http://www.pressplus.com/missam/pastwinners/pw_1923.html
http://www.missamerica.org/meet/history/1920/1923.asp
Money
The "paper" notes we use to pay for goods and services (which,
together with coins, constitute "money" or "tender") are made of a
blend of cotton and linen.
Throughout history, numerous objects served as money: seashells,
stones, whales' teeth, cattle and manillas (ornamental jewelry). The
word "salary" reflects the fact that Roman soldiers were paid in salt.
As recently as 1932, in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes of $1, $5 and
$10 denominations were printed on wood.
Money comes in all sizes, shapes and forms. One meter long and half a
meter wide copper plates were used in Alaska in the 1850s. They
weighed 40 kilograms.
http://www.banktech.com/
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/llyfr.html
Monsters, Human
Humans made monsters by inhuman treatment abound in literature. In
"The Man Who Laughs", published in 1869, the French author, Victor
Hugo (1802-1885), described the comprachicos thus:
"The comprachicos (child buyers) were strange and hideous nomads in
the 17th century.
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