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Decapitation
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Decapitation
See also Headlessness.
Antoinette, Marie
(1755–1793) queen of France beheaded by revolutionists. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1697]
Argos
lulled to sleep and beheaded by Hermes. [Gk. Myth.: Metamorphoses, I]
Boleyn, Anne
(1507–1536) beheaded by husband, Henry VIII, for adultery and incest. [Br. Hist.: NCE, 325]
Gawain, Sir
challenged by the Green Knight, Gawain cuts off his head. [Br. Lit.: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Benét, 934]
Grey, Lady Jane
(1537–1554) English queen beheaded at 17. [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1146]
Guillotin, Joseph
(1738–1814) physician; advocated humane method of capital punishment. [Fr. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 164]
Holofernes
Assyrian commander-in-chief beheaded by Judith. [Apocrypha: Judith 13:4–10]
Hydra
nine-headed serpent beheaded by Heracles. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 489]
John the Baptist
head presented as gift to Salome. [N.T.: Mark 6:25–28]
Medusa
beheaded by Perseus. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 206; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]
More, Sir Thomas
(1478–1535) English statesman beheaded by King Henry VIII. [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1830]
Queen of Hearts
constantly orders beheadings. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland]
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During the hearing, legislators were shown video clips of some violent games such as Grand Theft Auto, Duke Nukem and Postal 2, in which the player shoots down random people on the street or in a church, sets them on fire and decapitates them.
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In fact, the problem of multivalent meanings becomes the focus of the chapter on the Judith and her contradictory nature as heroine of liberty and threatening woman who decapitates her male victim.
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The creature stalking the basements and tunnels beneath Chicago's Museum of Natural History in ``The Relic'' decapitates its prey and then eats choice parts of their brains.
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