If you had a group of people and a pile of treasure, and had to improvise a mechanism to distribute it, you might seize upon something like ...

Just another notes / quotes post. Josiah Warren operated a very popular and successful 'Time Store' between 1827 and 1830, with othe...

 From Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future:

Van Lear was a coal town in Johnson County, Kentucky in the early part of the 20th century, belonging to the Consolidation Coal Company (now...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, preface to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818): [...] the novelty of the situations which it develops, and however ...