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  • What happened to the shilling?, pp. 82 & 213. Three girls each pay five shillings to share a room. The landlord refunds 5 shillings via the bellboy, who...
    13 KB (2,023 words) - 21:49, 25 April 2024
  • date of 1942 and retailed at eight shillings while the US edition was priced at $2.00. In the book, detective Hercule Poirot investigates five people...
    22 KB (2,768 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
  • 2 rand = 1 pound or 10 shillings to the rand. Australia, New Zealand and Rhodesia also chose ten shillings as the base unit of their new currency. Australia...
    22 KB (2,520 words) - 18:23, 21 May 2024
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    Asda (category Dairy products companies of the United Kingdom)
    Inland Revenue. They received the whole amount back. The rent was only 10 shillings (50p) per square foot on a 20-year lease, with no rent reviews, Asda increased...
    84 KB (8,696 words) - 15:55, 1 June 2024
  • taken from the last five words of the song. Successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, though American Pocket Books paperbacks used...
    55 KB (6,368 words) - 08:23, 3 June 2024
  • United States with five shillings in his pocket and became a highly successful restaurateur. Irish Linnet was sired by Seattle Song, a son of 1977 U. S. Triple...
    3 KB (214 words) - 08:42, 18 January 2022
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    imagined, but a place of heavy litter and filth. Pip moves into Barnard's Inn with Herbert Pocket, the son of his tutor, Matthew Pocket, who is Miss Havisham's...
    138 KB (17,044 words) - 20:27, 3 June 2024
  • Hercule Poirot (category Characters in British novels of the 20th century)
    personal finances, preferring to keep a bank balance of 444 pounds, 4 shillings, and 4 pence. Actor David Suchet, who portrayed Poirot on television,...
    71 KB (9,000 words) - 07:06, 10 May 2024
  • Sinclair Radionics (category Manufacturing companies of England)
    kit form at forty-nine shillings and sixpence (£2.47½). A year later, in 1964, Sinclair released the "X-10" amplifier, one of the first commercial Class-D...
    17 KB (1,679 words) - 23:31, 22 July 2023
  • Fifty pence (British coin) (category Coins of the United Kingdom)
    milled rims. If the 10-shilling coin were to be made in the same tier as the silver coins, it would have to be twice the weight of the Crown (then and now...
    46 KB (2,051 words) - 00:12, 28 May 2024
  • Collins Crime Club in July of the same year. The first US edition of the novel retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). Lady...
    18 KB (2,469 words) - 15:51, 21 May 2024
  • the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October of the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00...
    19 KB (2,762 words) - 18:26, 8 March 2024
  • February 1934, under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach, by Dodd, Mead and Company. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the...
    41 KB (4,974 words) - 15:20, 28 May 2024
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    Sovereign (British coin) (category Coins of Australia)
    strike. A committee of the Privy Council recommended gold coins of ten shillings, twenty shillings, two pounds and five pounds be issued, and this was...
    68 KB (8,145 words) - 22:32, 3 June 2024
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    part of the Bloody Code that punished petty crimes with death. People convicted of shoplifting items worth more than five shillings would be hanged...
    52 KB (6,429 words) - 00:14, 3 May 2024
  • Dodd, Mead and Company in the same month. The UK edition sold for eight shillings and sixpence (8/6) and the US edition at $2.50. The novel features her...
    27 KB (3,711 words) - 17:39, 21 May 2024
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    Mystery and The Sittaford Mystery), Hardcover (Priced at seven shillings and sixpence) 1940, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, 276 pp 1948, Penguin Books,...
    26 KB (3,257 words) - 23:11, 30 April 2024
  • Mead and Company in 1935 under the title of The Boomerang Clue. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2...
    34 KB (4,559 words) - 22:59, 27 March 2024
  • Penny (British decimal coin) (category Coins of the United Kingdom)
    of pennies greater than one penny is pence (e.g. one pound and twenty pence). Prior to 1971, the United Kingdom had been using the pounds, shillings,...
    26 KB (2,509 words) - 22:52, 14 April 2024
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    figure. In 1878 the price fell to 46 shillings and 5 pence. In 1886, the wheat price decreased to 31 shillings a quarter. By 1885, wheat-growing land...
    45 KB (5,525 words) - 22:46, 29 April 2024
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