01/05/2014 14:11
In 1855 Robert Wilson wrote: ---
"The evidence that I have presented of the inexhaustible supplies of silver in Northern Mexico, near the route of our proposed Pacific Railroad, may be interesting to legislators. These masses of silver lie as undisturbed by their...
01/05/2014 20:50
In the Middle Ages the arts and crafts were generally protected by the formation of guilds and fraternities, which practically exercised the right of patent over their professions, causing infringements to be more easily dealt with whilst in turn fraud could be easier to expose.
Gold...
04/05/2014 15:17
Our Saxon forefathers suffered greatly from invasion by the piratical hordes from the north, who for several hundreds of years in the 'Dark and Middle Ages' marauded in search of the riches stowed in the churches, monasteries and villages of England. Eventually the Celts were largely driven from...
10/06/2014 13:22
There's something fascinating about relics from a bygone age - none more so than those associated with pirates and vagabonds.
Silver eight-real coins were worth one Spanish dollar, and were the source of the phrase “pieces of eight,”
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The terms is applied to the first minted coins...
03/03/2015 16:44
In fact spoons are as old as history, primitive people would employ various materials, wood, stone, shells, ivory and bone in ancient times, before the eventual use of metals. Much later bronze tools replaced the more basic forms, silver and gold implements being introduced in the more advanced and...
10/03/2015 13:32
The earliest form of writing probably evolved from scratching on surfaces with stone or bone implements, this being man's first crude attempts to record his world for posterity.
Probably the earliest methods of writing which involved using pen and paper were developed by the Greeks...
