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The Gold Standard Act (March 14, 1900)
The Gold Standard was adopted for backing currency within the US. Were there other options?

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This weekend is the St. Patrick’s Day celebration weekend, so, if you celebrate and all that with alcohol, do be safe! Please don’t drink and drive.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
March 10
*Alfred Peet (1920)
*Chuck Norris (1940)
*Osama bin Laden (1957)
*Carrie Underwood (1983)
March 11
*Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822)
*Dorothy Gish (1898)
*Bobby McFerrin (1950)
*Douglas Adams (1951)
March 12
*Paul Gerhardt (1607)
*Charles Boycott (1832)
*Liza Minnelli (1946)
*Darryl Strawberry (1962)
March 13
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*Percival Lowell (1855)
*Hugo Wolf (1860)
*William Casey (1913)
March 14
*Johann Strauß, Sr. (1804)
*Alexey Troitsky (1866)
*Albert Einstein (1879)
*Billy Crystal (1948)
March 15
*Francesco Durante (1684)
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*Mark McGrath (1968)
March 16
*John Butler Yeats (1839)
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*Dr. Josef Mengele (1911)
*Jerry Lewis (1926)

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