Ancient Buried City, Wickliffe, Kentucky.
There's a Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta that was opened I think in '67. Beautiful building...revolving restaurant on top...was I believe the first open atrium lobby building....22 stories. Had/has a restaurant in the lobby. Had a buddy who was eating lunch there one day and a woman decided to end it all and took a leap off of one of higher floors (which I don't know). Needless to say my buddy's appetite left him quickly.
The last time I stayed with my daughter in England I walked a bunch......I averaged 15 miles a day.......I never found one coin......ever.............When I came home I kept the walking habit for a while......I would ride to work with the Director and walk home then would walk back down to ride home with her.........I don't think I ever came home empty handed......I always found coins.......look in the expansion strips at road intersections........I find quarters there......I used to tell my grandchildren that......If I could walk 500 miles a day I would get rich with "found" money........This morning's haul. Note the coin located upper-right with the Art Linkletter-looking dude. It's a 20 Belgian (Belgie) Franc piece dated 1980. Some stuff I find simply boggles the imagination.
Every place we have been fortunate enough to travel to....... I get a full set of their coins......then the buggers changed to the euro.......I have two sets of coins for most places......I bought binders, plastic sleeves and cards for the coins........never got that project done........now that I am not playing music..........some of these projects will probably re-activate.......You made me bring out my international coin collection that I haven't looked at in over 20 years. These coins represent every continent with the exception of Africa and Antarctica (obviously). They really need to be cleaned. The far left column are coins from the 1800s with the oldest being an 1840 German Kreuzer. The next column is from the 1910s and then each decade through the 80s. I'm no numismatist but I'm guessing these probably aren't worth much. More of a conversation piece. Please forgive the poor photography.
A child was killed there by the revolving restaurant a few years ago.There's a Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta that was opened I think in '67. Beautiful building...revolving restaurant on top...was I believe the first open atrium lobby building....22 stories. Had/has a restaurant in the lobby. Had a buddy who was eating lunch there one day and a woman decided to end it all and took a leap off of one of higher floors (which I don't know). Needless to say my buddy's appetite left him quickly.
Thanks Bert. I agree on all counts. Did you ever read the book 1491? Some of these ideas are part of that author's thesis, applied to the entire hemisphere as it existed just before Europeans arrived. The author talks about how extensively the Indians altered the landscape with slash/and/burn, all over North America. What Europeans assumed were natural rolling prairies had been denuded of forests in many places by Indians creating easier hunting opportunities. If you've never come across the book, I found it illuminating, if a little politically correct: No writer today is going to be blunt or completely honest about Native American culture. Not if he or she hopes to do it as a living.
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When I used to travel, I'd throw my pocket trash into a drawer when I got back. Eventually I put some of the bills in a frame in a basement den. The 500,000 note is Bosnian-Herzegovina dinars. You can see Somali shillings here, Afghanistan afghanis, Iraqi dinars and Haitian goudes, among others (there should be some Rwandan francs in there and some Zairian zaires but they may be buried in the pile.) By the way, the contents of the frame might be worth $20, converted...
Like this book. You're too square. You can get a copy for as little as 10 bits. Shipping will be 3x that. I heard of him 1st on "To Tell the Truth" with Garry Moore.
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[/QUOTE]Thanks Bert. I agree on all counts. Did you ever read the book 1491? Some of these ideas are part of that author's thesis, applied to the entire hemisphere as it existed just before Europeans arrived. The author talks about how extensively the Indians altered the landscape with slash/and/burn, all over North America. What Europeans assumed were natural rolling prairies had been denuded of forests in many places by Indians creating easier hunting opportunities. If you've never come across the book, I found it illuminating, if a little politically correct: No writer today is going to be blunt or completely honest about Native American culture. Not if he or she hopes to do it as a living.
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England, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany are usually fairly well-kept. Additionally, folks over there use coin purses and take better care of loose change because taxes are so high. In Germany, I've only found a few pfennigs (now cents) over 11 years. Between 1984-2010, I've spent a total of about 3 months in Great Britain. I recall actually finding a few pence on the Felixstowe beach in 2010.
My theory is that Europeans are comfortable with spending and handling coins worth several US dollars, so they develop habits of holding onto them. Americans are much more casual with coins because they have relatively little value.
Possibly, but when Euro debuted in 1999, many large denomination, country-specific coins (e.g. 5 DM, 50 BFG, 10 and 20 FF) went away.
What is that fruit dessert doing, flipping off all the other fruits?Good morning from ATX. Currently 51°F and partly cloudy. Today's high should reach 87°F.
Monday, Monday............
Hope y'all are adjusting to Daylight Savings Time okay. Time change is sometimes awkward to me over the first few days. First day of spring arrives next Saturday.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Yeah, that makes sense Austin. I've seen that trait in Europeans. My wife's stepmother was in the foreign service and back when she and I were first dating the stepmom was working in the US embassy in Bern. Certainly the Swiss were buttoned up pretty tight. Let's just say you weren't likely to see a busted Yugo up on blocks in anybody's yard.
Where do the poor all have cell phones, big screens, etc?
Talked to my oldest son Saturday. He moved to Nashville two weeks ago and he was telling me how Central Time was hard to get used to. Wonder how he feels now?
Also sounds like Seattle and Portland...among others. Give those parks another year or so. One is just down the street from where my step-daughter and her family live. Where her kids used to play.
Colonel, I had no idea we had anything that blatant going on in the US, though I can't say anything happening in Portland surprises me. They'll learn the hard way, eventually. The Swiss thought it was a way to isolate all the drug horror in one park. Of course, it was just a giant magnet sucking in the dregs of society from thousands of miles away.
Seattle has changed big-time since I lived there in the 80's. There was obviously a homeless problem back then but I didn't hear much about a drug problem. Of course I lived (Des Moines) and worked (Kent) outside the city but spent quite a bit of time weekly inside the city. Work and pleasure.
Not sure they can or will learn. If politicians continue to bail out cities, states, and companies that have shown poor leadership they will continue to fail. Dems will continue to vote them in and corrupt politicians like it that way.
I have seen a lot of people lately advocate to legalize all drug use and we would have less people in prison. I don't see how, most businesses can still make it against policy to have this stuff in your system because it will affect performance and sick days. When people start losing their jobs how do they pay for their now addiction to the harder drugs? Crime. Not only that, in reference to sick days there would be a need for counseling and time off for detox which companies will not pay for either. Who will pay for that? There are other concerns too but, I won't go over all of them here but, the bottom line is I believe we would be worse off.
Will be driving by there in 3 weeks heading to Arkansas going fishing!!!
