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955: The Clay Tablets from Babylon

Radical Personal Finance

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The Moon Shines Full

"On this day I have paid the last of my debts. This is the day upon which my good wife and my thankful self celebrate with great feasting that our determination has been achieved," writes Franklin Caldwell in a letter to his professor at St Swithins College, Nottingham University. "Old Al-Kahad is not so bad after all for he said, the word wants a piece of soft clay to be pressed and molded by any hand that touched the, but now thou art a piece of bronze capable of holding an edge." He goes on: "I do commend it to all who wish to get ahead. For truly if it will enable an ex-slave to pay his debts

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