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The most expensive wrist watch ever sold at auction was a Patek Phillippe Grandmaster Chime.  In a Swiss action for charity, the new one-of-a-kind bracelet sold for $31.19 million.  Unlike many expensive watches, it was adorned with no diamonds or other jewels.  It was just hand crafted to perfection with extreme metals.  They have every-day watches for the masses that go for a mere million or so.  

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The largest conventional oil field in the world is the Ghawar Field in Saudi Arabia.  It pumps about 3,800,000 barrels per day.  This accounts for about 1/3 of the Saudi output.  They could pump much more if the markets would allow.  

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There's some controversy over the horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Bible;  some say War, Pestilence, and Death; others say Conquest, War, Famine and Death.  I was taught they were Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden (the Notre Dame backfield of 1924).  Today, someone might say; Global Warming, Pandemic, Poverty and Famine.

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You think New York is the city of skyscrapers?  The first ever built was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, IL in 1885.  In fact, Chicago had four steel framed skyscrapers before the first one was built in The Big Apple.

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When I was a kid in the 1940s, I remember that our grocer's son brought our groceries to the house and carried them into the kitchen.  That didn't go on too long before a large market was put up a couple blocks away.  Now we're getting back to the delivery of groceries.  Things go in circles. 

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