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In the year 1989, in a not yet well identified country of the world, a violent revolution exploded, unleashed by the excessive privileges of the upper class. The interim government, instituted by the democratic rebels, decided to reintroduce capital punishment by decapitation, in analogy to what was done in France two centuries before, and consequently the guillotine made its reappearance in history.
To Bernard Coleman for his 60th birthday
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Villaggio, P. (1991). A Mathematical Theory of the Guillotine. In: Markovitz, H., Mizel, V.J., Owen, D.R. (eds) Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75975-8_20
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