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The man who called gold a "barbarous relic" in his 1924 book, Monetary Reform, had 66% of his portfolio in gold mining stocks in the 1930s.

Krugman wrote another article implying that Bitcoins were "barbarous" and likened them to digging up mostly useless gold.

The essential theory is that state governments are a barbarous relic of the founding and should be dissolved in fact, even if they still cannot yet be in theory.

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.

Many of the forms of imprisonment that linger on are nothing but a relic of barbarous eras and the sociopathy of it continues in full for those who build careers around it.

[18]The oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, who remarked that certain "barbarous nations" knew how "to thicken the milk into a substance with an agreeable acidity".

Solves both the legal side and serves as a nice control of the lawyer population...Ironically, the elimination of trial by combat was seen as a great advance, casting away a practice that was "superstitious and barbarous to the last degree".And so the circle is closed.

" Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.\n Never us a long word where a short one will do.\n If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.\n Never use the passive where you can use the active.\n Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.\n Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.