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Dorothea Widmer (1758 - 1781), was a Swiss woman who was abused by her husband until she killed him. Her crime attracted tremendous public attention in Switzerland.

Widmer's husband was an alcoholic who habitually abused her. With her accomplice Bartholome Gubler, Widmer murdered her husband with an ax.

Widmer and Gubler were both angry of murder and sentenced to death. After a postponement until her child was born, Widmer was executed on 29 August 1781 in Zürich. Her accomplice was executed 18 days earlier.

Widmer attracted great public sympathy because of her youth, beauty and her longstanding abuse. She was compared with Beatrice Cenci and became the subject of poems and inscriptions.

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Laura and L. D. Nelson were an African-American mother and son who were lynched on May 25, 1911, near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. They had been seized from their cells in the Okemah county jail the night before by a group of up to 40 white men, The Associated Press reported that Laura was raped. She and L. D. were then hanged from a bridge over the North Canadian River.

Laura and L. D. were in jail because L. D. had been accused of having shot and killed Deputy Sheriff George H. Loney of the Okfuskee County Sheriff's Office, during a search of the Nelsons' farm for a stolen cow. L. D. and Laura were both charged with murder; Laura was charged because she allegedly grabbed the gun first.

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WW1 anti-German posters

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Ernest Jean Delahaye
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