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Thanks for pic, LMAO

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

author: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889

The Mississippi scheme — The south-sea bubble — The tulipomania — The alchymists — Modern prophecies — Fortune-telling — The magnetisers — Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard — The crusades — The witch mania — The slow poisoners — Haunted houses — Popular follies of great cities — Popular admiration of great thieves — Duels and ordeals — Relics.

22 posted on 05/05/2010 8:07:59 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)

To: Texas Fossil

"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"
I have that on a bookshelf at home.
You don't forget a title like that.
;)

28 posted on 05/05/2010 9:32:49 AM PDT by astyanax (Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)

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