#!/usr/bin/env python
"""**************************************************************************
** $Id$
**
** Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Trolltech AS. All rights reserved.
**
** This file is part of an example program for Qt. This example
** program may be used, distributed and modified without limitation.
**
***************************************************************************"""
import sys
from qt import *
sayings = [
"Saying 1:
"
"
History has furnished us with two executioners worthy of attention. " "The first performed in Sydney in Australia. In 1803 three attempts were " "made to hang a Mr. Joseph Samuels. On the first two of these the rope " "snapped, while on the third Mr. Samuels just hung there peacefully until he " "and everyone else got bored. Since he had proved unsusceptible to capital " "punishment, he was reprieved.
" "The most important British executioner was Mr. James Berry who " "tried three times in 1885 to hang Mr. John Lee at Exeter Jail, but on each " "occasion failed to get the trap door open." "
In recognition of this achievement, the Home Secretary commuted " "Lee's sentence to \"life\" imprisonment. He was released in 1917, emigrated " "to America and lived until 1933.