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Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
Henry Addington, Statesman (1757) |
Hannes Alfven, Scientist (1908) |
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary (1814) |
Jennifer Ellison, Actress (1983) |
Steven Gerrard, Athlete (1980) |
Steve Israel, Politician (1958) |
Robert Casey, Politician (2000) |
Paul Desmond, Musician (1977) |
John B. Keane, Playwright (2002) |