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Originally posted by dragon wench:
<STRONG>I've often wondered that myself.
Canada, like other sensible countries , has colour-coded bills.
What always provides me with amusement is watching U.S visitors fumble with the different colours, they often say that it is confusing........... </STRONG>

Its like 'play money' to a lot of Americans..

Bah! You foreign folk and your freaked out currency make me sick! You need all your money to be color coded as though you were doddering invalids! Here in America we like our dollars GREEN! Green is the color of unity, of strength, of ORCS!!!

E Pluribus Orcum, baby!

Getting serious again for a moment, what do my fellow Americans think of the new dollar bills in circulation? To me the larger portraits make it look like foreign or play money. But I guess I’m just a stickler for the older bills.

Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>Hey, you find me Dorothy Parker Square, or the Avenue of Dr. Seuss, or George Gershwin Highway, or William Kapell Boulevard, and I'll back down. I'm not cynical; I'm bitter. Because other countries esteem their arts, crafts, and sciences enough to name major public works after them, or even put their faces on money. We don't.</STRONG>

In Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, it's the opposite to US cities. The streets had names, but they hardly had a street number in the entire city! This was due to the fast growth of the city, and numbering was on the way, but slow, since it wasn't a great priority

Dubai is a beautiful city although it's modern, I think you would like it. But probably you feel like me, that it's impossible to visit a country who has officialy admitted the Taliban's as Afghanistan's rightful government together with only Saudi and Iran. (This happened after I'd been there, and is the sad reason why I can't go back there althoug I would like to.)

I Sweden, like in the rest of Europe, it's a custom to name streets, squares etc after artists, scientists or important historical persons. Being used to Europe, I actually found the US system of street "names" more confusing than when the streets have proper names, since the system is the same in all cites. I sort of got confused whether the nice restaurant I went to the other day was on 3rd ave in this city, or if it was the good book store in the city I was in last week that was on the 3rd in that city, if you see what I mean.

Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>In Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, it's the opposite to US cities. The streets had names, but they hardly had a street number in the entire city! This was due to the fast growth of the city, and numbering was on the way, but slow, since it wasn't a great priority

Dubai is a beautiful city although it's modern, I think you would like it. But probably you feel like me, that it's impossible to visit a country who has officialy admitted the Taliban's as Afghanistan's rightful government together with only Saudi and Iran. (This happened after I'd been there, and is the sad reason why I can't go back there althoug I would like to.) </STRONG>

Until you brought that up, I was interested. But I won't visit any place that acknowledged the supremacy of a government like the Taliban's. They're a caricature of Islam, and a blot on human rights.

I Sweden, like in the rest of Europe, it's a custom to name streets, squares etc after artists, scientists or important historical persons. Being used to Europe, I actually found the US system of street "names" more confusing than when the streets have proper names, since the system is the same in all cites. I sort of got confused whether the nice restaurant I went to the other day was on 3rd ave in this city, or if it was the good book store in the city I was in last week that was on the 3rd in that city, if you see what I mean.

Absolutely! I've had much the same problem in the United States, since I've moved around quite a bit. There are Main, Broad, Maple and Oak Streets seemingly everywhere, as well as all the numbered avenues. This makes it nearly impossible to remember addresses from city to city. Now, give me a Rue de la Liberte, or a Giovanni Martinelli Ut (which is an avenue in Budapest), and I'll have no trouble at all.

I have discovered $1 coins! Finally, there's an Amerian with some sense! (ok, ok, don't flame me too much!)

Where did the tradition of naming streets/avenues numerically come from? Its not done in Britain at all that I an think of, so I guess its an all-American thing. But who thought of it?

Answers on a postcard.....

Originally posted by vixen:
<STRONG>I have discovered $1 coins! Finally, there's an Amerian with some sense! (ok, ok, don't flame me too much!)
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We've had $1 coins since the 1880's, latest. They stopped in the 1930's sometime, then picked up again about 15 years ago, I think.

Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>We've had $1 coins since the 1880's, latest. They stopped in the 1930's sometime, then picked up again about 15 years ago, I think.</STRONG>

Why aren't they in greater use? Maybe its just what I'm used to, but in the UK, I know that when I have a wallet full of notes (God, I wish!) I'm filthy rich- whereas over here I keep getting lulled into a false sense of wealth.