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I learned something at a reenactment yesterday. Why did adopt quarter, dime, nickel as our coins and not the British form of pense and shilling?
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Isn't the quarter, at least, derived from pieces of eight? And the rest is decimalized because of people like Jefferson and Franklin? That's about 3rd grade history trying to assert itself, so it may very well be wrong, but I thought I'd take a stab.
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According to one of the reenactors who collects colonial money and had some pieces from the 1600's and 1700's with him - he said it had to do with the way colonial money was. Britain refused to allow the colonies to mint silver currency - because silver was considered actual money. So we used a lot of spanish currency from the spanish colonies south of us. The Spanish currency was broken up into quarter, dime and half dime (what we call the nickle). Since more of the colonists were familiar with using the spanish currency - we adopted their standard instead of the British.
I did know that we almost were a German speaking country instead of English.
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Could you elaborate? I thought we were only about 6% German? Around the 1700s that is. The biggest population of them was in PA.
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hahahahaha. This is a serious trivia question: What man had his ear cut off, starting a brief conflict (war) between Britain and Spain in the 18th century?
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Robert Jenkins got his ear cut off, thereby starting The War of Jenkins' Ear 1739-1741.
Who was the first person to give a public demonstration of karate off of the island of Okinawa (where karate origionated)?
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Gichin Funakoshi.
I am quite sure of that, but I didn't look it up... What does the "S" in Harry S. Truman stand for?
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He didn't have one. Just the initial. I believe his parents couldn't agree on it or something.
Hmm...now I need a question. What play was Lincoln watching when his assasination occured? It was at Ford's Theatre. Also interesting to note, Lincoln had previously had dreams (these he told his wife, and some other people I believe), one of which was this: Lincoln was in the Capitol rotunda, and saw a state funeral going on. He asked people who was in the casket, and they told him to look. He saw himself. There was another one where he saw his own ghost or something. Also, John Wilkes Booth dated the same girl that Lincoln's son dated. Even more (we talked about this in Am. History today), Booth (who was a pretty famous actor of the day) knew the aforesaid play quite well. It was a comedy, and he planned to shoot Lincoln right as the audience was in histerics (after some esp. funny part). He did so, Mrs. Lincoln started screaming (and continued for hours), yet no one noticed what was going on until Booth jumped to the stage and limped off they were in so much commotion. I thought of even more. Grant was supposed to have gone with the Lincoln's to the play, but declined at the last moment. I wonder what would've happened--would they both have gotten shot? Or Grant instead of Lincoln, accidently? Ok I'll stop rambling now.
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Nice one Mercutio. And you are indeed correct about Harry S Truman. When I found that out, I just had to bump this thread. I have no idea what the answer to your question is! But it's someone else's turn anyway.
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pssstttt I think you have to answer Mercutio's in order to pose yoru own question...
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oops! slipped into stupid spider mode again
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Perchance, t'were it to be 'A Comedy of Errors'?
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lol it is a British comedy...written by Tom Taylor
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