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

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

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

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

What a wonderful week of opera it has been for me, with Opera Holland Park’s opening production of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West on Tuesday preceded a few days earlier by two other masterpieces from ...

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