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Not sure where this belongs but I saw "Graphics", so here goes. A lot of the stuff I intend to post in here are snippets from a Space Opera/AH timeline I'm working on but there will be all sorts of random stuff. To start off with, one of my favourites. (Corner Infobox Text) Pictured below...

In a treatise Ways and Means by Xenophon (yes, that Xenophon, of the Ten Thousand) from 354 BC, he suggested a joint-stock bank for Athens. He proposed that by lending from the public stock, encouraging commercial enterprises and enacting fair regulations, it would be possible to raise...