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The Pear of Anguish. Torture museum in Lubusz Land Museum in Zielona Góra, Poland. The pear of anguish, also known as choke pear or mouth pear, is a device of disputed use invented in the early modern period. The mechanism consists of a pear-shaped metal body divided into spoon-like segments that can be spread apart with a spring or by turning ...
While accepting that ordinary pear-shaped gags exist, they observed that contemporary robbers used no such device as Palioly's Pear and cast doubt upon its very existence in the first place, saying that "fortunately for us this 'diabolical invention' appears to be one of the lost arts, if, indeed, it ever existed outside of de Calvi's head.
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A Ukrainian woman in Hostomel, a town occupied by the Russians, tells NBC News she was raped by a Russian soldier after having been wounded in an airstrike. Anguish, fury and grief: One woman ...
Used by the Hungarian court against Muslims in the context of the war between the Ottoman Empire, the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary. [177] Pear of anguish: Created in the fifteenth century. Its first mention comes from 1450. Used by the French parlement and not by the Inquisition, it was abolished in 1430. [178]
This time, a family turned over video evidence that showed a hospice aide neglecting a woman at risk of aspirating, or inhaling her food into her lungs, according to an inspection report. Doctor’s orders called for the aide to feed the woman just one tiny bite of pureed food at a time, less than a teaspoon in size, followed by a sip of liquid.
Possibly because of this idiom, the names "choke pear" and "pear of anguish" have been used for a gagging device allegedly used in Europe, sometime before the 17th century. [6] Dalechamps has identified this with the species of pear that Pliny the Elder listed as "ampullaceum" in his Naturalis Historia. [7]
Jul. 17—The weekend that just ended marked one year since Candice Caffas disappeared — and a year of anguish for her mother. Caffas, 35, a Union Township woman with special needs, has been ...