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guillotine
apparatus designed for carrying out executions by beheading
Details
- Instance of
- execution method
- Subclass of
- device, decapitation device
- Country
- France
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3
- different from
- Gilotyna
- discoverer or inventor
- Antoine Louis
- has use
- capital punishment
- named after
- Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
- replaces
- executioner's sword
- time of discovery or invention
- 1792
- topic's main category
- Category:Guillotine
- used by
- executioner
- uses
- scaffold
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