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1The Stake — was a 1915 American silent short film directed by Lucius Henderson. Starring William Garwood in the lead role with Violet Mersereau. External links*imdb title|id=0324061 …
2The Stake Out — ] The opening scene caused some problems because it featured a woman walking off the set and taking one step down to get off it. Gleen Forbes, the set designer thought that this made the show look cheap. The scene in which Jerry and Elaine are in …
3the) stake — killing by burning The victim was tied to a pole. The significance of this form of death for heretics was that nothing remained to reappear and cause trouble at the Resurrection …
4burning at the stake — ▪ punishment a method of execution practiced in Babylonia and ancient Israel and later adopted in Europe and North America. Spanish heretics suffered this penalty during the inquisition, as did French disbelievers and heretics such as …
5go to the stake — mainly British if you say you would go to the stake for a belief or principle, you mean you would risk anything in order to defend it. She believed passionately that the government were wrong on this issue and was prepared to go to the stake for… …
6The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan — The Detroit Michigan Temple Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints arrived in Michigan in the 1830s. It did not have an organized presence in the state from the late 1850s into the 1870s. However missionary work was reopened… …
7Stake — may refer to: * A stake is a long, pointed object thrust into the ground. Stakes have many applications, such as slaying vampires, demarcating a small plot of land, anchoring guy ropes for a tent or other portable structure, or slowly releasing… …
8The Vampire Diaries (season 2) — The Vampire Diaries Season 2 USA DVD box cover Country of origin United States …
9stake — Ⅰ. stake [1] ► NOUN 1) a strong post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a tree, form part of a fence, etc. 2) (the stake) historical a wooden post to which a person was tied before being burned alive. ► VERB 1) support (a… …
10The Staunton-Morphy controversy — concerns the failure of negotiations in 1858 for a chess match between Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy and later interpretations of the actions of the two players. The details of the events are not universally agreed, and accounts and… …
