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The belief in Vampires or Vampire-like beings well predates the modern era, and superstitions about them ran deep. Those beliefs extended even to the modern era, when “vampire panics” led people to exhume corpses they thought were somehow affecting the living.
The so-called “Torpedo Crisis” afflicted German U-boats in a critical part of the war, giving the allies much-needed time to improve anti-submarine tactics, and thus might have changed the course of the entire war.
Since 1928 the figures on bills printed for the general public have remained the same - Our familiar Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant and Franklin. But the United States has had many different kinds of federally printed paper money, and many different people have adorned it.
On February 4, 1859 a “ Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation, between the United States of America and the Republic of Paraguay” was signed. But the two nations had a rather rocky path to friendship, involving an up to then unprecedented deployment of the United States Navy.
