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The British shilling, abbreviated "1s" or "1/-", was a unit of currency and a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 20 of one pound, or twelve pence.It was first minted in the reign of Henry VII as the testoon, and became known as the shilling, from the Old English scilling, [1] sometime in the mid-16th century.
By 1780 about 27% of New York's population were descendants of Dutch settlers (55,000 of 204,000). New Jersey was home to the remaining Dutch and they constituted 14% of the population of 140,000. The rest were mostly English with a mixture of other Europeans and about 6% Blacks.
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.
In October 2016, she said Britain would trigger Article 50 in March 2017, [99] and in December she gained the support of MP's for her timetable. [100] In January 2017, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled in the Miller case that government could only invoke Article 50 if authorised by an act of parliament to do so. [101]
[50] [51] The payment schedule required US$250 million within twenty-five days and then US$500 million annually, plus 26 per cent of the value of German exports. The German Government was to issue bonds at five per cent interest and set up a sinking fund of one per cent to support the payment of reparations.
The British provincial line, consisting of Americans enlisted on a regular army status, enrolled 19,000 Loyalists (50 units and 312 companies). The maximum strength of the Loyalist provincial line was 9,700 in December 1780. [49] [50] In all about 19,000 at one time or another were soldiers or militia in British forces. [51]
25–60% of European population [6] 541–549 North Africa, Europe, and Western Asia 3 HIV/AIDS pandemic: HIV/AIDS: 43 million (as of 2024) [a] 1981–present [7] Worldwide 4 Black Death: Bubonic plague: 25–50 million 30–60% of European population [8] 1346–1353 Europe, Asia, and North Africa 5 COVID-19 pandemic: COVID-19
A £5 note (White fiver) forged by Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisonersOperation Bernhard was an exercise by Nazi Germany to forge British bank notes.The initial plan was to drop the notes over Britain to bring about a collapse of the British economy during the Second World War.