Question:
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Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ₥), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ¢), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a union, but no union coins were ever struck and only patterns for the $50 half union exist. However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10¢, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, sometimes written as $3.599⁄10. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes (with the exception of gold, silver and platinum coins valued up to $100 as legal tender, but worth far more as bullion). Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the note form is significantly more common. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s). The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins. Paper currency less than one dollar in denomination, known as "fractional currency", was also sometimes pejoratively referred to as "shinplasters". In 1854, James Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins, which were referred to as a "Union", "Half Union", and "Quarter Union", thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100.
1. What's the smallest division of a dollar?
2. What's this called?
3. What is this measurement used for?
4. Were gold coins used?
5. Up to what value?
6. What was measurement called?
7. When did they fall out of use?
8. Are coins worth more than a dollar produced today?
9. How many $100 coins were produced?
10. How about $50 coins?
11. What would they have been called?
12. Was paper money less than a dollar ever used?
13. What negative term was used to describe them?

Numbered answers:
1. one-thousandth of a dollar
2. mill
3. tax levies and gasoline prices
4. yes
5. ten dollars
6. "double eagle"
7. 1930s
8. unknown
9. none
10. none
11. "Half Union"
12. yes
13. "shinplasters"


Question:
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Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. With a population of 582,277 inhabitants (1.1 million residents in the larger urban zone) it is Germany's tenth most populous city. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin at the confluence of the White Elster, Pleisse, and Parthe rivers at the southern end of the North German Plain. 

Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important medieval trade routes. Leipzig was once one of the major European centers of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing. Leipzig became a major urban center within the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) after the Second World War, but its cultural and economic importance declined. 

Leipzig later played a significant role in instigating the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, through events which took place in and around St. Nicholas Church. Since the reunification of Germany, Leipzig has undergone significant change with the restoration of some historical buildings, the demolition of others, and the development of a modern transport infrastructure. Leipzig today is an economic center, the most livable city in Germany, according to the GfK marketing research institution and has the second-best future prospects of all cities in Germany, according to HWWI and Berenberg Bank. Leipzig Zoological Garden is one of the most modern zoos in Europe and ranks first in Germany and second in Europe according to Anthony Sheridan. Since the opening of the Leipzig City Tunnel in 2013, Leipzig forms the centerpiece of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland public transit system. Leipzig is currently listed as Gamma World City and Germany's "Boomtown".
1. What is the 10th populous city in Germany?
2. DId this city have anything to do with communism?
3. What?
4. What federal state is in it?
5. Is it a good city for trade?
6. How long ?
7. What is Leipzig according to GfK marketing research instituation?
8. Anything else?
9. Is it important to the S-Bahn Mittledeutschland transit system?
10. Why?
11. Did something open in 2010?

Numbered answers:
1. Leipzig
2. Yes
3. the fall of communism
4. Saxony
5. Yes
6. Holy Roman Empire
7. economic center
8. most livable city in Germany
9. Yes
10. the centerpiece
11. No


Question:
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CHAPTER TWENTY SIX. 

MAD HACO STARTLED AT LAST. 

That evening Haco Barepoles was seen on the road to Cove, with his coat-skirts, his cravat-ends, and his hair streaming in the breeze. 

An hour previously, however, a brass band was seen walking towards the same place, and, half an hour after that, a young midshipman was observed posting rapidly in the same direction. 

It was dark when Gildart entered the village, and all the inhabitants were in their dwellings, so that he reached Gaff's cottage unperceived. 

The village was a primitive one. Locks were deemed unnecessary in most of the cottages, probably because there was nothing worth stealing within them. Gildart lifted the latch and entered. A fire, nearly out, with a large piece of coal on it, burned in the grate. The flicker of this was sufficient to illuminate the boudoir faintly. 

Having surveyed the apartment, examined the closet, and looked under the bed, he went out, and, going to the back of the cottage, found the band waiting in some anxiety. 

"Now, lads, come this way," said Gildart; "and there's only one piece of advice I've got to give you: don't stir hand or foot after Haco enters the cottage. He's as big as an elephant, and strong as a lion. If you stir, and he finds you out, he won't spare you." 

"But you promise to come to the rescue, master," said the French horn in some alarm. 

"Ay, that will I; but he'll have two of you floored, another strangled, and the fourth half-skinned before I can get him to stop." 
1. Who was in the street?
2. Heading where?
3. Was he well dressed?
4. In what?
5. Had someone been that way before him?
6. How many
7. Were they together?
8. How long since the first passed?
9. Was it a group?
10. And when did the second pass?
11. Did they reach their destination at daybreak?
12. Was it a modern place?
13. What was it like?
14. Were there valuables to be found?
15. Did they secure there places anyhow?
16. Did he have any words of wisdom for anyone?
17. Which was?
18. At all?
19. Is he a large man?
20. How large?


Numbered answers:
1. Haco Barepoles
2. The Cove
3. Yes
4. His coat-skirts,
5. Yes
6. Two
7. No
8. An hour
9. Yes
10. , Half an hour later
11. No
12. No
13. Primitive
14. No
15. No
16. Yes
17. Don't stir foot
18. After Haco enters the cottage
19. Yes
20. Big as an elephant,