When we think of guillotines, our minds turn to scenes of the French Revolution, which have been graphically depicted in so many Hollywood movies. While it may have been inspired by the original ...

A Russian engineer killed himself with a guillotine that he built himself and hid in his bedroom. Albert Repin, 47, had been hung up on his divorce for several years, his family said. Repin built his ...

A working model of a guillotine made by a Napoleonic prisoner, awaiting his death, is expected to fetch up to £8,000 at auction when it goes on sale early next month. The 200-year-old replica was ...

Professional Guillotine: Present the clean straight cutting along printed line. No drag! And easy to replace the blade when it become blunt. Size and Materials: Design to cut A3,A4,A5 Paper, Photos, ...

A well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France’s late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade said to ...

Stephen Baum picked up the phone in his La Jolla, Calif. house one evening last fall and got an earful from a customer of a recently closed bakery. The man accused Baum, the chief executive officer of ...

A food company was fined £10,000 after the fingertips of a Coventry worker's hand were cut off by a guillotine. A food company was fined £10,000 after the fingertips of a Coventry worker's hand were ...

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