Blog Heap of Links for the day 19 August 2018

…On this day in 1692 in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, were executed after being convicted of witchcraft. IIANM these five people were executed by hanging. … I view it as mass hysteria caused by an absolute dictatorship of city leadership. Similar to what we have in a lot of blue cities now.