked to the propaganda campaign against the Catholic Church during the reign of Henry VIII.
Includes: Hit by object falling in railway train; injured by door or window on railway train; non-motor road vehicle or pedestrian hit by object set in motion by railway train; or railway train hit by falling object (earth, rock tree etc.) Excludes: Railway accident due to cataclysm (E908-E909) E807 Railway accident of unspecified nature
Door breaching is a process used by military, police, or emergency services to force open closed or locked doors. A wide range of methods are available depending on the door's opening direction (inward or outward), construction materials, etc., and one or more of these methods may be used in any given situation.
Painting a fence post purple sends a clear message to keep out of a property without relying on the actual words. Unlike a sign that can become stolen or unreadable over time, the purple paint ...
A California fertility doctor who prosecutors said strangled his wife and then tried to make it appear a s id she’d died from accidentally falling down stairs was found guilty of murder Tuesday ...
The answer may not be what you’re expecting. This year has already seen a host of named storms.In July, Hurricane Beryl became the earliest category-5 Atlantic storm on record.
In the United Kingdom many stiles were built under legal compulsion (see Rights of way in the United Kingdom).Recent changes in UK government policy towards farming have encouraged upland landowners to make access more available to the public, and this has seen an increase in the number of stiles and an improvement in their overall condition.
Garden path refers to the saying "to be led down [or up] the garden path", meaning to be deceived, tricked, or seduced. In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), Fowler describes such sentences as unwittingly laying a "false scent". [1] Such a sentence leads the reader toward a seemingly familiar meaning that is actually not the one intended.