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Read about Buzkhashi: The National Sport of Afghanistan commemorated on this banknote.
The grim legend of Rozafa Fortress in the City of Shkoder.
Luís Vaz de Camões, Poor Aristocrat, Soldier, poet, and his constant companion: Misfortune.
David Melangi's aboriginal artwork and its meanings.
Explore the legends and mysteries of Gyz-Galasy, the Maiden Tower, an ancient and mysterious building in the port city of Baku.
The story behind the struggles of Adolphe Sax and his invention of the Saxophone.
Discover the Amazon with Candido Rondon, as he traversed the jungles putting up telegraph wires and making friends with the local tribes. Candido was also the person who took then ex -U.S. president Roosevelt down the River of Doubt.
Discover the "Wheel of Life" fresco painted by Zaharij Zograf, the most famous painter of the Bulgarian Renaissance.
Read the story behind the Aboriginal sculpture of "Raven and the First Men".
Meet Xiang Luo, the precoscious child who taught Confuscius.
Some details about the fearsome looking Tshokwe Mwana Pwo Tribal Mask.
Read the entertaining legend of Ina and the Shark, shown on this three dollar banknote.
Learn about the amazing scientist Roger Joseph Boscovich, structural engineer, Newtonian physicist, geologist, diplomat, burgeoning particle physicist, astronomer, and in his spare time, a poet.
Meet Jan Zizka - aka - John One-Eye! A military commander of great skill, who may have been the first to use a primitive style of armoured tank, and was the first to write a code of military conduct for his troops.
The story behind the great storyteller, Hans Christian Andersen.
Elizabeth Fry, a tireless worker who crusaded for prison reform at a time when it was most desperately needed. She also campained for homelessness, workhouses, mental asylums, nursing, convict ships, etc.
Want to be a leader? How about being in charge of at least 7 different countries in Africa and the Carribean? You could learn a thing or two by reading about Felix Eboue.
Karl Ernst Von Baer, a renowned scientist in the fields of geology, entymology, zoology, physiology, embryology, meteorology, etc.
Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb fought and worked for the Faeroese language to be adopted as an official language in the Faeroe Islands. It took almost 100 years!
Did you know the USA had banknotes in denominations of less than 1 dollar? Here's why.
Urbain Le Verrier, the discoverer of the planet Neptune.
France's own "Scramble for Africa" lead to controversial outcomes.
Omar Bongo, Gabon's long lasting and controversial president.
Here is Tamar, the the 12th centruy female king of Georgia, who is still a beloved ruler.
The story behind the famous "Vampire Banknote" of the German Weimar Republic.
A promise to God, kept continuously since 1634!
Yaa Asantewaa, the Queen Mother for the Ashanti People.
Tarik ibn Ziyad, the conquering Moor who helped make Spain a world power.
Amilcar Lopes Cabral, a political leader who fought for independence for Guinea Bissau and Cabo Verde.
Sanite Belaire, the revolutionary heroine of Haiti.
Lady Hazel Laverly, the woman who orchestrated the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, while her husband painted the dignitaries.
Read about the history of the Isle of Man, and the beautiful Peel Castle.
The story of Marconi's wireless radio and the effect on the world.
Nanny of the Maroons - a fearsome warrior who fought against British rule in the Carribean.
The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan - The Shichifukujin!
The favorite of the 7 Lucky Gods on Hansatsu: Daikokuten!
Sayyid Hussein bin Ali - the Sharif of Mecca, and the dangers of dividing conquered lands.
the Kazah Bard, Kurmangazy - Musician, poet, composer, and continuing inspiration to the Kazakh people.
King Sejong the Great - A man who really did deserve the title.
The Dog River - the Nahr el Kalb, is a site that history has fought over for many years. Inscriptive carvings, or stelea, have documented several of these passages through time.
The founding father of Lesotho, King Moshoeshoe I, fought long and hard against colonial European nations.
William Tubman’s policies steered Liberia through the 20th Century, bringing success to the national economy, well past his lifetime.
This Symbol of freedom started in 1200 B. C. and continues to this very day.
William Eddis and his long, fraught trip home.
Henry Dawkins and Isaac Ketchum - Counterfeiters who foiled a plot against George Washington.
Venustiano Carranza, a revolutionary president.
The Green Gold that was Henequen.
Stefan Cel Mer - Cousin of Vlad the Impaler, who was a warrior king of his nation.
The hero Damdin Sukhbaatar, who won independence from China.
King Mohammed V, who worked to gain independence from French occupation.
Hendrick Witbooi's rise to power and his fight against German colonialism.
The Nyatapola temple in Bhaktapur.
Ebenezer helped perform the last act of the Royal Government in all of New Hampshire. And then became a great revolutionary.
As a Quaker, Isaac Colins was kicked out of his church for taking any side in the Revolutionary War - but his printing business became an important tool in the war for independence.
Sir Edmund Hillary and his trek up Mount Everest.
Spanish treatment of the indigenous people in the New World was atrocious, and the efforts of early leaders such as Diriangen to thwart the invasion were brave, if not sucsessful.
Herbert Macaulay founded the first local Lagos political party the Nigerian National Democratic Party, which advocated an independent Lagos government.
John Ashe, printer of this banknote, and the most chivalric hero of the Revolutionary War.
Tupac Amaru II and his fight against the Spanish in the 1700's.
Casimer the Great, the only Polish king to have been awarded the title of “Great” while living.
Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese explorer who captained the first ship to sail around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern end of Africa.
The Babylonian Note - a banknote embedded with communist propoganda.
Juvenal Habyarimana the only dignitary whose portrait has ever been on a Rwandan banknote.
The Royal Bank of Scotland, St. Andrews and Old Tom Morris.
Bai Bureh and his fight against British Colonialism.
Jurij Bartolomej Vega, a Soldier, Author, Professor, Mathmetician.
This may, or may not, be the portrait of the early colonial governer, "Jan" Van Riebeeck.
The Civil War Leader John Garang appears on their first banknotes.
One of Spain's best rulers, King Alfonso X.
The tragic life of painter José Domínguez Bécquer.
The Temple of the Tooth at Kandy.
Emile Gentil, had nothing to do with St. Pierre & Miquellon.
Find out many of the strange and curious superstitions about money throughout the world.
The story of Anton de Kom and his fight for equal rights for his fellow Surinamese in a colonial state.
Africa's last absolute monarchy is held by King Mswati III.
The Father of the Nation, Gustav Vasa.
Known as a moral and fair ruler, Saladin still had his limits.
What's this have to do with the price of tea in China? Well, for one, tea was money.
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV reigned for 41 years in the island nation that was never colonised by a western power.
Discover the wonderful Transportation Vignette on the back of this classic banknote - and find out which vehicles were used as the inspiration for the engravings!
The troubled life of Luisa Caceres de Arismendi and her part in the war for independence.
Mpundu Mutembo - The real Chain Breaker of Zambia - and his plight after Zambian independence.
Not all serial numbers are quite so boring. Errors, radars, repeaters, etc are often sought after by collectors for their uniqueness and value.
Hidden printing as a method to thwart counterfeiting.
A simple list of who is pictured on modern US currency.
The token commemorating John Dix, and his many legal and military posts.
Hidden images on banknotes to thwart counterfeiting.
More hidden images used to thwart counterfeiting.