Oh right, I had forgotten about that. Didn't they give him like 3 lethal doses of cyanide and panic shot him in the head? Perhaps the garlic worked too well.

It would not have helped when the poisoning failed he was shot dead

Nope, the "lost city of the monkey god" is located in Honduras and Calakmul is in Mexico. There were several developed civilizations in South America so there are probably many cities yet to be found!

That's the thing; potatoes were given daily or even several times daily when they were available, which got really common. Limes/lime juice were rationed more carefully. I can't find the reference now, but there was even a British expedition to the Antarctic relying on limes that got stricken with scurvy, and it could not be explained why at the time.

Fermented cabbage products like sauerkraut were trialed and were successful, but weren't widely adopted, perhaps because of the Brits' tendency to cook it in iron cookware that gave it an unpleasant metallic taste.

After many years of reduced growth compared to the rest of the world, one could say that an industry « has been destroyed ». The reduced growth can come from excessive taxes and regulations, permits, licenses, any kind of mandatory contribution. Contributions that don’t « come back » propotionally in services or in infrastructure.

I know what they mean by "Lemons cure scurvy" but

Still have to elaborate, scurvy is a condition in which a human lacks vitamin C intake or just a Vitamin C deficit... Lemons are just a good source of Vitamin C, but there are many other fruits and vegetables with high amounts of Vitamin C, Lemons have this reputation due to their relative ease of storage, and the fact it's mainly has been consumed raw or added late to the food in cooking thus, maintaining high concentrations of Vitamin C.

Tomatoes also have a decent amount of Vitamin C, but people cook them and neutralise a lot of the Vitamins in them ( kinda )

Cabbages are in kraut I think

Not literature per se, but The Fall of Civilizations podcast has a good episode on the history of these two cities prior to and during the Classic Maya Collapse.

Still funner fact: Albert Szent-Györgyi was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1937 for (among other things) discovering Vtiamin C in paprika. This was basically the point at which it finally started to become understood.

"Just one" Is once not enough? I mean I guess at least once more wouldnt have gone amiss.

I thought the same on your first point since spuds contain less vitamin c than limes but assume the quantity of each ration was actually improtant, so it was the daily handful of spuds rather than whatever their lime ration was that made the difference

Don't get your second point since cabbages wouldn't last the full lenght of a journey in comparison to spuds which have a much longer shelf life

None of this is true.

Limes contain a lot of vitamin C.

Various cabbages were a widespread winter food in Europe and contain plenty vitamin C.

For those wondering, oranges in this film were harbingers of death.

I just listened to a podcast with Tim Hartford where a lot of this was discussed: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/id1484511465?i=1000557643019

hottest day of the year

Meadow-I made you some chili!

Fantastic work and presentation! Could you share more about the scanning process and the rendering tech?

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There was no abundance of intention in packing the suitcase!

Yep, if the state is absent, someone else will intervene.

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Methods of conflict resolution from the old country, yeah

Canned orange juice https://americanhomefront.wunc.org/2018-11-26/a-frantic-effort-to-nourish-wwii-troops-led-to-this-common-breakfast-staple

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Also many spices, such as chilli or star anise, contain huge amounts of vitamin C. There where ships that lost most of their crew to scurvy while bringing spices from the east, without knowing their ship was stuffed with the cure.