Talk:U.S. one dollar bill
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True or false: it was legal to put live people on currency back in 1862. (This question came into my mind because it says that Salmon Chase was on the first $1 bills and he was alive in 1862. 66.32.149.224 23:17, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
Yes, he put himself on a LOT of the money to further his political carreer. Rick Boatright 23:22, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
It appears Chase was on the $10,000 bill (series 1918) (http://www.moneyfactory.com/document.cfm/5/42/160), but as he died in 1873, I haven't actually seen a $1 bill from that period.
What's with the paranoid talk about the Masons and the Illuminati? This seems totally out of place and delusional at best. -Branddobbe 08:16, May 11, 2004 (UTC)
- It's a consperacy theory that baiscly goes that the Illuminati and/or the free masons are responisible for the pyrimid on the back of the 1DB. It's not out of place, and it deserves mention.
Consperacy theory? Actually, a new book, The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill, by David Ovason, details the extent of Masonic symbolism on the one dollar bill. There is nothing conspiratorial about this. It is fact. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060530448/qid=1111984112/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-9777372-3472619?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
- Actually, I noticed the US Declaration of Independence year 1776 which is written on the pyramid is also listed in the Illuminati article as the founding year, but I wasn't sure whether to include this. (It should be in the parenthesized 'The following is speculation' section, if anywhere.) --IByte 20:49, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Is the phrase "recent separation" appropriate for something that happened over 200 years ago?
Is the phrase "recent separation" appropriate for something that happened over 200 years ago?
Bobblewik (talk) 19:44, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
In archaeological terms, yes :) Sjc 19:45, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The Eagle's claws
- It holds an olive branch and arrows in its claws, symbolizing "we want peace, but are ready to fight".
It occurs to me that the order doesn't seem binding. It could just as well mean "we want to fight, but are ready for peace". :-) JRM 02:35, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)