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	POUND - LoveToKnow Article on POUND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The standard pound troy, placed together with the standard yard in the custody of the clerk of the House of Commons by a resolution of the House of the 2nd of June 1758, was destroyed at, the burning of the houses of parliament in 1834.
		The pound Scots was at one time of the same value as the English pound, but through gradual debasement of the coinage was reduced at the accession of James I. to about one-twelfth of the value of the English pound, and was divided into twenty shillings, each about the value of an English penny.
		The Egyptian pound, written LE, is a gold coin of 100 piastres, and was made the monetary unit of the country by a decree of the 14th of November 1885.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POUND.htm (918 words)

	Pound sterling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The pound is now freely bought and sold on the commodity markets around the world and the value therefore fluctuates (rising when traders buy pounds, falling when traders sell pounds).
		The pound sterling, established in 1560–61 by Elizabeth I and her advisors, foremost among them Sir Thomas Gresham, brought order to the financial chaos of Tudor England that had been occasioned by the "Great Debasement" of the coinage, which brought on a debilitating inflation during the years 1543–51.
		Pound sterling was used as the currency of the British Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pound_sterling (2727 words)

	Units: Customary Units
		The Roman pound was divided into 12 ounces, but many European merchants preferred to use a larger pound of 16 ounces, perhaps because a 16-ounce pound is conveniently divided into halves, quarters, or eighths.
		In traditional English law the various pound weights are related by stating all of them as multiples of the grain, which was originally the weight of a single barleycorn.
		The troy pound weighs 5760 grains, and the ounces weigh 480 grains.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/custom.html (2279 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pound (currency)
		Pound is also the name for the former currency of the Republic of Ireland, the Irish pound.
		The symbol for the pound, particularly with respect to the pound sterling in the UK and its possessions, is a script capital letter L pierced horizontally with an endash or an equal:
		Pound Scots was the national unit of currency in the Kingdom of Scotland before the country entered into a political and currency union with England in 1707.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pound-%28currency%29 (1056 words)

	Ezra Pound
		Ezra Pound was born in a frontier town in Idaho, 1885, the son of an assistant assayer and the grandson of a Congressman.
		Pound saw Vorticism as setting "the arts in their rightful place as the acknowledged guide and lamp of civilization." In this way the arts were welded in a mystical union with politics in the manner already envisaged by Yeats.
		Pound was confined to a bare, concrete floored iron cage in the burning heat, lit continuously throughout the night.
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	Pound sterling
		The pound sterling, stabilized in 1560-61 by Elizabeth I and her advisors, foremost among them Sir Thomas Gresham, brought order to the financial chaos of Tudor England that had been occasioned by the "Great Debasement" of the coinage, which brought on a debilitating inflation during the years 1543-51.
		The pound was eventually devalued by 14.3 per cent to $2.41 in November 1967.
		A worse crisis followed in 1976, when it was apparently leaked that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) thought that the pound should be set at $1.50, and as a result the pound fell to $1.57, and the government decided it had to borrow £2.3 billion from the IMF.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pound_sterling (2501 words)

	Pound Sterling
		Prior to decimalisation in 1971, each pound was divided into 240 pence – although it was usually expressed as being divided into 20 shillings, with each shilling equal to 12 pence.
		The pound was made fully convertible in 1946 as a condition for receiving a US loan of 3.75 billion US dollars in the aftermath of World War II.
		A worse crisis followed in 1976, when it was apparently leaked that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) thought that the pound should be set at 1.50 dollars, and as a result the pound fell to 1.57 dollars, and the government decided it had to borrow 2.3 billion pounds from the IMF.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/pound_sterling_1 (1463 words)

	money slang history, words, expressions and money slang meanings
		The word 'pound' is originally derived from the Latin 'pondos' (the word for the Roman twelve ounce weight), which related to the meaning of hanging a weight on scales to weigh or value something, from which root we also have the word 'pendant'.
		Pound notes were unchanged by decimalisation, although in the late 1970's they were reduced in size, perhaps because the old ones were too beautiful, and then finally phased out and replaced by the one pound coin in the 1990's.
		In the 1800's a oner was normally a shilling, and in the early 1900's a oner was one pound.
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	Saxon Pound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Most trading and market towns had their own banks, and to avoid the handling of gold or silver, the banks would issue a Promisary Note in place of the precious metal/coins.
		The notes carried the declaration of "I Promies to pay the bearer of this note, on demand, the sum of one pound, five pounds etc." The idea being that the note could be exchanged at any time at any bank for the value, in silver or gold, of the promised amount.
		When banking was nationalised during the early 20th century, the Bank Of England took control of the nation's currency, and the Pound Sterling became the nation's official currency.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /s/sa/saxon_pound.html (179 words)

	Ezra Pound
		Pound major work was the Cantos, which was published in ten sections between 1925 and 1969, and then as a one-volume collected edition, THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND I-CXVII (1970).
		Pound's translations based on Fenollosa's notes, collected in CATHAY (1915), are considered among the most beautiful of Pound's writings.
		Pound also presents mythical, historical, and contemporary figures, mirroring the poetry and ideas of the past and present.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /epound.htm (1426 words)

	POUND (2)—(a) - Online Information article about POUND (2)—(a)
		VIII.: the " pounde Troye which exceedeth the pounde Tower in weight iii quarters of the oz.") substituted a pound of 5760 grains, at which the pound troy still remains.
		merchant's pound, weighing 6750 grains, which was established about 1270 for all commodities except gold, silver and medicines, but it was generally superseded by the pound avoirdupois about 1330.
		report in 1841 the pound avoirdupois of 7000 grains was substituted for the pound troy as the standard.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/POUND_2_a_.html (2050 words)

	PENNY - LoveToKnow Article on PENNY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		It was introduced into England by Offa, king of Mercia, who took as a model a coin first struck by Pippin, father of Charlemagne, about 735, which was known in Europe as novus denarius.
		Ofias penny was made of silver and weighed 221/2 grains, 240 pennies weighing one Saxon pound (or Tower pound, as it was afterwards called), hence the term pennyweight (dwt.).
		In 1527 the Tower pound of 5400 grains was abolished, and the pound of.5760 grains adopted instead.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PENNY.htm (270 words)

	Physics Tutoring: Measurements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Saxon pound was the oldest standard in England until it was replaced by Henry VIII with the Troy pound in 1527.
		Ideally the "pound mass" should be abbreviated lbm and the "pound force" lbf to reduce confusion.
		The "pound force" is simply the gravitational force experienced at Earth's surface by a mass of one pound.
	www.slcc.edu /schools/hum_sci/physics/tutor/2210/measurements (1006 words)

	comm4
		After extracting a few passages from Njal's Saga, I thought of Pound's Seafarer, which had first been shown me by a fellow undergraduate, Peter Rawley, in about 1959, when we were both floundering in the Anglo-Saxon then mandatory, but now abolished, for our English BA degrees.
		The closer I studied Pound's lines, however, the lower my spirit sank, until finally I felt obliged to inspect the original.
		En passant, the chance benefit that I was then still almost completely ignorant of all the other shots at the work, let alone the painfully voluminous scholarly exegesis it had generated for the last century and a half, would be wasted.
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	Pound Sterling - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In 1999 the House of Commons Library published a research paper (http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-020.pdf) (PDF document) which included an index of the value of the Pound for each year between 1750 and 1998, where the value in 1974 was indexed at 100.
		240 of these were made from a measure of silver known as the Tower pound: apparently it nominally weighed 5400 grains (c.
		In 1526 the standard was changed to the Troy pound of 5760 grains (373.242g).
	www.free-definition.com /Pound-Sterling.html (1384 words)

	Pound's Cantos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Ezra Pound's Cantos consist actually of books of poems published from 1930 through the end of the 1960s (A Draft of XXX Cantos to Thrones of 1959 and Drafts and Fragments of Cantos of 1969).
		So in the course of his cantos, Pound returns to other beginnings, among them the Magna Carta and the American Revolution.
		Canto I is a deliberate confusion or conflation of beginnings and traditions, including the Anglo-Saxon: the poem also includes Pound's translation of the Anglo-Saxon "Seafarer" (of the ninth century[?]).
	www.english.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/first-canto.html (177 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The pound sterling, which strictly speaking refers to basic currency unit of sterling, now the pound, can generally refer to the currency of the United Kingdom.
		Prior to World War I, the United Kingdom had one of the world's strongest economies, holding 40 per cent of the world's overseas investments.
		Under continuing economic pressure, and despite months of denials that it would do so, on September 19, 1949, the government devalued the pound by 30 per cent, from $4.03 to $2.80.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Pound_sterling (1445 words)

	Weights Used for Precious Metals, Gemstones, Coins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In 1863 the Imperial or avoirdupois pound was redefined as 0.45359237 kilograms.
		It is no coincidence that there were 240 pennies to the English pound, and 240 silver pennies were equivalent to a pound of silver, or that the word sterling applies both to the english pound and to a standard purity of silver.
		The avoirdupois pound was originally 7200 grains divided into 15 ounces each of 480 grains, but it was changed in to 7000 grains divided into 16 ounces each of 437.5 grains.
	www.24carat.co.uk /weights.html (1567 words)

	Regia Anglorum - Prices and costs in Anglo-Saxon England and Viking Age Europe
		Of course, the pound itself referred to a pound of silver.
		An this is the point to mention that when Ethelred was paying off the Vikings with their 'Danegeld', he was doing so in pounds weight of silver, not in pounds cost.
		All of this explanation is an over-simplification of how Saxon coinage worked, but I'll let someone with far more knowledge of Numismatics than myself write a more detailed article on that particular subject (hint, hint).
	www.regia.org /costs.htm (906 words)

	Encyclopedia: Saxon Pound
		The Anglo-Saxons refers collectively to the groups of Germanic tribes who achieved dominance in southern Britain from the mid-5th century, forming the basis for the modern English nation.
		Categories: British money The pound sterling, which strictly speaking refers to basic currency unit of sterling, now the pound, is the currency of the United Kingdom (UK).
		Shortcut: UK topics This is a list of topics related to the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saxon-Pound (162 words)

	Special page on anglo-saxon units
		Historically the pound derives from the Roman libra (hence the abbreviation "lb") whose weight was anything between 4944 and 5220 grains.
		The oldest standard in England, the Saxon pound, became known as the Tower pound because it was kept in the Tower of London and weighed 5400 grains.
		(The "pounde Troye which exceedeth the pounde Tower in weight iii quarters of the oz." Meaning that the difference between the two pounds was 360 grains or 3/4 of a new ounce.) He made the new Troy pound the official standard for minting coins.
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	Saxon Pound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
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	saxon-pound.wikiverse.org (309 words)

	Ezra Pound
		Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, born October 30 in Hailey, Idaho, son of Homer Loomis Pound ("Euripides Weight") and Isabel Weston Pound ("Hermione"); after eighteen months family moves to Pennsylvania.
		"Pound, Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Poetry." 121-147.
		The Ezra Pound Poetry Award is an international annual competition for the best book-length collection of poetry in English, in honor of Ezra Pound's contribution to modern poetry-- and to modernism as a whole.
	www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp /~hishika/pound.htm (2015 words)

	Allwords.com Definition of pound
		An enclosure where stray animals or illegally parked cars that have been taken into police charge are kept for collection.
		To enclose or confine something in a pound.
		To produce it by, or as if by, pounding eg a typewriter, etc.
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	Find in a Library: Ezra Pound
		Subjects: Pound, Ezra, -- 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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		"The Oral Text of Ezra Pound's 'The Seafarer.'" Quarterly Journal of Speech 47 (1961), 173-77.
		Robinson, Fred C. ra Pound and the Old English Translational Tradition." The Tomb of Beowulf and Other Essays on Old English.
		Robinson, Fred C. "'The Might of the North': Pound's Anglo-Saxon Studies and 'The Seafarer.'" Yale Review 71 (1982), 199-224.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~ctb/20pq.html (113 words)

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