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When people lost trust in a bank they rushed to redeem its notes, and because banks issued more notes than their specie reserves, the bank couldn't redeem the notes, often causing the bank to fail. In 1860 there were over 8,000 state chartered banks issuing notes. In 1861 the U.S. began issuing United States Notes as legal tender.
Bonus Army. The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ( ARRA) ( Pub. L. 111–5 (text) (PDF) ), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. Developed in response to the Great Recession, the primary objective of this federal statute was to save ...
Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Edward Epstein ( / ˈɛpstiːn / EP-steen; [1] January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and sex offender. [2] [3] Born and raised in New York City, Epstein began his professional life as a teacher at the Dalton School despite lacking a college degree. After his dismissal from the school in 1976 ...
List of Vitagraph Studios films. Black Beauty (1921) The Ninety and Nine (1922) The Little Minister (1922) List of feature films produced by Vitagraph Studios between 1914 and 1925, when it was absorbed into Warner Bros. [1] The company also produced numerous short films during the era.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction action film. [4] It is the second installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and the second film in the original Jurassic Park trilogy. A sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park and loosely based on Michael Crichton 's 1995 novel The Lost World, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg ...
The Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited ( UERL ), known operationally as the Underground for much of its existence, was established in 1902. It was the holding company for the three deep-level "tube" [note 1] underground railway lines opened in London during 1906 and 1907: the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway, the Charing ...
Sentences for those convicted under Section 112 of Thailand’s Criminal Code, or lese majeste law, can be decades long, and hundreds of people have been prosecuted in recent years.