Open – full combat and planets can be taken The penalty for Empire and Frontier is that you pay taxes that sap your planetary economy, and a hit in score, relative to the wild west of open space. But in exchange for that you get complete safety in Empire space and some amount of saf...
Over time mechanical methods began to replace massage, presumably as these new Physiotherapists considered it demeaning to use hands to do a demeaning thing like massage on patients. After all, mechanical aids are more efficient at mechanical manipulation, and self respecting Physiotherapists did not...
The same form of swine-husbandry was still prevalent in Ireland during this period, in continuity with methods extending right back into prehistory. As well as allowing the ‘fat of the land’ to infuse the pigs, turning them away in herds allowed the more domestic breeds to mate with the ...
He failed in this and was disgraced, narrowly missing a death penalty. After the unfortunate Liu Tsiang, the next reference to alchemy occurred in the second or third century BC, where a book called ‘Tsan-tung-chi’ relates the process of creating a tiny pill made of the purest gold ...
Furthermore, as one of the methods of retaining a reluctant girl is to put her hopelessly in debt and always to charge against her the expenses incurred in securing her, Marie as an imported girl had begun at once with the huge debt of the ocean journey for Paret and herself. In ...
There was the death penalty for the crimes of murder, betrayal, abortion, incest, rape, robbery with fracture and adultery. In the latter case stoning was used although the woman was strangled previously. Warriors could escape the death penalty by accepting a permanent destination in the border ...
The penalty for sacrificing a bull that the priest has not marked is death. Such is the manner of approving the beast. I will now describe how it is sacrificed. 39 After leading the marked beast to the altar where they will sacrifice it, they kindle a fire. They then pour wine on ...
death penalty did not stop the problem of counterfeiting, so a new approach was tried. The new penalty was confiscation of property, enslavement to the state for the counterfeiter, his family, and the entire families of his five nearest neighbors. I assume the theory was the neighbors should...
called “higher powers” were. The way ancient nationalities projected their beliefs and punishment onto their gods is a very interesting contemplation. Was ripping people you disagree with to shreds and using their crotch to hold up the heavens really what people thought was an appropriate penalty...
It should be added, that as Dialectic was still a "world not realized," and he was continually conscious of using imperfect methods, he was not solicitous to bind himself to any one method, or to watch carefully over the logical coherence of his work. "Sailing with the wind of his argum...