The guillotine is a machine used to execute people by decapitation (chopping off their heads). A guillotine is made of a heavy blade attached to a rack, which moves up and down on a vertical frame. When the rack is let go, it will fall down and the blade will cut the convict's head off.
A national producer number, or NPN, is a tool to protect individual insurance agents and agencies from identity theft and fraudulent representations made to the National Insurance Producer Registry, or NIPR.
Ran across a paper discussing insurance agent's compensation and its lack of transparency. The paper stated insurance agents represent the insured and as such the insured should be entitled to know what he is paying the agent. Well, it never occurred to me that an insurance agent represented an insured.