Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dollar comes from Joachimstal, big silver mines there in the olden times - Joachimstaler... taler... dollar. It is now Jachymow in Czech Republic. I drove that way home from Photokina last year, weird place, big radon spa there. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho <snip> His wife is lying next to him. He died at 29 and > each sarcofag (out of white marble) cost 22,000 riksdaler back then > (daler = the historical word that "dollar" comes from, I think. Tollar in > Slovenien). That would be a lot of money today, it was an enormous sum > back then. All for a corpse. What a waste. > <snip> > > Daniel >