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Spectacles of Death
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Here's an interesting item for the bird watchers and the curious. The beak of a woodpecker moves forward and back with a speed of 100 miles per hour. Believe it or not. In a moment I'll tell you the strange story of the spectacles of death.
Dominique Joseph Garra, Minister of Justice during the French Revolution, was given the frightful task of reading the death sentence to King Louis the 16th. His great remorse concentrated on his gold rim by glasses. He vowed never to see or wear them again.
Forty years later, a curate visited Garra. He found the spectacles and tried them on. When Garra returned, the sight of the spectacles literally shocked him to death. The curate who never suspected the fatal association wore them while reading Garra's funeral services.
Believe it or not.
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