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unusual facts about innocence



A Shabby Genteel Story

Self-delusion and snobbery are the major themes, along with society's underlying obsession with money: the threat to female innocence posed by unprincipled young men is also present.

Balderton

The name Balderton has obscure roots but may have been derived from Balder or Baldur – the Norse god of innocence, beauty, joy, purity, and peace and Odin's second son eventually killed by his blind brother in an accident involving Loki the god of mischief and fire.

Ballads of a Hangman

The semi-ballad "Lonely The Innocence Dies" featuring Veronica Freeman of Benedictum was noted for being close to a harder version of "Where The Wild Roses Grow" by Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave.

Charles Ingram

An essay written by James Plaskett in favour of the innocence of Ingram, his wife and Whittock led to the journalist Bob Woffinden, who had a longtime interest in miscarriages of justice, publishing a two-page article in the 9 October 2004 edition of the Daily Mail, entitled "Is The Coughing Major Innocent?"

Chiba Takusaburō

Takusaburō's constitution also clearly stated that any convicted person will not be subject to capital punishment, and that the terms 'guilty' or 'innocence' must be determined through a trial by jury.

Claddagh ring

Claddagh rings have been used often as plot devices in films and television, such as in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes "Surprise", "Innocence", "Becoming, Part One", "Leap Year" and "Faith, Hope & Trick".

Claremont serial murders

In a memoir titled The End of Innocence, published in 2007, Estelle Blackburn, a Western Australian journalist and author, speculated that her former partner, who had assaulted and threatened many times to kill her, may be the killer; claiming that he had performed maintenance on taxi vehicles and often had overnight access to them.

Close to Shore

Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence is a non-fiction book by journalist Michael Capuzzo about the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.

Constantia Jones

Historian Peter Linebaugh asserts that regardless of her guilt or innocence, her conviction on such flimsy evidence indicates the bias of 18th-century English courts against the trade of prostitution and those who worked in the industry.

Cybele

Roman legend connects this voyage, or its end, to the matron Claudia Quinta, who was accused of inchastity but proved her innocence with a miraculous feat on behalf of the goddess.

Daimonic

Typically, the daimonic tale centers around the Solitary, the central character of the story, who usually is introduced in innocence, wealth, and often arrogance.

Das Käthchen von Heilbronn

The trial by fire is originally a medieval ordeal meant to test the innocence of a defendant in undecided court cases.

Die Forelle

According to the American historian Mark Ringer, Schubert used a "musical structure that reflects both the life cycle of the earth and the progress from innocence to experience".

Duane Simolke

Duane Simolke (born 1965) is an American writer based in Lubbock, Texas, who has authored The Acorn Stories, Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure, Holding Me Together, The Return of Innocence (with Toni Davis), and New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio, based on the original Sherwood Anderson classic.

Eskinder Nega

On 4 May, Temesgen Desalegn, editor of the Ethiopian newspaper Feteh, was fined by the court for publishing a statement from Eskinder's trial in which he stated his innocence and criticized the proceedings.

Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall

He claimed to have shown by original research the worthlessness of the evidence on which the queen was divorced after the Struensee affair, and published for the first time (iii. 252–3) the letter protesting her innocence, which the queen wrote just before her death to her brother George III of the United Kingdom.

Halloween Night

After 10 years of life in the asylum, in which he has been bullied by inmates and staff alike for the incident, Chris has now quite literally turned insane and, to prove his innocence, he escapes from the asylum on October 31 to his home, which is now occupied by a new family who are holding a Halloween party.

Henri Desgrange

France at the end of the 19th century was split over the guilt or innocence of a soldier, Alfred Dreyfus, who had been convicted of selling secrets to the Germans.

Innocence Is No Excuse

Innocence Is No Excuse is the seventh studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Innocence Surround

Innocence Surround is the debut release by American metalcore band Confide, released in June 2005.

Jeffrey Mark Deskovic

Deskovic proclaimed his innocence on several occasions, but was denied a reopening of the case by the then district attorney Jeanine Pirro.

John Rety

Initially convinced of the innocence of Stuart Christie, accused of carrying explosives to assassinate General Franco, Rety helped coordinate an international solidarity campaign, despite a personal feeling of betrayal on learning the truth.

Kenichi Ara

Ikuhiko Hata stated that "It’s plain to see that his strategy is to avoid the people who will give evidence of atrocities and seek out only those who assert their innocence and thus conclude that nothing improper happened".

Little Albert experiment

In Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the Infant Tyrone's penile erections are conditioned in a manner modeled on Watson and Rayner's conditioning of Little Albert, to both satirize behaviorism and wind the book's plot around Pynchon's themes of control and the institutional corruption of innocence.

Live Innocence!

The tape contains footage of a concert held in Madrid, Spain in June 1985 during the Live Innocence Tour and two video clips used for the promotion of the studio album Innocence Is No Excuse.

Loss of innocence

The Loss of Innocence, American title of The Greengage Summer, a 1965 British drama film Kenneth More and Susannah York

Man on a Ledge

Unknown to the police, Nick is merely distracting them while his brother, Joey (Jamie Bell), and Joey's girlfriend, Angie (Génesis Rodríguez), break into Englander's vault across the street, to steal the diamond and prove Nick's innocence.

Marguerite J. Gascoigne

Her novel The Look of Innocence won in 1976 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Melinda's World

And she receives her first explorative attention from a teasing boy named Stuart Wasser (Zac Efron) Escalating tragedy, the death of her beloved Aunt Calla (Mary McKowen), is climaxed by her father's eruption into angry drunkenness, shattering Melinda's innocence forever and sending her fleeing into the night.

Mohamed Yousry

The American Translators Association and the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators(NAJIT) issued a joint statement about this case, which took a neutral stand about Yousry's guilt or innocence.

Nathan Schiff

Critic Ray Young reviewed, "Unique and personal, it grieves over the loss of innocence, as if tapped directly from the id. Vermilion Eyes makes no concessions to anyone or any genre and works out of bruised, frazzled emotion. The poetic, whirling, free style of its imagery is remarkably close in spirit to James Joyce."

Nora Samosir

In considering her role in Doubt (2006), Richard Lord of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore wrote that her portrayal of Sister Aloysius was unsympathetic and led to the audience believing in the innocence of Father Brendan as played by Lim Yu Beng.

Pat the Cope Gallagher

Gillespie maintains her innocence, saying police used evidence from discredited scientist Frank Skuse, but does not wish to reopen the case.

Peter Manuel

Although the judge, Lord Cameron, admitted that Manuel conducted his defence “with a skill that is quite remarkable”, the killer was unable to convince the jury of his innocence, and he was found guilty of all charges against him, except for that of Anne Kneilands, which had been dropped due to a lack of evidence.

Peter Neufeld

With Scheck and Jim Dwyer he co-authored Actual Innocence; with Scheck and Taryn Simon he co-authored The Innocents.

Ranavalona I

A poison was extracted from the nut of the native tangena (Tanghinia venenifera) shrub and ingested, with the outcome determining innocence or guilt.

Sinful Innocence

Sinful Innocence is the second studio album from Canadian R&B singer Cory Lee.

Sorority Boys

Sorority Boys is a 2002 American comedy film directed by Wallace Wolodarsky, about a group of college guys who dress up as women to prove their innocence for a crime they did not commit.

Tamburlaine Must Die

Marlowe is called before the Privy Council which accuses him of writing the pamphlet; however, he protests his innocence.

The Fall-Out

The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost His Innocence is a book by Andrew Anthony.

The Innocence Project

The first and best-known Innocence organization is based at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University.

The Legend of Zhen Huan

At the age of 17, Zhen Huan (Sun Li), in her full bloom and youthful innocence, gets selected to join the palace harem as Emperor Yongzheng's (Chen Jianbin) concubine.

The Virgin Spring

The Virgin Spring contains a variety of themes (many of them focusing on the religious aspects of the film), including Christianity, Paganism, Norse mythology, vengeance, the occult, questioning of religious faith, sexual innocence, justice, and the nature of evil.

The Voice of the Ancient Bard

However, there is another opinion introduced by E. D. Hirsch, Jr, that the poem “belongs neither to Innocence nor Experience”.

Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa

"Never trust the Obvious" receives two remixes: "The Innocence of Devils: Alone", which contains a recitation of author Edgar Allan Poe's Alone; and "Alone II", an extended version.

West of Memphis

Since the 1996 release of the HBO Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky documentary, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, supporters protested the innocence of the West Memphis Three.

Will Aronson

With William Finn as lyricist, Aronson has composed songs for Sybille Pearson’s play Next, Mary Testa’s Sleepless Variations, and Finn’s own Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Zhu Jingze

Wei's subordinate Zhang Yue, after initially agreeing to perjure himself by testifying against Wei, in the end corroborated Wei's protestation of innocence.


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