"I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody."
Hong Kong circa 1857 was an exciting and dangerous place. This was the message to the Pattaya City Expats Club on Sunday, January 22. Master of Ceremonies Richard Silverberg called on fellow member Harry ?Sig? Sigworth to introduce the Club?s guest speaker Dean Barrett.
Granite Falls, Minn. ? A 150-year-old loop of rope, knotted into a hangman's noose, sits in a climate-controlled case in the underground archives of the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.