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Among the changes starting in the 19th-century gold rushes was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English.
Hume argued that England could not permanently gain from exports, because hoarding gold ( i. e., currency ) would make gold more plentiful in England ; therefore, the prices of English goods would rise, making them less attractive exports and making foreign goods more attractive imports.
For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).
A gold Unite ( English coin ) | Unite from 1653.
" At this time, one of those disciples happened to be the current English ambassador, though his initiation into Jahangir's inner circle of disciples was devoid of religious significance for Roe, as he did not understand the full extent of what he was doing: Jahangir hung " a picture of him self set in gold hanging at a wire gold chain ” round Roe's neck.
Although his return ship was overtaken by an English privateer, Audubon and his hidden gold coins survived the encounter.
The remaining 8. 33 % of the coin's weight ( 2. 826 g ) is copper ( an alloy known historically as crown gold which has long been used for English gold sovereigns ), which gives the Krugerrand a more orange appearance than silver-alloyed gold coins.
The name " South Africa " and the gold content are inscribed in both Afrikaans and English ( as can be seen on the pictures of the coin ).
The name translates into English as " gold and silver scales "; it is often abbreviated to Ginrin.
Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").
It is used in English as well with terms like bling, which describes the glinting of light on things like gold, chrome or precious stones.
According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.
** Sir Harry Oakes, American-born English gold mine owner ( murdered ) ( b. 1874 )
Nutmeg at this time is more valuable than gold, and the English, led by Nathaniel Courthope, hold on to Run.
* King Henry III of England orders the production of a twenty pence English coin of pure gold, the first high-denomination coin minted in England and the first to use gold.

English and coins
a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;
English coins were generally of high silver content, with high artistic standards, and were required to be re-minted every three years.
** English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang
* English palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the name Dinosauria, hence the Anglicized dinosaur.
First attested in English 1829, the word numismatics comes from the adjective numismatic, meaning " of coins ".
From a very early date, British coins have been inscribed with the name of the ruler of the kingdom in which they were produced, and a longer or shorter title, always in Latin ; among the earliest distinctive English coins are the silver pennies of Offa of Mercia, which were inscribed with the legend " King Offa ".
He did not use it on the coins he proudly sent forth, and when he was given the English crown by the Witenagemot of Anglo-Saxon nobles, in 1013, he took the crown as king Sweyn.
He has a badge of three ostrich feathers ( which can be seen on the reverse of the previous design for decimal British two pence coins dated up to 2008 ); it dates back to the Black Prince and is his as the English heir even before he is made Prince of Wales.
He catalogued the classical manuscripts in the University Library and the Greek and English coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
As silver flooded into the European economy from domestic and overseas sources, Thalers and Thaler-sized coins were minted all over with equivalent coins such as the crown, daalder from which the English word " dollar " is derived, krona, and from 1497, the Spanish eight real coin was minted — a coin which would later become known in some parts of the world as the peso.
English coinage was also superior to most of the other currency in use in northwestern Europe, and the ability to mint coins was a royal monopoly.
During the reign of King Charles II, Britannia made her first appearance on English coins on a farthing of 1672 ( see Depiction on British coinage and postage stamps below ).
This story may have been made up by the English poet Michael Drayton, but the leek has been known to be a symbol of Wales for a long time ; Shakespeare, for example, refers to the custom of wearing a leek as an “ ancient tradition ” in Henry V. In the play, Henry tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “ for I am Welsh, you know, good countryman .” The 1985 and 1990 British one pound coins bear the design of a leek in a coronet, representing Wales.
* Nöel aux 4 coins du monde ( 1953, Robert Cayla ) / Stories emitted by radio in 1951 / English ( 1994 )
Also as a scholar, Arbuthnot took up an interest in antiquities and published Tables of Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins ; reduced to the English standard in 1705, 1707, 1709, and, expanded with a preface ( which indicated that his second son, Charles, was born in 1705 ), in 1727 and 1747.
Because the piece of eight had the same intrinsic value as the thaler ( dollar ) coins familiar to English colonists in North America, it was being called a Spanish dollar by the end of the 17th century and the older term piece of eight gradually fell into disuse.
These early golden coins were probably the shillings ( scillingas in Old English ) that are mentioned in Æthelberht ’ s laws.
Category: English gold coins
Category: English gold coins

English and intended
The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.
The establishment of funding for the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts and formal Gaelic language courses in public schools are intended to address the near-loss of this culture to English assimilation.
He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.
In public statements, Young claimed the alphabet was intended to replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternative, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language.
This process often occurs in English ( e. g. speed or crank for meth ) and is really slang formation, as it often is not intended to substitute a softer term.
Pseudo-anglicisms are new words formed from English morphemes independently from an analogous English construct and with a different intended meaning.
Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls made deliberate use of false friends as one of the devices intended to convey to the reader that English conversations in the book in fact represent Spanish.
It is only tangentially connected with the author's Middle-earth legendarium: both were originally intended as essays in " English mythology ".
This suited the desires of several English politicians who intended to depose James.
He published his great confession upon the subject and also a second writing in English intended for the common people.
In spoken English, the abbreviation " mL " ( for millilitre ) is often pronounced as " mil ", homophonous with the colloquial term " mil ", which is intended to mean " one thousandth of a metre ", or in the United States, a thousandth of an inch.
For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, conventionally written as < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> RUN </ span >.< ref >< span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> RUN </ span > is here intended to display in small caps.
With the relaxation of censorship in Japan in the 1990s, a wide variety of explicit sexual themes appeared in manga intended for male readers, and correspondingly occur in English translations.
These gifts were intended to cement relations between the two countries, building on the trade agreement signed in 1581 that gave English merchants priority in the Ottoman region.
Dr. Reynolds synthesized parts of Morita Therapy along with the practice of Naikan into Constructive Living, an educational method intended for English speaking Westerners.
* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.
His work was intended as recreational mathematics, but he suggested a purely octal system of weights and measures and observed that the existing system of English units was already, to a remarkable extent, an octal system.
Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe ( following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876 ), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of " English " opera, intended to supplant the French operettas ( usually performed in bad translations ) that had dominated the London stage from the mid-19th century into the 1870s.
A transcript and MP3 of the program, intended for English learners, can be found at Inside the World of Pawn Shops
They are intended to give the English king a message telling him to kill Hamlet.
Thomas Bowdler (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825 ) was an English physician and philanthropist, best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original.
Thus it is intended to be pronounced like the word wares,, but people commonly mispronounce the e,, as in the English pronunciation of Juárez.

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