History in Your Pocket—Taking a Close Look at a One Dollar Bill

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OAT It was wonderfull. It was the most exiting research ever ! 12/20/2011
joe s The owel is represtenting the people that no the truth about the goverment. 5/11/2011
Owel. Thier is also an Owel. By the top of the one. in the upper right hand corner. 5/11/2011
Jenn Cool...thanks! I'm going to teach my kids this...kind of embarrassing that I'm a 40 year old educated person and never knew this. 2/3/2011
devil there is no god 1/6/2011
Ronald Fox the most important aspect of the dollar bill not mentioned is the fact the phrase "in God We Trust" was added in the 1950's (the same time "Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance). This was done during the height of the cold war and intended to show a nation united.
Otherwise, nicely written article.		 7/10/2010
R. Chadwick i dont know where you got the translation nor your ignorant descriptions of the symbols and the meaning . I suggest youd be far better at the writing of fairy tales NICE RESEARCH 3/23/2010
V.Riley I think children should learn about the dollar the same way as they are taught about the other basic studies. Our money will have to be more of a need, before traveling or working will be. It's best a child or person learned the history of any money they earn or spend. Just like they would a person they'll decide to spend their lives with, it has to be with them for the rest of their live. That's why the word Spend plays a roll for both. 10/22/2009
Thomas gates i wanna win the million 10/15/2009
e.a. cool..i was looking at the back of the bill today and wondered what the arrows ment.thanx. 7/19/2009
bob thats really cool 9/6/2008
bob dillan my idea was that the pyramid on the back is a clue. The 13 arrows on the back are the 13 colonies. But here is my Question why is it in latin? 7/22/2008
bob dillan what does the eye in the triangle on the back mean? 7/22/2008
ron i had looked at them and sough ghost and it was neat and good knowlege thank you. 7/3/2008
lie sure, thanks to Freemasonry that designed that dollar bill full of masonic symbols 2/27/2008
Student Great information! I am doing a Project on History of "the money" in school Thanks it helped lots! 12/25/2007
Craig You discuss the arrows in the eagle's talon, and Franlin's role in the design, but consider the following:

"Mike Tarbell, a Mohawk, is the educator at the Iroquois Indian Museum in upstate New York. He loves to tell this story: "Benjamin Franklin sat in council with the Iroquois," he says. "He took eight interpreters with him and copied everything down." Franklin's job was to publish Iroquois speeches - speeches that often included ideas about a united government. Later, Franklin served as an ambassador to the Iroquois.

The Iroquois League was made up of five nations: the Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida, and Cayuga. Each nation had a council made up of leaders (sachems) elected by the clan mothers of that nation. The councils governed their own territories separately. But to discuss and decide upon issues that affected all, they met at the Grand Council (also called the Council of the Good Minds). The overriding principle of their government was the Great Law of Peace, which in its simplest form states that it's better to live in peace than in war.

Grand Councils opened with a thanksgiving address. This prayer, which might take hours to recite, helped the Iroquois achieve "one-mindedness." Today, some 17 Iroquois communities in New York and Canada still gather at Grand Council meetings in Onondaga, N.Y. They do not vote until everyone is in agreement.

In 1754, Franklin met with Colonial and Iroquois leaders to discuss how the colonies might govern themselves. It was called the Albany Congress. Hendrick, a Mohawk chief, showed them how the Iroquois Confederacy worked. "To illustrate the power of unity," Mr. Tarbell says, "Hendrick used the example the Iroquois used when their nations came together: He held up one arrow and broke it, then held up five arrows bound together and showed how they could not be broken."

The next day, Tarbell notes, Franklin presented a plan for a new American government designed to weld the individual Colonies into a unified whole. It was called the Albany Plan of Union, and it included many features of Iroquois law."		 12/22/2007
Timm A lot of things are incorrect. The scales are the scales of justice. The treasury has nothing to do with a balanced budget, congress does. That is not a square in the middle, it is a chevron with thirteen stars to symbolize the 13 states. I can't read anymore. this article is flawed. 7/17/2007
GABS WOW!!!! That is all I can say. This article was an excellent help for supporting my argument of prayer in schools. I have to tell my friends to come read this article now!! 4/29/2007
Oaklyn It really is a shame that more history teachers do not take a day to show their students this sort of thing.
Very interesting		 9/18/2006
M.A. Meyer Very interesting! I heard about different things found on US currency., an owl, a spider-on various bills. I want to find a book on that. That's why I searched, and found this site. Thanks. 3/24/2006
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