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Education, economic change and society in England 1780-1870 (Cambridge UP, 1995). Sanderson, Michael. Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s (1999) Simon, Brian. The two nations and the educational structure, 1780-1870 (1960) a Marxist scholarly history in 4 volumes Simon, Brian. Education and the Labour Movement, 1870 ...
The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [5] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [6]
(one crown, or a quarter of a pound). [1] It was converted into a graduated rate in 1780 by Lord North, as a consequence of financing British activity in the American Revolutionary War. [1] Penalties for failing to file probate or administration documents were introduced in 1795, and accounts for calculating liability were first required in ...
The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, romanized: Tsar'-bomba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. ' Tsar bomb '; code name: Ivan [5] or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
The rate was increased in 1917 during World War I. [25] The top marginal tax rate was reduced to 58% in 1922, to 25% in 1925 and finally to 24% in 1929. In 1932 the top marginal tax rate was increased to 63% during the Great Depression and steadily increased, reaching 94% in 1944 [ 26 ] (on income over $200,000, equivalent of $2,868,625 in 2018 ...
Phelps swam the lead-off leg in 48.42 seconds and Neil Walker, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak each expanded the lead to win in a Championship record of 3:12.72, just missing the world record of 3:12.46 set the previous year. [123] His lead-off time was faster than the winning time in the individual 100-meter freestyle final later in the meet.
In 1854, Secretary of the Treasury James Guthrie proposed creating $100, $50, and $25 gold coins, to be referred to as a union, half union, and quarter union, respectively, [21] thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100. However, no such coins were ever struck, and only patterns for the $50 half union exist.
The price per pound of cotton plummeted from $1 at the end of the Civil War to an average of 20 cents in the 1870s, nine cents in the 1880s, and seven cents in the 1890s. [69] By 1898, it had fallen to five cents a pound -while costing seven cents to produce. [70] Once-prosperous planters suffered significant hardship.