Word: carta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first John F. Kennedy half-dollars appeared. The new 500 piece (it replaces the Benjamin Franklin coin of 1948 mintage) was such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...
...fund for the scholarship will be the second part of a tribute to the late president. It will accompany a gift to the United States of an acre of Runnymede meadow, the site where King John signed the Magna Carta. The British intend to build a memorial to Kennedy on the land...
...London Publisher Jonathan Cape for schoolchildren aged nine to 16. The other Jackdaws (named after the mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...
...send you, amigo, this very sad carta...
Home's victory may prove to be Pyrrhic. As a millionaire, one of Britain's biggest landowners, an Old Etonian, head of a family whose pedigree predates Magna Carta, he has inevitably caused the revival of an old argument: that the Tories' progressive, democratic goals are mere window dressing for the party of wealth and privilege...