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2. Guillotine (magic trick) - Wikipedia

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   The Guillotine is probably the most famous member of a family of illusions featuring the apparent decapitation of a person or other living subject. Decapitation illusions have a long history, with the first documented example dating from the reign of Khufu in ancient Egypt, when a magician named Dedi apparently decapitated and restored birds ...

3. Guillotine cutting - Wikipedia

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   The ordering step is done once, and the merging step is done m-1 times. Therefore, the run-time of the entire algorithm is O(m 2). When the algorithm returns "yes", it also produces a sequence of guillotine cuts; when it returns "no", it also produces specific subsets of rectangles that cannot be separated by guillotine cuts.

4. Guillotine - Wikipedia

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   The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ə t iː n / GHIL-ə-teen / ˌ ɡ ɪ l ə ˈ t iː n / GHIL-ə-TEEN / ˈ ɡ i j ə t i n / GHEE-yə-teen) [1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled ...

5. Guillotine partition - Wikipedia

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   Guillotine partition is the process of partitioning a rectilinear polygon, possibly containing some holes, into rectangles, using only guillotine-cuts. A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut ) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing polygon to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper guillotine .

6. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin - Wikipedia

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   The association with the guillotine so embarrassed Guillotin's family that they petitioned the French government to rename it; when the government refused, they instead changed their own family name. [13] By coincidence, another person named Guillotin was indeed executed by the guillotine – he was J.M.V. Guillotin, a doctor of Lyon. [14]

7. Maiden (guillotine) - Wikipedia

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   'The Maiden' on display at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (July 2011) Blade of The Maiden James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton. The Maiden (also known as the Scottish Maiden) is an early form of guillotine, or gibbet, that was used between the 16th and 18th centuries as a means of execution in Edinburgh, Scotland.

8. Decapitation - Wikipedia

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   Decapitation was historically performed as the second step in seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment). After the victim had sliced his own abdomen open, another warrior would strike his head off from behind with a katana to hasten death and to reduce the suffering. The blow was expected to be precise enough to leave intact a small strip of ...

9. Shear (sheet metal) - Wikipedia

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   A hydraulic guillotine shear. The machine used is called a squaring shear, power shear, or guillotine. The machine may be foot powered, less commonly hand powered, or mechanically or hydraulically powered. It works by first clamping the material with a ram. A moving blade then comes down across a fixed blade to shear the material.