Category Archives: History

Virtual Princes, Virtual Wealth

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Ron Pavellas

I start by asserting that the fundamental sources of true wealth are in the earth and the sea. Some people create new wealth by transforming the lives and minerals grown in and extracted from these two sources into useful things … Continue reading →

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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Ron Pavellas

These are the words of Sir Isaac Newton, 1675 A.D., quoting a well-known saying coined a few hundred years earlier. He was reminding us of the debt that current scholars owe to the great ones of the past. Newton was a physicist, … Continue reading →

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