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  United States five-dollar bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The $5 bill is sometimes nicknamed a fin, although this usage is far less common today than it was in the early 20th century.
1861: The first $5 bill was issued as a Demand Note with a small portrait of Alexander Hamilton on the right and an allegorical statue representing freedom on the left side of the obverse.
May 24, 2000: To combat evolving counterfeiting, a new $5 bill was issued under series 1999 whose design was similar in style to the $100, $50, $20, and $10 bills that had all undergone previous design changes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_five_dollar_bill   (1175 words)

  
 United States dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10ยข, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies and gasoline prices.
Silver dollars were minted intermittently from 1794 through 1935; a copper-nickel dollar of the same large size was minted from 1971 through 1978.
The U.S. dollar broke almost all expectations in 2005 (some analysts previewed the dollar dropping as far as $1.60 per Euro), finished the year with a significant double-digit recovery against the EU Euro and Japanese Yen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USD   (2960 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: American five dollar bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The U.S. five dollar bill ($5) is a denomination of United States currency.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is currently featured on the front side of the bill, while the Lincoln Memorial is featured on the reverse side.
f you fold a Five dollar bill and a Ten dollar bill the same as the Twenty, the Five shows you the towers before the attack and the Ten shows the towers after the first hit.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-five-dollar-bill   (445 words)

  
 U.S. Treasury - FAQs: Portraits & Designs of Currency
These include the $500 bill with the portrait of William McKinley, the $1,000 bill with a portrait of Grover Cleveland, the $5,000 bill with a portrait of James Madison, the $10,000 bill with a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, and the $100,000 currency note bearing a portrait of Woodrow Wilson.
The eye and the pyramid shown on the reverse side of the one-dollar bill are in the Great Seal of the United States.
The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar bill depicts the Lincoln Memorial.
www.ustreas.gov /education/faq/currency/portraits.html   (1211 words)

  
 The true return on the dollar: No clean bill of health
One-dollar bills collected at a food concession stand at a high-school sporting event and a check-out lane at a grocery store near Dayton, Ohio were tested for bacterial contamination by Dr. Peter Ender and his associates at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Five bills were contaminated with types of bacteria that commonly cause infections in healthy people, and 59 were contaminated with types of bacteria that can cause significant infections in hospitalized patients and those with depressed immune systems.
Patrons at each of the study locations were asked to exchange a one-dollar bill for a new bill, and contamination on the used bills was analyzed using standard microbiologic techniques.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-05/ASfM-Ttro-2205101.php   (491 words)

  
 American five dollar bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-American_five_dollar_bill.html   (732 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / American Heritage Magazine, September 1999
If he failed, the bill would have value, and the whole world would be different.
Alternate history, the world of fictional narratives of what might have been, is like that bill, redeemable in the flush treasury of a victorious Confederacy circa 1866.
The word emerged during the Depression to define a new kind of American adolescence—one that prevailed for half a century and may now be ending.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1999/5   (330 words)

  
 Headlines/Breaking News from Atlanta Business Chronicle - bizjournals.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The tax-cut bill has cleared the House of Representatives and is expected to pass in the Senate this week.
American Multi-Cinema Inc., a subsidiary of AMC Entertainment Inc., plans to build what it says will be Georgia's largest theater.
Five major Atlanta area hospitals have firmed a managed-care network called CarePoint Inc. South Fulton Medical Center, North Fulton Regional Hospital, Rockdale Health Systems and Henry Medical Center are all contributing equally to the nonprofit corporation.
atlanta.bizjournals.com /site_map/atlanta_sitemap_29.html   (14799 words)

  
 HobbsOnline: 01/01/2003 - 01/31/2003
Bill Keller's piece in the New York Times explains why the Iraq war will be underway in February or March - and why it should.
Speaking of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, Colorado has a good one, which is why their legislators are cutting spending rather than talking about a big tax increase in order to balance that state's budget.
When Bill Frist was growing up, he would not necessarily have had any contact with the country music community, who would have been regarded as rednecks.
hobbsonline.blogspot.com /2003_01_01_hobbsonline_archive.html   (13536 words)

  
 Storm Watch
Barely five years into the 21st century, with a globalized neo-liberal trade regime firmly in place in a world where market economy has become the norm, trade protectionism appears to be fast re-emerging and developing into a new global trade war of complex dimensions.
For a dollar investor to earn the same interest rate in a foreign economy with a PPP of four times, such as the purchasing power parity between the US dollar and the Chinese yuan, local wages would have to be at least four times (75%) lower than US wages.
The recent rise of the euro against the dollar, the first appreciation wave since its introduction on January 1, 2002, is the result of an EU version of the 1985 Plaza Accord on the Japanese yen, albeit without a formal accord.
r7rock.blogdrive.com /archive/cm-07_cy-2005_m-07_d-04_y-2005_o-0.html   (14218 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 10. A Dollar Short. Noy Thrupkaew.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Just five weeks later, however, Bush wiped the smiles off those faces (at least the Democratic ones) by submitting his 2003 budget proposal, which came in $90 million shy of the commitments the education-reform act set forth.
But like so many of the bill's provisions, this compromise was undercut by the president's proposed budget, which diverts $4 billion to private-school tuitions, in the form of tax cuts for parents who remove children from failing public schools.
Miller believes there is still hope for restoring funding to the education bill, and Kennedy plans to introduce a new bill dedicating more funds to needs-based scholarships, special education, and early-childhood education.
www.prospect.org /print/V13/10/thrupkaew-n.html   (900 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / A Lincoln Face-lift?
Analyzing the new, disconcertingly off-kilter five-dollar bill last summer, a New York plastic surgeon somehow convinced Newsweek that the government had merely given Lincoln a face-lift to modernize the old portrait.
The portrait on the new bills is in fact modeled after an entirely different photograph of Lincoln—but one taken at the very same sitting.
After Lincoln’s death, the finest photo was copied for innumerable prints; by the time it was engraved for American currency, it was already familiar to millions.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2001/1/2001_1_16a.shtml   (319 words)

  
 American Citizenship vs. U.S. citizenship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
American Citizens were in foreign states and not under the rule of the legislature.
The American Citizen remains within the Republic, has unalienable rights, has common law, he is an elector, and can do anything without a license so long as he does not harm someone else.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any offices of this government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of this government.
www.wealth4freedom.com   (1657 words)

  
 Faleomavaega (AS00) - Washington, D.C.—Quarter Dollar Bill Commemorating American Samoa and Other Territories ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The coins will be issued in 2009 and their respective designs will be issued by the Secretary of Treasury in consultation with the chief executive officers of these areas,” Congressman Faleomavaega said.
All five of the delegates are and were original co-sponsors to this bi-partisan measure.
American Samoa has an enlistment rate which is as high per capita to that of any other State of U.S. Territory.
www.house.gov /list/press/as00_faleomavaega/quarterdollarreintro.html   (408 words)

  
 American Politics Journal
Neither were members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, who have risen to national prominence on the backs of the Clintons.
Perhaps a subpoena to force the President to answer his queries more specifically so that leaked transcripts of the interview can be "edited" in as lurid a manner as possible.
Perhaps there is no unified "right wing conspiracy," as Hillary Clinton called the attack on her and her husband over the past five years -- but there ARE assuredly several groups of conspirators, fueled by electoral and monetary greed, who have learn to pass signals and feed off each other.
www.americanpolitics.com /081898OutForBlood.html   (1290 words)

  
 Headlines/Breaking News from Nashville Business Journal - bizjournals.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Five area insurers will be inducted into the Middle Tennessee State University Tennessee Insurance Hall of Fame this spring.
Nashville-based American Retirement Corp. (NYSE: ACR) announced its revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31 were $44.2 million, up 74 percent compared with the same period last year.
Dollar General is a chain of 3,687 stores in 24 states.
www.bizjournals.com /site_map/nashville_sitemap_12.html   (10153 words)

  
 Great Empire or Grand Illusion?: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
However, as the exporting countries’ dollar savings get cheaper and cheaper because of excessive printing by the US mint, at some point the pain of owning those ever-growing mountains of dollars, whose value is ever-shrinking, will become greater than the pain of losing their exports to America.
Then forty five trillion dollars will make a stack so high that from the sea level it would rise to touch the surface of the moon and still there will be enough left over to wrap around the earth’s equator almost four times.
Americans have become the spoilt children of modern history and have lived in prosperous isolation from the world.
www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00002329&channel=market%20street&start=0&end=9&chapter=1&page=1   (7086 words)

  
 The NWO - Freemasonry - & The Symbols On The Dollar Bill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The symbols of the Great Seal, which are featured on the dollar bill, are clearly intended to embody the beliefs of those who founded the United States of America.
The current design of the Great Seal was approved by Congress on 20 June 1782, and the seal was introduced to the dollar bill in 1935.
The use of the blazing eye in the triangle motif, surrounded by rays of light, in the official seal of the Ordo Templi Orientis, confirms the occult significance of this symbol.
www.wealth4freedom.com /dollarbill.html   (1511 words)

  
 forex Information 24
American Fifty Dollar Bill - U.S. fifty dollar bill.
American International Trading Center - AIG is a leading U.S.-based international auto, health, life insurance and financial services organization and one of the largest underwriters of commercial and industrial insurance in the United Trading Group Inc. American General Financial Services.
American One Dollar Bill - Track US or Canadian dollar bills as they travel across the country.
www.forex-trading-market.com /forex-sitemap/forex-24.html   (544 words)

  
 Bermuda's dollar is at par with USA
If you work legally in Bermuda, are paid in Bermuda dollars and wish to send money back to your home country, go to the Bermuda bank where you are a customer to buy foreign exchange at the prevailing rate and arrange for a wire transfer, safer and far quicker than by postal mail.
Today's notes are tied to the American dollar and are worth the same as the latter.
US dollars may also be acquired by Bermudians and their families from the local banks for legitimate travel and related purposes such as overseas purchases, educational costs, support for family members abroad, subscriptions for newspapers and other needs.
www.bermuda-online.org /money.htm   (808 words)

  
 Another stab at the dollar coin? - Apr. 28, 2005
Assuming a companion bill makes it through the Senate, the nation would be on its way to taking another stab at a dollar coin.
The recent history of the dollar coin in the United States is not a proud one.
When the time comes to honor contemporary presidents, such as George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and their successors, their likenesses are to be minted whether they are living or dead.
money.cnn.com /2005/04/27/pf/new_dollar/index.htm?cnn=yeshttp://money.cnn.com/2005/04/27/pf/new_dollar/index.htm?cnn=yes   (978 words)

  
 One Dollar Bill
In this present age, where material things engross almost every waking hour, symbolism has lost much of its fascination, but this was not so in the eighteenth century when the [American] revolutionary heroes pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the erection of the new nation.
Scottish Rite Masonry had its origin in France; the York Rite is sometimes called the American Rite; the eagle thus clothed represents the union of French and American Masons in the struggle for Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
The arrangement of the stars in the constellation to form overlapping equilateral triangles and the Star of David calls to the Mason's mind King David's dream of building a Temple, to his God, the Companions who rebuilt a desecrated Temple, and the finding of the Word that was lost.
www.cix.co.uk /~craftings/dollar2.htm   (1450 words)

  
 The symbolism of the one dollar bill, NIEHS Kids' Pages
The one dollar bill you're looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design.
The colors are taken from the American flag and officially the red represents hardiness and valor, the white represents purity and innocence, and the blue, vigilance, perseverance, and justice.
And you can, and should, be reminded of the history of this country each time you look at a one dollar bill.
www.niehs.nih.gov /kids/triviadollar.htm   (1417 words)

  
 About Canada
Of the written documents, by far the most important are the British North America Act (later renamed the Constitution Act), passed by the British Parliament in 1867, its amendments, the Constitution Act of 1982, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The monarch appoints judges and the officials of the executive branch, and may dissolve the House of Commons and call for new elections.
With rare exceptions, representatives are elected from single-member districts to serve terms of up to five years.
www.american.edu /carmel/sa0565a/canada.htm   (2642 words)

  
 CultureBridge: American money
It is based on the dollar ($1.00), on which all cash and coins are dependent.
Coins are fractions of a dollar, for example: a quarter ($0.25) is 1/4 of a dollar, a dime ($0.10) is 1/10th of a dollar, and so forth.
Paper bills are multiples of a dollar: for example, a $5 bill.
www.culturebridge.com /articles/us_money.html   (800 words)

  
 Nuclear Weapons Sumggling and the Environemnt
Though Senator Helms has introduced a bill that would require the U.S. to withdraw from the ABM Treaty because he says that the Clinton administration is ignoring the "real threats" in China, North Korea, Iran, and possibly Russia, most congressmen and congressional staffers doubt the senator's legislation will draw much support.
And finally, while the Treaty recognizes that five states have the right to own nuclear warheads, the signatories have generally agreed that less warheads are better than more nuclear warheads.
US agencies are prepared to spend millions of dollars to ensure that the nuclear states in Eastern Europe can protect their nuclear materials.
www.american.edu /TED/NUKESMUG.HTM   (4984 words)

  
 The American Dollar Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
One industrious American family's focus on a financial goal of freedom.
Today i transferred some funds out of my paycheck to our debt however i had to leave some funds behind to pay off a hospital bill that we had to goto in the middle of last month.
To bring this closer to home, when I select a plan with my new company, my wife will cancel all her vision, dental, and health at work and will save us about $80 more a month which means + income to use on other things.
dollarz.blogspot.com   (1561 words)

  
 Another stab at the dollar coin? - Apr. 28, 2005
The plan is to introduce four new ones a year beginning in 2007, honoring each of the nation's chief executives in the order of their service.
After the 50 State series launched in the late 1990s, the government discovered that an astonishing number of people were collecting each new quarter as it rolled out of the U.S. Mint, taking the pieces out of circulation.
In 1979, the Treasury Department introduced the Susan B. Anthony dollar, and produced nearly one billion of them between 1979 and 1981.
money.cnn.com /2005/04/27/pf/new_dollar   (978 words)

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