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The quarter has for the last 90 years shown the nation's first president, George Washington, on one side and an eagle on the other

The quarter has for the last 90 years shown the nation's first president, George Washington, on one side and an eagle on the other

England on March 18, 978 after the murder of his half-brother Edward, known as Edward the Martyr. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says of the murder of King Edward that “No worse deed than this was ever done by the English nation since they first sought the land of Britain.” There is no evidence that Æthelred – who was about 12 years old at the time – had anything to do with the murder, but it was a miserable start to a miserable reign that lasted almost 38 miserable years. Æthelred’s ...