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Jens Nordlunde · 30th May 2006, 04:53 PM

Hi Mark,

Thank you for the links. True it can be frustrating to turn page after page reading about a lot of things other than what you are looking for. There are however also funny things, like when the king in a place where they mined rubies rented out pieces of land to people who wanted to mine themselves. If the found rubies over ten carat they belonged to the king, other rubies they could keep if they paid a tax – rather sly I would say. Another funny thing is, that the author – in 1510 – got ten years copyright by the Pope.

30th May 2006, 04:53 PM	#3
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Hi Mark, Thank you for the links. True it can be frustrating to turn page after page reading about a lot of things other than what you are looking for. There are however also funny things, like when the king in a place where they mined rubies rented out pieces of land to people who wanted to mine themselves. If the found rubies over ten carat they belonged to the king, other rubies they could keep if they paid a tax – rather sly I would say. Another funny thing is, that the author – in 1510 – got ten years copyright by the Pope.