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He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

Ea-nasir:

Over the course of the 20th century the classical concept of Natural Rights was subtly changed and distorted into the vague notion that is now known as “human rights”. It is a Left wing political innovation whose essential feature is to destroy all that was accomplished through the original introduction of the idea of  the Natural Right in the 18th century. I have spoken before about the dangers posed by vague political language; how such language by its very nature serves as an open door to authoritarianism. This is one example of that. The significance of Natural Rights is that they drew a bold line beyond which the power of the state was not allowed to pass; a line drawn by an appeal to natural principles (concerning the individual) that are even higher than the state.  The fact that these rights are “natural” means that they are not provided by government and therefore may not be touched by it.  This is not an approach that is hopelessly vague but one which furnishes us with relatively clear guidlines for identifying and preserving our liberties. 

- "I think she's the person you love most in the world."

- "No. We're much better than that. We're two people who love each other... Always have been."

But before Shadow and Bone, there’s already been an Asian female lead in a popular TV show in a partnership with a white male. Without it, I doubt TATBILB or SAB would have been possible

I’m talking about Lucy Liu’s Joan Watson on elementary. Sure her Joan and Johnny Lee Miller’s Sherlock aren’t in a romantic relationship. But it is the most important relationship the characters have within the universe of the show. Romantic relationships come and go for those two. But by the end of the series, they’re still partners and (I’m assuming) co-parenting Watson’s son

So I think LARA JEAN/PETER and Show Darklina has JOANLOCK to thank for its existence!