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An advantage of the U.S. federal system. Individual states can adopt laws that initially seem crazy to other states, but that eventually prove sensible and become adopted by all of the states -- such as California’s becoming the first state to permit right turns on a red light after stop.

This portrait of Poggio appears in the manuscript of his work 'De varietate furtunae.' the work, written when Poggio was sixty-eight years old, eloquently surveys the ruins of ancient Roman greatness. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini

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Poggio's friend Niccoli here brings his long-awaited transcription of "On the Nature of Things" to a close with a customary word "Explicit" (from the Latin for (unrolled). He enjoins the reader to "read happy: ("Lege feliciter) and adds -- in some tension with the spirit of Lucretius poem -- a pious "Amen"

The heretic Hus, forced to wear a mock paper crown declaring his misdeeds, is burned at the stake. afterwards, to prevent any sympathetic bystander from collecting a relic of the martyr, his ashes are shoveled into the Rhine.

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A standing Harappan god often appears between two open branches of a pipal tree; on some of the tablets the branches close up at the top and we have full arch, plainly a device intended to exalt the god (fig 10.8). The same device is used in classical art, where an arch surrounds a seated Buddha, or a standing Shiva, enhancing their glory. ~Page 231

Kaushambi's fortifications, with revetment of baked bricks (ASI) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosambi

Perhaps the most remarkable structure unearthed in Banawawali’s acropolis (fig. 7.2) is a small building shaped as a semi-ellipse -- percisely the shape of the acropolis. As if to make it amply clear that this was a conscious choice and not an accident, the building harbours an alter that once again conforms to a semi-elliptical (or apsidal) shape. There can be little doubt that this building was a small temple dedicated to fire worship . ~ Page 157