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unusual facts about The stake



George Mpanga

Mpanga is a winner of The Stake competition, which asks entrants to say how they would spend £100,000.


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1324 in Ireland

3 November - Petronilla de Meath, first case in Ireland's history of burning at the stake for the crime of heresy.

1401

March 2William Sawtrey, a Lollard, is the first person to be burned at the stake at Smithfield.

Aleinu

In Blois, France, in 1171, many Jews—reportedly 34 men and 17 women—were burned at the stake for refusing to renounce their faith.

Appleby Magna

Another famous resident of the Moat House was Joyce de Appleby, who became a Protestant martyr after she was burnt at the stake by Bloody Mary (Queen Mary I of England) in Lichfield Market Place, for not converting to Catholicism.

Bocher

Joan Bocher (died 1550), English Anabaptist burned at the stake for heresy

Botulf Botulfsson

Botulf Botulfsson (died April 1311), from Gottröra, Uppland, was a Swedish man burned at the stake for heresy.

Bow Church

In 1556 at Bow, during the reign of Mary I of England, and under the authority of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, many people were brought by cart from Newgate and burned at the stake in front of Bow Church in one of the many swings of the English Reformation.

Bulmer family

Both Bulmer and Lady Bulmer were convicted of High Treason and were executed on 25 May 1537, he by hanging at Tyburn and she by burning at the stake at Smithfield, London.

Burned at the Stake

Burned at the Stake is a 1981 film directed by Bert I. Gordon.

Carillo

Maria Barbara Carillo (1625–1721), a woman burned at the stake during the Spanish Inquisition

Fuji Heavy Industries

From 1968 until 1999, FHI was 20% owned by Nissan, which acquired the stake in 1968 during a period of government-ordered merging of Japanese auto industry firms in order to improve competitiveness against foreign companies under the administration of Prime Minister Eisaku Satō.

Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn

Beginning with Guinevere reflecting while imprisoned before being burnt at the stake for her affair with Lancelot, Guinevere retells the quest of the Holy Grail, the coming of Perceval and Gareth to the court and Mordred's rebellion with his brothers Agravain and Gaheris.

Hope Township, New Jersey

They were followers of Jan Hus, the reformer from Prague who protested against the Roman Catholic Church in 1415 and was finally burned at the stake for his rebellion.

Irschenberg

The name was formerly rendered as "Irish mountain", referring to the monk Marinus, who settled in the area in the course of the Hiberno-Scottish mission under Pope Eugene I and, according to legend, about 697 was martyred by burning at the stake (see the coat of arms).

Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland

The forthright Protestant was burnt at the stake as a heretic in July 1546 on the contrivance of the religiously conservative court party around Bishop Stephen Gardiner.

John K. Edmunds

For about 16 of these years, one of his counselors in the stake presidency was David M. Kennedy.

Kells Priory

Alice Kyteler fled to England and remained there, Alice Smith also fled, but her mother Petronilla de Meath became Ireland's first heretic to be burned at the stake.

La fiamma

The plot is loosely based on the story of Anne Pedersdotter, a Norwegian woman who was accused of witchcraft and burnt at the stake in 1590.

Lazarus Laughed

Consequently, members of his family are taken from him, but Lazarus continues always to laugh, even as Miriam is poisoned by the Roman Emperor Tiberius and continuing on to the very end, when Tiberius burns him at the stake.

Livery Dole

It also commemorates the martyrdom of Agnes Prest who in 1557 was burnt for heresy at the stake in Southernhay.

Loudun possessions

The 1952 book titled The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley tells the story of the trial of Urbain Grandier, priest of the town who was tortured and burned at the stake in 1634.

Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

The course was 3 miles long: beginning near Turtle Rock (Turtle Rock Light is the lighthouse at the northwest end of Boathouse Row), proceeding upriver under the Girard Avenue and Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Bridges to a stake near the Columbia Railroad Bridge, making a 180-degree turn around the stake, and then heading downriver back to the starting line.

Midnight Mutants

On Halloween night in 1992 young Jimmy Harkman's grandfather (known as "Grampa") has been imprisoned inside of a pumpkin by a resurrected villain named Dr. Evil, who is taking revenge for being burned at the stake as a witch by their ancestor Johnathon Harkman on Halloween night in 1747.

Péronne

Peronne Goguillon (?-1679), one of the last women to have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in France

Robert D. Young

In 1921 the stake was divided into three, and Young continued as president of the Sevier Stake which was reduced to having only Richfield and such neighboring towns as Glenwood and Venice.

Sarah Basset

When the remains of the stake was cleared, legend say that a purple flower (the "Bermudiana", a New World iris of the genus Sisyrinchium) was found in her ashes; before her death Sarah had declared that there would be a sign that she was guiltless and today the flower blooms about Bermuda.

Solomon Molcho

At the stake, it is claimed the emperor offered to pardon him on condition that he return to the Catholic Church, but Molcho refused, asking for a martyr's death (5th of Tevet 5293 in the Hebrew calendar).

Sorginak

Durango was the center of a medieval Beguine heresy that ended with 13 people burnt at the stake.

St Michael at the North Gate

The Oxford Martyrs were imprisoned in the Bocardo Prison by the church before they were burnt at the stake in what is now Broad Street nearby, then immediately outside the city walls, in 1555 and 1556.

William Pikes

William Pikes (d. Brentford, July 14, 1556) (also William Pickesse, Wyl Pyckes) was a tanner in Ipswich, Suffolk who was arrested in Islington during the Marian persecutions as a member of a group studying the Bible in English, and was burnt at the stake in Brentford.