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  • 121National Bank Act — The National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 were two United States federal laws that established a system of national charters for banks, and created the United States National Banking System. They encouraged development of a national currency… …

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  • 122Fiat money — Yuan dynasty banknotes were the earliest fiat money. Fiat money is money that has value only because of government regulation or law. The term derives from the Latin fiat, meaning let it be done , as such money is established by government decree …

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  • 123Exodus 34 — 1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. 2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount …

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  • 124Postmodernist theory — Lyotard, Baudrillard and others Thomas Docherty INTRODUCTION Philosophy has been touched by postmodernism. Philosophy, in the modern academy, is supposed to be the discipline of disciplines: it is philosophy which will be able to gather together …

    History of philosophy

  • 125reclaim — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. redeem, restore, reform, recover, retrieve; tame. See restoration, atonement. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To bring into usable condition] Syn. rescue, restore, work over, regenerate, redeem, recondition …

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  • 126recover — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. regain, get back, redeem, retrieve, reclaim, salvage; get well, recuperate. See restoration, improvement. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To obtain again] Syn. regain, get back, retrieve, recoup, reclaim,… …

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  • 127reform — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. better, reclaim, restore, improve, redeem, regenerate, convert. See change. n. improvement, amendment, regeneration, reformation; crusade. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. reformation, betterment,… …

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  • 128Kaddish and other Poems — by Allen Ginsberg (1961)    Allen Ginsberg’s second book of poems, Kaddish and Other Poems follows so closely the pitch and tone of Howl and otHer poems that it is easy to forget the differences between the two books. Both are written from the… …

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