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Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were (with a few exceptions noted below ...
The guinea was introduced in 1663 with 44 + 1 ⁄ 2 guineas minted out of 12 troy ounces of 22-karat gold (hence, 7.6885 g fine gold) and initially worth £1 or 20 shillings. While its price in shillings was not legally fixed at first, its persistent trade value above 21 shillings reflected the poor state of clipped underweight silver coins ...
The first videos before the debut of web series Extra Credits were released on YouTube by the series' co-creator Daniel Floyd. The show was then picked up by The Escapist for the first 54 episodes before a contractual dispute forced the show to leave and be picked up by PATV. Technical limitations with PATV's site forced the official episodes ...
Year 868 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events. By place. Europe. King Charles the Bald ...
The term cable is a slang term used by foreign exchange traders to refer to the exchange rate between the pound sterling and US dollar. [1] The term originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate between the US dollar and sterling began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.
The £ grapheme in a selection of fonts The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England.
Despite this and a promise later the same day to raise base rates again to 15%, dealers kept selling pounds, convinced that the government would not keep its promise. By 7:00 pm that evening, Lamont announced Britain would leave the ERM and rates would remain at the new level of 12%; however, on the next day the interest rate was back to 10%. [15]
7 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days £20: 139 × 73 [54] J. M. W. Turner by J.M.W. Turner: 20 February 2020 In use [57] 4 years, 11 months and 5 days £50: 146 × 77: Alan Turing by Elliott & Fry: 23 June 2021: In use [58] 3 years, 7 months and 4 days Series G II (King Charles III) £5: 125 × 65: King Charles III: Sir Winston Churchill by ...