Former tortures and capital punishments
Torture consisting in penetrating and perforating a human, used in the Ottoman Empire and by Vlad Dracula.
Impalement
Name of on (or both) French region(s) that was part of the German Empire.
Alsace and Lorraine
This US entrepreneur founded Microsoft in 1975 along with Paul Allen.
Bill Gates
This people of northern Irak tried to gain its independance in 1991.
The Kurds
This dynasty gave its name to Saudi Arabia.
The House of Saud
Execution machine created by a French physician in 1789.
Guillotine
Name of the German military order that conquered most part of the Baltic territories during the Middle Ages.
Teutonic Knights
This ancient Greek engineer said "Eureka" as he found the solution of a problem while taking his bath.
Archimedes
Capital in central Europe that uprised in August-October 1944 and was crushed by the Germans in a bloodbath.
Warsaw
This famous Italian navigator gave his name to a South American country.
Christopher Columbus
Torture consisting in separating and removing the members of a human body.
Dismemberment
This southern African country was called German South-West Africa from 1884 to 1915.
Namibia
US record producer who is the creator of the "Wall of Sound" (end of the sixties).
Phil Spector
This capital of a Central European country tried to chase the Soviet occupation in 1956.
Budapest
This US state, created in 1732, took its name from a British king.
Georgia
Name of a famous Russian whip.
Knout
This US state includes the most important German-US population of the country.
Pennsylvania
Although he served Napoleon Ist, this French diplomat played an important part in the Congress of Vienna and could serve under the Restoration.
Talleyrand
Name given to the royalist insurgents who fought the French Revolution in west France.
Chouan
Complete name of the Italian navigator who gave his name to a whole continent.
Amerigo Vespucci
A form of pillory, used in East Asia, that the condemned had to bear.
Cangue
This Chinese province was a German possession up to WW1, then seized bu the Japanese.
Shandong/Schanthung
This Chinese general (5th-6th century BC) is the author of The Art of War, a treaty of strategy.
Sun Tzu
Czech religious movement that revolted in the 15th century against the Holy Roman Empire.
The Hussites
Included along with Romagna in the same region, this region took its name from a Roman Consul.
Emilia