3 hours compiling data, page count = 203
Ended up going to the library today and continuing with the 19th-century budget documents. I went through Chile and Ecuador. I resolved to capture the troop info to process later, and to focus on getting the more readily accessible budget data together first, so I can get an initial sense of how the countries compare to each other in terms of army-police balance.
Thanks to this week's monitor, Hugo Cardona. Next up is my mom, Gloria Cardona, in Milwaukee. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
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My Dear Son:
I just read your postings from yesterday and few hours ago. I was out of Milwaukee yesterday so I can’t do it sooner.
Congratulations on the progress you are making in the two fronts that you are marshaling right now. I am glad that your dissertation is almost complete and I know that all of your preparation will pay off next week. It was and honor and privilege to be your monitor this week again. Thank you for given me this opportunity.
It is with regret that I don’t claim my rightful position as “monitor vitalicio [por vida]” but I am very afraid that if I do it now, I would be in “deep trouble” with the monitor that is coming after me and I want to continue enjoying life next to her.
In any case, be aware that she is determined to fulfill her role “to the till”. I hear her saying things like, “He will write every final page under my watch even if I have to stretch him to his limit”. At first I didn’t know what she meant and then I find her bidding for this instrument in e-bay.
Love you very much, Dad
The Rack Torture (Torture)
The rack is commonly considered the most painful form of medieval torture. It was a wooden frame usually above ground with two ropes fixed to the bottom and another two tied to a handle in the top.
The torturer turned the handle causing the ropes to pull the victim's arms. Eventually, the victim's bones were dislocated with a loud crack. If the torturer kept turning the handles, some of the limbs were torn apart, usually the arms.
This method was mostly used to extract confessions, as not confessing meant that the torturer could stretch more. Sometimes, torturers forced their victim to watch other people be tortured with this device to implant psychological fear.
Many knights from the Knights Templar were tortured with the rack. The limbs collected from this and other punishments of the time were "emptied by the hundreds".
Sometime this method was limited to dislocating a few bones, but the torturer often went too far and rendered the legs or arms (sometimes both) useless. In the late Middle Ages, some new variants of this instrument appeared. They often had spikes that penetrated the victim's back - as the limbs were pulled apart, so was his spinal cord increasing not only the physical pain, but the psychological one of being handicapped at best, too.
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