flewthenest,shedecideditwastimetotakethe plunge. AftertakingadegreeatChichesterUniversityin Related Arts,Ginnibegantotravelthe world,eventuallygetting workteaching English inJapanandChile.AnditwasinChileshediscoveredshecould getlast-minutecheap dealson shipsgoingto Antarcticafrom theislandsoff TierradelFuego,t...
The Netherlands, like most of Europe uses the euro as its form of currency. The euro became the official currency of the Netherlands in 2002, even though the currency itself was first used in 1999 by electronic means and traveler’s checks. Legal tender was first used three years later, be...
Old English was strongly influenced by Old Norse(古斯堪的纳维亚语)spoken by the Vikings(北欧海盗)and was closely related to the German and Dutch languages. The introduction of Christianity added the first wave of Latin and Greek words to the language. The Old English period ended with the Nor...
some corners. As an EU member that does not use the euro, the United Kingdom is being “marginalized,” this reasoning goes, by the German and French leadership amid the crisis. This sounds to me like being marginalized by the local fire department when your neighbor’s house is burning ...
Roman emperor Nero began debasing Roman currency around 60 AD by reducing its silver content from 100% to 90%. Over the next 150 years, the silver content was reduced to 50%. By 265 AD, the silver content was down to 0.5%. The German government reduced the value of the mark from aro...
Gray jays ( Perisoreus canadensis ) cache thousands of food items during each summer for use during the subsequent winter. Previous work on the economics of gray jay scatter-hoarding behavior was based on the assumption that the jays maximize the rate at which they store food energy; alternative...
This paper examines the role of currency and banking in the German financial crisis of 1931 for both Germany and the U.S. We specify a structural dynamic factor model to identify financial and monetary factors separately for each of the two economies. We find that monetary transmission through ...
Public Culture 14.3 (2002) 545-556 Ten years after German reunification, a relic from the past appeared in an industrial corner of what was once East Berli... Bach,J. - 《Public Culture》 被引量: 54发表: 2002年 Method And System For Commodity-Based Currency For Payment of Accounts A sy...
The European Currency Unit (ECU) was the official monetary unit of theEuropean Monetary System (EMS)before it was replaced by theeuro. The value of the ECU was used to determine the exchange rates and reserves among the members of the EMS, but it was always an accounting unit rather than ...
完形填空What is the “UK"?The UK is the shortened name of the UnitedKingdom, which is made up of four countries, 1England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.In history, Wales was 2 England in the 16thcentury, later Scotland in the 18th century and theKingdom of Ireland in the 19th...