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Friday, September 19, 2008

Today's Quicky History Lesson


Nathan Rothschild

a remark of Nathan Rothschild in 1815, at the time of Napoleon’s hundred-day gamble that ended in his defeat at Waterloo. “The time to buy,” said Rothschild, “is when blood is running in the streets.”

H/T to Dan.

Update November 2015. Replaced missing picture with different one.

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