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Other countries, such as Australia, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland and the United Kingdom also minted junk silver coins in the past. All these countries (except Mexico and Switzerland) initially minted sterling silver coins for circulation, before the coins' silver content was reduced: Australia to 50% in 1946, Canada to 80% in 1920 and the United ...
Peter William Postlethwaite, OBE (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011) was an English actor best known for his work as a character actor. [ 1 ] After minor television appearances including The Professionals , Postlethwaite's first major success arose through the British autobiographical film Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988).
Heinrich Schiff was born on 18 November 1951 in Gmunden, Austria. [1] His parents, Helga (née Riemann) and Helmut Schiff, were composers. [1] He studied cello with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra and made his solo debut in Vienna and London in 1971.
South Australia was founded as a free colony—it never accepted transported convicts. [111] Growing opposition to the convict system culminated in its abolition in the eastern colonies by the 1850s. Initially a free colony, Western Australia practised penal transportation from 1850 to 1868. [112]
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) [1] is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies.Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.
Sir András Schiff (Hungarian: [ˈɒndraːʃ ˈʃiff]; born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor.He has received numerous awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, and was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music.
David Schiff (born August 30, 1945 in New York City) is an American composer, writer and conductor whose music draws on elements of jazz, rock, and klezmer styles, showing the influence of composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Mahler, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy and Terry Riley.
Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021–present) (under whom Harris serves as vice president), 47th Vice President of the United States (2009–2017), U.S. Senator from Delaware (1973–2009), former 2024 Democratic presidential candidate [3]