[ Hat tip: Tom Higgins ] Given the mess in the financial markets, this bit of history is amusing: September 17, 1859 “At the peremptory request and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the last [...]
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