From here, a short stroll along a white-sand beach offers a good view of Hangman Island.

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"The Hangman" opens with blazing guitars, only to drop them out completely two seconds later.

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On a Web site called Meankids a user posted her photo alongside an image of a hangman's noose.

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The prisons department was not rushing to find replacements when, a year ago, one hangman retired and another was promoted.

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They build their vocabulary every time they play Hangman, Fish School, Super Why or a plethora of other PBS Kids games.

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Mobile-phone users have also taken a shine to such games as Wireless Pets (about the trials of pet ownership), as well as such tried-and-tested time-killers as Hangman and Blackjack.

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Consign yourself to the hangman if you must.

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They would be wiser, however, to set aside the hangman's noose, and think instead about how they can come to terms with those of their Kurdish compatriots still prepared to fight and die for the right to express their Kurdishness.

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The return of the hangman.

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