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The first elongated coins were made by a die and metal rollers. The first elongated coins in the United States were created at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Several designs [2] were issued to commemorate the fair, and are available in the elongated coin collecting community today. [3]
In the original 1953 Broadway production, the song was performed by Rosalind Russell and Edie Adams, as a duet. [3] Bing Crosby recorded the song on February 9, 1953, with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra. [4] A noteworthy recording of the song was made by Doris Day as part of her albums, Show Time (1960) and My Heart (2011).
The penny, formally known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).
A real King Mita of Phrygia lived in the 8th century BC [10] but coins were not invented until well after the Phrygian kingdom collapsed. Aylettes’ association with the Midas mythology came about because Lydian electrum came from the river Pactolus in which King Midas supposedly washed away his ability to turn all he touched into gold. [11]
One thing to keep in mind about modern pennies is that 2009 was a special year in that it marked 200 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln, whose image first appeared on the front of the penny ...
The Lincoln cent (sometimes called the Lincoln penny) is a one-cent coin that has been struck by the United States Mint since 1909. The obverse or heads side was designed by Victor David Brenner, as was the original reverse, depicting two stalks of wheat (thus "wheat pennies", struck 1909–1958).
"Ohio" is a protest song and counterculture anthem written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, and performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. [2] It was released as a single, backed with Stephen Stills 's "Find the Cost of Freedom", peaking at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 16 in ...
The song, composed and originally recorded by Anderson in 1964, told of a tired woman attempting to move from Louisville, Kentucky, to her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. The song rose to #4 on the country charts, [ 1 ] becoming one of her many top ten hits she had in the 1960s, and also becoming one of her signature songs.