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she is now a prisoner picking asparagus at a farm 1941

Eichmann sent representatives from Austria to the French Alps during the world conference to see which countries would pay the reich for the jews - no country accepted but the dictator of the Dominican Republic.

Chapter two, page 56- there are so many parallels to what’s happing in the US right now thought this books but chapter this in particular is uncanny. Minnesota vs ICE, innocent protestors being murdered in the street and ‘the veneer of civilization which has protected us from their hatred was stripped away’.

Mary Trye - Medicatrix - latin phrase which roughly translates to Nature reinforced is the best treatment for all diseases. A practitioner. Not only a deceleration of principles which is bold enough, but also a confident assertion of a
self fashioned identity.

woman physician in 1674 in England was called Medicatrix or doctor but by middle of 18th century this was an impossibility or a freak of nature. only 100 years went by and there were little to no female doctors.

Scientific revolution and chemical medication.

An account of what happened to Lyle and Gita in a prison camp based in real life. Not super impressive writing, interesting but at times seems at times stretched.

Viper wine was popular cure - soaking and killing live vipers in wine and then letting people drink it.

Elizabeth Blackwell’s A curious herbal glorified the scientific approach to medication, promoted its connection with physicians and apothecaries and denigrated women as meditators.

After the black plague apothecaries started giving remedy advice and advising, not just selling the herbs.

domestic medicine garden female space; professional physic garden male space

scientific revolution

Kenelms and Venetia Digby married - he was a professional physic and she a domestic female that has receipes for medicine making. 1740

By 1740 medicine had been disentangled from food and associated with men

Elizabeth Blackwell - A curious herbal

Failure is a feeling long before it is a result

to the artist - no such thing as reality because the world was as you chose to see it.

favorite part of this book is that the protagonist rebels against social and gender norms. Drives a hurst that has ‘school bus’ and taxi painted on the side. Tough and learned how to work hard and get by from a very early age. Worked as a school teacher around the war.

north sides of hills - more evidence of glaciers


south sides of hillside - more vegetation, snow lines, tree lines, and habitation will reach slightly higher. plants germinate 4 days prior on this side

slopes faces prevailing wind have thinner soil and shorter trees than sheltered ones.

rayleigh effect - why the sky is blue and the horizon always appears a shade closer to white

rayleigh scattering - atmospheric optical effect - the further away things are, the lighter they will appear. the closer mountain to you is darker, the one behind it is lighter

Highest point on a hill or mountains there will be surveyors’ trig point - trigonomerical station, in good visibility you should be able to spot at least 2 others on high points in the distance.

smelling smoke on a cold morning - temperature inversion - creates a sandwich effect warm air trapping cold air below - sound,light,radio waves bounce the top of the cold layer and the ground. Things in the distance look like they are floating, - optical illusion - Fata morgana, possible to pick up radio waves 100’s of miles away, flash of green at moment of sunset.

very interesting life. Very close to his mother, Noah was considered colored - which was both white and black and never fit in. He grew up in S. Africa during apartheid, mother exposed him to religion, eduction, book and they worked as a team.