SC - Passover smiles

[rcmann4@earthlink.net]

Here is what Margali kindly sent to the list last month:

Jill J

margali wrote:
> 
> Well, I found the following sites online:
>  http://classics.holycross.edu/Courses/IT_in_Classics/F97/exercises/04.Spreadsheets.html
> 
> this one deals with making the conversion between Babylonian and Euboen.
> Not particularly useful, but fascinating ;-)
> 
>  http://www.mustardseed.net/html/tweightmeasure.html
> this one is biblical, hebrew and Greco-Roman.
> 
>  http://www.worldtradepress.com/dictionary/weights.html
> This one is modern, call it post 1800 or so, British and American both
> metric and non-metric.
> 
>  http://www.ut.ee/REAM/weights.htm
> sort of a generalist overview, written more for kids.
> 
>  http://www.brocktonmass.com/weights/history.html
> The US dept. of weights and measures website.
> 
>  http://melbecon.unimelb.edu.au/het/petty/taxes.txt
> A Treatise of Taxes & Contributions, shewing the Nature and
> Measures of Crown Lands, Assessments, Customs, Poll-Money,
> Lotteries, Benevolence, Penalties, Monopolies, Offices, Tythes,
> Raising of Coins, Harth-Money, Excize, etc. With several
> intersperst Discourses and Digressions concerning Warres, The
> Church, Universities, Rents & Purchases, Usury & Exchange, Banks
> & Lombards, Registries for Conveyances, Beggars, Ensurance,
> Exportation of Money & Wool, Free-ports, Coins, Housing, Liberty
> of Conscience, etc.
> 
> The Same being frequently applied to the present State and
> Affairs of Ireland.
> 
> London, Printed for N. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662.
> 
> by William Petty
> 
> 1662
> 
> What more can I say, not exactly what we were looking for, but still
> rather interesting, and almost in period ;-)
> 
>  http://www.cyndislist.com/weights.htm
> Wow, it is a geneologists website, but has a lot of info on measures of
> various cultures.
> 
>  http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/TABLES/150995301_T.html
> A minor bingo! It does have Somme odd stuff, minor amounts of japanese,
> russian, chinese, spanish and mexican!
> 
> margali
> and it even has how much lard is 1 lb!
> Food Content - I found a chinese fast food place in Kittery maine that
> still fries in lard ;-)
> --
> 
> MarilynTraber at FictionForest.com
> HTTP://WWW.FictionForest.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The Quote Starts Here:
> 
> ============================================================================
> 
> To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
> Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".
> 
> ============================================================================