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How is your week going? If it's anything like these two, hang in there - it's Thursday! You're doing great, you got this!

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Today is the 100th Birthday of naturalist and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough

I think we've likely all seen at least some of the well over 100 documentaries he has made and hopefully appreciate the planet we live on and the amazing variety of life we share it with that little bit more because of the knowledge he has shared.

Here is a 2019 £2 coin featuring the Royal Research Ship (RRS) named in his honour. Image of the coin from Numista:

Image of the ship from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough?wprov=sfla1

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The "Eureka Bar" is a a "massive 64-pound California Gold Rush sunken treasure gold ingot". A 933.34 troy ounces gold bar, recovered from the famed 1857 shipwreck of the SS Central America, known as the ‘Ship of Gold,' widely regarded as the largest surviving gold artifact of the California Gold Rush.

The bar is insured for $10 Million. Kagin's Digital are offering 1,500 "shares" of the bar, worth an average of $4,333 each. See the article in E-Sylum and the links there if interested: https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n12.html#article11

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