US dollar ( USD )

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

This collection might include specimens of the US 1 dollar coin, the Canadian Loonie, the Euro, 1 Indian Rupee and 1 Singapore dollar.

The US dollar is an example of a fully convertible currency and for this reason, US dollars are one of the major currencies traded in the FOREX market.

The most complex relationships are those between the yuan and the US dollar, and between the euro and its neighbours.

Examples of this phenomenon include the pre-1965 US dime, quarter, half dollar, and dollar, US nickel, and pre-1982 US penny.

Inflation has been kept low ( only 1 percent in 2004, compared with 2. 2 percent in 2003 ), due to the fixed peg of the Djibouti franc to the US dollar.

The multi-million dollar lawsuit was eventually resolved in 2001 for US $ 6. 6 million ($ 8 million after interest was added ) in favor of the plaintiff.

In 2000 Ecuador changed its currency from the sucre to the US dollar following a banking crisis.

1 United States dollar ( US $)

The lempira ( currency ) was devaluing for many years but stabilized at L19 to the US dollar in 2005.

There may also be extensive capital flight or flight to a “ hard ” currency such as the US dollar.

At the height of the inflation, one US dollar was worth 4 trillion German marks.

The Albanian lek has strengthened from 143 lekë to the US dollar in 2000 to 92 lekë in 2007.

For example, USD ( United States dollar ) has code 840 which is also the numeric code for the US ( United States ).

However, the Jamaican dollar has been slipping, despite intervention, resulting in an average exchange rate of J $ 73. 40 per US $ 1. 00 and J136. 2 per € 1. 00 ( February 2011 ).

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

Now, the picture is clouded, and even US Sens. James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis, who remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

* is the name of three different US warships between 1869 and 1972

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US $ 100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.

AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

Every natural-born citizen of a foreign state who is also an American citizen and every natural-born American citizen who is a citizen of a foreign land owes a double allegiance, one to the United States, and one to his homeland ( in the event of an immigrant becoming a citizen of the US ), or to his adopted land ( in the event of an emigrant natural born citizen of the US becoming a citizen of another nation ).

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

* 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.

There is an active trade in the shells, which sell for more than US $ 1, 400 per metric tonne.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

The Triumph of Time is also the US title of James Blish's novel A Clash of Cymbals.

A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

Most of the US midwest is on square mile grids for surveying purposes.

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

Aesthetic coupling between art-objects and medical topics was made by speakers working for the US Information Agency This coupling was made to reinforce the learning paradigm when English-language speakers used translators to address audiences in their own country.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

In 1999 they brought a legal challenge to this patent which had granted a private US citizen " ownership " of the knowledge of a plant that is well-known and sacred to many indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and used by them in religious and healing ceremonies.

By 1911, his description of the disease was being used by European physicians to diagnose patients in the US.

It was given its name from the color of the orange-striped 55 US gallon ( 208 l ) barrels in which it was shipped, and was by far the most widely used of the so-called " Rainbow Herbicides ".

Starting in 1991, the US Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to review the scientific literature on Agent Orange and the other herbicides used in Vietnam, including their active ingredients and the dioxin contaminant.

There is a noun use in US English, meaning " a chemical agent used in lethal injections "?

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

As the only surviving member of the Falcon missile family, it was not adopted by any other nation ( besides Iran ), any other US armed service, or used on any other aircraft.

To replace the Embraer P-95 Bandeirulha in the maritime patrol duties, 12 Lockheed P-3A Orions have been bought from US Navy surplus and eight ( with an option for a ninth ) of them are being upgraded by EADS CASA in Spain, the remainder are to be used as spare parts source.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

Some of these products may have been exported and used in bubble tea shops in the US and around the world.

In 2002, the US remake of Queer as Folk used the song " Smalltown Boy " in an episode.

* United States: The US has never used mass immunization of BCG, relying instead on the detection and treatment of latent tuberculosis.

* T-1A Jayhawk Military version of Model 400 used as a trainer for pilots of large aircraft in the US military.

A version of the archbar truck was at one time also used on US Railway car # Freight cars | freight cars

The US calendar display is also used in Britain.