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Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a union, but no union coins were ever struck and only patterns for the $50 half union exist. However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, sometimes written as $3.59910. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes (with the exception of gold, silver and platinum coins valued up to $100 as legal tender, but worth far more as bullion). Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the note form is significantly more common. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s). The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins. Paper currency less than one dollar in denomination, known as "fractional currency", was also sometimes pejoratively referred to as "shinplasters". In 1854, James Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins, which were referred to as a "Union", "Half Union", and "Quarter Union", thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100.
1. What's the smallest division of a dollar?
2. What's this called?
3. What is this measurement used for?
4. Were gold coins used?
5. Up to what value?
6. What was measurement called?
7. When did they fall out of use?
8. Are coins worth more than a dollar produced today?
9. How many $100 coins were produced?
10. How about $50 coins?
11. What would they have been called?
12. Was paper money less than a dollar ever used?
13. What negative term was used to describe them?

Numbered answers:
1. one-thousandth of a dollar
2. mill
3. tax levies and gasoline prices
4. yes
5. ten dollars
6. "double eagle"
7. 1930s
8. unknown
9. none
10. none
11. "Half Union"
12. yes
13. "shinplasters"

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(CNN) -- Saddam Hussein let the world think he had weapons of mass destruction to intimidate Iran and prevent the country from attacking Iraq, according to an FBI agent who interviewed the dictator after his 2003 capture.

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in an unknown location in Iraq after his capture in 2003.

According to a CBS report, Hussein claimed he didn't anticipate that the United States would invade Iraq over WMD, agent George Piro said on "60 Minutes," scheduled for Sunday broadcast.

"For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that (faking having the weapons) would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq," said Piro.

During the nearly seven months Piro talked to Hussein, the agent hinted to the Iraqi that he answered directly to President Bush, CBS said in a posting on its Web site.

"He told me he initially miscalculated ... President Bush's intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998 ... a four-day aerial attack," Piro said. "He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack."

"He didn't believe the U.S. would invade?" Correspondent Scott Pelley asked.

"No, not initially," Piro answered.

Once it was clear that an invasion was imminent, Hussein asked his generals to hold off the allied forces for two weeks, Piro said. "And at that point, it would go into what he called the secret war," the agent said, referring to the insurgency.
1. Who was the head of Iraq?
2. When was he captured?
3. What kind of weapons did people think he had?
4. Who was he trying to scare?
5. Who did he let interview him?
6. What is his name?
7. How long did the converse?
8. Did he really have the weapons?
9. What was he trying to stop Iran from doing?
10. Who was the US president?
11. What did Saddam say about Bush's intentions?
12. When did the U.S. invade them before?
13. What year did the U.S. attack?
14. Was it by boat?
15. What kind of assualt was it?
16. How long did it last?
17. How did Saddam come out of that?
18. Was he okay with that happening again?
19. How long did Saddam want his people to hold of the allies?
20. What is the secret war?

Numbered answers:
1. Saddam Hussein
2. 2003
3. weapons of mass destruction
4. Iran
5. FBI agent
6. George Piro
7. seven months
8. No
9. reinvading Iraq,
10. Bush
11. he initially miscalculated
12. No
13. 1998
14. No
15. aerial attack,
16. four days
17. He survived
18. yes
19. two weeks
20. the insurgency

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The Taliban ( ' "students"), alternatively spelled Taleban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country. Since 2016, the Taliban's leader is Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.

From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban held power over roughly three quarters of Afghanistan, and enforced there a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law. The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent factions in the Afghan Civil War, and largely consisted of students recently trained in madrassas in Pakistan. Under the leadership of Mohammed Omar, the movement spread throughout most of Afghanistan, sequestering power from the Mujahideen warlords. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was established in 1996 and the Afghan capital transferred to Kandahar. It held control of most of the country until being overthrown by the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in December 2001 following the September 11 attacks. At its peak, formal diplomatic recognition of the Taliban's government was acknowledged by only three nations: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The group later regrouped as an insurgency movement to fight the American-backed Karzai administration and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
1. between what years did they hold power?
2. where?
3. what law did they enforce?
4. Where did the students train?
5. in which country?
6. which countries acknowledged them?
7. what do Taliban refer to themselves?
8. what did they regroup as later?
9. to fight who?
10. was that it?
11. who is the latest head mentioned?
12. when did the group emerge?
13. who was the leader then?
14. are they christian?
15. then what?
16. who did they take control from?
17. where did the capital move to?
18. were they ever defeated?
19. when?
20. what else happened in 2001?
Numbered answers:
1. 1996 to 2001
2. Afghanistan
3. Sharia, or Islamic law
4. madrassas
5. Pakistan.
6. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
7. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
8. an insurgency movement
9. Karzai administration
10. and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force
11. Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.
12. 1994
13. Mohammed Omar,
14. No
15. Sunni Islamic
16. Mujahideen warlords
17. Kandahar
18. Yes
19. December 2001
20. September 11 attacks