The Golden Touch

King Midas had one little daughter, whose name was Marigold. King Midas was very, very rich. It was said that he had more gold than any other king in the world. One room of his great castle was almost filled with yellow gold pieces. At last the King grew so fond of his gold that he loved it better than anything else in all the world. He even loved it better than his own little daughter, dear little rosy-cheeked Marigold. His one great wish seemed to be for more and more gold. One day while he...

Gold (Sanskrit jval, Greece χρυσος = chrysos, Latin aurum, an ancient English gold ) has been known as a very valuable since the prehistoric era. Egyptian hieroglyphs (2600 BC) said metals and gold have stated several times in the Old Testament (Eng. Old Testament). Exploration of Europe (at the time of European exploration) to the Americas promoted by the various news that stated that gold decoration materials used freely among Native Americans, especially in Central America, Peru, and...

If you've got so much money that you're just looking for new ways to waste it, Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid created the Gold Pill for you. It's a pill dipped in gold and filled with 24-karat gold leaf. You're supposed to eat it "to increase your self-worth." That would be funny if it didn't cost $425 for the joke. Supposedly an added benefit is that it will make your poop sparkle, but no one seems to have proven that part yet (and if you do, please don't send us the pictures). This...

In the beginning the Muslims used gold and silver by weight and the dinar and dirhams that they used were made by the Persians. The first dated coins that can be assigned to the Muslims are copies of silver dirhams of the Sassanian Yezdigird III, struck during the Khalifate of Uthman, radiy'allahu anhu. These coins differ from the original ones in that an Arabic inscription is found in the obverse margins, normally reading "In the Name of Allah". Since then the writing in Arabic of the Name...

Many people think that the Iraqi dinar and so forth are the same as the Islamic Dinar. So should I make a very clear explanation that the Iraqi dinar and the like are not the same and not the Islamic Dinar. Iraqi Dinar is the currency of plain paper, while the Islamic Dinar is a 22-carat gold coins 4:25 grams. Further, for we know the Islamic Dinar is closer, here I take the description of the book Muhaimin Iqbal "Mengembalikan Kemakmuran Islam Dengan Dinar dan Dirham" (Restoring Prosperity...