—I made my own cake, as I wanted something with ALL the chocolate: chocolate batter, mini chocolate chips, and homemade chocolate whipped cream for the topping. I’ve extra walking and hiking in my future, but it was worth it! —My birthday present from my husband was hysterically practi...
In the early 1960s, as silver rose above $1.29 an ounce, the value at which a silver dollar is worth more as metal than money, collectors, dealers and bullion merchants formed long lines outside the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., to buy $1,000 bags of silver dollars. The pay...
Building your own kit gives you a realintimacywith it. You know exactly what’s in it and how to use it, because you did the legwork to put it there. If you add something that you don’t fully understand how to use, you can learn that skill long before the flood or earthquake eve...
In 1964 as the price of silver rose above $1.29 an ounce — the point at which a silver dollar is worth more as metal than as money — the Mint began searching for alternatives. The Mint hired Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, to research substitutes for then-current 90 perce...
In 1964 as the price of silver rose above $1.29 an ounce — the point at which a silver dollar is worth more as metal than as money — the Mint began searching for alternatives. The Mint hired Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, to research substitutes for then-current 90 perce...