And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Hurling a thermos of hot tea at -40°C/F near the Arctic Circle, by Michael Davies
fun!
ReplyDeleteDid you know that -40 is -40 in both C and F?
ReplyDeleteI do now.
DeleteAbout 50 years ago I read a Jack London story in which it was stated (IIRC) that at -20, spittle would freeze before hitting the ground.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate that is a striking picture.
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I believe that was the short story "To Light a Fire."
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