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 The RackAn ancient torture device, the rack was used to stretch its victims' joints to the breaking point. A prisoner's hands and feet would be fastened to rollers located at either end of the device's rectangular frame, and during interrogations, a ratchet would gradually increase the tension on the chains. The excruciating torture inspired such terrible fear that some prisoners would confess after merely watching someone else being stretched on the rack. Who were some of the device's famous victims? More...
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"Victims" are not victims of the device! They are victims of man's brutality to man.
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PrimeTime wrote:"Victims" are not victims of the device! They are victims of man's brutality to man. I think they mean that the rack was hosting the victims. Thus the possessive. 
}- Mark -{It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others.—Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
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I can think of a few people I would love to see getting aquainted with this device!
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I believe I would find most forms of torture difficult to watch, but I think use of the rack, where the injuries are internal, would appear to be exceptionally excruciating.
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I went to the torture museum in Italy last year, the rack was the least barbaric of devices I saw there.
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TYSON wrote:I went to the torture museum in Italy last year, the rack was the least barbaric of devices I saw there. Yes, when it's not in use, I would imagine so. It has no blades, no pokers, no saws...however, watching someone's joints be destroyed as they are slowly torn apart and hearing them exploding, that I'd never be able to handle. I, personally, had to close my eyes and stick my fingers in my ears (something I actually do quite often when watching scary movies) during the scene in Braveheart in which Mel Gibson is stretched on the rack.
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I know some people who are presently on one of these things inside their heads.
"Supposin' I was to go to work and learn how to... to read writin'. Well, how'd I know that the feller that... that wrote the writin' was a writin' the writin' right? See it could be that he wrote the writin' all wrong. Here I'd be just a readin' wrong writin', don't ya see? You probably been doin' it your whole life, just a readin' wrong writin' and not even knowin‘ it." Festus
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I prefer to think of the "rack" in terms of the feminine.
(I refrained from my urge for the graphic, no need for congratulations)
"Supposin' I was to go to work and learn how to... to read writin'. Well, how'd I know that the feller that... that wrote the writin' was a writin' the writin' right? See it could be that he wrote the writin' all wrong. Here I'd be just a readin' wrong writin', don't ya see? You probably been doin' it your whole life, just a readin' wrong writin' and not even knowin‘ it." Festus
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