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    The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one or both ends. The...
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  • their mentor, his court historian Callisthenes, tortured on the rack in 328 BC. The rack is a torture device that consists of an oblong, rectangular,...
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  • Look up rack or racks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rack or racks may refer to: Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which...
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  • Rat torture is the use of rats to torture a victim by encouraging them to attack and eat the victim alive. The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats"...
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    common methods in Europe included the rack and strappado. In most societies, citizens could be judicially tortured only under exceptional circumstances...
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  • Abacination (category Physical torture techniques)
    the free dictionary. Abacination is a form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction of intentional damage to...
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  • excessive rent (the word "rack" evoking the medieval torture device), usually one paid by a tenant farmer. The two conceptions of rack-rent both apply when...
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    Generalized Procrustes analysis One size fits all Procrustes analysis Rack (torture) Xenia (Greek)—the Greek concept of hospitality that Procrustes was...
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    Duke of Exeter's daughter (category European instruments of torture)
    The Duke of Exeter's daughter was a torture rack in the Tower of London. Its presence is said to have been due to Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, constable...
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    Jiagun (category Instruments of torture)
    evidence" (Mathews 1931, 82) "formerly, an instrument of torture, a rack" (Lin 1972) "leg-rack applied to criminals" (DeFrancis 1996) "leg squeezer" (Theobold...
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