Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds […] I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased.The face relaxed, the lids half ...
For instance, the first hypothesis they put forward is that Otto III modified the calendar so that his reign would include the year 1000 AD, because this would put him in his God’s good graces according to his understanding of Christian millennialism. So although history and the future are ...