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Canada put “wrong” maple leaf on new Canadian dollar 20 bill

The Bank of Canada has barked up the wrong maple tree with its new plastic banknotes, using a foreign Norway maple leaf as the emblem on the notes instead of the sugar maple that the country has on its national flag, an eagle-eyed Canadian botanist says.

The untrained eye might not at first spot the difference between the maple leaf on the new $20, $50 and $100 bills and the North [...]

America: The Two Empires

This is the fourth installment of John Michael Greer’s fascinating story arc on the American empire…

America: The Two Empires (March 29, 2012)
“The dawn of American empire had impacts reaching well beyond the handful of territories the United States seized and held in McKinley’s day. The same Congress that declared war against Spain had passed a resolution forbidding the annexation of Cuba – this was partly to win support for the war [...]