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  2. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    History (600–1945) A pound = 20 shillings = 240 silver pennies (formerly) The pound sterling emerged after the adoption of the Carolingian monetary system in England c.800. Here is a summary of changes to its value in terms of silver or gold until 1816. [44] [45] Value of £1 sterling in grams and troy ounces.

  3. Narendra Modi - Wikipedia

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    Narendra Damodardas Modi ( Gujarati: [ˈnəɾendɾə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] ⓘ; born 17 September 1950) [b] is an Indian politician who has served as the 14th prime minister of India since May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya ...

  4. Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century. After escaping from slavery in ...

  5. Sonic the Hedgehog - Wikipedia

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    Sonic the Hedgehog [a] is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main Sonic the Hedgehog games are platformers mostly developed by ...

  6. Milton Friedman - Wikipedia

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    Milton Friedman ( / ˈfriːdmən / ⓘ; July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. [4] With George Stigler, Friedman was among the ...

  7. MailOnline - Wikipedia

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    MailOnline (also known as dailymail.co.uk and dailymail.com outside the UK) is the website of the Daily Mail, a tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper The Mail on Sunday. MailOnline is a division of dmg media, which is owned by Daily Mail and General Trust plc . Launched in 2003 by the Associated Newspapers’ digital ...

  8. 2016 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Trump/Pence and blue denotes those won by Clinton/Kaine. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.

  9. List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.