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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (843101)3/16/2015 5:34:15 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1576446
 
There's also Rain Man, a governor who taxes his state residents for the amount of rain that falls on their property.


Which reminds me......In ancient Egypt, a Nile-o-meter (kind of a well type structure) was used to measure how high the river got during rainy or flood season.....this told the rulers how far the flood waters extended over the fields and therefore how much area was plantable and therefore taxable.... Clever, huh?
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