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Person
Alan Greenspan: chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States of America, from Aug. 11, 1987 until the end of 2006. This position is, effectively, the most powerful job in banking.
History
The first recognisable banks developed in medieval Italy - the term ‘bank’ deriving from the merchant’s market place bench which in Italian was called a ‘banco’.
Film
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960): directed by John Guillermin and starring Aldo Ray. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England …
Source: Internet Movie Database
Numbers
$26 million dollars: the amount, in today’s money, taken in the burglary of the Northampton National Bank. On the morning of January 26, 1876, seven men from New York City pulled off the biggest bank robbery in United States history... Find more
Thing
piggy bank: a small container, sometimes in the shape of a pig, which is used by children for saving money. Why do we save our coins in a piggy bank? Because, during The Middle Ages, someone made a mistake … Find more
Song
Take The Money And Run by Steve Miller
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Recipe
Marbleized Mint Bank
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Wordplay
Doublet: take two related words that have the same number of letters and convert the first into the second through a series of one letter changes, each of which must form another word. Proper names are not allowed, and all the words used must appear in the Cambridge Dictionaries Online.Turn POOR into RICH in 8 changes. Go
Literature
Lines written on a Bank-note
by Robert Burns
"Wae worth thy power, thou cursed leaf!
Fell source o’ a’ my woe and grief!" ...
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Quotes
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. (Robert Frost, US poet)
Proverbs
A father is a banker provided by nature. (French)
It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way. (French)
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