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History of mine labor in Sweden

• https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergsfriden - Mountain Peace or asylum were from the Middle Ages to the 1700s in Sweden a settlement between convicted criminals and the state that the sentence was commuted to life work at a mine. The reason for the mountain peace was that it was difficult to meet the needs of the mining industry for labor
• https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergsprivilegium - Mountain Privilege was from the Middle Ages miners' charter , the rights and the obligations of miners and mountain nobleman got the crown with their bergregal to extract ore on their homesteads. The mountain privileges were abolished in 1859 when the mountain management became free in Sweden. In addition to the mountain privileges, there were mountain regimes that regulated the mining industry legally.

Saving the CDC 6000

In 1970, TS organized the takeover and occupation of NYU's Courant Institute where they held a $3.5 million CDC 6600 computer hostage (equivalent to $19.4 million in 2010 dollars), demanding $100,000 ransom to be used for bail for the "Panther 21".[5] The occupation, involving 200 students and at least 2 professors, was also in opposition to NYU's connection to the Atomic Energy Commission and Richard Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. When their demands were not met, members of TS suggested the computer's memory be erased with magnets while other students (perhaps Weathermen) decided to destroy the multimillion-dollar machine outright with incendiary devices.[5] The devices were disabled and the CDC 6600 computer saved by mathematician Peter Lax, then director of NYU's computing center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Students

War Powers

"The senate has effectively given up its veto with the ongoing AUMFs, and The house gave up its veto a lot longer ago. Up until WW2, the US maintained a peacetime standing army of 3-5% the manpower it would use in a war. This core would train a new army when a war was started, but the President had to get funding from the house before he could put the army on a wartime footing. We’ve been on a constant wartime footing since then, so the House gave up its veto to the eternal war party."

-- Comment by Space_Monkey @ Boing Boing

See also Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists.

If War Were Arithmetic

Game of Thrones - Season 2, Episode 14 - Garden of Bones - Essay - Winter is Coming

Lord Baelish noted, "If war were arithmetic, mathematicians would rule the world."

https://winteriscoming.net/2012/04/25/episode-14-garden-of-bones-essay/

On This Day in History

7-12-1831 Gauss to Schumacher: "I protest against the use of an infinite quantity as an actual entity; this is never allowed in mathematics. This infinite is only a matter of speaking, in which one properly speaks of limits to which certain ratios can come as near as desired, while others are permitted to increase without bound."

7-12-1925 Werner Heisenberg announced basic principles of quantum mechanics. He received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932.

7-13-1527 John Dee born in London, England. In 1570 he wrote a "fruitfull Praeface" to Billingsley's translation of Euclid's Elements, which he edited. This was the first English edition of the Elements.

7-13-1733 Giovanni Saccheri, a Jesuit priest in Italy, received the imprimatur of the Inquisition for his Euclides ab Omni Naevo Vindicatus, an important forerunner of non-Euclidean geometry.

7-13-1832 Babbage received Gold Medal. Charles Babbage was the first recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal. He earned it for his work "Observations on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Numerical Tables."

Rehuel Lobatto (June 6, 1797 – February 9, 1866) was a Dutch mathematician. Pic.

Freedom

http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/18/all-are-in-chains.html

Scallop shell pilgrimage

Since the ninth century, pilgrims traveling to Santiago de Compostela in Spain have followed a route marked by scallop shells.

In the Middle Ages, shells of the species Pecten maximus were collected on the nearby Galician coast and sold to pilgrims who wore them as prized symbols of a successful pilgrimage.

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/05/25/iron-will/