What You Didn’t Know About SILVER & It’s Most Famous Metal:
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Silver & It’s Most Famous Metal: What You Didn’t Know... From face prosthetics to harvesting rain using silver, let’s explore the exiting, superstitious and unexpected things about the color silver and its most famous metal!!!
#11 The Silver Charm
Most of us now days like to mix gold and silver jewelry it’s a fashion statement. In ancient Greece, though, it that was considered very bad luck.
#10 To Hammer A Pope
Catholic religion has a very unique way of starting the rituals. There is ritual to confirm the passing of the pope, since before the 20th century, right after the Pope passes away, a silver hammer is used to lightly tap the head of the former bishop and say his birth name three times.
#9 Rough Edges
By shaving little bits of each coin, they could sell the shavings and make money of the free precious metals… finally the government got tired of losing chunks every time so they got creative too… when making newer coins they were minted with ridges on the sides making a shaved coin worthless…. Problem solved…
#8 A Hoarding Case
What would you expect to find while at the beach or using a metal detector... largest in Sweden and Britain
#7 Bizarre Silver Animals
Meet the silver snake, or rat snake of south America, as well as the newly discovered silver boa constrictor found in an inhabited island in the Bahamas in 2015. Unfortunately, it’s making the news as it already tops the list of endangered species. On a brighter side, the shiniest of all silver animals is the silver beetle. Found in Costa Rica…
#6 Metal Spare Parts
… 16th century Danish astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe who got so upset with his challenging student that instead of giving him homework like any sensitive teacher, he challenged the student to a duel… in the battle he ended up losing his nose… he used a silver prosthetic one to make his face as good as new!!
#5 Cloudy With a Chance of Silver
In Alberta Canada…
#4 The Cutest Silver Animals
the silver fox tops the list of cutest silver animals. … As the hair turns silver with age, the male gorillas become known as silverbacks.
#3 Crazy Things Famous People Have Done
Mike Tyson loves pigeons… Tyson offered the attendant 10 thousand dollars to reopen the cage so he could beat that bully gorilla into submission…
#2 Ancient & Modern Cures
Silver has been used since ancient times, Large amounts of silver in your system will cause Argyria.
#1 The “Silver Beetles”
What would inspire a band to be called “the silver beetles?” … finally became the Beatles we know and love!!
The material credited in the link below was used, some with modifications, with rights provided per the publishing of said material under a CC-BY license. A material list and all attributions will be found there.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CrIGzaZMQpBkv7LCYEUcUBhxo89jLxVH
#11 The Silver Charm
Most of us now days like to mix gold and silver jewelry it’s a fashion statement. In ancient Greece, though, it that was considered very bad luck.
#10 To Hammer A Pope
Catholic religion has a very unique way of starting the rituals. There is ritual to confirm the passing of the pope, since before the 20th century, right after the Pope passes away, a silver hammer is used to lightly tap the head of the former bishop and say his birth name three times.
#9 Rough Edges
By shaving little bits of each coin, they could sell the shavings and make money of the free precious metals… finally the government got tired of losing chunks every time so they got creative too… when making newer coins they were minted with ridges on the sides making a shaved coin worthless…. Problem solved…
#8 A Hoarding Case
What would you expect to find while at the beach or using a metal detector... largest in Sweden and Britain
#7 Bizarre Silver Animals
Meet the silver snake, or rat snake of south America, as well as the newly discovered silver boa constrictor found in an inhabited island in the Bahamas in 2015. Unfortunately, it’s making the news as it already tops the list of endangered species. On a brighter side, the shiniest of all silver animals is the silver beetle. Found in Costa Rica…
#6 Metal Spare Parts
… 16th century Danish astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe who got so upset with his challenging student that instead of giving him homework like any sensitive teacher, he challenged the student to a duel… in the battle he ended up losing his nose… he used a silver prosthetic one to make his face as good as new!!
#5 Cloudy With a Chance of Silver
In Alberta Canada…
#4 The Cutest Silver Animals
the silver fox tops the list of cutest silver animals. … As the hair turns silver with age, the male gorillas become known as silverbacks.
#3 Crazy Things Famous People Have Done
Mike Tyson loves pigeons… Tyson offered the attendant 10 thousand dollars to reopen the cage so he could beat that bully gorilla into submission…
#2 Ancient & Modern Cures
Silver has been used since ancient times, Large amounts of silver in your system will cause Argyria.
#1 The “Silver Beetles”
What would inspire a band to be called “the silver beetles?” … finally became the Beatles we know and love!!
The material credited in the link below was used, some with modifications, with rights provided per the publishing of said material under a CC-BY license. A material list and all attributions will be found there.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CrIGzaZMQpBkv7LCYEUcUBhxo89jLxVH