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Forest of Pendle
Malkin Tower is the site of perhaps the best-known alleged witches' coven in English legal history. It was the home of Elizabeth Southerns and her granddaughter Alizon Device, two of the chief protagonists in the Lancashire witch trials of 1612. A pedlar collapsed soon after refusing to sell Alizon some pins. She and her grandmother were summoned to the home of local magistrate Roger Nowell on suspicion of causing harm by witchcraft, and were thereafter detained in the gaol at Lancaster Castle. Friends met at Malkin Tower on 6 April 1612 (Good Friday), allegedly to plot their escape by blowing up the castle. Nowell learned of the meeting and concluded that it had been the scene of a witches' coven. Eight of those attending were subsequently arrested and tried for causing harm by witchcraft, seven of whom were found guilty and executed; the house may have been demolished shortly after the trials. The only firm evidence for its location comes from the official account by the clerk to the court, who places it somewhere in the Forest of Pendle (pictured). Archaeological excavations in the area have failed to discover any confirmed remains of the building. (Full article...)
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Wukang Mansion
... that the Wukang Mansion (pictured) is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of the many people who committed suicide there, such as movie star Shangguan Yunzhu?
... that the Halloween-themed Millennium episode "The Curse of Frank Black" was inspired by the Japanese horror film Kwaidan?
... that Rani Sati, a legendary figure from Rajasthan, is worshiped for committing sati on her husband's death?
... that Danny Trejo stars in the Syfy original film Ghostquake as a "kick-butt" janitor?
... that Howard University librarian Joseph Henry Reason was the first African-American to be nominated for president of the American Library Association?
... that Hayao Miyazaki has compared Kiki's plight of becoming a full-fledged witch to the challenges of an aspiring cartoonist moving to Tokyo?
... that Hsien of the Dead (2012) is "Singapore's first zombie movie"?
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Marmaray tunnel
The Marmaray rail tunnel (pictured) under the Bosphorus opens, connecting the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
Giorgi Margvelashvili is elected President of Georgia.
In Formula One, Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the fourth consecutive year.
Astronomers confirm that z8_GND_5296, the most distant galaxy ever found, is 30 billion light-years from Earth.
Record levels of smog lead to the closure of schools, highways and the airport in Harbin, China.
Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia are elected to the United Nations Security Council, but Saudi Arabia declines its seat.
Recent deaths: Tadeusz Mazowiecki – Lou Reed – Marcia Wallace
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October 31: Halloween; Samhain begins (Northern Hemisphere); Beltane begins (Southern Hemisphere); Reformation Day (Protestantism)

Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico
475 – Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last ruling emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide (pictured) of the First Mexican Empire dissolved the Mexican Congress and replaced it with a military junta answerable only to him.
1913 – Public transportation workers in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, went on strike, shutting down mass transit in the city and sparking riots when strikebreakers attempted to restart services.
1973 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after a hijacked helicopter landed in the prison's exercise yard.
2011 – The United Nations declared that the world's population had exceeded seven billion.
More anniversaries: October 30 – October 31 – November 1
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The Mummy (1932 film)
The Mummy is a 1932 horror film directed by Karl Freund for Universal Studios. The film, starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest who seeks the soul of his long-dead lover, was inspired by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the rumored curse of the pharaohs. It has been remade several times.
Poster: Karoly Grosz
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Forest of Pendle
Malkin Tower is the site of perhaps the best-known alleged witches' coven in English legal history. It was the home of Elizabeth Southerns and her granddaughter Alizon Device, two of the chief protagonists in the Lancashire witch trials of 1612. A pedlar collapsed soon after refusing to sell Alizon some pins. She and her grandmother were summoned to the home of local magistrate Roger Nowell on suspicion of causing harm by witchcraft, and were thereafter detained in the gaol at Lancaster Castle. Friends met at Malkin Tower on 6 April 1612 (Good Friday), allegedly to plot their escape by blowing up the castle. Nowell learned of the meeting and concluded that it had been the scene of a witches' coven. Eight of those attending were subsequently arrested and tried for causing harm by witchcraft, seven of whom were found guilty and executed; the house may have been demolished shortly after the trials. The only firm evidence for its location comes from the official account by the clerk to the court, who places it somewhere in the Forest of Pendle (pictured). Archaeological excavations in the area have failed to discover any confirmed remains of the building. (Full article...)
Recently featured: Rudd Concession – Georgette Heyer – George Herriman
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Did you know...
 

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

Wukang Mansion
... that the Wukang Mansion (pictured) is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of the many people who committed suicide there, such as movie star Shangguan Yunzhu?
... that the Halloween-themed Millennium episode "The Curse of Frank Black" was inspired by the Japanese horror film Kwaidan?
... that Rani Sati, a legendary figure from Rajasthan, is worshiped for committing sati on her husband's death?
... that Danny Trejo stars in the Syfy original film Ghostquake as a "kick-butt" janitor?
... that Howard University librarian Joseph Henry Reason was the first African-American to be nominated for president of the American Library Association?
... that Hayao Miyazaki has compared Kiki's plight of becoming a full-fledged witch to the challenges of an aspiring cartoonist moving to Tokyo?
... that Hsien of the Dead (2012) is "Singapore's first zombie movie"?
Archive – Start a new article – Nominate an article

 
In the news
 

Marmaray tunnel
The Marmaray rail tunnel (pictured) under the Bosphorus opens, connecting the European and Asian parts of Turkey.
Giorgi Margvelashvili is elected President of Georgia.
In Formula One, Sebastian Vettel wins the Drivers' Championship for the fourth consecutive year.
Astronomers confirm that z8_GND_5296, the most distant galaxy ever found, is 30 billion light-years from Earth.
Record levels of smog lead to the closure of schools, highways and the airport in Harbin, China.
Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia are elected to the United Nations Security Council, but Saudi Arabia declines its seat.
Recent deaths: Tadeusz Mazowiecki – Lou Reed – Marcia Wallace
More current events...
 
On this day...
 

October 31: Halloween; Samhain begins (Northern Hemisphere); Beltane begins (Southern Hemisphere); Reformation Day (Protestantism)

Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico
475 – Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last ruling emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1822 – Emperor Agustín de Iturbide (pictured) of the First Mexican Empire dissolved the Mexican Congress and replaced it with a military junta answerable only to him.
1913 – Public transportation workers in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, went on strike, shutting down mass transit in the city and sparking riots when strikebreakers attempted to restart services.
1973 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after a hijacked helicopter landed in the prison's exercise yard.
2011 – The United Nations declared that the world's population had exceeded seven billion.
More anniversaries: October 30 – October 31 – November 1
Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries
It is now October 31, 2013 (UTC) – Reload this page

 

Today's featured picture
 

The Mummy (1932 film)
The Mummy is a 1932 horror film directed by Karl Freund for Universal Studios. The film, starring Boris Karloff as a revived ancient Egyptian priest who seeks the soul of his long-dead lover, was inspired by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the rumored curse of the pharaohs. It has been remade several times.
Poster: Karoly Grosz
Recently featured: Lesser short-nosed fruit bat – George Juskalian – Saint George Palace

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This Wikipedia is written in English. Started in 2001, it currently contains 4,364,225 articles. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.
More than 1,000,000 articles:
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