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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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The Law of the Pig and the Penalties

In mediaeval law, it was known by the latin phrase offense cujus nomenatio crimin est. Any one who committed an offence by whose appointment was the crime was liable to be burned alive. Both person and animal were considered equally culpable in most cases - usually they were punished together. In paris, when geolme giart was convicted of sodomy with his dog,. He was hung, but the dog got a slightly kinder sentence, being struck quickly in the head. Then both bodies were thrown into a pit and burnt together. At corbel in 14 66, a man was hanged and then burnt along with his cow. And if that isn't

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