To "encourage" the Dey of Algiers to stop enslaving white Christians Slaves were freed following the bombardment, but the practice did not end completely for several decades.
What appeared in the Netherlands in 1608, developed by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius, and improved by Galileo in 1609?
The last beheading after death carried out in Britain (which was part of the penalty of "hanging, drawing and quartering"), followed conviction for treason of whom?