Some charts I am copying off the ‘net.

They are going into the photo albums on this site and are then ported to the Lunatic Society. …

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When you hear unicorns, think rhinoceroses: …

From the footnotes of a Gutenberg book.

6 shillings is just less than a third of a quid. A fortune for some at the time the book was written (1893.)

6 pence [half a shilling; 1/40th of a pound] or something not far from it might have been a minimum wage for a day labourer at the time. I'm guessing 10 or 20 times its value today. …