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Look up: vigilante

  1. vigilante
    [n] - member of a vigilance committee
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. vigilante
    In US history, originally a member of a `vigilance committee`, a self-appointed group to maintain public order in the absence of organized authority, especially...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  3. vigilante
    vigilance man noun member of a vigilance committee
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. vigilante
    (from the article `police`) In the frontier regions of the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there arose a novel form of the Saxon tradition of ... Vigilante justice has been practiced in many countries under unsettled conditions whenever informally organized groups have attempted to supplement ... [2 related a...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/23

  5. Vigilante
    (n). A Vigilantee is an unauthorized person who conduct a trial on the accused persons with or without collecting evidences or ascertaining the truth and confer punishment to the accused considering the depth of crime involved. A Vigilantee is not legally authorized person to do such trials and orde...
    Found on http://www.legal-explanations.com/defini

  6. vigilante
    n. someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horsethieves, rustlers and shooters, and then promptly hanging the accused if "convic...
    Found on http://dictionary.law.com/Default.xhtml?

  7. Vigilante
    A `vigilante` is a private individual who legally or illegally punishes an alleged lawbreaker, or participates in a group which metes out extralegal punishment to an alleged lawbreaker. Members of neighborhood watch programs and others who use legal means of bringing people to justice are not consid...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante

  8. Vigilante
    (comics) `Vigilante` is the name used by several fictional characters appearing in DC Comics. The original character was one of the first DC Comics characters adapted for live-action film, beating Superman himself by one year. Greg Saunders: --> The original Vigilante was a western-themed her...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante

  9. Vigilante
    (band) `Vigilante` is a Chilean aggrotech/Industrial Metal band formed in 2005. History: Ivan Munoz, aka Vigilante, is an industrial artist in South America. With his mix of electronic and metal, he has been able to conquer audiences of Chile and the world. Currently he has released 2 albums,...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante

  10. Vigilante
    (album) `Vigilante` is the sixth studio album by British melodic rock band Magnum, released in 1986 on Polydor. Capitalising on the success of On a Storyteller`s Night, Magnum change to a more commercial direction with their 1986 album Vigilante. Produced by Roger Taylor ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante



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13 February 2012

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The fifth queen of Henry VIII was Catherine Howard. Her father was very poor, and Catherine lived mainly with Agnes, widow of the 2nd duke of Norfolk. Henry was evidently charmed by her and he was privately married to Catherine at Oatlands in July 1540. In November 1541 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer informed Henry that his queen's past life had not been stainless. After some denials the queen herself admitted that this was true; but denied that she had misconducted herself since her marriage. Some fresh information, however, very soon came to light showing that she had been unchaste since her marriage; a bill of attainder was passed through parliament, and on the 13th of February 1542 the queen was beheaded. read more

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