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CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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857
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Disney's TaleSpin routinely had Baloo flying his plane between narrow cliffs that opened up onto a huge bay that they called "Cape Suzette." I guess that never made sense. It was more like a gulf with a very narrow entrance from the sea.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
80,287
17,078
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JEB Stuart died at 31.
He made general at 30.

Unlike most of his fellow generals he was too young to have served in Mexico.
 

foghorn67

Lifer
Jan 3, 2006
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Disney's TaleSpin routinely had Baloo flying his plane between narrow cliffs that opened up onto a huge bay that they called "Cape Suzette." I guess that never made sense. It was more like a gulf with a very narrow entrance from the sea.
Because it played off the words Crape Suzzette would be my guess.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,941
8,198
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It's commonly stated that the word "salary" derives from Roman times when soldiers were literally paid with salt. That's bothered me for awhile. Salt's just about the least valuable substance on the planet. If you wanted me to work for salt, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself. I can get a bucket of sea water and wait for it to evaporate. That's certainly easier than doing *anything* and getting paid with salt.

Anyway, I just looked it up, and words describing the use of salt as any kind of payment wasn't literal...

By the time of the Hebrew Book of Ezra (550 to 450 BC), salt from a person was synonymous with drawing sustenance, taking pay, or being in that person's service. At that time, salt production was strictly controlled by the monarchy or ruling elite. Depending on the translation of Ezra 4:14,[3] the servants of King Artaxerxes I of Persia explain their loyalty variously as "because we are salted with the salt of the palace" or "because we have maintenance from the king" or "because we are responsible to the king".[citation needed]

Salarium
It is widely claimed that the Latin word salarium originally "salt money" (Lat. sal, salt), i.e., the sum paid to soldiers for salt.[4][5] However, there is no evidence for this.[6]

 

Spacehead

Lifer
Jun 2, 2002
13,067
9,858
136
Salt's just about the least valuable substance on the planet.
Not now but back then maybe it was.
If you wanted me to work for salt, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself.
Not gunna tell them to "go pound salt!"


I thought i remembered something about salt being used as payment...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt#History
"With the spread of civilization, salt became one of the world's main trading commodities. It was of high value to the ancient Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Hittites and other peoples of antiquity."

"In Africa, salt was used as currency south of the Sahara, and slabs of rock salt were used as coins in Abyssinia. Moorish merchants in the 6th century traded salt for gold, weight for weight."

"Wars have been fought over salt."

But then there's this so...
"The word salary comes from the Latin word for salt. The reason for this is unknown; a persistent modern claim that the Roman Legions were sometimes paid in salt is baseless."
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
57,941
8,198
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I could see it having value far inland with no known salt deposits, but all those countries you listed are maritime nations. They're surrounded by salt, free for the taking.
 

Ajay

Lifer
Jan 8, 2001
16,094
8,109
136
I could see it having value far inland with no known salt deposits, but all those countries you listed are maritime nations. They're surrounded by salt, free for the taking.

Yeah, it's odd. There are salt deposits all over the world (where ancient salt water lakes evaporated). Some of these mines are pretty deep though. Getting salt from the sea is a pretty slow process (creating evaporation pools), at least in temperate regions. There were few alternatives to preserving meat in large quantities, IIRC, that may have factored heavily in it's value.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
70,152
28,793
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If you load Google Earth, wait for the earth to stop spinning, and zoom in without moving the center point, this parking lot in Lawrence, Kansas is the center point.

 
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