1701 Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate, has his giblets gibbeted.
When the courts wished to make a particular example of a criminal, e.g. a highwayman, mail robber or murderer, they could order the additional punishment of gibbeting (also known as hanging in chains). After the hanging, the prisoner would be stripped and their body dipped into molten pitch or tar and then, when it had cooled, be re-dressed and placed into an iron cage that surrounded the head, torso and upper legs. The cage was riveted together and then suspended from either the original gallows or a purpose built gibbet. The body was left as a grim reminder to local people and could stay on the gibbet for a year or more until it rotted away or was eaten by birds, etc.
1934 With all due respect to Chubby Checker, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, US outlaws, invent the twist.
1986 Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue and Gray, Dr. Strangelove), doesn’t make this a long goodbye
Dear Crash - In the pictures of Douglas Fairbanks, that is indeed Mr. Fairbanks, Sr. on the left. The picture on the right, however, is of a different silent era actor, George O'Brien. Also, regarding the dance craze and song The Twist, Chubby Checker didn't invent it, he merely had the hit record. It was written and recorded a year earlier by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. Hope all is well in Crashland. Bestest.
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Dear Crash - In the pictures of Douglas Fairbanks, that is indeed Mr. Fairbanks, Sr. on the left. The picture on the right, however, is of a different silent era actor, George O'Brien. Also, regarding the dance craze and song The Twist, Chubby Checker didn't invent it, he merely had the hit record. It was written and recorded a year earlier by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. Hope all is well in Crashland. Bestest.
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