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Long a significant supplier of domestic lending in a credit-tight economy, the bank attempted—with only partial success—to revive the local credit market during the tenure of Gabriela Ciganotto, who stated the main goal of the bank in her inauguration speech in 2006 as "putting [the bank] at the service of production, especially small and medium businesses, and not of speculation."
Evidence of direct tin trade between Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean has been demonstrated through the analysis of tin ingots dated to the 13th-12th centuries BC from sites in Israel, Turkey and modern-day Greece; tin ingots from Israel, for example, have been found to share chemical composition with tin from Cornwall and Devon (Great ...
Tin melts at 231 °C (449 °F) [21] Lead melts at 327 °C (621 °F) [21] Silver at 961 °C (1763 °F) [21] Gold at 1064 °C (1947 °F) [21] Copper at 1084 °C (1984 °F) [21] Iron is the outlier at 1538 °C (2800 °F), [21] making it far more difficult to melt in antiquity.
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Cast in the shape of a peck, or dou in Chinese, each ingot weighs just over 1 pound (0.45 kg). Ten blocks made up one unit called a small bundle, and 40 blocks made up one large bundle. Details of tin production in early Malacca were recorded in the 1436 book Description of the Starry Raft by Fei Xin, a translator of Admiral Zheng He.
[1]: 137 More than 160 copper oxhide ingots, 62 bun ingots, and some of the tin oxhide ingots have incised marks typically on their rough sides. [1]: 146 Some of these marks—resembling fish, oars, and boats—relate to the sea, and they were probably incised after casting, when the ingot was received or exported. [1]: 146
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A large number of Americans' metadata has been stolen in the sweeping cyberespionage campaign carried out by a Chinese hacking group dubbed "Salt Typhoon," a senior U.S ...
Legal experts believe the unknown female celebrity tied to the Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs rape lawsuit has sought her own representation with attorneys.