Like Snopes, other media outlets received the same statement from IDF comparing Hamas' killings to those of ISIS. Hearing from a Journalist in Kfar Aza In the rational atmosphere of the Enlightenment, Mme du Deffand observed "il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte", "it's only the first step that matters"; her mot was repeated in Baron Grimm's Correspondance littéraire, 15 May 1764.

Ashton, Ben. “Reporter on Verge of Tears as She Describes Babies Being Beheaded by Hamas.” Metro, 10 Oct. 2023, https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/10/hamas-murdered-40-babies-dead-israel-war-19641362/.Accessed 11 Oct. 2023. A few journalists claimed to have obtained, or at least seen, visual proof (photos or video) of the deaths, though that evidence also was not publicly accessible, nor available to Snopes as of this writing.Saint Ginés de La Jara (Getty Museum)". Archived from the original on 2008-10-05 . Retrieved 2007-08-21. Similarly, decapitation is an unlikely form of suicide but could occur unintentionally during a hanging attempt. In a 2018 study , researchers examined records from 1.5 million suicidal hangings and found only three resulted in actual beheadings. The motif Head in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature [15] reveals how universal is the anomaly of the talking severed head. Aristotle is at pains to discredit the stories of talking heads and to establish the physical impossibility, with the windpipe severed from the lung. "Moreover," he adds, "among the barbarians, where heads are chopped off with great rapidity, nothing of the kind has ever occurred." [16] Aristotle was doubtless familiar with the story of the singing disembodied head of Orpheus and Homer's image of heads severed so rapidly they seemed still to be speaking, [17] and Latin examples could be attested. A link between Latin poets and the Middle Ages in transmitting the trope of the speaking head was noted by Beatrice White, [18] in the Latin poem on the Trojan War, De Bello Troiano by Joseph of Exeter. Hector whirls in the air the severed head of Patroclus, which whispers "Ultor ubi Aeacides", "Where is Achilles [Aeacides], my avenger?" In 2011, Dutch scientists hooked an EEG (electroencephalography) machine to the brains of mice fated to decapitation. The results showed continued electrical activity in the severed brains, remaining at frequencies indicating conscious activity for nearly four seconds. Studies in other small mammals suggest even longer periods. In the New Zealand study, researchers first sedated the rats, attached electroencephalograph (EEG) monitoring, and set them up in a rat-sized guillotine. After decapitation, the researchers observed activity for the first 10 to 15 seconds.

Here is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the decapitated man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about 4 or 6 seconds. I waited several seconds longer. The spasmodic movements ceased. The face relaxed, the lids half-closed in the eyeballs, leaving only the white of the conjunctiva visible, exactly as in the dying whom we have occasion to see every day [...] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp, voice: 'Languille!' I then saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contraction -- I insist advisedly on this pecularity -- but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts. Next, Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with a vague dull look, without any expression that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me." Easily one of the worst films ever made , The Humanoid stars Richard Kiel as Golob, a gentle giant of a space pilot who is transformed by the evil Lord Graal and his minion Dr Kraspin into the rampaging one man army of the title. Sent to kill the leader of the planet Metropolis, Golob is stopped and transformed into a force for good by young Tom-Tom, a mysterious and gifted mystic who then helps Golob and the rest of the good guys launch a climactic assault against Lord Graal’s forces. In June 2016, a Minnesota man decapitated a friend who was accused of raping his girlfriend. Joseph Thoresen, age 35, was arrested fleeing from a vehicle belonging to 20-year-old David Haiman, whom he murdered. Haiman was reported missing after failing to show for work. Five days later, authorities discovered his torso at 9:30 AM. An hour and a half later, they located his head. After dispatching Dioskilos, the two headed dog which guards the entrance to Medusa’s lair, they see evidence of the effect her gaze has had on previous travellers, statues of warriors turned to stone in the moment that their eyes met hers. Then, as the action moves into Medusa’s temple, we hear the sound of her rattlesnake tail and glimpse her monstrous shadow moving slowly across the flame lit walls.The study’s authors concluded that there is some form of brief consciousness in brain activity — at least in rats. But what does this mean for humans? Steussy,Lauren andKatherine Tangalakis-Lippert, Reem Makhoul. “Safe Rooms in Israel Are Everywhere, with Steel Doors and Sparse Furnishings. Here’s What They’re like Inside.” Business Insider, https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-inside-safe-room-bomb-shelter-israel-war-palestine-gaza-2023-10. Accessed 11 Oct. 2023. Collard and his colleagues plan to test whether there actually was continuity by examining preserved DNA found in the human burials, especially the roughly 450 burials found in the mound used by both the Bronze Age and early medieval peoples.

In some laboratories, decapitation has long been considered the most humane way to dispose of an animal. Other laboratories use decapitation to be able to analyze chemical-free tissues, according to the study’s lead author, Kavitha Kongara, a senior lecturer in veterinary science at Massey University. Reuters. In an Oct. 15, 2023, report on Reuters, Israeli forensic teams found evidence of torture, rape, and abuse on bodies, according to Israeli military officers. "We've seen dismembered bodies with their arms and feet chopped off, people that were beheaded, a child that was beheaded," a reserve warrant officer identified only by her first name of Avigayil told Reuters. We have no independent corroboration of this account yet. If true in humans, those few seconds would provide enough time for a strange and terrifying experience: count off four seconds ("one Mississippi…"), and notice how much of your surroundings you can register. Palestinians Scramble for Safety as Israel Pounds Sealed-off Gaza Strip to Punish Hamas.” AP News, 10 Oct. 2023, https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-airstrikes-hostages-bf6c42f84526c4d9416978c8effd932a.Accessed 11 Oct. 2023.

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The earliest evidence at 5 Mile Lane are hunter-gather flint tools dating to the Mesolithic, or the Middle Stone Age (8000 B.C. to 4000 B.C.), Collard said. "It shows that Mesolithic people are going through the area" and hunting animals such as aurochs ( Bos primigenius), an extinct cattle species, he said. The physician might have been correct. Studies involving animals have recorded brain activity following the sudden severing of the head. One study in New Zealand sought to understand whether there was brain activity in decapitated lab rats .