Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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This Day in History
  US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Forbids Hoarding of Gold (1933)Executive Order 6102 required US citizens and businesses to turn in all but a small amount of gold to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 per ounce. It came in the midst of a banking crisis, when the stability of paper currency was in doubt. Consequently, many tried to withdraw their money and redeem it for gold, which was considered safer. However, there simply was not enough gold in the US—or the world—to cover the nation's debts. How many people were prosecuted for violating the order? More... Discuss |
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 That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) Discuss |
11 Comments:
Um...WOW! I'm in Houston, so all I can say is...WOW!
Oh my gosh! Is that a house in the back? Thats some serious snow! Thats going to be there for a bit!
Great picture....
Happy WW~ and its never to late to play WW!! *Ü*
Lisa
That is such a HUGE contrast - cute tiny pink girl vs. big HUGE wall of white snow. neat picture!
Happy WW, Susan (in SoCal)
What an amazing picture. How was that space cleared in such snow. I have never seen anything like that!
Wow! And she is not even wearing a coat! Brrr...
Holy Cow! Where was that taken? We got some snow today, but nothing like that! In fact, our grass was still sticking through.
Happy WW,
Brittney
Wow! That is some snow!
My boys would be very tempted to make a snow fort in the side of that wall of snow! Wow!
Did it really snow that much or is that a snow pile or what? I'm totally amazed. I remember as children we would dig great tunnels in the snow. Well, until that one time, when we lost our brother and had to dig him out. That was the end of that. ;-)
wow, that's a lot of snow. Here in TN it's barely snowed 2 times, today being one.
Oh, my. Now that is SNOW.
Lee...in Arizona
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