The Good The Bad & The Ugly 1966 - Mark Williams - Jim Al-Khalili TV - James Burke TV - Leonardo da Vinci - Matt le Tissier -
23,324. I know nothing at all about that case of coins. (Western & Coin) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly [Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo] 1966 starring Clint Eastwood & Lee van Cleef & Eli Wallach & Aldo Giuffre & Al Mulock & Antonio Casas & John Bartha & Claudio Scarchillio & Sandro Scarchilli & Antonio Molion Rojo, director Sergio Leone, Stevens to Angel Eyes
48,117. Boulton was always quick to spot an opportunity. In the 1790s rapid inflation created a national demand for coinage, so he set up another production line using steam power to revolutionise coin making – a trade still carried on in the city [Birmingham] today. (Steam & Engine & Coins & Industrial Revolution & Great Britain & England) Mark Williams, Industrial Revolutions: Coining It
61,134. Coin-making is one of the many examples of how the practical needs of the booming economy began to turn the magical practice of alchemy into modern chemistry. (Islam & Science & Alchemy & Chemistry & Coins) Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Science & Islam: The Empire of Reason
67,314. It still took Americans fifty years to give up using their English shillings. (Civilisation & Coin) James Burke, Connections II: Flexible Response s2e20
41,505. Invisible coins
Will lead to
The triumph of many
Who spend them. (Money & Consumer & Coins) Leonardo da Vinci
40,186. Who will win the League? It’s a toss of a coin between three of them. (Football & Coin) Matt le Tissier