TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, March 4, 2013

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Is it Monday already? I spent most of my weekend holed up in my condo working on my e-portfolio for school. Now, instead of putting together a physical portfolio of documents, students create a webpage with links to their artifacts. It's a bit strange not having something to actually hand in, but I guess it does save on a lot of paper. In any case, I am finished with it and can cross that off my to-do list. Woohoo!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

HINT: (1952-), American author, journalist, and opinion columnist whose New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992.


RANDOM TIDBITS
In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in the colonies which would later form the United States.

In 1775, American colonists issued paper currency for the Continental Congress to finance the Revolutionary War. The notes were backed by the "anticipation" of tax revenues.

In 1781, to support the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress chartered the Bank of North America in Philadelphia as the nation's first "real" bank.

In 1791, after adoption of the Constitution in 1789, Congress chartered the first Bank of the United States until 1811 and authorized it to issue paper bank notes to eliminate confusion and simplify trade. The bank served as the U.S. Treasury's fiscal agent, thus performing the first central bank functions.

In 1861, on the brink of bankruptcy and pressed to finance the Civil War, Congress authorized the United States Treasury to issue paper money for the first time in the form of non-interest bearing Treasury Notes call Demand Notes.

In 1877, the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing started printing all U.S. currency.


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all."

ANSWER: Anna Quindlen.

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