On Oct 27, 2009, at 4:44 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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> One thing that Kurlansky points out, which I'd never thought of
> before, is that among western republics the u.s. is almost unique in
> that there isn't one artist, author, composer, or philosopher on our
> currency.
But it does put loads of them on postage stamps. Exclusively picturing reigning or dead monarchs on paper currency seems to be an anglosaxon eccentricity.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos