Chapter 3330 Sea of ​​Atlas (Part 2)

In 1799, a 12-year-old boy named Conrad Reed was playing by a stream in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, when he accidentally discovered a 17-pound gold nugget.

At first, the family did not think he had found gold. Anyway, it was used as a door stop for a while. It was not until a passerby bought it for $3.50 that the family finally realized their mistake and started mining near the creek. And a lot of placer gold was discovered.

After Humboldt left, President Jefferson ordered the survey of many public lands in the United States. Ohio, a state composed entirely of public lands, was admitted under the Northwest Ordinance. After the signing of the Treaty of Paris, except for 13 states, it basically belonged to "public land".

The Northwest Ordinance divides the Northwest into several autonomous regions. According to the U.S. Constitution, a state can become a state if its population exceeds 60,000, a new state can become a new state if its population reaches 20,000, and a territory can become a territory if its population reaches 5,000 adults.

This ordinance can also be called the "Northwest Ohio River Ordinance" because it solves the land issues in the area north of the Ohio River, west of Pennsylvania, and east of the Mississippi River.

Under this act, all acquired western lands were first included in the federal government's public land reserve and then auctioned in cash.

Then a highly productive gold mine was discovered on the outskirts of Lancaster, South Carolina. The city was founded in 1742 and served as the capital during the Revolutionary War when the Continental Congress left Philadelphia. In 1744, six Iroquois chiefs came here to resolve land issues with representatives from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.

At the same time, many rifles were also produced here, providing weapons for the Revolutionary War.

There were so many horse-drawn carriages traveling here that the first toll road in the United States was built.

The land where the gold was discovered was not part of the Northwest Territories, but was public land that was not for sale.

There is no other news about this gold mine in Bougainville, and there are other things that need more attention than the commotion caused by the gold mine.

First, the British captured a French officer in Egypt who was tasked with conducting surveys. On February 9, Britain stopped all withdrawals unless France gave a "satisfactory explanation" for its recent actions in Parma, Switzerland and Egypt.

Napoleon refused to reply, saying that these were "little things" and that he wanted a partnership between Britain, the ruler of his vast overseas empire, and France, the master of continental Europe.

Whitworth thought this was just rhetoric and reported to Addington, "I thought I was not being spoken to by the head of the greatest nation in Europe, but by a captain of dragoons."

Pondicherry was not returned to France, and the Cape of Good Hope was supposed to be returned to the Dutch East India Company, but there was still a British governor there.

Duncan, who was originally sent to take back India, turned around and went to Ile-de-France opposite Madagascar. He had served as a gunner in the French navy during the Revolution and served under Conclaus, Dubaye, Moreau and Kleber.

That place was located east of the Cape of Good Hope, and Duncan built many fortifications on the island. The island had plenty of fresh water and food, but he was faced with the problem of ammunition.

The Monitor proclaimed that France did not want to reignite the war, but he also did not want France to lower its profile in order to avoid war.

Preparations for the "bud moon franc" are in place. The new decree declares that cash cannot leave the country, abolishes seigniorage, and replaces the old gold coin system of twelve livres, twenty-four livres, and forty-eight livres with a decimal currency system. , stop using gold and silver alloy currency.

Arabic numerals and the decimal system were introduced to Europe around the 10th century, but their application was not widespread. It was not until 1799 that France proposed the decimal system of weights and measures.

Copernicus mentioned "decimal fractions", that is, decimals, in "On the Movement of Celestial Bodies".

The ancient Greeks divided the circle into 360 degrees, and then divided the zodiac into 12 houses on this basis, with each house accounting for one twelfth.

But the ecliptic is the circle that the earth revolves around the sun. The earth revolves around the sun for 365 days. Are there still 5 days left?

Small deviations can add up to large numbers, and astronomers are constantly working on more accurate calendars.

In short, the myth is not believable. For example, if Atlas really saw the head of Medusa cut off by Perseus turned into Mount Atlas, he would not be able to help Perseus' great-grandson Hercules. Get the golden apple, unless Hercules also knows how to make petrified people alive again.

Women have negative thoughts about war and are afraid of losing. Pomona had never thought about why Albus would help Muggles before. His sister Arianna obviously became like that because of three Muggles.

She thought Dumbledore chose to compromise because he was afraid of the large number of Muggles.

Arianna's death allowed Dumbledore to wake up from the illusion created by Grindelwald. Unlike Grindelwald's followers, he felt that wizards could rule the world.

Ariana's fate cannot be changed, but Credence can choose. If he were not so lonely and longing to be loved, he would not be manipulated by Grindelwald and become a tool for assassination.

There are now different opinions about the death of Tsar Paul I, but the Alexander I now is no longer the Alexander he was at the beginning of his accession to the throne.

In fact, it was not Hercules who released Prometheus, because Zeus had given an oracle that only if the god was willing to give up eternal life would the chains on Prometheus be untied.

Heracles was not a god, but he had a teacher named Charon, a Sagittarius in the sky who was half-dead due to poisoning.

He gave up eternal life and gave himself and Prometheus relief.

Tsar Alexander's "informal committee" included many teachers who were influenced by the Revolution. They translated many French books into Russian and decided to launch a movement to enlighten the people's intelligence.

Another issue is the Georgian issue. Since the era of William Pitt, Britain has regarded Turkey's territorial integrity as an important cornerstone for maintaining Eastern interests.

In Paul I's crazy plan, he not only wanted to carve up Austria with France, but also occupied India. In fact, he actually did that. He sent a large army to attack alone without being prepared for military supplies or diplomacy. India marches on. On the night of the assassination of Paul I, one of the assassins was said to be a Georgian.

This ultimately led to the fact that although Russia became the protector of the Armed Neutrality Alliance, Addington paid little attention to the "Northern Powers".

If Britain had only occupied Malta, Napoleon would not have wanted to capture Corcyra. If Malta and Sicily were connected, they would block the Adriatic Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Not only are there no battleships under construction in French ports, there is not even a single ship left. Admiral de Clay participated in the Battle of Abu Gil and also went to Malta. During the Battle of Abu Gir, he managed to escape the British naval encirclement and took refuge with a thousand sailors in Valletta. Later, he was attacked by three British ships. He fought fiercely on the sand dunes for 9 hours and was finally captured in Mahon Port. , returned to France during a prisoner exchange.

After General Leclerc died, it was Drake who brought the bodies of Pauline and Leclerc back to France. There is a legend that Napoleon ordered Drake to retake the island of Corcyra in Egypt, but the messenger was hijacked and the order never arrived.

Ballistics can explain the movement of the warhead and predict its trajectory, but it cannot calculate how many pieces the shell will explode into and where each shrapnel will fly. However, this does not weaken the reliability of ballistics at all. It just cannot explain the fragmentation. It has nothing to do with personal destiny.

Compared with the big diamond that Josephine now owns, the diamond on the diamond ring inscribed with "Destiny" on her hand is really like a "fragment".

In order to prevent the letter from Eugène not being delivered, Georgiana decided to write another one and have the navy deliver it.

Before Achilles returned to the battlefield and his destiny, Hector was taken care of by Zeus. He was lucky and kept winning, but by Volume 22, he felt that Zeus's help to him had ended.

He just puts on Achilles' armor but doesn't really become Achilles, and his mortal parents call him back to the city.

Hector remembered that he had rejected Polydamas's advice and held on to the walls of Troy.

This shame made him willing to fight to death. Here Hector has a soliloquy. He feels that Achilles will not pity him, respect him, and treat him like a woman.

Aristotle commented in "Nicomachean Ethics" that Hector's monologue is "political courage." In Aristotle's view, true courage is "for the right reasons, for the right reasons, and for the right reasons." Way, at the right time, withstand what you have to endure and fear what you need to fear.” Bravery is the middle ground between recklessness and timidity.

Hector is not brave, he is mainly dominated by shame.

People should have a sense of fear, don't disturb the school motto of sleeping dragons, those Muggle children don't know, and they don't know the consequences of waking up the dragon. The lonely Slytherin wants a companion to play with, and then wakes up the dragon. The sleeping dragon.

Human beings need gods to curb the feeling of transcending nature and overly arrogantly regarding themselves as the masters of the universe.

But humans are not weak in front of the gods. When the Cyclops ate Odysseus' companions, he was thinking about revenge for his companions, but the people in the golden age in the theogony only thought about painless death. .

There once was a very talented witch who thought that as long as all the pain in the world was eliminated, the world would become a better place.

But if she herself was burned at the stake, she wouldn't have time to empathize. Some pain is unnecessary and there is no need to endure it.

Louis XVI's last words: I die innocent, I forgive my enemies, and may my blood appease the wrath of God.

It's a pity that she is not as great as the king. She is just a "no one", a mortal with seven emotions and six desires.