My classes just recently wrapped up our studies of the French Revolution. One day I mentioned in passing that street vendors in Paris in the 1790's actually sold miniature guillotines during the height of the Reign of Terror. A few days later one of my students gifted me with a mini guillotine of my own. Said it had been laying around his house for years and his parents wanted rid of it. So he gave it to me. Awesome! It now holds a place of honor next to my miniature Ark of the Covenant.
