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Archaeologists find 'lost' medieval village... [Scotland]
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| 28 April 2014
| Ben Miller
Posted on 05/01/2014 12:13:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: left that other site
What’s the difference between bagpipes and an onion?
Nobody cries when you chop up bagpipes.
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posted on
05/01/2014 5:42:55 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Political Junkie Too
Maybe it was just the coin that time traveled, someone cent it back in time.
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05/01/2014 5:44:23 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
He He He...
I have some pics of Pipers in the wind.
They can’t be posted on FR.
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05/01/2014 5:51:16 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Churchillspirit
I was being a wee bit sarcastic.
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posted on
05/01/2014 6:09:43 PM PDT
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Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: SunkenCiv
But none as early as the article mentions.
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posted on
05/02/2014 2:42:11 AM PDT
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R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: left that other site
“Lad, I don’t know where you’ve been, but I see you’ve won first prize...”
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05/02/2014 5:47:49 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA AHA!!!!!!
I know that joke! :-0
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05/02/2014 6:11:25 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: R. Scott
Coinage from the Americas earlier than 1700 is rare; early examples (I’ve got a 3 cent coin around here somewhere) are hard to find even online. Coin collectors have become wary of doing that, because an online photo can be used to create a convincing fake. The Spanish Real was a popular denomination, and the term “two bits” (still in use today referring to a US quarter dollar coin) derives from the practice of cutting a Real into 8 bits (”pieces of 8”); the Real remained legal currency in the US until 1857.
It’s not well known, and I’m sure it’s not taught in school, but the US gov’t didn’t get serious about having a national currency until not long before the Civil War. Around here, and probably everywhere on the frontier, we had “wildcat banks”, which issued their own currency, and were audited by state (or territorial) authorities, to make sure they had sufficient specie (gold and/or silver) in their safe/vault to back their scrip.
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05/02/2014 8:26:54 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Vermont Lt; Churchillspirit
Or as they say in England, “keep your pecker up”.
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05/02/2014 8:33:16 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Yep. As best I know our first coins were minted after 1780.
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05/02/2014 2:12:56 PM PDT
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R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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