Tue | Feb 28 
Chariot racing was the most popular sport in ancient Greece and Rome. It is hard to imagine that 2,000 years ago as many as 250,000 people would gather in the Circus Maximus in Rome to watch chariot races. With dozens of races each day, the races consisted of 5 to 12 laps around the almost one mile long track.
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Wed | Oct 26
In the 1770’s things were not going well for Spain’s colony in New Orleans. Inflation was rampant and merchants were wary of accepting paper currency which lost value weekly. Throughout the city talks of revolution from Spain were beginning to surface. Spain recognized the importance of New Orleans for shipping goods from the Louisiana Territory, but with a currency the locals did not trust the situation was becoming desperate.
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Fri | May 6
Q: Why are early Spanish coins called cobs, and what is a bit?
During Spain`s 300 years of colonial rule, huge silver and gold deposits were discovered in the New World. Rather than ship this silver back to Spain in its raw state, Spain established mints in the Americas to produce the irregular coinage we now call cobs.
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