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[macausland]

The Chinese led the way, as always, nearly two thousand years ago.

The problem was they discovered inflation as well and over the centuries it wouldn't go away.

In the mid fifteenth century they got rid of paper money and went back to heavy metal as you might say.

Paper made a comeback with Chang Kai Cheque, sorry Shek, I believe.

Although they always used paper money to burn as offerings for the dead.

[Marko]

Interesting that the Chinese stopped using paper money in the mid fifteenth century, the time when they seemed to turn inwards and the apparently massive Chinese navy was completely destroyed.

The Chinese are supposed to have invented paper produced from soaking cloth, and far cheaper than parchment, but this assumption seems rather dubious if outside trade was indeed suspended and paper money no longer used?

[macausland]

They used paper for other things though. They used it for wrapping things in, for writing and eventually for toilet paper.

[Boreades]

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The Clarendon Way (Salisbury to Winchester.

Is this an ancient path, or some nouveau-cuisine national trail?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarendon_Way

As used by the Clarendon Marathon
http://www.clarendon-marathon.co.uk/

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