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2. Pear of anguish - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. List of methods of torture - Wikipedia

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   This is also known as the 'choke-pear', though it is far less marvellous and dangerous than the pear of Palioly." Though there is little or no evidence of its being used by bandits, there are a number of examples of ornate and elaborate, pear-shaped devices with three or four leaves or lobes, driven by turning a key that rotates the central ...

4. Choke pear (plant) - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. Choke pear - Wikipedia

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   Download QR code; Print/export ... Choke pear may refer to: Choke pear (plant), any variety of astringent pear fruit; Pear of anguish, a device found in some museums ...

6. Pear (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Download QR code; Print/export ... A pear is a tree of the genus Pyrus and the fruit of that tree, ... Choke pear (torture), or Pear of Anguish, ...

7. File : August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck - Anguish - Google ...

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   Wikipedia This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images.See its nomination here. This is a featured picture on the Spanish language Wikipedia (Recursos destacados) and is considered one of the finest images.

8. Why do Bradford pear trees smell so awful? And why are ... - AOL

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   The Callery pear, or Bradford pear, is one of those vampires. Over the years, Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) has become one of the most widely planted ornamental trees in the US. But over that ...

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