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  2. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    In practice, the areas of land settled were quite variable. James Chaplin Beecher observed that the "so called 40 acre tract[s] vary in size from eight acres to (450) four hundred and fifty." [88] Some areas were settled by groups: Skidaway Island was colonized by a group of over 1000 people, including Reverend Ulysses L. Houston. [89]

  3. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    April 2, 1792; 232 years ago () [1] Replaced: ... or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard ... and the last 40% silver half dollar was minted in 1970.

  4. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10,000: a myriad (a hundred hundred), commonly used in the sense of an indefinite very high number. 100,000: a lakh (a hundred thousand), in Indian English. 10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics.

  5. Paper Money Value by Serial Numbers: Determine Your ... - AOL

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    On eBay, these kinds of bills can sell for anywhere from $10 to $300. The lower the serial number, the more valuable the currency is considered to be; a bill with the serial number 00000001 could ...

  6. California gold rush - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [ 1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 2] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply ...

  7. 144 (number) - Wikipedia

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    144 (number) 144 ( one hundred [and] forty-four) is the natural number following 143 and preceding 145 . It represents a dozen dozens, or one gross. It is the number of square inches in a square foot . In number theory, 144 is the twelfth Fibonacci number; it is the only Fibonacci number (other than 0, and 1) to also be a square. [ 1][ 2]

  8. History of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of the United States dollar began with moves by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America to establish a national currency based on the Spanish silver dollar, which had been in use in the North American colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over 100 years prior to the United States Declaration of Independence.

  9. Missing dollar riddle - Wikipedia

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    The solution appears very obvious if the owner withdraws every day only $10 from $50. To add up 40 + 30 + 20 + 10 using the same pattern from above would be too obviously wrong (result would be $100). The answer to the question, "Where did the extra dollar come from?” can be found from consecutively adding the bank rest from three different days.