Trajan's coins on the other hand were traded, spent and eventually melted down. That's why you can find coins of forgotten emperors like Maximinus or Gallus for the price of a bus ticket, but have to pay serious money for one of Julius Caesar or Augustus. Where did the silver come ...
Old circuit boards with gold-plated contacts are sold for real money to people who strip and recycle the gold. And of course jewelers never, ever, throw away anything! The smallest scraps are carefully collected and either reused to repair another piece, or sent off to refiners who separate ...
At first glance, it looks like this toddler has the face of an old man, and it’s really creeping us out! Thank God it’s just an optical illusion, and all we’re seeing is the back of the baby’s head in a hat, and the man’s face that’s holding him, turned slightly sidewa...
than water and sometimes alcohol. This means they are perfectly safe and free from side effects, which are what usually do in quack remedies eventually. You really have to hand it to an industry that makes vast amounts of money selling tiny little bottles of distilled water. But I digress....
There's a half-eaten order of broccoli beef and several empty bottles of beer on the table in front of him. He checks his watch.] Whoops. Gotta run. Thanks for the egg rolls. Edwards: Where am I? Kay: See what I mean about tequila? You're a bright young man, James. Just lay ...
The interesting question is whether it's a new forgery or an old one. Turns out fake ones were made in great numbers while these coins were in circulation, and the government did not destroy those, only the real ones. So there are a large number of old fakes being sold. Of course, ...
This year I’m a milk seller complaining about how the city folk make money off of our product by jacking up the prices, among other things. And we get nothing. Anne is the tea-seller serving us as we gather in the village to gripe about the problem. Here’s the final clip – ...
And the old places now seem they never were home There’s a fire that pounds deep within your chest It’s a heart that beats just like anyone else But you feel kind of different, like something has changed These burnt out streets will never be the same As you stand on the platform, ...
they opted to play Bad Boys instead, even my 11 year old was shocked to see so much profanity in display. The rides were ok but definitely not worth the prices paid. Moving on to concessions: there weren't really any, in a park that size there ...
or someone I talked to. And so the evolution of this blog begins. The first photo in my header is of some antique cars I found several year ago in a field in Graham, Washington. The way they were lined up next to each other reminded me of old men, sitting on a porch, reminiscing...