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The Plaza Accord was a joint agreement signed on September 22, 1985, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, between France, West Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the French franc, the German Deutsche Mark, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling by intervening in currency markets.
Baker is an easily recognizable English surname of medieval occupational origin; Baxster is the female form. [26] [27] Equivalent family names of occupational origin meaning "baker" exist in other languages: Boulanger, Bulinger, Dufour, and Fournier in French, Bäcker in German, and Piekarz in Polish. [27]
A bureau de change [1] (plural bureaux de change, both / ˌ b jʊər oʊ d ə ˈ ʃ ɒ n ʒ / BURE-oh də SHONZH; British English) or currency exchange [2] (American English) is a business where people can exchange one currency for another.
In French, the word pâtisserie also denotes a pastry as well as pastry-making. While the making and selling of pastries may often be only one part of the activity of a bakery , [ a ] in some countries pâtisserie or its equivalents are legally controlled titles which may only be used by bakeries that employ a licensed "master pastry chef ...
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
Baker is a common surname of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) origin and Scotland where Gaelic was anglicized. From England the surname has spread to neighbouring countries such as Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and also to the English speaking areas of the Americas and Oceania where it is also common.
Police in Spain have arrested two people in connection with a missing persons case after a Google Maps vehicle took a picture of someone apparently loading a large object into the trunk of a car.
The origin of the word Konditor (the Konditorei 's baker) stems from the Latin word candire, which stands for “candying of fruits”. Another derivation is the Latin word conditura (condio), meaning to concoct (food) or preserve (fruits). [3] Konditorei is the German word for a pâtisserie or confectionery shop.