The NY Public Library has scans of an 1804 book from China that shows 22 engravings of common punishment methods of the day. Shown here: a malefactor enduring the "punishment of the wooden collar." Can anyone translate the Chinese characters on the collar?
Manalapan, NJ - A Superior Court judge in New Jersey quashed a bogus subpoena for the identity of an anonymous blogger Friday, protecting the free speech rights of a critic writing about a local government controversy.
It’s always invigorating when scholars and activists interested in the commons get together. Last Friday more than 100 of us convened in Milwaukee to learn how commons activism stretches back to the Magna Carta – and how seeds, sky, airwaves and city spaces spaces are vulnerable commons that need to be protected. The symposium was called, “From Magna Carta to the Sky Trust: The Historical Arc of the Commons,” and it was hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kathryn Milun of the Tomales Bay Ins
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