Today in a.d. 70 the Temple in Jerusalem burnt after a nine month Roman siege. The people in Jerusalem were their own worst enemies, with two different sects of Zealots fighting each other while the Romans surrounded all. Both sects would kill anyone not rich enough to bribe his way out, and if they did get out the Roman soldiers, operating on a rumor they had swallowed their money, ripped them open. Not a stone was left standing on another, although the Roman commander Titus had forbidden burning the Temple. On 29 August 1526 the Hungarian nobility was nearly wiped out in the Battle of Mohacs (MO-hatch) trying to stop the advancing Ottoman Turks. They stopped the Turks, but at a steep & bloody price. On 29 August 1862 the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing began operation. Until Lincoln needed fiat money to fight his war against the South, the US government had never issued any paper money so needed no such bureau. On 29 August 1842 the British and the Chinese signed one of the most shameful treaties in history, the Treaty of Nanking. It ended the first Opium War and gave Hong Kong to the British. The Chinese empire had wisely forbidden the importation of opium which was destroying its subjects, but the British had opium grown in their Indian empire they wanted to sell, so they forced it on the Chinese by war. New England merchants, including the forebears of the Bushes, also waxed fat and wealthy on the opium trade. I reckon once youve been rich long enough, the stink fades off the money. Yall enjoy your weekend! Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt — Silver and gold must be bought. — Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 04:07:00 +0000
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