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...England. Led by Catesby, they hatched a plan to explode gunpowder under Parliament during a state opening, when King James I, his queen, and other family members and government leaders were inside. The plot was set for Nov. 5, 1605, and in the preceding days, the conspirators rented a cellar underneath the building, where Fawkes stashed at least 20 barrels of gunpowder...
Ever since Josef Fritzl, the authoritarian patriarch of a sprawling family in the north Austrian town of Amstetten, was discovered to have imprisoned his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, Austria has been locked in an emotional debate over what could cause such a crime. Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was to blame...
...Fritzl also told Kastner that he would punish his imprisoned family by turning off the cellar lights (the shelter was windowless) or withholding food for several days. He taunted his children with photographs of other kids playing outside in the sun. (Read a TIME story on the Fritzl case...
...Read a TIME story on the children of the cellar...
...questions from different media members.Harvard’s second-year head coach Tommy Amaker participated and remarked on a variety of subjects. His team goes into this season hoping to improve on its 8-22 overall mark and 3-11 Ivy record that left it tied for the cellar.“We’re excited, there is a lot of energy and passion around the team as we are trying to build,” Amaker said. “Hopefully that will translate into better play for us and more wins. We feel good about...