Botched Beheadings April 29, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
The guillotine was originally invented as an act of humanitarianism to liberate criminal kind from the axe. It made sense, after all, to remove a criminal’s head from his or from her shoulders if that criminal had to be killed. But the procedure was messy. Two important things could go wrong while removing said head […]
Decisions Within March 26, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
History takes place between societies, within societies and among groups of individuals. Historians have proved quite competent at measuring these interactions. But what happens when history takes place strictly within a single human heart, in a place where there are no records, no archives or scholars with searchlights, when one decision changes the track of […]
