Estimates of the number of lives taken by the guillotine during the French Revolution range from 17,000 to 40,000 citizens. It is thought that three-quarters of the executed were innocent. In its glory days, the guillotine took 3,000 lives in one month.
Oral History: Defined. Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Oral history is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders in the 1940s and now using 21st-century digital technologies.
Google refers this to Wikipedia, which says oral poetry is poetry from a purely oral tradition, passed down faithfully without the aid of writing. Homer, for instance, is the name attached to the oral-tradition works of the Odyssey and the Iliad. Somebody finally wrote it all down. Now define modern poetry; skip over all that written-down stuff since the invention of writing as a popular means of expressing abstract ideas. OK now weâre modern.