The Secret World of Sorrow

Drummer Nick Mason has since stated that the song was
almost entirely written by David Gilmour alone over the
space of one weekend on his houseboat Astoria.

In May 2007, New Zealand passed the Crimes

(Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007, which
removed the defence of "reasonable force" for the
purpose of correction.

The Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act

2007 (formerly the Crimes (Abolition of Force as a
Justification for Child Discipline) Amendment Bill) is an
amendment to New Zealand's Crimes Act 1961 which
removed the legal defence of "reasonable force" for
parents prosecuted for assault on their children.

Early Māori adapted the tropically based east Polynesian

culture in line with the challenges associated with a
larger and more diverse environment, eventually
developing their own distinctive culture.

While the early Polynesians were skilled navigators, most

evidence indicates that their primary exploratory
motivation was to ease the demands of burgeoning
populations.

After 400 CE, the study and practice of medicine in the

Western Roman Empire went into deep decline. Medical
services were provided, especially for the poor, in the
thousands of monastic hospitals that sprang up across
Europe, but the care was rudimentary and mainly
palliative. Most of the writings of Galen and Hippocrates
were lost to the West, with the summaries and
compendia of St. Isidore of Seville being the primary
channel for transmitting Greek medical ideas. The
Carolingian renaissance brought increased contact with
Byzantium and a greater awareness of ancient medicine,
but only with the twelfth-century renaissance and the
new translations coming from Muslim and Jewish sources
in Spain, and the fifteenth-century flood of resources
after the fall of Constantinople did the West fully recover
its acquaintance with classical antiquity.
 Florence Nightingale triggered the professionalization of nursing. Photograph c. 1860

The translation of texts from other cultures, especially

ancient Greek works, was an important aspect of both
this Twelfth-Century Renaissance and the latter
Renaissance (of the 15th century), but to say that the
relevant difference was that Latin scholars of the earlier
period focused almost entirely on translating and
studying Greek and Arabic works of natural science,
philosophy and mathematics, while the later Renaissance
focus was on literary and historical texts is inaccurate,
since some of the most significant Greek translations of
the 15th century were those by Mauricio Ficino, including
several works of Plato and the NeoPlatonists, as well as a
highly significant translation of the Corpus Hermeticum.

The End.