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1-peso coin issued under US administration, 1907. In 1903 the 1-peso coin equivalent to half a U.S. dollar was minted for the Philippines, weighing 26.96 grams (0.951 oz) of 0.9 fine silver. Its specifications were reduced from 1907 to 1912 to 20.0 grams (0.71 oz) of 0.8 fine silver.
Quaker Oats bought 19.11 acres (7.73 ha) of land in the Yukon Territory of Canada for the price of US$1000 and printed up 21 million deeds for one square inch (6.5 cm 2) of land. On advice of counsel, Quaker Oats set up and transferred the land to the Great Klondike Big Inch Land Company to make the company the registered owner and manager of ...
Life is a breakfast cereal produced by the Quaker Oats Company.Introduced in 1961, [1] the cereal has a brown, checked square pattern and mainly consists of oat flour, corn flour, added sugar, and whole-wheat flour. [2]
The Quaker Mill Company was a 19th-century American oat mill company in Ravenna, Ohio. After merging with three other companies in 1901, the company became the Quaker Oats Company . Today it is a subsidiary of PepsiCo .
In 1873, three families started an oats milling operation originally called the North Star Mill. [3] In 1888 seven of the largest American oat millers united to form the American Cereal Company. In 1906 The American Cereal changed its name to The Quaker Oats Company. [4] On March 7, 1905, an explosion occurred in the mill and much of it was ...
Successive currency reforms by debasing the Ottoman currency had reduced the value of the Ottoman piastre by the late 19th century so as to be worth about two pence (2d) sterling. Hence the name piastre referred to two distinct kinds of coins in two distinct parts of the world, both of which had descended from the Spanish pieces of eight.
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In France it used to be defined as 100 livres (pounds), about 48.95 kg (108 lb), and has been redefined as 100 kg (mesures usuelles), thus called metric quintal with symbol qq. In Spain , the quintal is still defined as 100 libras , or about 46 kg (101 lb), but the metric quintal is also defined as 100 kg; [ 3 ] In Portugal a quintal is 128 ...