Building an Economy on Paper Money
A shortage of coined currency led Pennsylvania to begin using paper money in the 1720s. The British didn't like it, but the colonists did.
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Yishun 5-cent kopi saga: Coffee shop denies patron's claim that her 'kopi-o was poured away'
A Yishun coffee shop, which drew ire from netizens after a patron complained that her two five-cent coins were rejected and her kopi-o poured away, has come forward with their version, denying that her drink was discarded. In fact, the patron wasn't even the one who ordered the drink, said the establishment. In a Facebook post shared on Tuesday (March...
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'Five cents not money?' Diner refused cup of kopi after using two 5-cent coins as payment
Singapore News - It seems a coffee shop in Yishun won’t sell you kopi if you’re paying with five-cent coins. Facebook user Sally Chan posted about her unpleasant encounter at a drinks stall at Blk 291 Yishun Street 22, where she was refused her beverage because she used two... Read more at www.tnp.sg
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William Federer: Indian Massacres, British Quartering, and the Boston Massacre
Paul Revere's popular engraving of the Boston Massacre fanned flames of anti-British sentiment.
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The Day - Tossing Lines: Colonel William and Anne Ledyard's revolutionary children - News from southeastern Connecticut
The seven children left fatherless when Colonel William Ledyard was murdered upon surrendering his sword to the British on Fort Griswold in 1781 had been
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