Jeremy Cherfas

@TimDee4 More to it than spring and autumn. Thought to be a coded guide to the long-term storage of grain, known to the Ancients and then forgotten until rediscovered in the late 18th century – without which there would be no global wheat trade. www.eatthispodcast.com/grain-per…

@jblanca42 And finance. This week, @nelshist explains that wheat warehouses were the first banks, how the grain futures market emerged from the US Civil War and how Russia robbed the widows and orphans of France.

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Next week, empire!

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Abracadabra!

Here, have a webmention in recognition of this bold leap.

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Whoa! New artwork, parts of which look just like the leaves on my cannas. @cdevroe

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Quite hard.

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So many vowels

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No coalmines around here.