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  2. J. S. G. Boggs - Wikipedia

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    James Stephen George Boggs (January 16, 1955 – January 22, 2017) was an American artist, best known for his hand-drawn depictions of banknotes.Due to his pre-Bitcoin philosophical questions about the value of fiat currency, [2] his early interest in creating his own currency, [3] and his contributions to an "encrypted online currency" as early as 2000, [4] Boggs was described by Artnet as ...

  3. Burgoyne Diller - Wikipedia

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    Burgoyne A. Diller (January 13, 1906 – January 30, 1965) was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular.

  4. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    Roblox Studio includes multiple premade game templates [16] [17] as well as the Toolbox, which allows access to user-created models, plug-ins, audio, images, meshes, video, and fonts. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Games, officially referred to as "experiences" on the platform, [ 20 ] [ 21 ] are scripted with Luau (stylized as Lua u ), a dialect of the Lua 5.1 ...

  5. Currency sign (generic) - Wikipedia

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    The currency sign was once a part of the Mac OS Roman character set, but Apple changed the symbol at that code point to the euro sign in Mac OS 8.5.In pre-Unicode Windows character sets (Windows-1252), the generic currency sign was retained at 0xA4 and the euro sign was introduced as a new code point, at 0x80 in the little used (by Microsoft) control-code space 0x80 to 0x9F.

  6. Gold certificate (United States) - Wikipedia

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    They featured a vignette of an eagle uniformly across all denominations. Later issues (series 1870, 1871, and 1875) featured portraits of historical figures. The reverse sides were either blank or featured abstract designs. The only exception was the $20 of 1865, which had a picture of a $20 gold coin. The Series of 1882 was the first series ...

  7. Credit card - Wikipedia

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    If the card issuer charges 15% on money lent to users, and it costs 5% to borrow the money to lend, and the balance sits with the cardholder for a year, the issuer earns 10% on the loan. This 10% difference is the "net interest spread" and the 5% is the "interest expense".

  8. Joshua Fry Speed - Wikipedia

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    Joshua Fry Speed was born at Farmington, Louisville, Kentucky, to Judge John Speed and Lucy Gilmer Speed (née Fry) on November 14, 1814. [2] On his father's side, Speed's ancestry can be traced back to 17th-century cartographer and historian John Speed. [3]

  9. History of animation - Wikipedia

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    The history of animation, the method for creating moving pictures from still images, has an early history and a modern history that began with the advent of celluloid film in 1888. Between 1895 and 1920, during the rise of the cinematic industry, several different animation techniques were developed or re-invented, including stop-motion with ...