For smaller valuables, like electronic devices, you may want to skip insurance if you can afford to replace them, because paying for coverage you might never use can be a waste of money.
Icelandic people have high levels of collective trust, and, as such, are known to keep valuables in plain sight and send their young children to school by themselves.
And as far back as 12th century China, some governments decided they could just declare certain pieces of paper were worth something, even without shiny, valuable objects in a vault somewhere to back them up.
" When you stripped this house of all the valuables you could find, " Harry began again, " you took a bunch of stuff from the kitchen cupboard. There was a locket there" .
With the luxury goods like silk went the monks and the missionaries, and with them went the Buddha, in human form, perhaps because such an image helps when you're teaching across a language barrier.
The legislation allows government authorities to seize valuables worth more than 1450 dollars from asylum seekers. You are listening to the World News from the BBC.