Allow me to begin this post with a retrospective anecdote: When our kids were young we naturally spent quite a bit of time visiting the grandparents. Betsy and I were lucky; our parents lived not far way, in Quincy, Illinois, just 45 miles from our home in Knox County. On a shelf at Betsy’s folks’ place was an artifact from the Depression era which offended me; it was a cast-metal coin bank, a small representation of an exaggerated black boy. The idea was to place a coin in the boy’s outst

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Have you ever thought about becoming a numismatist and taking up coin collecting? Multitudes of people, dating back to the 1300s, have found this to be a profitable career. You don’t know how to do it, right? You wouldn’t know if a coin is worth 15 cents or $1,500. You need someone to help you! Beginners are easy prey for coin collectors that want to sell them coins worth one-tenth of what they sell them for or buy them for much less than they’re worth! You have to have professional guidance, bu

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Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the “barreleye” fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light. However, the eyes were believed to be fixed in place and seemed to provide only a “tunnel-vision” view of whatever was directly above the fish’s head. A new paper by Bruce R

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Researchers Solve Mystery Of Deep-Sea Fish

Wills: The Cornerstone of Your Estate Plan If you care about what happens to your money, home, and other property after you die, you need to do some estate planning. There are many tools you can use to achieve your estate planning goals, but a will is probably the most vital. Even if you're young or your estate is modest, you should always have a legally valid and up-to-date will. This is especially important if you have minor children because, in many states, your will is the only lega

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100ft+ 'Nabau' Snake Reported in Borneo According to legend, the Nabau was a terrifying snake more than 100ft in length and with a dragon's head and seven nostrils. But now local villagers living along the Baleh river in Borneo believe the mythical creature has returned after this photo of a gigantic snake swimming along the remote waterways has emerged. The picture, taken by a member of a disaster team monitoring flood regions by helicopter, has sparked a huge debate about whether

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Computers are a never-ending source of information on just about everything. Unfortunately, it can’t sprout limbs, strap on a tool belt and actually do the physical labor for you (not yet), but it can help you in the planning stages. For example, your computer can help you determine a budget through bookkeeping software, find a planner and renovator through the internet, and plan every light fixture and towel rack through home remodeling software . Just The FAQs, Ma’am Bathroom remodeli

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Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age / 2 Million - 10000 B.C.) Paleolithic Age, also known to be the old stone age, began somewhere around 2 million years ago, and ended 10,000 years before our time. This time period marked the beginning of the existence of the ancestors of man.The early man in the Paleolithic age did not know how to farm and raise crops, but instead, lived on picking up vegetables, fruit and on hunting. In search of new food sources, and to be able to hunt animals, man moved from pla

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Anatolian Civilizations

Tim Skelly was the first live creator chat (February 4th, 2009) at Coinopspace.com and everything went pretty smooth. Right around 50 members attended the event and Tim was nice enough to extend the session from an hour to just over 2! And as a result, most all members questions got answered and a few new insights were uncovered. Here is the formatted version of that transcript. I have taken the information relevant to the conversation and formatted it so that the arcade history is more eas

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  Just like many of us here at this site, we enjoy trying to build our mini collections of golf equipment and trinkets that we deem necessary or desirable. Many times we spend ungodly amounts of money for golf stuff that never even touched the hands of anyone famous in the golf world. Other times, we get the special opportunity to obtain something tangible that once belonged to a John Daly, Tiger Woods, Bobby Jones or Nick Faldo. Enter one Mr. Henry Campbell. Henry, like many golf fans,

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coin collecting supplies As with any hobby it is sometimes the tools that can add to the thrill and collecting coins is no different. Coin collecting supplies help make the act of building a collection fun and exciting. With the number of people who participate in building a collection of old rare coins, a wide variety Source

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