For 100 years (since 1909) we have enjoyed what is referred to as "The Lincoln Penny". Now we will have 5 to enjoy in all. Children and adults worldwide have collected them, carefully examining them in search...
Scott had written in his journal how he was going to kill Penny. He wrote word for word that he was going to shoot Penny in the back of the head dead. Scott wanted Penny to be his girl friend and actully in his...
The UK's consumer savings protection laws will be put to the test for the first time after the colapse of Iceland's Landsbanki, which had banking outlets in the UK under the name ICEsave. However it has emerged...
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P. Diddy once said that "It's All About the Benjamins", but for one Memphis man it's all about the Lincolns. James Rhyne tried to pay for a meal using a counterfeit $100 bill featuring a portrait of Abraham...
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Oldtown News has picked up the guantlet as keeper of the score at Vision HQ. Still no word of a winner. "It is now 8 pm--three hours after the polls closed at the Vision nomination convention and as yet--no...
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" While Miami-Dade commissioners have conceded that the county can’t keep promises it made in 2002 when voters approved a half-penny sales tax to fund bus and rail projects over the next 25 years they now want voters to approve another half-penny tax to fund the very same...
"In April, the Sycamore City Council voted to quadruple the initial fine for failing to pay a parking meter. But even taking the 25-cent fine to a dollar means its the cheapest metered parking fine in the nation, police chief Don Thomas said."
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorEx-Canadian Prime Ministers are offered RCMP Security Protection once they leave office and join the "Joe Six Packs" of this world. But 4 RCMP officers seems a...
I have jars of pennies sitting in my apartment, they clutter my desk, my pockets, my life. I think the penny and perhaps the nickel should meet their demise. Currently, it costs about 1.7 cents to produce a penny,...
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Ever seen $1 million in pennies? Yesterday a variety of NYC luminaries joined public school kids in laying out 100 million pennies to donate to charity. Unfortunately the article doesn't state how they're planning...
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"The hope was expressed by Australian Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Tuesday, a day after the country`s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed documents to ratify Kyoto Protocol in his bid to end his predecessor John Howard`s decade of opposition to the global...
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Beauty queens who blather on about world peace are twoa-penny, so my friends' reactions when I told them about Nazanin Afshin-Jam were predictably cynical. 'She was a Red Cross worker who entered Miss World...