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.......[c]2005 by Richard L Zorek......11.26.05.....I see dead people. Every time I use money. There's dead people all over it. And they are on the postage stamp, too! I guess there's some policy that says you can't be honored on a stamp unless you are deceased. So if you ever go to the post office and see a stamp with your picture on it you can feel honored...but then you should probably start freaking out.
Besides being dead, the other common denominator on the money is that they were all famous. For example, the one dollar bill has George Washington on it. He is known as the "father of the cherry trees." When they were building Washington DC and the White Cabin (Before it became a House), there was a bunch of cherry trees in the way. George cut them all down and said "I cannot tell a lie, I cut the cherry trees down." People were happy and they made him president so he could live in the White Cabin which wouldn't have happened without his diligence.
Then there's Abraham Lincoln on the five dollar bill. He is famous for being shot in a theater. When he became president the civil war started. It wasn't really civil, because they used guns and bayonets and cannons and such, but I guess they were just killed each other politely.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is on the dime. He was president during World War II and is famous for actually admitting to everyone that his middle name was "Delano."
The ten dollar bill has Alexander Hamilton, the guy that invented the blender. And the twenty dollar bill has Andrew Jackson on it who is famous for having a county named after him. Benjamin Franklin is on the one hundred dollar bill and all he did was go fly a kite. So, you shouldn't be bothered if someone tells you to "go fly a kite." William McKinley is on the five hundred dollar bill and he is famous for being a trivia question that no one knows the answer to.
And you thought this website wasn't educational?
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