A small group of people carefully prepares everything they need to sell a piece of property they do not own. Their preparations begin with a scout who locates a piece of real estate that might work with their scheme. Then they prepare artfully forged documents and a carefully rehearse a chump to play the owner.
We only watched a couple of episodes. The show does a good job of showing the technical aspects of the fraud, but we never got attached to any of the characters.
The Lancaster conducted a total of 156,000 sorties and dropped 608,612 long tons of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Only 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations and was ultimately retired from service and scrapped in 1947. From 1942 onwards, the Lancaster became the mainstay of the British heavy bomber fleet; by the end of the war in Europe, there were roughly 50 squadrons equipped with the Lancaster, the majority of these being the Lancaster B.I model. From its entry into service, the original model of the Lancaster was operated in almost every major bombing raid of the European conflict.
The Law According to Lidia Poët 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Season 2 is basically an extension of Season 1. Season 1 post repeated here:
Lidia was a real person:
Lidia Poët (1855 – 1949) was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarring led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy. - Wikipedia
In the show she is a cute, bright pixie, member of a wealthy family. I mean we don't really care about the peasants do we? She's basically a 19th century Nancy Drew, using her wits to solve a murder in each episode, and or course exonerating the falsely charged fool who has gotten arrested.
19th century technology is in evidence: she has a typewriter, she trades a priceless Ming vase for a bicycle, the concept of using fingerprints to identify a person is known, though not commonly accepted. And the prosecutor's office has a volumetric glove, which is basically a mechanical lie detector.
The first scientific lie detector test was invented by Cesare Lombrosso in 1895. This was known as the Volumetric Glove. The subject's hand was placed in a container of water. The amount of water displaced as the subject was asked questions indicated peripheral vasoconstriction, and thus the amount of stress present. - Polygraph Solutions
Cesare Lombroso, a famed criminologist, described a primitive lie detector called a volumetric glove in his 1876 book Criminal Man: "The glove is filled with air, and the greater or smaller the pressure exercised on the air by the pulsation of the blood in the veins of the hand acts on an aerial column. . . . [T]his chamber supports a lever carrying an indicator which rises and falls with the greater or slighter flow of blood in the hand." - Chegg
Mosso was encouraged in his studies of the emotions by Lombroso, his tutor and contemporary. His work is of unusual interest to the student of deception, particularly his studies of fear and of its influence on the heart and respiration. As early as 1875 Mosso demonstrated, by means of a "plethysmograph" (an instrument for measuring blood pressure and pulse changes) periodic undulations in man's blood pressure caused by the respiration cycle; " and his ingenuous studies of the circulation of the blood in the brain opened up new avenues for the study of the influences of fear. In 1895 he described a new device for measuring blood pressure, giving credit to Vierordt for first measuring man's blood pressure, from the outside, in 1855. - Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
The device in the show is a mechanical device that holds the subject's wrist and records the changes in pressure on a black tape that also runs through the device
Somewhere along in here, Lidia's brother Enrico declares himself to be a Waldensian. And what is that, I asked and Google answered:
The Waldensians are a 12th-century Christian movement originating in France, often considered pre-reformers for prioritizing biblical authority, poverty, and preaching over Catholic doctrines. Founded by Peter Waldo, they faced severe persecution but survived in the Italian Alps, officially joining the Protestant Reformation in 1532. Today, they form a united church with Methodists in Italy and have communities in South America
What being a drone show technician actually looks like
Cutting corrugated cardboard with a wire saw
Physics Pro Goose Drafts Boat's Bow Wave Like a Pro While Flock Mates Flap Hard
How damage 'sticks' to deer antlers year after year - This smells like witchcraft, or maybe bullshit.
Why Whale Milk Doesn’t Dissolve in the Ocean!
The perfect Father’s Day gift - sun hat with solar powered fans, good for the gulf states
Concorde Go Around At London Heathrow!
This truck changed the vibe of the whole avenue - big load through downtown
They MAKE them…but you can’t use them - battery powered nail guns
A Double Trouble Truffle Find From One Sniff
I'm not quite sure why I am doing this. I got started and it seems I can keep doing it. Some people may like it. Getting today's, or rather tomorrow's, batch together took a lot longer than usual. Some days I pull up YouTube and I will find a dozen listable videos in five minutes. Some days hours go by without a single one hitting my trigger. On days like today I start to wonder if I have seen all the good videos and there just aren't any more. That thought, of course, is ridiculous. There are too many people thinking too many thoughts for the supply of videos worth posting to dry up completely. Or it just might be that for the two hours I spent this morning I wasn't fully awake. Fifteen minutes after lunch was enough to fill my basket. Maybe lunch had something to do with it.
