By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025
Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution
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When England Made Assassination Central to Foreign Policy
Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
The Trial of an English King
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2022
“Judgement of Charles I,” by Ladislaus Bakalowicz, 1650
America, Puritanism, and Hysteria
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 July 2020
The Witch (2016) is set in the Plymouth Colony, what is now the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in the 1630s. The focus is on Puritanism and the witch craze, subjects that are not entirely irrelevant at the present time. Continue reading
Islamic State Bids Farewell to the Caliph
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 November 2019
The 207th edition of Al-Naba, the weekly newsletter of the Islamic State (IS), published on 7 November 2019, devotes its main editorial to Ibrahim al-Badri (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), the first “Caliph” when the “Caliphate” was declared in June 2014, who was killed on 27 October 2019.
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