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  2. Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide - Wikipedia

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    Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide. / 33.393450; -84.520699. Over a two-day period between June 22 and June 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40-year-old Canadian professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), murdered his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself at their residence in ...

  3. Instrument of Jesus' crucifixion - Wikipedia

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    Other reference works contend the cross was "a post with a cross-beam" (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament), "the form usually seen in pictures, the crux immissa (Latin cross †), ... in which the upright beam projects above the shorter crosspiece" (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia); and "most likely the crux immissa (the traditional † depiction) or the crux commissa (a T ...

  4. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    Skull and crossbones (disambiguation) Solar symbol – Symbol representing the Sun. Symbol – Something that represents an idea, a process, or a physical entity. Theta nigrum – Symbol of death. Totenkopf – German symbol for skull and crossbones. † – Killed in Action – Military casualty classification used for deaths of personnel.

  5. Plague cross - Wikipedia

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    The term plague cross can refer to either a mark placed on a building occupied by victims of plague; or a permanent structure erected, to enable plague sufferers to trade while minimising the risk of contagion. A wide variety of plague cross existed in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, until the plague largely disappeared by the eighteenth ...

  6. Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross - Wikipedia

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    Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross, whether by Christians or non-Christians, present the instrument ordinarily used in putting people to death by crucifixion as composed of two wooden pieces. Whether the two pieces of timber of the normal execution cross were permanently conjoined or were merely put together for the purpose of the ...

  7. Crucifixion in the arts - Wikipedia

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    The crucifixion of Jesus has been depicted in a wide range of religious art since the 4th century CE, frequently including the appearance of mournful onlookers such as the Virgin Mary, Pontius Pilate, and angels, as well as antisemitic depictions portraying Jews as responsible for Christ's death. In more modern times, crucifixion has appeared ...

  8. Piss Christ - Wikipedia

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    Piss Christ. Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art 's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, [1] which was sponsored in ...

  9. Crucifixion of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The crucifixion of Jesus was the execution by crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33. It is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, attested to by other ancient sources, and is broadly accepted as one of the events most likely to have occurred during his ...