Bill Gates and the Oregon Trail Commemoratives

llafoe

Who says you never learn anything from PCGS... I just learned that Bill Gates (the richest man in America) and his company, Microsoft, hired men in 1811 for the Oregon Trail!

Bill Gates and the Oregon Trail Commemorative Coins

TexasNationals

I thought the French Banker, Stephen Girard was the richest man in the US then???

Hmmm.... even

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astrorat

The man was ahead of his time!

TexasNationals

my bad Here and Here! History is confused, so which was it?

GAT

He will learn, as many before him, you arrived with nothing and leave with nothing.

llafoe

<< <i>my bad Here and Here! History is confused, so which was it? >>



Looks like Stephen Girard was in 1811 and John Jacob Astor was later in the 19th Century... Bill Gates didn't become the richest man until he was well over 200 years old!

dizzyfoxx

...and which Vice President invented the internet???

TexasNationals

Van Buren?

TexasNationals

Who invented Nacho's??

This is coin and military/war related!!

lcoopie

i don't think the article connects the two.

monster

I can't believe this. At first, I thought Bill Gates is a collector. What is the connection, here?

LindeDad

Isn't most of the Oregon Trail following the path found by Sacagawea.

TexasNationals

I can't believe this. At first, I thought Bill Gates is a collector. What is the connection, here?

I thought the same thing when PCGS sent me the email??

llafoe

<< <i>Who invented Nacho's??

This is coin and military/war related!! >>



This is Nacho thread... move along!

LindeDad

And two hundered years later you can still lose your brakes on that downgrade if not carful.

BTW it's sligly blurred because I just let up on the gas at 80mph after topping out, about four hundred miles of down hill from there.

TexasNationals

Do you throw her in neutral most of the way and slowly brake her down?

LindeDad

<< <i>Do you throw her in neutral most of the way and slowly brake her down? >>



Thats the receipt for loosing it. Fifth gear until speed increases then down shift for more back pressure. The big rigs are talking all the way down.
I remember folliowing a semi down this pass in a spring blizzard about twenty some years ago I think we were doing about fifteen to tweny miles per hour at the most.