| 单词 | guillotine |
| 例句 | I trudged back to the living room, feeling as though I were headed for the guillotine. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Patch-Withers’ face was reaching a brilliant shade, and his wife’s head fell as though before the guillotine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For even as the revolutionaries in France passed humane laws, they began using the guillotine to execute their own lords and nobles. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z That's what the guards say when they escort a prisoner to the low redbrick execution chamber in the courtyard, where the guillotine waits. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have the energy to tell them my arms were chopped off in a guillotine or something like that. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z That was Rahel being Sydney Carton being Charles Darnay, as he stood on the steps, waiting to be guillotined, in the Classics Illustrated comic’s version of A Tale of Two Cities. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And oh, how I yearned for the day when armies of black peasants would invade the white world, and butcher, guillotine, hang, machine-gun, bury alive and drown in hot lead every bad white man alive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He burst out laughing and slammed his cleaver on a salmon, its head shooting across the blood-slicked counter to land perfectly in a little guillotine bucket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I was made to see that contrary to what I thought, everything was very simple: the guillotine is on the same level as the man approaching it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z You can do that with scissors, but it’s a lot faster if you use those guillotine things schools have. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Chucha gives me her long, slow, guillotine nod that cuts off any further questions. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The guillotine snaps its iron jaws with a clang that rings throughout the prison. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z For by giving it some hard thought, by considering the whole thing calmly, I could see that the trouble with the guillotine was that you had no chance at all, absolutely none. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “Totally brave. But then a janitor at their university turned them in, and they were both executed. Some of the others were, too. By guillotine.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z There's a guillotine and I have to hold the dustbin to catch the heads when they fall off.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The energy of the bomb came from cutting the link between human and dæmon, and that meant the hideous process of intercision: the cages of mesh, the silver guillotine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Five of those guillotines—borrowed from the public library, the community college, plus our own elementary and high schools—slice construction paper with machine-like efficiency. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The only part I’m going to miss is my guillotine. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z We all met to count up everyone in the courtyard where the guillotine is. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Pouncey refuses to work unless he’s in charge of the guillotine, and he gets pretty obnoxious about it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It was because the sound in that room was the same sound she’d heard in that dreadful glittering chamber at Bolvangar, where the silver guillotine had nearly parted her and Pantalaimon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before Hans placed his head on the guillotine block, he shouted out, “Long live freedom!” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His words, delivered so swiftly and with such disregard for our feelings, cut through me like the blade of a guillotine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z For a long time I believed—and I don’t know why—that to get to the guillotine you had to climb stairs onto a scaffold. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z "I don't know why you think the Revolution was so great, Sonia. It says here that some people even turned their own relatives in. Thousands died at the guillotine." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once Dad got out, Babou climbed in next to Mom and slid the door shut with the finality of a guillotine. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I could see the guillotine and tribunals of black peasants. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z You feel pressure on your upper arm, and when you look, your whole arm is wedged into the crook of a guillotine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I’d been struck by this picture because the guillotine looked like such a precision instrument, perfect and gleaming. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Then I lifted my right hand with the razor and let it drop of its own weight, like a guillotine, onto the calf of my leg. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I go into great detail about the massive guillotine they’re going to use to behead him because I really like to paint a picture, you know. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In that small stone space open to the sky they have erected a guillotine. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The quinceañera hangs over me like the blade of a guillotine. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In A Tale of Two Cities, when the guillotine chops off a head, the sound effects team hacked a cabbage with a cleaver. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In October Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It reminded me of the old joke about the engineer who, upon being led to a guillotine that was proving balky, looked up at the oft-malfunctioning device and said, “Ah, I see your problem.” Perspective | Ai Weiwei succumbs to the tyranny of fun 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z But another part of you is sharpening the guillotines. ‘Billions’: Brian Koppelman and David Levien on Money, Power and American Gods 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Chefs, having lost their noble patrons to the guillotine or forced exile, took their recipes and techniques and opened eating establishments for the public. I thought French cuisine was the height of precision. My mother-in-law taught me an easier way. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Even when the prosecutor Pinscher encounters a prisoner on his way to the guillotine, he is driven, like a puppet "jigging from one foot to the other in his excitement" to demand further punishment. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z Should she be remembered as a survivor who barely escaped the guillotine and went on to be one of the most powerful women in France — let alone the world? Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The arrest and wounding of Robespierre, who was sent to the guillotine in 1794. In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich – review 2012-08-17T21:55:02Z It is also a de facto memorial to an entire operatic ethos, exemplified by the lavish productions of Franco Zeffirelli, that’s now vanished about as completely as the guillotined aristocrats who give “Ghosts” its title. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Yet the two men also confronted a daunting hunt for a guillotine, which Mr. Badinter refers to as “my old enemy.” Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z Responding to Flume’s stuttering, bittersweet “Never Be Like You,” the trio sculpted itself into a fast-paced fantasy of machines and hinged contraptions and even, eerily, a guillotine matched to a chilling sound effect. What NBC’s ‘World of Dance’ gets right about dance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z He resolved, bravely, “to bring the present inside,” knowing he faced the guillotine of public opinion for any undiplomatic moves. How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The poet-murderer was chillingly unrepentant — kneeling before the guillotine, he twisted his torso so that he could see the blade coming down. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z A title card that follows it cites Herold’s arrest, in 1946, by British occupation forces, his trial, and his execution by guillotine. Two Films About Nazis Show the Difference Between Engaging with History and Exploiting It 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z I first met Mr. Sachs a decade ago at a gallery in Paris, where he was exhibiting his Chanel guillotine and a scale model of a Nazi death camp created from a Prada hat box. On the Runway Blog: Planet Fashion Gets Some Fresh Looks 2012-05-17T22:33:44Z Among them was Marcel Langer, a Polish-born Jew, who led a unit of immigrant fighters in Toulouse known as the 35th brigade, before being arrested, sentenced to death by a Vichy court and guillotined. Freedom force 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z And in extremis, I sometimes allow myself to mentally face guillotine the offenders. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z A guillotine sequence from the French Revolution and the gag about Egyptian funerary disembowelments leave a bad taste in the mouth. ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’: 3D fun, pawsitive lessons for kids 2014-03-06T20:26:33Z In the early 20th century Baroness Orczy created Sir Percy Blakeney, the British aristocrat who, as that intrepid master of disguise the Scarlet Pimpernel, whisked noble folk away from the guillotine during the French revolution. Argo – review 2012-11-11T00:05:47Z There was a national debate over whether those charged with capital crimes should be executed with the hand axe or the guillotine; the guillotine was derided as “soulless, impersonal” and indicative of a lamentable “humanitarianism.” A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He says you told him that he was in line for the guillotine because of his ridiculous penthouse apartment. Lana Del Rey on Trump, Kanye and the Right Time for a Protest Song 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z “Is there somewhere in Cuyahoga county a madman whose god is the guillotine?” the Cleveland News wrote. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z But Blanche, who had been hiding, working as a servant, joins her in sisterly solidarity as both go to the guillotine. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z Each edit is as sharp as the blade of a guillotine, and as unforgiving. ‘Red Army’ Is Among the Notables at Festival 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z The libretto recounts the tribulations of the French poet during the Revolution from enthusiastic participant to guillotined victim. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z Her husband was beheaded, and she was imprisoned, saved from the guillotine at the last second with the abrupt end of the Reign of Terror in 1794. Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he is condemned to the guillotine and passes the last part of the book in jail awaiting execution and suffering the blind indifference of the universe. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The setting this time is occupied France, and Flynn plays a convicted thief and murderer who escapes the guillotine when his prison is bombed by Allied forces. DVDs: On DVD, Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh War Movies 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z Cooper has helped design an attraction that takes guests past electric chairs, guillotines, giant spiders and at least one "predatory snake". Alice Cooper plans theme park attraction 2011-08-04T11:18:37Z Nearly everyone else is so glued to figuring out what really happened to Epstein that they barely notice the figurative guillotine being constructed in their midst, let alone dream their own heads might roll. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Or, as the French Revolution’s Louis de Saint-Just defended the Great Terror and its guillotine, “No liberty for the enemies of liberty.” Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z There was one young Japanese boy in front of me, still dressed out, and I was coaxing him out and this light came down like a guillotine right next to him. I?m a ferry boat captain 2012-05-19T14:00:00Z By contrast, the guillotine was instantaneous: the executioner’s version of drive-thu food. Paul LePage’s guillotine dream: A warped, bloodthirsty fantasy of justice resurrected for the YouTube age 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Inside, there are displays of authentic swords and suits of armor, along with a reconstructed guillotine that was last used in 1861. Getting around the medieval yet very modern city of Ghent 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It often reads as awkwardly translated French — “the souvenir of the guillotine.” How France Became a Dangerous Place to Be a Jew 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Clark is wrestled into a guillotine — a prop for the group’s Grand Guignol stage show — and has a moment of abject terror where he believes he’s going to be decapitated. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 3: Rock Star Karaoke 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Like at the dress rehearsal of “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” the guillotine was terrible. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Loved Opera, and Opera Loved Her Back 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z The opera is adapted from a play that is loosely based on the true story of a group of Carmelite nuns who were guillotined during the French Revolution. Painful death scene doesn’t deter soprano Karita Mattila 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z As the dust clears, the men find that a colossal, skyscraper-size slab of rock has broken loose and crashed through the ramp like an enormous guillotine, as they describe it, blocking their escape to safety. Hector Tobar's 'Deep Down Dark' chronicles Chile's mine-shaft miracle 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The novel was controversially even-handed in its sympathies, its true hero being Gauvain, a humane republican commander who allows the rebel leader to escape execution and so goes to the guillotine himself. John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z “I’m just hoping to not have vegetables thrown at us, and calls for the guillotine,” the 39-year-old actor told me. Jamie Dornan Goes Back to ‘Belfast,’ but Not Without Worry 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But when I heard the guide say “guillotine,” I was suddenly back in AP exam form. The Delights and Challenges of French Guiana 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Sunderson, contemplating the recession, muses that someone should install a guillotine on Wall Street “and execute these bankers and brokers, grind up their bodies and make them into elite sausage.” Book review: In ‘The Big Seven’ by Jim Harrison, a detective behaving badly 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z “Don’t tell me, and you send them all under the guillotine.” ‘A Replacement Life,’ by Boris Fishman 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “We were amazed that it was so difficult to find a guillotine,” Mr. Clair said. Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z In its own gory way, the piece takes the viewer back to the birth of modern democracy, to the French Revolution, where thousands died under the blade of the guillotine in the name of freedom. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z In that thrilling swashbuckler, the foppish, slightly dim Sir Percy Blakeney is secretly the intrepid Scarlet Pimpernel, whose guerrilla actions help save the innocent from the guillotine during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Those feet descend like a portcullis, or like simultaneous guillotines. ‘Cinderella’ to Join American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z In its last days the tasty French chicken was imprisoned in a dark cell, “its gullet crammed by the farmer’s wife with a paste of corn and skimmed milk as it awaits the guillotine.” ‘Eat, Live, Love, Die’: At 89, Betty Fussell’s hard-earned recipe for happiness 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Whether Other Books is open for customers or not, someone is usually working at the Tiny Splendor tables, stocked with a paper guillotine, industrial stapler, glue binder, ink tubes and stacks of paper. A visit with Other Books in Boyle Heights 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Every revolution, no matter how small and self-invented, creates its own version of the Reign of Terror, and then its own Thermidorian Reaction, when the radical leaders are themselves sent to the guillotine. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z “My aunt took me to Paris when I was 11. We walked from the Conciergerie prison to the Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine was, thinking about Norma being noble as we walked.” Charles Busch’s Hollywood References in ‘The Tribute Artist’ 2014-02-26T22:53:57Z As his member nears eight feet in length, evil Princess Carolyne prepares a guillotine for it. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z As the Reign of Terror takes hold and religious communities are outlawed, the nuns take a vow of martyrdom that ultimately conveys them to the guillotine. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Laugh, muffle or guillotine – coping strategies are key, because noise is inescapable. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z There’s another wall above the set and a tightly fit guillotine. Gore Verbinski Narrates a Scene From ‘A Cure for Wellness’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Eventually the camera closes in on the back of Mirren’s neck like a guillotine at the ready. Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z In movies like this, the minute you see a girl posing for a passport picture, it's as if a guillotine is being lowered. The Whistleblower: Rachel Weisz Against the Sex Trade 2011-08-04T16:15:00Z The Queen’s croquet becomes a master class in piano technique, with players guillotined left and right. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The movie is tricked out with arty embellishments that include the insertion of crude blackboard sketches of nooses and guillotines, garish flashbacks and grim editorials directed to the camera. Movie Review: ?Detachment,? Starring Adrien Brody, Directed by Tony Kaye 2012-03-15T22:50:47Z They linger by the guillotine, which is watched over by the glowing red eyes of a Lucifer portrait by Franz von Stuck. Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z Both were executed by guillotine in 1793 after the French Revolution. Marie Antoinette's jewelry on display in Dubai before auction 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Just around the time 18th century France was unraveling in bloody revolution and Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were getting guillotined, the once-famous sculptor’s big reputation likewise got chopped. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z A local supermarket magnate fond of blogging about art and culture, Mr. Chirkunov works in a drab, Soviet-era government building that looms over Perm’s central square like a guillotine. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z Much like their French namesake, the guillotines introduce a mechanical aspect to killing, opening up a physical and moral distance between executioners and executed that ensuing technologies of death will widen. Movie Review: In ‘The Guillotines,’ Elite Assassins Are in Pursuit 2013-06-13T23:22:15Z Her 2007 Tate retrospective opened with a model of her parents' chateau, over which hung the blade of a large guillotine. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z He once described the Austrian Cultural Forum building as “a cross between ‘Blade Runner’ and an Easter Island sculpture,” and at other times likened its cascading sheet-glass facade to a guillotine. Raimund Abraham, Architect With Vision, Dies at 76 2010-03-06T06:27:00Z In the final scene the brave nuns, now in frumpy dresses, walk one by one to the guillotine amid a jeering crowd as they sing a wistful “Salve Regina.” Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z But, as state-owned France 24 reminded its English-speaking viewers, the historic site was also where the original French revolutionaries brought King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette to the guillotine in 1793. “The Intouchables”: Racial comedy, French style 2012-05-22T20:45:00Z But David was conveniently absent at the guillotine the next day. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z “Danton’s Death” culminates with the appearance, center stage, of a gold-rimmed guillotine that is almost as high as the walls around it. Review: A Far-From-Revolutionary ‘Danton’s Death’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Around the corner, the magnificent 18th-century Hôtel de Soubise palace, home to France’s national archives, showcases the last, anguished letter written by Marie Antoinette, bidding “adieu” to her sister before heading to the guillotine. My Paris: Seduced by the Past 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The great French Revolution, for which France is so proud, guillotined Hortense de Gouge who demanded equal rights for women. Catherine Breillat, legendary provocateur, on her sexual manifesto on film and why she hates porn 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Suddenly the guillotine falls, as it always does – a disembodied shout from the back of the empty auditorium: "OK, that's enough, thanks for coming." The Secret Actor on desperate times 2013-05-07T07:59:01Z We send these women to the cyberspace guillotine and participate fully in their public shaming, when in fact we very much desire to see bikini-clad young Disney stars. Real “spring breakers” don’t have happy endings 2013-03-29T16:01:00Z Otherwise Snøhetta’s glass curtain wall will hang over the Madison Avenue sidewalk like a guillotine of good taste. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building has always been vain, idiosyncratic and flawed. Let's keep it that way 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z However, he became sickened by the spectacle of power-mad thugs triumphantly holding up by the hair the severed heads of the guillotined aristocrats, to the cheers of ravening crowds of bloodthirsty yeehaws with bad teeth. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Now the bellicose governor of Maine, Paul LePage, is pulling a page from the Queen’s playbook and calling for the return of the guillotine. Paul LePage’s guillotine dream: A warped, bloodthirsty fantasy of justice resurrected for the YouTube age 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z In 1792, when the king’s fate came before the National Convention, Citizen David proudly cast his vote to send Louis XVI to the guillotine. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The assassins use curved swords to lob these portable guillotines, lacrosse-style, mowing down the opposition with terminal efficiency. Movie Review: In ‘The Guillotines,’ Elite Assassins Are in Pursuit 2013-06-13T23:22:15Z Could one of France’s last great fabric houses be facing the guillotine? | Woven in Time 2014-04-07T17:00:32Z For instance, listeners learn that Marie Antoinette’s final words were an apology to her executioner, for accidentally stepping on his foot as she walked to the guillotine. 5 Podcasts About the Royal Family 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Greg, on the other hand, is a tool – frequently a whipping boy, sometimes a human shield, lately a corporate guillotine. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z There was a Marie Antoinette quality to his clothes, and then the guillotine came down.” Recalling the Lacroix Era 2013-04-19T23:17:23Z It was Madame Defarge, not Madame Lafarge, who sat by the guillotine, and Churchill, not Lloyd George, who decided to send the Black and Tans into Ireland. The Real Meaning of the Brexit Debate 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z We gathered with our fellow passengers around the roof of the cabin, which held a 22-pound bag of sea urchins and a mini guillotine. On the Costa Brava of Spain, a Sea Urchin Quest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z No sooner does she utter those words than — clunk! — a new set falls into place from above like a guillotine blade. Review: In ‘Thérèse Raquin,’ Keira Knightley as a Baleful Adulteress 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In addition to employing the snakes and guillotines that would make him famous, he and his resourceful crew cut up pillows and floated the feathers into strobe lights. How concerts shifted from songs to spectacles Making her point, she was guillotined two years later. Ségolène Royal is Not Willing to Be a Footnote 2013-07-05T20:15:16Z They moved to Paris and she created figures for a waxwork exhibition, narrowly escaped the guillotine in the French Revolution, and ended up making death masks of guillotine victims. What makes Madame Tussauds' wax work? 2011-02-26T09:00:02Z There they found more heaps of wood, painted red, the unusable remains of two guillotines used in French outposts in the Antilles islands and Réunion. Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z The guillotine is a French invention too, made famous during the Revolution and used during a bloodthirsty period of ideological fervor known as the Terror. Paul LePage’s guillotine dream: A warped, bloodthirsty fantasy of justice resurrected for the YouTube age 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The cops eventually got their man, who lost his head on the guillotine. Wartime serial killer prowled shadows of Nazi Berlin 2014-02-12T20:13:40Z His work is filled with observations such as: “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.” In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The narrator asks, neglecting the fact that this doctor didn’t actually invent the guillotine, “Was it where he’d perfected his device for severing heads?” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The opera, based on a play by Georges Bernanos about the guillotining of Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution, explores the notion of steadfast faith in a brutally secular world. Music Review: Juilliard Presents ?Dialogues des Carm?lites? 2010-04-22T21:17:00Z Despite the low price and the fact that the guillotine is a replica, the sale caused controversy. Who Buys a Guillotine? Someone Who Wants an ‘Amusing Acquisition’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Peterborough Museum's guillotine was carved in macabre detail, even down to a basket waiting for a chopped off head, by French POWs held at Norman Cross near the city, from 1803 to 1815. Museums put oddball objects on show 2013-05-21T18:53:45Z When her noble origins are discovered, she is dragged to the guillotine and beheaded. Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris | Dance review 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z Strangely, nobody in the country thinks of rebelling, even though they all keep referring to the French revolution and the guillotine. France's 'lost generation' of jobless youth finds film portrait in Juliette 2013-07-20T23:06:06Z Although his shows traditionally feature lavish props - from guillotines to a two storey-high Frankenstein's monster - he is charging fans a relatively low £42. What is a fair price to see a gig? 2012-10-27T01:09:09Z We meet dozens of equally vivid fictional characters, among them a toothless Army sergeant who, midway through the novel, gleefully shows off his portable antique guillotine. Poisoned Sake and Mutilated Teddy Bears 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The assembly leader at center would go to the guillotine. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The notion of the social contract was popularised by Rousseau, whose prose inspired generations of left-wing European revolutionaries just as conservatives were about to be guillotined. Seeking a way forward 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z If the weather doesn’t cooperate, visitors can stay inside the museum and view the exhibits, which include the only guillotine ever used in North America. A little bit of France, only 16 miles from Canada 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z After narrowly escaping the guillotine, he went on to serve as the first “keeper of paintings” at the Louvre. Revisiting Hubert Robert and His Romantic Ruins 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z That’s where we found Mr. Blanch, alternately taking orders and slicing open urchins with a custom-made mini guillotine. On the Costa Brava of Spain, a Sea Urchin Quest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z It is easier to decorate like Marie-Antoinette when you have no fear of the guillotine. Catch a Rising Star at the Auction House 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z On display are a swing churn for butter, a supersharp bread slicer that worked like a guillotine for gluten and a milkshake maker that really shook. Mohonk’s Farm-to-Table Rebirth 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z These sauces aren’t remotely heavy or deadening, two of the charges hurled at them when they were led to the guillotines by the Robespierres of nouvelle cuisine. Le Coucou Pays Rich Homage to Old-School French Cuisine 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z He discovered, for instance, that a real guillotine doesn’t sound like one. Yuri Rasovsky, Radio and Audio Book Dramatist, Dies at 67 2012-01-25T21:43:55Z "The first idea that came to me was the decapitated heads," he said recently, referring to Marie Antoinette and other 18th century nobles who were guillotined during the French Revolution. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Maine is shaped like a guillotine blade, pitched a few degrees toward the ocean. On a Canoe Trip Along the U.S.-Canada Border, Solitude and Shooting Stars 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z After around 45 minutes, the audience is jolted as curtained walls suddenly fall like guillotines, exposing a vast space with speakers all around. The xx – review 2013-07-07T17:30:00Z Speaking of executions, the philosopher George Bataille once referred to museums as guillotines, meaning institutional devices that swiftly, cleanly cut art off from life by removing it from its political and psychological sources. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Jacobs doesn’t dwell on the identity of these protesters or the nature of their demands, but tells us that they shout “EAT THE RICH” and erect a guillotine in front of a Saks store. In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z As the nuns make their way to the scaffold, singing “Salve Regina,” their voices, approaching exultation, drop out one by one with each swipe of the guillotine. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z France’s last official executioner, Marcel Chevalier, died in 2008, an in-law of a family that specialized in the operation of guillotines over five generations. Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z The enemies of the Revolution are beheaded -- and not always by the infamous guillotine, but sometimes by the enraged Parisian masses. Three books on the revolutions that America's uprising helped spawn 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z His take on #MeToo: “It’s like the French Revolution. They had a just cause, but they got a little overzealous with the guillotine.” ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The specter of Jacobinism — of the guillotine and the mobs at the Bastille — haunts Britain’s rulers, from the prince regent to the owners of Manchester’s factories. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z It was a bitter, late-’60s twist on Dickens’s famous story of look-alikes switching places at the guillotine, and by now it is somewhat to be expected that the allusion is laid out elliptically. The TV Watch: Don Draper and Associates Wrap Up Season 6 2013-06-24T16:26:28Z But if you suddenly come across something unexpected – a model guillotine from another museum's collection – I think it inspires a double take and a pleasurable moment of curiosity and reflection. What's in store: how First Time Out opened our eyes to new possibilities 2013-06-07T10:55:00Z Earlier, under the leadership of its president, Guy Cogeval, it organized an exhibition on crime and punishment that included an original French guillotine. Marquis de Sade, in Paris, Retains the Power to Shock 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Sir Percy is the Bruce Wayne of the French Revolution: a rich playboy with a double life spent rescuing people from the guillotine. Laura Powell's top 10 heroes in disguise 2013-04-11T15:55:00Z Fictional newspaper clippings by the artist Rose Salane are each framed alongside a small object, like a button or a cigar guillotine, relevant to the story. A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Madame T began her trade during the French Revolution, making death masks of those guillotined. Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out 2011-08-20T23:06:23Z The ensemble was fully prepared for the great final scene, as the nuns face the guillotine, and their chorus is inexorably reduced, one by one, during Poulenc’s granitic setting of the “Salve Regina” prayer. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ by Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble 2012-08-26T21:03:45Z In 1793, on his testimony, the Committee of Public Safety sent Madame du Barry to the Place de la Révolution, where she fainted on the way to the guillotine. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “But when that sun comes back around, that guillotine will lay my head down.” Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993 2010-03-09T23:20:00Z A hundred years later Alfred duPont re-created a bit of the old country—the France of the guillotined Bourbons—in Delaware’s Brandywine Valley. The Return of Nemours 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z “I drew the duck as a revolutionary going to the guillotine,” recalled Ms. Coe, whose art director was shocked at what she turned in but didn’t have time to reassign. Casting a Critical Eye, From the Slaughterhouse to the White House 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z While one generation was welcome at the nearby court of Versailles, another faced the guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Novel traces fates Paris families over centuries 2013-04-30T11:32:14Z Performing bloodied songs about high school rebellion, monsters and nocturnal vacations, Cooper's performance featured said guillotine, a straight jacket, evil nurses and bloody swords, all presented in good fun. Motley Crue goes out with a bang at Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Lafayette escaped the guillotine that claimed a number of relatives, spending five years imprisoned in exile in Austria and Prussia. The Hermione Sails Into New York Harbor, Cannons Blazing 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z It was made at a time when divorce was almost unthinkable among the poor, and the guillotine was standard punishment for murder. La Poison 2013-03-03T00:05:25Z With the help of Jake, and a convenient space ship, Reggie lands in 1621 in the Plymouth Colony, where the governor is a fat oaf and Myles Standish a blackguard with guillotine cheekbones. Free Birds: A Thanksgiving Turkey, Neither Rare Nor Well-Done 2013-10-31T23:00:09Z In the wake of these works, Büchner’s Danton, a drunk with a death wish who wallows in self-pity and ends up guillotined, is hardly captivating. Review: A Far-From-Revolutionary ‘Danton’s Death’ 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Some 200 organisations will be guillotined, and many of the 1,333 that applied for funding will see their grants shrink. A great act of vandalism that will impoverish us all 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z "The Christmas cards go under the guillotine but I can only cut six at a time, so it's quite a laborious, a labour-intensive job, but it's also been fun to do." The leaning Christmas card honouring Crooked House pub 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Duly horrified by the French Revolution, though not too horrified to lick the blood from Marie Antoinette’s guillotine, the young man soon stages his untimely demise. Review: A dictator as Dracula? Netflix's horror-comedy 'El Conde' doesn't draw blood 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Shevchenko exposed her back to Grasso, who took full advantage by submitting her with the use of a move called the “guillotine.” Mexican UFC champion headlines important Vegas fight weekend 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z As for the threat to de-throne McCarthy, a few made some noises but in the end, they all seemed to agree that they didn't need to send him to the political guillotine. The debt deal's (surprising) biggest losers 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He was executed by guillotine, the newly-invented ‘humane’ method of execution favored by the Revolutionary government. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1794, members of the opposition had removed Robespierre from power, and the Terror finally came to an end in July 1794 when its leaders, including Robespierre, were executed on the guillotine. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z That last detail matters because the guillotine is about to be rolled into the Place de la Révolution. Review | ‘Chevalier’: The bad old days of the aristocracy never looked so good 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Their reign finished badly: In the French Revolution, King Louis XVI ended up on the guillotine. In Macron’s France, streets and fields seethe with protest 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Another — “Charles III, do you know the guillotine?” — captured the way the now-canceled royal visit had led to a conflation of the British king and a French president seen by his critics as monarchical. French Anger Shifts From Pension Law to Focus on Macron 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z In fact, the bloodiest repression seen during the Terror happened far from Paris, and did not involve any guillotines. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z It was there that both King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were guillotined before packed crowds. On Paris Streets, Anti-Macron Protests Take On a Hint of Menace 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Even if there’s been nothing resembling organized threats on their well-being — guillotine memes on Twitter don’t count — today’s tech elites can certainly feel the resentment brewing. Column: Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The symbolism was powerful: It was there where Louis XVI was guillotined 230 years ago. Analysis: Macron wins Pyrrhic victory on pension bill, risks fuelling anger 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z France likes to dream of revolution, ever re-enacting the popular uprising of 1789 that led to the guillotining of the king and queen and the abolition of the monarchy three years later. French Anger Shifts From Pension Law to Focus on Macron 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z During the Terror, the king and queen were beheaded, French society was riven with bloody conflict, tens of thousands were guillotined, and the revolutionary government launched a blasphemous crusade against the church. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Many in the White Rose group were executed without trial under Hitler’s orders — beheaded by guillotine in an execution method used by the Nazis in some prisons and other sites. Traute Lafrenz Page, member of White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies at 103 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Other members of the White Rose followed the grisly trail to execution; they were among an estimated 5,000 people beheaded under a revival of the use of the guillotine ordered by Hitler. Traute Lafrenz, Last Survivor of Anti-Hitler Group, Dies at 103 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Using what is effectively a tiny guillotine—a common form of euthanasia when gas or drugs could compromise an autopsy—she sometimes performs several of the procedures per day. Suffering in silence: Caring for research animals can take a severe mental toll 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Jones sunk in a guillotine choke under the chin of Gane and the Frenchman tapped out soon afterwards. Jones becomes two-weight UFC champion 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z He choked Machida out with a guillotine and then just let him go when he was unconscious, that was absolutely wild. 'Jones is one punch away from heavyweight disaster' 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Teens under 18 would still be generally barred from employment in fields including mining, logging, demolition, and meatpacking, and from operating potentially dangerous machinery and equipment including circular saws, guillotine shears, and punching machines. “This is just crazy”: Iowa GOP’s child labor bill would let kids work “dangerous” jobs 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z This prompted Stefano Gogioso, a computer scientist at the University of Oxford, to point out that, “in machine learning, Mondrian tree/forests is used to denote a certain kind of classification performed by guillotine cuts.” The Quest to Find Rectangles in a Square 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The bleeding edge of the Enlightenment’s democratic revolution, in this telling, wasn’t to be found in a Parisian guillotine but rather in the fragile consensus forged over long meetings on a distant island. Did pirates invent democracy? David Graeber's last book makes the case 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Whether it is when she begins monologuing or while wielding a guillotine paper cutter as a weapon, the film keeps finding new ways to tease out the most fun it can from its premise. ‘M3gan’ review: Move over, Chucky: There’s a new creepy doll in town 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI and was thrust into the footsteps of his beloved and charismatic predecessor, he said he felt a guillotine had come down on him. Benedict XVI, reluctant pope who chose to retire, dies at 95 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Being elected pope, he once said, felt like a “guillotine” had come down on him. Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Indeed, Benedict once compared his election as pope to having the guillotine fall on him, a prospect that made him feel “quite dizzy.” Pope Benedict XVI, conservative pope was first in 600 years to resign, has died 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Cats are usually declawed with either a surgical scalpel, a guillotine clipper or with laser surgery. The ugly truth about declawing cats 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z With an investigation into whether Johnson intentionally misled Parliament about those parties to get underway in coming weeks, the scandal hung over Johnson’s bid to return to power like a guillotine. Boris Johnson ends comeback bid — but promises another 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z That didn’t stop the newspaper from publishing the front-page headline “You won’t silence us” in bold letters, with a picture of a hand holding a quill under the blade of a guillotine. A Guatemalan law meant to protect women from violence is being used against journalists 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z It’s blunt and obvious, the future monarch with his neck on the guillotine block, but then again it’s hard to imagine many people have dreams about Charles coming over for tea. The Sex Pistols sneered she wasn't human. But for many artists, the queen was more cipher than enemy 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z He was a casualty of the French Revolution, guillotined in 1794. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z If you, like me, are equally a fan of guillotining the rich as you are of historical romance, then this book will be a refreshing look at a swashbuckling thieves tale. 4 must-read summer YA novels, reviewed by Seattle-area teens 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z In the subsequent “Reign of Terror” carried out by the victors, Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were beheaded with the recently invented guillotine. How France’s treasured Bastille key ended up at Mount Vernon 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z She was sentenced to death by guillotine but because there was no-one available to carry out the sentence in Monaco, it was commuted to life in prison. Wimbledon finalist Vere Thomas St Leger Goold who became a murderer 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z A robotic voice-over forecast a “great awakening,” and an image of a guillotine blade accompanied the promise of “executions, justice, victory.” The Far-Right Christian Quest for Power: ‘We Are Seeing Them Emboldened’ 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn had been brought up on tales of an aristocratic ancestor who came to London during the French Revolution, fleeing the guillotine and the militant sans-culottes. Daphne du Maurier: Novelist who traced past to a French debtors' jail 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z They have warned that a leftist victory would return France to “Soviet regulation” and bring a “fiscal guillotine at all levels.” It’s Macron vs. the Left in a Fierce Battle for France’s Parliament 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z A fake guillotine was constructed on the National Mall, and people breaking into the building chanted “Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!” Jan. 6 takeaways: Pence under pressure, and in danger 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Before entering the cage, the rules were laid out — “You can do ground strikes, okay? But no knees, no leg locks, no anacondas, no guillotines, all right?” the ref leaned down and said. The rise of youth cage-fighting In They Seek Him Here, Mr Harper played a French revolutionary at the foot of the guillotine. Midsomer Murders: The vicar you may have seen many times before 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Soon after Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were guillotined in France, the revolutionary government abolished slavery in 1794, not just in Saint-Domingue but in all French colonies. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Warnings of retribution, pictures of guillotines — anti-vaxxers are becoming more unhinged in their fight against pandemic policies. Column: COVID emergency declarations will end, but not the COVID emergency. Here's how that affects you 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Midway through the third round of the Australian's UFC featherweight title defence against Brian Ortega in September, he got caught in a guillotine choke. The world got to see what I'm all about - Volkanovski 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Soon afterward, Genêt’s party fell from power in France, and he only escaped the guillotine by staying in America as a private citizen. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z David, who voted to send Louis XVI to the guillotine, both painted and perpetrated those great storms. Review | A master of propaganda, artist Jacques Louis David helped sell Frenchmen on the Revolution 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z When the guillotine power-slices through each slab with 300 tons of pressure, it sounds like an S.U.V. hitting a brick wall. Tombstone Engravers Struggle to Keep Up With Demand 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The Reign of Terror, the radical phase of the French Revolution, ended on July 28, 1794, when Robespierre went to the guillotine. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Death to the king” has been a frequent cry in recent years during street protests, along with makeshift guillotines. ‘Rather Very Human’: As Election Nears, Macron Tries to Soften His Image 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Halimi had pointed out, in court and in the media, that until 1943 a woman could, by law, have faced beheading by guillotine for having an abortion, such was the stigma around it. Marie-Claire Chevalier, minor at center of landmark French abortion case, dies at 66 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z And I didn’t want to write a book and slay my parents, bring out the guillotines. Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx opens up on sobriety, why he left California for Wyoming: ‘It’s home’ 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z But the door did little to muffle the clanging of workers chiseling granite and the boom of the guillotine. Tombstone Engravers Struggle to Keep Up With Demand 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z For her crime, Corday went to the guillotine. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon enough, all politicians were legally required to wear the caps, which women knitted while sitting beside guillotines at public executions. Red, right to the liberated heart The candy cools as it goes through those initial tunnels — going from roughly 200 degrees down to 150 by the time it’s been sliced into ribbons and guillotined into batons. Brown & Haley’s Almond Roca 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z A human skull found in a Santa Rosa garden has been linked to a grisly guillotine death and an alleged squatter accused of tampering with human remains, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported. Human skull is linked to grisly guillotine death in Santa Rosa 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Despite his crime being essentially back-street and sordid, Lacenaire had the style and wit to turn his trial and subsequent appointment with the guillotine into a kind of performance art. Review | Inspired by real-life murderers, Dostoevsky wrote a new kind of novel 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z If you think the guillotine was a cruel form of capital punishment, think again. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It guillotined the notion that great cuisine was necessarily French in its fundamentals. A Tale of Culinary Reconciliation, Beside the Eiffel Tower 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z In 1793, a year after her lover had been killed and dismembered, Madame du Barry was herself decapitated by guillotine during the Terror. This gorgeous portrait is haunted by intrigue and death Police determined that Enger — who was described in the Press Democrat as a friendly, helpful person who suffered from mental health issues — had killed himself using a makeshift guillotine. Human skull is linked to grisly guillotine death in Santa Rosa 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z She died on the guillotine in 1793, a few months after her husband, having become increasingly unpopular among the French people, who accused her of being wasteful and a dangerous influence on the king. Marie Antoinette's bracelets sell at auction for $8 million 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Prior to the guillotine’s introduction in 1792, many French criminals had suffered through horrible punishments in public places. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Marie Antoinette, who sent a letter from prison in the Tuileries in Paris saying that a wooden chest with jewels would be sent for safekeeping, was guillotined in 1793. Marie Antoinette, Duchess of Windsor jewels seek new owners at Christie's sale 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z That line, said on a CNN show, got him “an email about building a guillotine and stacking financial therapists like firewood,” he said. What’s Changed in 13 Years of Writing About the Wealthy 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Remarkably, Volkanovski managed to escape first a mounted guillotine choke then Ortega's best submission, a triangle choke, before hammering the challenger with ground strikes to finish the round. Volkanovski retains featherweight title 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Marie Antoinette sent the jewellery away for safekeeping before she was guillotined during the French revolution. Marie Antoinette's bracelets sell at auction for $8 million 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Some witnesses felt that death by the guillotine occurred much too quickly to be enjoyed by an audience. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But this is a quibble, weighed against the book’s abundant virtues, which, despite the occasional whoosh-chop! of the guillotine blade, reveal a warm heart and a flavor of well-earned catharsis. Review | How to fritter away a family fortune 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “What frightened me was that when I was led to the guillotine I wouldn’t be lucid enough to say the words, ‘Long live Algeria!’ Saadi Yacef, Algerian independence fighter who starred in ‘Battle of Algiers,’ dies at 93 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The fight was under two minutes old when the undefeated McKee landed a solid kick, followed it up with a flurry of punches and got Freire in a guillotine chokehold. McKee beats Freire at Bellator 263 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Anecdotes of such a connection are also visible throughout history: according to legend, the hair of Marie Antoinette, the 18th-century queen of France, turned white overnight just before her execution at the guillotine. Gray Hair Can Return to Its Original Color—and Stress Is Involved, of Course 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Under Robespierre’s leadership, the committee often had these “enemies” tried in the morning and guillotined in the afternoon. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Raiford told a judge on May 13 he thinks the county prosecutor’s office and the criminal justice system are “systematically racist” and that he was “not eager to run my clients back into the guillotine.” Prosecutor outlines handling of bias in plea deal assertions 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Raiford told the judge he believes Zappala’s office is “systematically racist. And I think the criminal justice system is systematically racist. And I’m not eager to run my clients back into the guillotine.” DA defends ending deals with lawyer who called office racist 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Chandler connected with a big left hand, which forced Oliveira to shoot for a takedown, but the American immediately locked up a guillotine choke that Oliveira did well to escape from. Oliveira beats Chandler to win UFC title 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z On the morning that she went to the guillotine, Sophie, aged 21, said: Student who stood up to Hitler and inspires Germany 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z They included making executions public and showing them on the internet, and bringing back hanging or the guillotine. Electrocution, shooting may end S Carolina execution impasse 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z About two weeks before the Jan. 6 riot, the TTP posted a diagram on Facebook of a guillotine built from materials available at Home Depot. Ted Cruz maintains ties to right-wing group despite its extremist messaging 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z About two weeks before the deadly Jan. 6 riot, the TTP posted a diagram on Facebook of a guillotine built from materials available at Home Depot. Ted Cruz maintains ties to right-wing group despite its extremist messaging 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z A number of tweets included references to the guillotine and the French Revolution. French authorities investigate whether ministers dined at secret luxury restaurants, violating restrictions 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z With Sanchez stunned, the champion followed his man to the mat and locked up a guillotine choke that rendered the challenger unconscious at the 3:35 mark. Freire defeats Sanchez at Bellator 255 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z On the first page we are introduced to the vivacious Olympe de Gouges, who was brought to the Paris guillotine in November 1793. Review | Meet the forgotten rebels and quiet revolutionaries of women’s history 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In science, theories are routinely subjected to the guillotine of experiments. Experimental Tests of Theology 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z On Jan. 6 in Phoenix, a group of protesters objecting to the certification of the presidential election results erected a guillotine near the Capitol. The Arizona G.O.P. Is Sticking With Trumpism, Whether Arizona Republicans Like It or Not 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Several hundred Trump supporters also staged a “Stop the Steal” rally at the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix, cheering and jeering while exhibiting a guillotine. Protests spring up at several statehouses as siege at U.S. Capitol unfolds 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Even though Dimcevski’s company got the app-store guillotine for its obvious public health threat, he didn’t think he was the worst offender out there. 'We were canceled by the liberal media': Inside the shutdown of pandemic party app Vybe Together 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s known as the “Marie Antoinette Syndrome,” after the 18th-century French queen whose hair allegedly turned white overnight before she went to the guillotine and her death at age 38 during the French Revolution. Getting to the root of why and when our hair goes gray 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Although he voiced his opposition to the death penalty, he refused to commute three of the death sentences passed during his term, and the last use of the guillotine in France took place in 1977. Obituary: Valéry Giscard D'Estaing 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The French Revolution started as a class upheaval and ended up being defined by the guillotine. Ally of far-right Florida candidate Laura Loomer launches "Blood of Liberty" super PAC 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “It’s living in the shadow of the guillotine.” When a college cuts a sports program, these are the lives upended 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z But the pitchfork and guillotine suit him poorly. Review: How Reagan and the finance bros gave us Trump 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z In France, revolution ushered in the guillotine and Napoleon. Editorial Roundup: Georgia 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Just like those Frenchwomen watching the guillotine come down, I thought, quickening my pace until I was halted by the city’s notorious vandalism. Opinion | Life in ‘Anarchist’ New York City 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Images showed attendees taking pictures of a guillotine with an effigy of Trump. Protesters try to drown out Trump's acceptance speech 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Nearby protesters set up a small guillotine, with the District of Columbia flag as the blade. Protesters gather in an attempt to drown out Trump’s speech 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “Going into a public hospital is like facing the guillotine, especially nowadays with the coronavirus” the nephew said. Venezuelans fight virus in secret to avoid isolation centers 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “Everyone is working on the assumption we are on a path to ending it but not yet; a planned programme rather than a guillotine in January.” Laggard banks told COVID-19 no excuse to delay beefing up EU Brexit hubs 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Philadelphia’s bubble run at Disney World amounted to a month-long guillotine. Analysis | Brett Brown is fired and Joel Embiid’s title window with Sixers may have closed. Now what? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro told "Life, Liberty & Levin" in an interview airing Sunday that the ongoing unrest in the United States resembles "the French Revolution in real time without the actual physical guillotines." Ben Shapiro tells Mark Levin US is going through 'French Revolution in real time' without guillotines 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z The furor intensified when Mohammed Salah, Egypt’s revered soccer star, said Mr. Warda should be given a second chance and not “sent to the guillotine.” Accusations of Serial Rape Push Egypt Toward a Reckoning 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z With the fall of the opinion class, the mask rips off To be clear, the opinionators are not in danger of an actual guillotining — except maybe metaphorically, which is not at all the same. Letterheads: social media and the end of discourse 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The remains of hundreds of people guillotined during the French Revolution may be buried in the walls of a Paris chapel. Grisly remains of guillotine victims may have been discovered in the walls of a Paris chapel 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Experts believe the remains of up to 500 people guillotined during the French Revolution may be buried in the walls of a listed monument in Paris. French Revolution: remains discovered in walls of Paris monument 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z French radicals tore down a statue of King Louis XV — a sort of dry run for the subsequent guillotining of the king’s grandson, Louis XVI. Opinion | What tearing down statues reveals about revolutionary movements 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z This is the kind of thing that makes people post memes of fake Ikea manuals for flat-pack guillotines in the comments. What’s the Point of a Celebrity in a Pandemic? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z In Wisconsin, about a dozen men, several wearing camouflage, carried what appeared to be assault rifles and other long guns and stood around a makeshift guillotine at a protest attended by about 1,500 people. Michigan militia puts armed protest in the spotlight 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z The chapel was built on the site of the Madeleine Cemetery, where the remains of many people guillotined during the revolution were buried. Grisly remains of guillotine victims may have been discovered in the walls of a Paris chapel 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Yet when Charles Oliveira guillotined Kevin Lee to end the main event, I felt the familiar thrill of experiencing the unexpected for the only time all weekend. When Coronavirus Turns Every Sports Channel Into ESPN Classic 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Charles Oliveira stopped lightweight Kevin Lee with a guillotine choke in the third round of the main event in the UFC’s first show since many other sports organizations around the world postponed and canceled competitions. UFC holds fight card in Brasilia amid coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Comments considered in violation included jokes around historically violent left-wing populist revolutions, like who goes to the guillotine first. The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z "Anytime we've had this before, society blows up and they do set up the guillotines and the guillotines don't have to chop your head off," he said. Leaked audio: Mike Bloomberg trashes Obama and vows to "defend the banks" in Goldman Sachs speech 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Finally, all that was left was the guillotine. When Did Gluttony Become So Glamorous? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Lined up above them all are the invisible guillotines that dangle over many people of color in America. Netflix’s Gentefied follows a Mexican American family in the heart of a gentrifying LA neighborhood 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Others wanted a more vigorous application of the revolution through the guillotine — let’s call them Bernobins. Opinion | By any measure, Buttigieg is Trump’s proven superior 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Demonstraters gathered under the heavy rain at the governor’s mansion as they waved flags, banged on pots, with even carried a guillotine aloft, although it appeared to be purely symbolic. Puerto Ricans protest as anger rises over unused emergency aid 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Once the drawings were discovered, along with a recording of her saying, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche!” she was guillotined on Oct. Perspective | Think the Astros cheated? Look at Marie Antoinette. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z An enemy of Robespierre steals the secret book listing his candidates for the guillotine. Movies on TV this week: 'Young Frankenstein' and more 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Or perhaps we should abolish our modern-day aristocrats altogether, not, as the French did, with guillotine and pitchfork, but through taxation and confiscation. Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America's aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z However, Means dropped Alves with a punch and locked in a guillotine choke to secure the first round submission. Jairzinho Rozenstruik stuns Alistair Overeem in UFC main event 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Um, the people of Puerto Rico are carrying a guillotine to the Governor’s mansion right now. Puerto Ricans protest as anger rises over unused emergency aid 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Finally, on Tuesday at 2 p.m. sharp, the president met in the Rose Garden with two turkeys, named Bread and Butter — and both were spared the guillotine. Opinion | I am thankful for one hero dog, two pardoned turkeys and ending animal cruelty 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z “I upset her, and I was told that if that behaviour ever happened again, then” – she makes a guillotine gesture. Melanie C: 'I've had an incredible career. It's time I accepted myself' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z London dandy Sir Percy dons disguises to save French nobles from the Reign of Terror guillotine. Movies on TV this week: 'Silence of the Lambs' 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “She had to cancel another event because she was getting death threats and the transgender activists showed up with a guillotine,” said Ms. Kao. Radical feminists, conservative women unite to fight transgender agenda 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Theatre22 is concurrently running “The Revolutionists” as a lighthearted companion piece — if you can call a story whose characters routinely die by guillotine “lighthearted.” Artists lose their heads, figuratively and literally, in ‘White’ and ‘The Revolutionists’ at Seattle’s 12th Ave Arts 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Those nuances were lost on news aggregators like boingboing.net, where a cartoonish photo illustration of someone being guillotined outside Cherry Hill High School East accompanied a recent story about the purported persecution of hungry children. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z More than two centuries after her death by guillotine, Marie Antoinette remains one of the most reviled names in history, the epitome of heartless elitism run amok. France reconsiders Marie Antoinette: The cake-eating tyrant is now an 'emancipated woman' 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Robespierre has Sir Percy’s wife kidnapped to spite him for helping French nobles elude the guillotine. Movies on TV this week: 'Silence of the Lambs' 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Wednesday sleeps in a guillotine bed, arising quickly each morning and evading the blade that threatens to lop off her braids with nooses at the ends. ‘The Addams Family’ review: a kooky but not-so-spooky animated feature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z As for poor Honoré Blanc, he was undone by the French Revolution of 1789 - his dungeon workshop sacked by a mob, his political support guillotined. The spectacular power of interchangeable parts 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z People like you will be the first into the guillotines! It’s not necessarily nosy if you just happen to eavesdrop on this Nextdoor ‘conversation’ 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z As Mr. Savage said on Wednesday, “He is already in the hay wagon on the way to the guillotine because of the fascist vermin in the media.” ‘Everything You’re Seeing Is Deception’: How Right-Wing Media Talks About Impeachment 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z But they backed down after dragging out a debate past 1am on Wednesday night/Thursday morning after the opposition parties agreed not to use guillotine motions. Brexit: Bill intended to block no deal to become law after being passed by House of Lords – live news 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Neither "kings" nor "kingdoms" will survive the ultimate guillotine of time. The Only Thing That Remains Constant Is Change 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z But added: "Many who make mistakes can change for the better and shouldn't be sent straight to the guillotine." Africa's 'fairy-tale' team, cursed jerseys and super fans 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Later in life, he married Dr. Lorraine Day, a Holocaust denier, and wrote that Congress had passed a law making "the belief in Jesus Christ a crime punishable by decapitation by guillotine." William Dannemeyer, former O.C. congressman and anti-gay crusader, dies at 89 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Later in life, he married Dr. Lorraine Day, a Holocaust denier, and wrote that Congress had passed a law making “the belief in Jesus Christ a crime punishable by decapitation by guillotine.” William Dannemeyer, former O.C. congressman and anti-gay crusader, dies at 89 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Shortly after Egypt beat the Democratic of Congo to reach the final 16 of Afcon on Wednesday, Mo Salah tweeted that his colleague "should not be sent to the guillotine". Mo Salah defends footballer accused of harassment 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z User comments include racial or ethnic slurs, or include violent images of guns or guillotines. The people fighting Facebook hate 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z After Marie Antoinette was guillotined in a pair of high heels, the style fell out of fashion. Japan’s women are right: high heels need kicking out of the workplace | Summer Brennan 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z When asked why he wound up in a French prison awaiting the guillotine, he explains he couldn’t find a good crepe anywhere else in the world. Review: Amazon’s ‘Good Omens’ turns End Times into a fun and bizarre frolic 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z As in the person they guillotine in the revolution.'” Moby reveals Lana Del Rey insulted him to his face when he tried to seduce her 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z As in the person they guillotine in the revolution.” ‘After sex on the damp sheets, we passed out’ – the worst moments from Moby’s memoir 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The contents of the letters are enough to make Jay Gatsby salivate, or impel your local Democratic Socialists of America chapter member to reach for the nearest guillotine meme. Essential California: The secret literature of the Beverly Hills City Council files 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The 4-month-old female died instantly when “a solid metal guillotine door” fell on the pup, Zoo Miami said in a statement. Endangered African painted dog pup killed at Florida zoo in ‘guillotine door’ accident 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z A long-standing - but not usually a very public - critic likened me to a spectator at the guillotine as I stalked the commons corridors. No 10 plans to stand firm as PM's future unclear 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Rocker Alice Cooper closed the first edition of the Domination Music Festival in Mexico City with a concert that included his classic straitjacket routine, a guillotine and many costume changes. AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The kings of Judea, which were a prime example of Gothic art, had been taken from Notre Dame during the French Revolution and guillotined by antiroyalists who mistakenly thought they represented French kings. A devastated art world wept and watched as Notre Dame burned 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Errol’s book is a masterpiece of rhetoric and character assassination: do we really need the illustration of Louis XVI’s bloody head raised at the guillotine? Thomas Kuhn Wasn't So Bad 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z “For an as of yet unknown reason, a cable that supported a solid metal guillotine door separated and the door then fell on the animal causing instant death,” the zoo said. Endangered African painted dog pup killed at Florida zoo in ‘guillotine door’ accident 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z One protester in Normandy on Saturday had “Bring back the guillotine” written on his yellow vest. Macron's Great Debate: a turning point or 'puffed-up nonsense'? 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Are we doing so very badly that we need to bring back the guillotines? Opinion | We have a bleak view of modern life. But the world is making real progress. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Time is running out, with the Premier League’s transfer guillotine set to fall at 11pm GMT on Thursday. Transfer news: Callum Hudson-Odoi and Youri Tielemans latest – live! 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Rousseau’s reification of “authenticity” can lead to the appeal of the guillotine, Nazism, white supremacy and Trumpism. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Deepfakes, split infinitives and not doing enough about R. Kelly 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The guillotine doors allow zoo staff to remotely regulate the animals’ access to holding areas and exhibit the habitat. Endangered African painted dog pup killed at Florida zoo in ‘guillotine door’ accident 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Four years later he lost his head at the guillotine. Macron's Great Debate: a turning point or 'puffed-up nonsense'? 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z In another episode, Super Dave attempts to withstand the falling blade of a guillotine. Bob Einstein, comic writer and actor who appeared on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ dies at 76 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z A number of their encampments feature mock guillotines dedicated to the president. The Question for France: Where Do the Yellow Vests Go From Here? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The decision to sign him hangs overhead like a guillotine. Quarterback position — and decision process — remains iffy in District 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Though Europe in the 19th century was moving toward democracy, in the Papal States the pope held almost total power, using spies and the guillotine to enforce his will. Favorite nonfiction from 2018, from Princess Margaret to a Silicon Valley scammer 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z He wrote that Congress passed a law that makes “the belief in Jesus Christ a crime punishable by decapitation by guillotine.” Rohrabacher exit will mark the end of those hard-edged, right-wing politicians of O.C.’s Republican heyday 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z His Facebook account, featuring a guillotine, symbol of the French Revolution and the device for death penalty until 1981, was briefly suspended before being reinstated after he put up a more acceptable image. How Facebook Groups sparked a crisis in France 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z In the other, Pepe’s fate is even less ambiguous: Gritty decapitates Pepe with a guillotine – an image clearly echoing the original Jacobins. Liberté, Egalité, Gritté: how an NHL mascot became an antifa hero 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The daughter of Holy Roman Empress Maria Teresa and wife of King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette was guillotined in October 1793 during the height of the French Revolution. Marie Antoinette's pearl and diamond pendant sold at auction for record $36 million 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z If this ethos seems familiar, that is because it has preceded some of the darkest moments in human history – the eras of violent purges, authoritarian dictators and sharpened guillotines. America's new aristocracy live in an accountability-free zone | David Sirota 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Three years later, the 75-foot-tall column was set at the center of Place de la Concorde, near where in the 1790s, the execution “theater” of the French Revolution excited the hordes with its efficient guillotine. Whether in 1955 or 2018, we’ll always have Paris 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The guillotine was used to silence the opposition. A botanist, a pope and a princess: Three new biographies 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But reinserting into the collective imagination the idea that a guillotine is an appropriate form of justice might surprise even sympathetic leftists, if for no other reason than the impact simplistic memes can have. Liberté, Egalité, Gritté: how an NHL mascot became an antifa hero 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z She led a chant of “love wins” as a protester to her right held up a sign that read “Give Nazis a Platform” — and showed a bloody guillotine on a platform. Rally by White Nationalists Was Over Almost Before It Began 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Given this humbling historical lesson, theoretical physicists should be careful of premature hubris in celebrating conjectures and accept the final verdict of experimental guillotines in setting the fate of untested speculations. Theoretical Physics is Pointless without Experimental Tests 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The guillotine was last used to behead a convict in 1977. Controversial guillotine auctioned off 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Sotheby’s says Marie Antoinette, who was guillotined during the French Revolution, was often portrayed wearing pearls, which the auction house says were as prized as diamonds in the late 18th century. Marie Antoinette pearls unseen for 200 years to be auctioned 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z She remains a presence in the game, flowing through Roland Garros with the determined air of a queen not quite ready for the guillotine. Maria Sharapova regains regal air after Donna Vekic win in Paris 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z He was guillotined in 1801 after he was implicated in an assassination plot against Napoleon Bonaparte. A Revealing Statue of Washington Arrives, but Not Its Champion 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Another narrator goes to a checkpoint where “guillotines rain down from the sky” – an image invoking Israeli shells during the military assault of 2008-9 in which 1,400 Palestinians were killed. A suicide in Gaza 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Melania may not be reluctant, so much as theatrically embodying a 21st-century cultural endpoint, a wry, impeccably groomed nihilism, ascending each podium like a woman who, sentenced to the guillotine, doesn’t care. Is Melania Trump the most reluctant first lady ever? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z He is still with us, and so clearly was not guillotined. Powerful women are rushing to Tom Brokaw's defense. Are they wrong? | Jill Filipovic 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z So would you be alright in being dragged from your home, given a ten minute trial for a crime you'd never heard of, and then being executed immediately by guillotine? A 10-Minute Trial, a Death Sentence: Iraqi Justice for ISIS Suspects 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Suit pants were cut at the knee as if they’d been guillotined. No-fur Stella McCartney fuses men’s, women’s styles in Paris 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z But I'm too dramatized that one of our game's fledgling icons was almost guillotined by a 90's sitcom star to venture one. Potter holds off golf's biggest names, Rory's so-so return and Spieth survives comedian's skulled shot - Golf Digest 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z This helps me understand why the French invented the guillotine. Populism Is Waning, Which Is Reason to Party in Davos 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z VERSAILLES, France—French president Emmanuel Macron wined and dined Davos-bound business leaders inside the Palace of Versailles on Monday in an effort to shake off the country’s image as a guillotine for foreign investment. Macron Woos Big Names Like Facebook and Google for Investment 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z “It’s an American tradition that we don’t send those we disagree with politically to the guillotine like they did in the French Revolution,” he said. Robert Mueller money laundering push could spark constitutional crisis 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Researchers attached mako shark teeth to a guillotine to replicate how a real shark would bite down on a hagfish. These eel-like creatures use their flaccid, squishy skin to survive shark attacks 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z In a country that dispatched its monarchy to the guillotine in the 18th century, Hallyday was mourned like a beloved king who, for one brief moment, had unified his people in grief. Johnny Hallyday's fans fill Paris streets to bid adieu to ‘French Elvis’ – LA Times 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z In one case, he wrote that lethal injection should be scrapped for the firing squad, though he thought the guillotine the best method. 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski is accused by former clerks of sexual misconduct 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Other publishers that depend on Facebook for a large portion of their traffic — which is to say, most of them — fear they could be next under the guillotine. How 41 People in Lithuania Took Over Your Facebook Feed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s no surprise everybody calls the device “the guillotine.” Native plant nursery in South Texas concentrates on seeds 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Gall looks for a guillotine choke from the bottom but doesn't get it. UFC 217 live updates: Bisping vs. St. Pierre 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z This cartoon shows a citizen in the guillotine, the release of the blade in his mouth, with an army officer telling him: "Please talk and express your opinion" 'We need to talk' about Egypt hashtag 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z With federal grants and state funding now facing the guillotine, “Of course, we in the humanities and creative arts are worried,” he says. The 2017 MacArthur Fellows Were Just Announced. Here’s How 6 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners Spent Their Life-Changing Prize Money 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The Lords has taken the view that Article 50 is in effect a "guillotine" and the UK would be free to walk away without any responsibilities should agreement not be reached. Reality Check: Does the UK owe the EU money? 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The guillotine of public criticism was sharp and swift. Former Met boss Thomas Campbell: 'I was passionate about the museum and its mission' 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But, while the French Revolution may call to mind scenes of terror and guillotines, the first anniversary of the 1789 events at the Bastille was marked by revolutionaries, clergy and royals celebrating side by side. The Surprisingly Peaceful History of Bastille Day Celebrations 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Whether it’s cutting off his own head onstage with a guillotine, or throwing live chickens at his audience, his shows could teach today’s singer songwriters a thing or two about stagecraft. Alice Cooper webchat – follow live 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z “One of the ways you show you’re having an impact is to take one of several executives to the guillotine.” When Activists Enter the Kitchen, the CFOs Feel the Heat 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Kelleher grabs a guillotine choke and gets the shocking submission really quickly. UFC 212 live updates: Aldo vs. Holloway 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Stern said she was rescued, but her injuries were so severe that she suffered a “guillotine amputation,” the removal of the lower half of her body at the hips. $95.6M awarded to Philadelphia building collapse survivor 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z An 84-year-old woman running for a council spot in Glasgow called for abolishing golf courses and bringing back the guillotine. Sergio Garcia's green jacket tour, golf ball-contaminated hash browns & the "Rory-al Wedding" - Golf Digest 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Say "no" to golf courses and "yes" to . . . guillotines? UK political candidate calls for abolishing golf courses and bringing back... the guillotine? - Golf Digest 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Many of his clients died under the guillotine in the French revolution. Jeff Koons' Louis Vuitton bags: a joyous art history lesson 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Denis district, but it is also an allusion to Victor Hugo’s novel about the Terror of 1793, heyday of the guillotine. The Prophet of France’s Fracture 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Both James Madison and Maximilien Robespierre pursued certain truths about human equality; only one employed the argument of the guillotine. Opinion | The tribal truths that set the stage for Trump’s lies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Other, smaller programs will face the fiscal guillotine instead. Opinion | ‘America first’ really means ‘Americans last’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z “It becomes just na-na-na-na-na,” he added, because nobody really thinks Mr. Trump will bring back the guillotine. Trump Embraces ‘Enemy of the People,’ a Phrase With a Fraught History 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z The Education Department, using this tool and others, ultimately has the power to punish egregious violators by cutting off federal financial aid — the industry’s lifeblood — with the efficiency of a guillotine. For-Profit Schools, an Obama Target, See New Day Under Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z He began another opinion about an insurance dispute with this: “Haunted houses may be full of ghosts, goblins, and guillotines, but it’s their more prosaic features that pose the real danger.” Simply stated, Gorsuch is steadfast and surprising 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z His party, “the Jacobins of the twentieth century,” he wrote, should follow suit, if not with the guillotine, then with mass arrests of “the financial magnates and bigwigs.” Donald Trump and the Enemies of the American People 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Democratic revolutionaries executed King Louis XVI by guillotine less than four years later. Without path from protest to power, the Women's March will end up like Occupy 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z In the interview, LePage laughed when he talked about using the guillotine to chop off the heads of drug traffickers. Other provocative remarks by Maine’s governor over the years 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Many were later guillotined — including the 'father of modern chemistry', Antoine Lavoisier. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z One by one, the so-called Freedom Caucus trundled GOP House leaders off to the ideological guillotine, as the Tea Party revolution grew more extreme. Editorials from around New England 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Switzerland’s complex economic and trading relations with the EU are governed by a web of more than 120 bilateral treaties that are all linked by a “guillotine clause” – if one is breached, they all collapse. Swiss compromise over free movement may deal blow to UK hopes 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Lord Fowler also argues that the House of Lords does not get the credit for the "fantastic work" that it does, citing the fact that many debates in the Commons are cut short, or "guillotined". Too many peers 'undermines role of Lords' says new Speaker - BBC News 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Later that month, LePage said he wanted to use the guillotine to execute drug dealers publicly. Other provocative remarks by Maine’s governor over the years 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z One Syrian activist, pessimistic that the cease-fire would make any difference in the conflict, posted on Facebook: “and they gathered like sheep in front of the guillotine.” Hillary Clinton, Zika, Syria: Your Monday Evening Briefing 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The aftermath of the main event even had a puzzling moment, when Overeem claimed in an interview in the cage that Miocic had tapped out to the guillotine. Stipe Miocic’s thrilling win salvages an embarrassing night for the UFC 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Hence the work of the Committee of Public Safety, whose chief handmaiden was the guillotine and whose activities depended critically on anonymous reports about those whose commitment to virtue was less than wholehearted. The College Formerly Known as Yale 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z But even LePage, who complained about drug dealers impregnating white girls in Maine and suggesting guillotining criminals, thinks Trump needs to modulate his tone. 5 delusional right-wing moments this week: Ben Carson thinks the Khan family should apologize to Trump 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z George Washington said he preferred the plow to the messiness of politics — Robespierre preferred the guillotine. It's Time to Reflect on the French Revolution 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z The company concedes the perils of a sport that allows a move called the guillotine, but says it is paying for research into concussions and points to a long list of protocols that protect fighters. Fighting a Cage Match to Turn UFC Into a National Phenomenon 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z There's a replica guillotine in Halifax, which harks back to the time when the town was a major producer of cloth. A ghoulish tour of medieval punishments - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z On July 28, 1794, Robespierre, the man who oversaw the murder of so many, was himself guillotined. The College Formerly Known as Yale 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Let’s go back to February, when Brown's four appointees to the commission voted along with others to guillotine Executive Director Charles Lester, despite objections from hundreds of public officials and environmental stewards. Gov. Brown, notice anything fishy about your Coastal Commission? 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “During downturns,” Stern says, “the financial guillotines hit hardest in regions where clusters are weakest.” Collaboration: The geography of discovery : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Then again, LePage seems to particularly have it in for those who do drugs, though he stopped short of calling for their public guillotining, his suggested method of treating drug dealers. 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Paul LePage is really this sadistic 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z President Ernie Grunfeld is expected to avoid the guillotine and return for a 14th season, mostly because the Wizards enacted a plan long ago to create cap space for this summer’s free agent class. After a lost season, Wizards need an overhaul in personnel — and attitude 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Yale, though sitting on a tax-exempt endowment of $24 billion, does not have the guillotine. The College Formerly Known as Yale 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z McGregor recognized this and shot for a takedown, which Diaz, a jiujitsu black belt, turned into a guillotine attempt. Conor McGregor and Holly Holm losses knock UFC for a loop 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The giant departures board is hung ponderously in the middle of the room like a guillotine blade. Inside America's worst train station 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z They want to send public education off to the guillotine. Corporate reformers wreck public schools: Billionaire foundations and Wall Street financiers are not out to help your kids learn 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Police closed the show, fearing that it might bring back to life the guillotined Louis XVI. Mysteries of light through the ages 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In the west, farmers praised the French Revolution, talked of bringing the guillotine to America and raised a new flag with a stripe for each rebel county - including Bedford. ‘Whiskey Rebellion’ tourism eyed for Pennsylvania county 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z One day Maine’s governor is talking about using the guillotine on drug dealers. Thursday's Mini-Report, 1.28.16 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Gordon quotes one passenger’s description of the mood in boarding areas: “Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine was a bluebird for happiness in comparison.” Has the Internet Made Air Travel Irrelevant? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Instead he has made it clearer than ever that those days have gone and that, if the guillotine does fall, he wants everyone to know he is actually the victim here. Why Chelsea’s players have a right to feel betrayed by José Mourinho | Daniel Taylor 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z A reviewer for an English newspaper saw guillotines. WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Fashion Innovator is still fully in control of her business. Now she has amplified her legacy with the new Fondazione Prada 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Lafayette, a nobleman and moderate, was forced into exile and prison, while his in-laws went to the guillotine. A vainglorious French superstar in America’s revolution 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Edsall had to feel like a man being publicly marched to the guillotine. Marriage of Randy Edsall and Maryland was doomed from the start 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z One year it received a handwritten letter from a man who made guillotines along with photographs of his handiwork. Some Gifts You Won’t See in the Neiman Marcus Holiday Catalog 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z What is the difference between the Nats’ bullpen gate and a guillotine? O’s sweep fight right out of Nats — and now some questions must be asked 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The Palace at Versailles was once home to Marie Antoinette, who was guillotined during the French Revolution. Anish Kapoor's Dirty Work sculpture vandalised again - BBC News 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z In the popular imagination, nothing symbolizes the revolution more vividly than the guillotine, which became its principal means of public execution, accounting for some 16,000 deaths during the “Reign of Terror” of 1793-1794. 5 myths about the French Revolution 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The guillotine, which we now regard as cruel, was seen at the time of the French Revolution as humane because it was a “machine for the production of rapid and discreet deaths.” What the Islamic State shows us about human nature and torture 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In an article on its website, a radical section of Syriza called Left Platform called for “historic decisions,” noting that Greece’s creditors were “becoming bolder” with demands it described as “a guillotine.” Limited Progress Seen on Greek Debt Talks as Eurozone Officials Meet 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “I prepared for this fight for so long, I was going for the right time to a guillotine.” Werdum defeats Velasquez to become heavyweight champion 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z A scramble ensues where Pyle looks for a guillotine choke but he can't get it and Covington once again ends up on the top on the ground. UFC 187: Daniel Cormier beats Anthony Johnson; Chris Weidman defeats Vitor Belfort 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z The guillotine remained in use in France as late as 1977. 5 myths about the French Revolution 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It was an unfortunate early exit because he was within eight strokes of the lead when the guillotine fell. 'Overrated' Fowler makes major point 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z With a vengeful glare she condemns him to the guillotine. How Does Alice Cooper Keep Killing It At His Job At The Age Of Sixty-Seven? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But American POWs weren’t beheaded with this guillotine during the Vietnam War. Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, Hanoi Hilton highlights in historic Vietnam city 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The censors’ guillotine fell a day after the start of the annual session of the National People’s Congress, the party-controlled legislature that is supposed to represent official candor and accountability. China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Washington National Opera’s premiere of Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” is set during the French Revolution, when Carmelite nuns were guillotined for refusing to renounce their faith. Washington National Opera raising curtain on Poulenc’s ‘Carmelites’ 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z For the first couple of days after the publication of my essay criticizing military worship, “You Don’t Protect My Freedom,” I certainly felt like my head was resting in the guillotine. My week in the right-wing lie machine: When Fox News, Twitchy and Montel Williams declared war on me 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z “Are we giving them sufficient aid that they can use their money to buy more guillotines? And would we starve people without food aid? It’s a tough conversation. It gives you a stomach ache.” ISIS at the Border 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Apparently the masses loved it and the aristos, too — at least those whom the guillotine hadn’t greeted. Book review: ‘Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Found,’ by Frances Larson Over 200 years after his death by guillotine, Robespierre is portrayed as one of the villains in the game. France Takes Issue With ‘Assassin’s Creed’ These include a treadmill with spinning blades, an iron maiden, a massive bear trap and a guillotine, to name but a few. ZADZOOKS: Bayonetta 2 review 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z The French emigres in the United States were soon joined by diplomats from the new government in Paris who would have been happy to send them back to France and the guillotine. Book review: ‘When the United States Spoke French’ by Francois Furstenberg It has been 165 days since the guillotine came down and he will probably never get it out of his system. David Moyes is burdened by the stigma of his Manchester United failure 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Dressing ostentatiously in Paris after the storming of the Bastille was a terrific way to earn a date with a guillotine. The Suit Is Back (If It Ever Really Went Away) Apart from the display of the guillotines used by the French to punish their Vietnamese prisoners, it also has on display a blown up photograph of U.S. Vietnam Says It Owns The Seas, But Will Anybody Notice? 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The guillotine is probably best but seems inconsistent with our national ethos. America has a killing problem that has nothing to do with murder 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The guillotine was quick and "pretty much foolproof," he said, but probably would not be accepted by the public. Executions should be by firing squad, federal appeals court judge says 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z This joke embodies the engineer’s mindset: A lawyer, a doctor and an engineer were being sent to the guillotine. Wrestling With Jekyll And Hyde: The Business Guy Vs. The Engineer In Me 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Sure, the aristocrats of the ancien régime ended up at the guillotine. Nick Hanauer Wants The Fat Cats To Save Themselves. Here's Why They Won't. 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z France banned the guillotine only in 1981, under a new Socialist government, a century and a half after Victor Hugo inveighed against “those state crimes that go by the name of legal executions.” In Europe and U.S., Divergent Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z We give a team two or three years to win it all before they have to fire the coach or shuffle the roster or do something, because that window is dropping like a guillotine. Tim Duncan And Open Windows 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z "Any time you have moving parts on stage, you are asking for Spinal Tap," he says of the gallows and the guillotine that were climactic fixtures of his live shows in the early 1970s. Alice Cooper: 'Rock music was looking for a villain' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Cooper’s stage antics are shown in fun clips that feature the shock-rocker performing in a straitjacket, naked under clear plastic, or submitting to onstage execution by hanging, electric chair or guillotine. Review: ‘Mensch’ affectionate tribute to manager 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z High sticking is when you flail your hockey stick over your opponent, accidentally or otherwise, to guillotine his head from its chassis. Hockey neophytes, here's where you come to terms with the sport 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z “But as a father and former lawman, I really don’t care if it’s by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions.” Obama Calls for Death Penalty Inquiry After Oklahoma Execution 2014-05-03T15:11:33Z During the French Revolution, the guillotine eliminated the prolonged suffering while continuing to deliver an unmistakable message, but it was a disturbing sight for witnesses upset by blood and gore. America’s Long and Grisly Search for the Perfect Way to Kill 2014-04-30T19:51:47Z Or perhaps the guillotine is on its way in. An 'immoral and unconscionable' execution 2014-04-30T16:01:00Z I balked, but after the teacher promised “I won’t tell you what it is,” I held my breath and shuffled onto the scale as if to the guillotine. Well: Me Versus the Scale 2014-01-27T21:43:27Z Supporters of opposing teams fill the role of Madame Defarge at the guillotine, improvising mocking chants that foreshadow a manager’s dismissal. Premier League Firings With Steinbrenner-esque Frequency 2013-12-19T17:09:11Z Everyone lives under the shadow of the guillotine. The changing face of conservatism 2013-09-02T01:28:06Z All of a sudden, I found myself beneath the guillotine wherever I turned. 'Beneath the guillotine': Writer on anguish inside Syria 2013-08-30T15:52:34Z He married a terrorist he saved from the guillotine, but left her and his two children and disappeared for eight years. Jacques Vergès, Defender of War Criminals and Terrorists, Dies at 88 2013-08-16T07:50:45Z After Teixeira pulled guard and caught Te Huna in a guillotine for a quick submission, the Brazilian celebrated with Mike Tyson in the octagon. Cain stops Bigfoot in 1st round, defends UFC title 2013-05-26T04:19:09Z Heads rolled in his first bloodletting since taking charge, with the guillotine falling the software chief. Can Apple stop the profits rot? 2013-04-22T15:45:14Z "One of us is a cigar stand, and one of us is a beautiful blue incandescent guillotine," says Tom Goodfellow. New Zealand v England – second ODI as it happened 2013-03-05T17:47:23Z It used to be called "Le Crunch" but this year's fixture has more of a guillotine feel to it. Why leadership is key to France woes 2013-02-19T11:53:42Z A nostalgic reporter’s notebook of life among the cafe philosophers, berated musicians and pseudo-revolutionary artistes, it danced with digressions about taxes, restaurants, the guillotine, Hemingway, Charles de Gaulle and the Devil’s Island penal colony. Stanley Karnow, Historian and Journalist, Is Dead at 87 2013-01-28T01:13:32Z As he is led to the guillotine, Danton tells his executioners, “Show my head to the people — it is worth seeing.” Op-Ed Contributor: A Frenchman Dreams of Russia 2013-01-10T00:51:35Z The monarch was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793. Blood of Louis XVI 'identified' 2013-01-01T15:59:12Z Another time, a guillotine made of Pabst’s beer cans executed an effigy of “eminent domain theft.” Exhausted From an Angry and Losing Battle Against Barclays Center 2012-11-26T03:47:43Z Under guillotine procedures, the debate was limited to 10 hours and was dominated by party leaders and spokespeople, disenfranchising backbench MPs. Greece is ripe for radical change 2012-11-08T16:05:13Z Following the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason and guillotined in the French capital on 16 October 1793. VIDEO: Marie Antoinette's slippers fetch 50,000 euros 2012-10-17T19:49:35Z Following the French Revolution, she was convicted of treason and guillotined in the French capital on 16 October 1793. Antoinette's slippers for sale 2012-10-17T12:16:38Z He seemed to want Clegg's reform to proceed and proposed a guillotine motion to that end. Nick Clegg's in the last ditch. Now is the time for him to come out fighting 2012-08-07T19:30:01Z Machida failed to reclaim the belt last December from Jones, who stopped him with a standing guillotine choke in Toronto for the formerly formidable Brazilian's third loss in four fights. Rua, Machida post big UFC wins in Fox show 2012-08-05T02:43:09Z No, I have no idea how they handle the guillotine part. Apps Rush: The Unilever Series, Bing Get MeThere, SoFit, Goldstar Savings Bank, Jurassic Park Builder and more 2012-07-24T08:15:08Z Softball officials are partnering with baseball -- also given the Olympic guillotine -- with hopes of getting back into the program in 2020. Osterman to watch Games with clenched teeth 2012-07-23T21:02:46Z I mean, put my neck in the guillotine right now. Eric Wedge considered having a number of players pitch last night, but not Ichiro 2012-07-21T22:23:05Z This dead-eyed cynic trailing between guillotines, this ogre that expects the worst from the world? Eva Wiseman: Why are we so cynical? 2012-07-14T23:04:06Z The government could also bring back that trusty old fellow, the guillotine motion. The war of the Lords 2012-07-10T12:25:47Z Hodgson has already sent Rio Ferdinand to the guillotine and, at 33, there is no feasible way back for the Manchester United defender. Euro 2012: Roy Hodgson must call time on John Terry's England career 2012-06-30T22:00:04Z Dressed square in the guillotine, the finished slates are sorted and packed into crates. Country diary: Delabole, Cornwall: Guided tour of a slate quarry reveals slabs of history and modern methods 2012-06-19T19:59:01Z His social media savvy guests took secrecy to the guillotine by tweeting and Instagramming about the party; those photos quickly made their way onto Business Insider. Yammer CEO Discovers It's Hard To Keep A Lavish 'Let Him Eat Cake' Party A Secret In The Social Media Age 2012-06-19T15:42:17Z Damien Comolli, the Liverpool director of football, had already been sent to the guillotine before the striker's performance, as a second-half substitute, in the FA Cup final put him in the frame. Roy Hodgson uneasy in England chair with limited stock of talent 2012-05-16T22:00:02Z Since the emergence of programme motions in the 1990s, the guillotine has largely fallen into disuse. The war of the Lords 2012-07-10T12:25:47Z To force them through the popular House the Government were obliged to introduce an amendment of the Standing Orders, colloquially known as the "guillotine," and to closure the bills through the House. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z She is condemned to the guillotine, but manages to escape. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z Marie was the first to mount the steps to the guillotine. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z But with these crimes--and be it understood I do not refer here to the work of the guillotine--I thank God that I have at this time nothing to do. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z I would rather take the guillotine as my subject to extol than the swallow tail. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Never can I forget the terror of that moment, as I stood within a few feet of the terrible guillotine, and saw beside me the horrid basket, splashed with recent blood. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z I saw him guillotined, but I will spare you the description. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z In fact he used to go to the guillotine daily to watch executions, "that he might become used to his fate." Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Even since the limitation of capital punishment to cases of murder the innocent have been hung or guillotined in mistake for the guilty. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Are we preparing our own guillotine as we note how many points a student's score went up or down, just waiting until that student's score in part of our worth? SchoolBook: Poll Finds Most City Voters Support Release of Teacher Ratings 2012-03-14T03:54:54Z There they sat, at the foot of the scaffold, speechless and stupefied—they looked as though it were matter of indifference to which side their steps should turn—to the jail or the guillotine. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z It was the groove of a secret guillotine. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z In the former, Robespierre and the guillotine executed vengeance. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Some favored the scorpion, a back-bending handstand; others the guillotine, a forward bend so deep that the head and arms slide behind the legs. National Yoga Competition Tests Even the Audience 2012-03-05T03:02:57Z It is generally expected that this atrocious murderer will be guillotined, notwithstanding the averseness of the government to capital punishment. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z At the time of the Revolution the prosperity of the industry was ruined, and many of the lacemakers were sent to the guillotine. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z In a cell close to this guillotine had been confined a state criminal for sixteen years. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z In short, they were to be immolated on the judicial guillotine of "CONSTRUCTIVE TREASON." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z There was Madame Tussaud's too, a close link with the French Revolution: the waxen heads of kings and democrats, the very guillotine itself. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z The heads of many fell under the guillotine. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Said while standing before the guillotine, and looking at the axe. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z There will be the guillotine, or the barricades. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z In 1793, Louis and his Queen were guillotined, and the next year saw the Princess Elizabeth's head fall, while the bloody star of Robespierre loomed in the ascendant. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z When you guillotine a man you get rid of an individual, it's true, but you make all his friends and relations your enemies for ever.' My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z At forty-six, having unsuccessfully commanded the republican armies in La Vend�e, he was guillotined in 1793. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Next, she would develop into a tricoteuse, sitting under shadow of the guillotine. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z "We are still a long way, I fancy, from guillotines or barricades." Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z From the moment that Paine cast his vote in favor of mercy—in favor of life—the shadow of the guillotine was upon him. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z A guillotine--a constant flow of blood and falling heads; a boat with a trap-door to drown people by the dozen--amusing rather for a minute, then nauseously dull and monotonous. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z |
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