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  1. Dec 2017
    1. The strikers tried to interfere with bus-drivers, and I remember one bus that had a notice written up: "The driver of this bus is a Guy's Hospital student. The conductor is a Guy's student. Anyone who throws a brick will soon be a Guy's patient." For bricks were freely thrown by the strikers at anyone and anything. One notice ran, "Keep your bricks. All windows broken." And one bus so afflicted announced itself as "The Aerated Bus Company."

      I find this very interesting. Obviously in the aftermath of the great war, Spanish flu epidemic, and great depression there was a lot of labor unrest. In the aftermath of the war the entire economy had to turn on a dime, from all war materiel, resources, and jobs to a largely private sector and the need to rebuild infrastructure in order to even have a functioning economy.

    2. A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. . . .

      I think Huxley is coming from a place after the great war, and after the formation of the league of nations. Many like him likely thought that rather than be willing to fight another world war with all of the destruction that took place, nations would instead merge and create a unified world government.

    3. In England the outward aspect of life does not yet teach us to feel or realize in the least that an age is over. We are busy picking up the threads of our life where we dropped them, with this difference only, that many of us seem a good deal richer than we were before. Where we spent millions before the war, we have now learnt that we can spend hundreds of millions and apparently not suffer for it. . . . [But] the vast expenditures of the war, the inflation of prices, and the depreciation of currency, leading up to a complete instability of the unit of value, have made us lose all sense of number and magnitude in matters of finance. . . .

      Keynes is describing the tremendous loss of life and destruction of Europe and European wealth that came about in the aftermath of the great war. Each side did everything possible and gave everything to win. After the war, they all had to pick up the pieces.

    1. .I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget but which must nevertheless be stated, namely, that we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat, and that France has suffered even more than we have. .

      Churchill does an excellent job here of both framing the issue at hand with a policy of appeasement, and showing a sense of urgency in correcting the policy error. Churchill was an amazing leader and was always very good at getting to the heart of an issue.

    1. As you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done but also feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement

      I believe that Churchill does an excellent job of describing the position that the United States was in after the destruction of Europe in WW2. He positions the U.S. as both protector of the west, and as a nation with a moral obligation to lead.

  2. Oct 2017
    1. . If, on the other hand, it is to be ordeal by water, that shall be heated until it becomes boiling hot, whether the kettle is of iron or of brass, or of lead, or of clay

      I find it incredibly interesting how the religious leaders were able to come up with these exact specifications for each type of ordeal and set forth a specific process for each type. I am curious as to how they were able to put together the specifics, and if they were supposedly direct orders from God.

    1. Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment fit whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage, naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.

      I think this quote shows the use of natural laws in order to present an economic argument. Smith is interested in describing the relationship that exists between ones individual motivations and those that benefit society as a whole.

    1. And no one of the city of Southampton shall buy anything to sell again in the same city, unless he is of the guild merchant or of the franchise. And if anyone shall do so and is convicted of it, all which he has so bought shall be forfeited to the king; and no one shall be quit of custom unless he proves that he is in the guild or in the franchise, and this from year to year.

      I think it is interesting that the use of property forfeiture due to noncompliance with local laws was used. I wonder how prevalent that sort of action was at the time.

    1. bows and handguns; and the holes that have been made for hand-guns are barely knee high from the floor; and five such holes have been made. No one could shoot out from them with hand bows.

      I think it is interesting how even when gunpowder weapons were developed, the English longbow was vastly superior to them for a long time in accuracy, distance, reliability, and rate of fire.

  3. Sep 2017
    1. These projects were important as it was rare for so many barrows to be excavated in asingle location, or for them to be explored by the same techniques

      I think it is interesting how sometimes many seemingly rare artifacts are found in one location. I think this section also shows that geography sometimes changes and the ground under our feet could possibly be replete with rare artifacts.

  4. Feb 2017
    1. Along with the hundreds of chapters on different diseases and related medical and surgical treatments,Al-Tasrifincludes a chapter on surgical techniques for gynecomastia

      I wonder how big of a problem gynecomastia was in the middle ages.