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Gold Reserve Act of 1934
Gold Reserve Act of 1934 Lawrence H. Officer The gold standard is a monetary standard that ties a unit of currency, or money, to a stated amount of gold. Under this system, both banks and the government stand ready to redeem their note and deposit liabilities in gold at the stipulated... Read more |
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Au
Au symbol for the element gold .... Read more |
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Gold standard
GOLD STANDARD GOLD STANDARD. The gold standard is a monetary system in which gold is the standard or in which the unit of value—be it the dollar, the pound, franc, or some other unit in which prices and wages are customarily expressed and debts are usually contracted |
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East Coolgardie Goldfield
East Coolgardie Goldfield , Western Australia, SW Australia. It is the richest gold field in Australia. The chief mining center is the town of Kalgoorlie. Coolgardie, of little importance today, was the first gold-rush town in the area. Gold was discovered there in 1892.... Read more |
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Arthur Golding
Arthur Golding c.1536-c.1605, English translator. He translated many Latin classics, including Caesar's Gallic War and Ovid's Metamorphoses. A Calvinist, Golding tried to infuse the Metamorphoses with a stern moral tone. He also translated noted French works.... Read more |
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Klondike Gold Rush 1896-1899
The Klondike Gold Rush Sources Finding Gold.In the summer of 1897 Americans caught gold fever. Nothing captured the American male’s search for manly adventure, rugged individualism, and money as the Klondike gold rush. In July the first tattered gold-laden... Read more |
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gold
gold metallic chemical element; symbol Au [Lat. aurum =shining dawn]; at. no. 79; at. wt. 196.9665; m.p. 1,064.43°C; b.p. 2,808°C; sp. gr. 19.32 at 20°C; valence +1 or +3. Gold is very ductile and is the most malleable metal; it can be beaten into extremely thin sheets of gold leaf.... Read more |
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones Singer Struck Gold With Read more |
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Accra
Accra , city (1984 pop. 867,459), capital of Ghana, a port on the Gulf of Guinea. It is Ghana's largest city and its administrative, communications, and economic center. The chief manufactures are processed food, beverages, timber and plywood, textiles, clothing, chemicals, and printed materials. A... Read more |
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Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis (Frederick Carlton Lewis), 1961-, American sprinter and jumper, b. Birmingham, Ala. A star in high school and at the Univ. of Houston, he became possibly the greatest track athlete of all time. After winning three gold medals at the World Championships in Helsinki in 1983, he went on at... Read more |
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MySims Kingdom Goes Gold.
...NASDAQ:ERTS) Label, announced that MySims(TM) Kingdom for the Wii(TM) and Nintendo DS...the sequel to the worldwide sensation MySims, has gone gold and ships to retailers on October 28th. MySims Kingdom sets you on an adventure of... |