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2. Half dollar (United States coin) - Wikipedia

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   The half dollar, sometimes referred to as the half for short or 50-cent piece, is a United States coin worth 50 cents, or one half of a dollar.In both size and weight, it is the largest circulating coin currently minted in the United States, [1] being 1.205 inches (30.61 millimeters) in diameter and 0.085 in (2.16 mm) in thickness, and is twice the weight of the quarter.

3. Black budget - Wikipedia

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   With secret code names and hidden figures, the details of the black budget are revealed only to certain people of Congress, if at all. This budget was approved by the US National Security Act of 1947 , which created the Central Intelligence Agency , the National Security Council and reorganized some military bases with help of the Defense ...

4. United States intelligence budget - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. Congress derives its oversight powers of the intelligence budget from Article I, Section 9, paragraph 7, of the U.S. Constitution that states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." Congress's authorization and appropriation functions consist of approving programs and activities ...

5. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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   The sign was perhaps the result of a late 18th-century evolution of the scribal abbreviation p s for the peso, the common name for the Spanish dollars that were in wide circulation in the New World from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The p and the s eventually came to be written over each other giving rise to $. [30] [31] [32] [33]

6. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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   The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...

7. 50 State quarters - Wikipedia

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   The 50 State quarters (authorized by Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 105–124 (text), 111 Stat. 2534, enacted December 1, 1997) was a series of circulating commemorative quarters released by the United States Mint.