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12 days agoI wouldn’t necessarily want to claim the throne in a country that once invented a machine for getting rid of kings by getting rid of their heads very efficiently.
I wouldn’t necessarily want to claim the throne in a country that once invented a machine for getting rid of kings by getting rid of their heads very efficiently.
Indeed, but it only was widely popularised after it had been used to rid France of its king by ridding said King of his head.