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To raise revenue without reconvening Parliament, Charles resurrected an all-but-forgotten law called the “Distraint of Knighthood”, in abeyance for over a century, which required any man who earned £40 or more from land each year to present himself at the king’s coronation to be knighted. Relying on this old statute, Charles fined individuals who had failed to attend his coronation in 1626. Legal doublets are fun The Public Order Act 1936 banned “political uniforms” because of the rise of Mosley’s fascists; some leaders from Britain First were convicted of the offence as recently as the mid-2010s Trop v. Dulles denationalization as a punishment is barred by the Eighth Amendment [because it is] a form of punishment more primitive than torture evolving standards of decency “Vagueness doctrine” and sodomy laws “Dissent channel” for diplomats Swiss entities and professional-services firms; the corporate veil Various tragic criminal cases that have influenced current practice around diminis

Interesting Stuff | Rohan's Rambles Interesting Stuff First published: 29 May 2024 ; Last modified: 29 March 2026 Mostly, Wikipedia rabbit holes I've gone down and enjoyed. Technology It's astonishing that the internet all works - e.g. a solution was needed to IP addresses running out Focus stacking and depth of field The earliest type of photography , which apparently has higher resolution than modern digital cameras?! The flat, minimalist style used by apps & websites has a name: Corporate Memphis . And on the other hand you have skeumorphism A device used to grade tomato ketchup How Victori

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