Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006 - Ronald Top TV - Matthew 5:13 - Mark 9:50 - Luke 14:34 - Jago Cooper TV - Simon Reeve TV -
The world’s first – and only – hotel made entirely of salt has a ‘no licking’ policy. Built on the world’s largest salt bed, the Uyuni Salt Hotel ... Bolivia. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not? 2006
Salt appears naturally in two forms: solid and liquid. When it’s solid – rock salt – you can mine it. When it’s salty water – brine – you can pump it. Ronald Top, More Industrial Revelations Europe s4e1: Bread, Beer and Salt, Discovery 2006
The extortionate salt taxes helped trigger the French Revolution. ibid.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Matthew 5:13
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. Mark 9:50
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? Luke 14:34
The salt trail led the Spanish directly to the Muisca. Dr Jago Cooper, Lost Kingdoms of South America III: Lands of Gold, BBC 2013
It’s like the largest most perfect ice-skating rink you can possibly imagine … Four thousand square miles of salt flats. It was in southern Bolivia. Simon Reeve’s South America IV, BBC 2022