Device used for beheading <br />Heavy blade for more than <br />public display during the <br />French Revolution – sent <br />out a warning (sort of a <br />‘head’s up’) . <br /> <br />Was effective in removing <br />higher up’s tonsils, or for <br />trimming hairs on the neck <br />line; devised by Mr. Joseph <br />Ignace Guillotin – year of <br />1789. <br /> <br />He recommended in a speech <br />that executions be performed <br />by a beheading device rather <br />than by hanging – that way, <br />didn’t have to get in the swing <br />of things. <br /> <br />Favorite request of those to be <br />beheaded was to place their <br />favorite book in the basket, <br />that way, the condemned could <br />get ‘a head’ in their reading! <br /> <br /> <br />‘2008’<br /><br />Robert Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/guillotine-3/
