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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>The Economic Role of Gold: A Brief Essay on How Gold Has Shaped Our Hong Kong Phone Number List</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Gold has significantly shaped the history of man, his Hong Kong Phone Number List economics and his over all perception of life to being a simple hunter gatherer to a man who is driven by the power of capitalism and understands the value of wealth and its Hong Kong Phone Number List possession. Gold when discovered nearly 40,000 years ago when Paleolithic man picked up a piece of rock which had gold deposits in it. Gold had never helped man develop tools of Hong Kong Phone Number List his early needs like arrows or spears or even for agricultural purposes. Being malleable, soft it did not have much use with early man.&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Bronze discovered about 10,000 years and silver later, were Hong Kong Phone Number List valued much more compared to gold which was discovered much earlier. A bright yellow illuminating object that may have caught the attention of early man was often traded as a Hong Kong Phone Number List valuable piece of object much later on as the system of barter did not have a place for gold nor was it used. Gold was probably used in some form as a shiny object that could Hong Kong Phone Number List have been used to some extent in jewelry and even for scaring the enemy when engaged in war. But it was only recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>That he understood that this is a rare metal and thus Hong Kong Phone Number List precious and started using it in more aesthetic manners including jewelry, for worship and for trade. Gold started to be considered as a mark of royalty or power and richness and Hong Kong Phone Number List became a prerogative of the high and the powerful to be owned. Gold has always been considered to be incorruptible without blemish. In some cultures gold is Hong Kong Phone Number List synonymous to the power of the sun.</p>]]>
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        <title>What is a CloseBuy Subscription</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>CloseBuy is a location based advertising application, allowing users to search for advertisers, based on their proximity to the user.&nbsp;</p><p>The application is fully integrated with Smartphone functionalities that will allow users easy access to call, email, text and navigate to an advertiser! </p><p>www.closebuy.co.za&nbsp;</p><p>CloseBuy uses the business name and keyword list to find businesses searched by a user, and then displays the most relevant and closest businesses to the user.&nbsp;From here a user can easily contact the business of their choice using the integrated functionalities of the service with the smartphone. </p><p><br /></p><p>CloseBuy main features:&nbsp;</p><p>&bull;&nbsp; The single low annual subscription fee has been lowered to only R 50 (for a limited time only). There is no additional charges to advertise or use the service. The secure payment option via PayFast ensures a safe and easy sign-up process.</p><p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CloseBuy is a local business, which will re-invest through advertising its service in the local community from which it generates an income.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CloseBuy does not use price bidding to effect advertisers displayed.&nbsp;The only criteria that will influence an advertisers being displayed to a user:</p><p>   ◦&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Keyword searched</p><p>   ◦&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Business&#39;s proximity to the user (GPS location based)</p><p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Device independent application with minimal data transfer and full smartphone integration.</p><p><br /></p><p>Included in an annual subscription:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unlimited free ad space updates for the duration of the subscription.</p><p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Localized advertising of the CloseBuy services.&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Fine print:</p><p>Apart from the annual subscription fees payable by advertisers there will be no additional costs related to advertising on CloseBuy.&nbsp;The&nbsp;terms and conditions for the use of the CloseBuy service is available on the service website www.closebuy.co.za.</p>]]>
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