| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| 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 |
