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In a separate episode, Soprano states: "This whole thing is going to cost me close to a rock." Another slang term for a million dollars is an "M", as used in rap songs. Financial institutions and applications will often use "MM" when writing shorthand for a million dollars, as a million is the product of the Roman numeral "M" (1000) times itself.
The 1978 series began with denominations of 2, 5, 10, and 20 rand, with a 50 rand introduced in 1984. This series had only one language variant for each denomination of note. Afrikaans was the first language on the 2, 10, and 50 rand, while English was the first on the 5 and 20 rand. A coin replaced the 1 rand note.
South African pound. This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete. The pound ( Afrikaans: pond; symbol £, £SA[ 1] for distinction) was the currency of the Union of South Africa from the formation of the country as a British Dominion in 1910. It was replaced by the rand in 1961 when South Africa decimalised.
The kwacha ( / ˈkwætʃə /; ISO 4217: MWK, official name Malawi Kwacha[ 2]) is the currency of Malawi as of 1971, replacing the Malawian pound. It is divided into 100 tambala. The kwacha replaced other types of currency, namely the British pound sterling, the South African rand, and the Rhodesian dollar, that had previously circulated through ...
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. A version of the challenge was first issued in ...
The Zimbabwean dollar was introduced in 1980 to directly replace the Rhodesian dollar (which had been introduced in 1970) at par (1:1), at a similar value to the US dollar. In the 20th century the dollar functioned as a normal currency, but in the early 21st century hyperinflation in Zimbabwe reduced the Zimbabwean dollar to one of the lowest ...
The pound ( sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, [ 4] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [ 5] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [ 4] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [ 6]
(10 9 days is roughly 2.738 million years.) About 10 9 months ago, dinosaurs walked the Earth during the late Cretaceous. (10 9 months is roughly 83.3 million years.) About 10 9 years—a gigaannus—ago, the first multicellular eukaryotes appeared on Earth. About 10 9 decades ago, the thin disk of the Milky Way started to form. (10 9 decades ...