Just got a sort of Holy Grail of research: a friend recom...
Just got a sort of Holy Grail of research: a friend recommended "The Value of a Dollar" - prices of EVERYTHING from colonial times to the year 2000.
How much did a farm-worker in Philadelphia earn in 1806? Forty cents a day. Coal was three cents a bushel. A horse cost $50 (how good a horse? Bet you paid more if you were trying to match a pair... and anyway, it ain't the horse that costs, but the feed...)
I am, needless to say, delighted. I have a 3-foot shelf of books containing this sort of information, and I STILL have to extrapolate sometimes. For English prices I usually use Liza Picard's incredible series on London (Elizabethan, Restoration, 18th Century, and Victorian)...
And I was also tickled to death to find a manga of Asterix le Gaulois IN JAPANESE... where the producer RE-DREW THE ARTWORK (presumably for copyright reasons).
I've also just acquired a refurbished Nintendo DS with "My Japanese Coach" to assist my study of the language. I'm currently using a bamboo skewer as a stylus. There's a stylus installed SOMEWHERE in that sleek little box, (I saw the girl at the store put it in) but I can't remember where it is and it's impossible to find. Any help would be appreciated.
How much did a farm-worker in Philadelphia earn in 1806? Forty cents a day. Coal was three cents a bushel. A horse cost $50 (how good a horse? Bet you paid more if you were trying to match a pair... and anyway, it ain't the horse that costs, but the feed...)
I am, needless to say, delighted. I have a 3-foot shelf of books containing this sort of information, and I STILL have to extrapolate sometimes. For English prices I usually use Liza Picard's incredible series on London (Elizabethan, Restoration, 18th Century, and Victorian)...
And I was also tickled to death to find a manga of Asterix le Gaulois IN JAPANESE... where the producer RE-DREW THE ARTWORK (presumably for copyright reasons).
I've also just acquired a refurbished Nintendo DS with "My Japanese Coach" to assist my study of the language. I'm currently using a bamboo skewer as a stylus. There's a stylus installed SOMEWHERE in that sleek little box, (I saw the girl at the store put it in) but I can't remember where it is and it's impossible to find. Any help would be appreciated.
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