It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies.

Pandects, manuscript-volumes containing all the books of the Old and New Testaments, were enormous and very rare.

It's lots of other pettifogging, degrading things. Things you have to endure, things you never have to think about until they happen to you.

“Space travel isn’t a tax-free holiday for the wealthy,” said Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon. “We pay taxes on plane tickets. Billionaires flying into space — producing no scientific value — should do the same, and then some!”