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LOOSE CHANGE: JUNE 23, 2019Here are some additional items in the media this week that may be of interest. -Editor Breen Daughter's Book Going to Print
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Bulgari Coin Watches
From The Telegraph, an article about the latest Bulgari coin jewelry. -Editor
Piaget's acclaimed Dalí D'or watches and jewellery use the coins Salvador Dalí minted in the 1960s and 1970s incorporating like-nesses of himself and his wife Gala. Among the most prolific are the Corum Coin Watches using gold dollar coins and worn by US presidents including Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Even Andy Warhol had a Corum Coin Watch in his celebrated collection. To read the complete article, see:
Venezuela's Secret Gold Shipments
Martin Kaplan passed along this Wall Street Journal piece about secretive gold shipments from Venezuela. Thanks. -Editor
On two early-March flights, at least 7.4 tons of gold with a market value over $300 million moved from Venezuela to a refinery in Uganda, say officials in Venezuela and Uganda, a foreign diplomat and Venezuelan opposition lawmakers, who have concluded Mr. Maduro's government exported the ingots. The gold arrived on a Russian charter jetliner in two shipments at the international airport in Entebbe, says Ugandan national-police spokesman Fred Enanga. The accompanying paperwork identified the ingots, some with stamped labels partially scratched off, as Venezuelan central-bank property, says a senior Ugandan police officer who saw the bars and documents. Flight records show the trips originated in Caracas, Venezuela. The shipments expose one link in a global underground economy many suspect is helping Mr. Maduro cling to power by bypassing the U.S.-dominated international finance system. To read the complete article (subscription required), see:
The Maven Game
Many of our book fans are also writers, so I thought I'd share a link to a great blog on writing called The Maven Game by David Moldawer. This particular post is an excellent piece of writing itself, with some interesting observations about movie sequels, in particular "long hiatus sequels" - think of Paul Newman in The Color of Money, made 25 years after The Hustler. It draws on references as diverse as Ben Franklin's Leather Apron club, cicadas and Seinfeld (check out the link to a classic episode). -Editor By the time Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill are long gone, we'll be enjoying long-hiatus sequels featuring septuagenarian Daisy Ridley using the Force to fetch her slippers. To read the complete article, see:
Movable Type: A Chinese Invention
And for bibliophies, here's an interesting article on the invention of movable type - and it wasn't you-know-who. -Editor The printing press is often said to have been created by Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, around 1440 AD, and it began taking root in Europe in the 1450s with the printing of the aforementioned Bible. Books themselves had been present in Europe long before then, of course, but only in hand-copied volumes that were accessible mainly to members of the clergy. Access to mass-produced books revolutionized Europe in the late 1400s, with advancing literacy altering religion, politics, and lifestyles worldwide. At least, this is how the story is rendered in most books, including, for the most part, The Lost Gutenberg. But a single sentence late in the book nods to a much longer story before that: “Movable type was an 11th-century Chinese invention, refined in Korea in 1230, before meeting conditions in Europe that would allow it to flourish—in Europe, in Gutenberg's time.” To read the complete article, see:
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