Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf Britisches Englisch verfügbar.Timothy Dexter was a colourful 18th century American businessman noted for his eccentricity and his eerily acute business sense that in most cases flouted common sense. Among others his business feats include: delivering warming pans to the West Indies, where they were sold for a profit for use as ladles in the local molasses industry
shipping gloves to Polynesia, where they were bought by Portuguese merchants on their way to China, who coincidentally anchored there at ...
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