In postal history, a gallows letter was a letter with a "gallows" mark meaning "very quickly". Gallows letters were official letters or dispatches used...

comedy, also known as black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, dark humor, gallows humor or morbid humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject...

couriers on the date of delivery only. Express mail in the United States Gallows letter Mail Pony Express Postal administration S10 (UPU standard) Surface Air...

paternity. Her sentence requires her to stand on the scaffold of a former gallows for three hours, exposed to public humiliation, and to wear a scarlet "A"...

Beneath the Gallows were written in a patriotic tone, calling on Belarusians to resist the Russian Empire by any means. In the first letter, Kalinowski...

released an official video of his execution, showing him being led to the gallows, and ending after the hangman's noose was placed over his head. International...

lethal and temporary punishment, ranging from a forked cross to a gibbet or gallows. The field of etymology is of no help in any effort to trace a supposed...

express an extreme degree of urgency of delivery, gallows were drawn on the letter, known as Gallows letters and may additionally have a version of "haste...

confessing that he is the father of her child. As he takes her place on the gallows, the Algonquian attack Massachusetts Bay; both sides sustain heavy casualties...

the gallows did not create a good first impression for visitors to the city. The last hanging at Knavesmire was in 1801, after which the gallows were...