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New Lincoln Pennies Unveiled: See Pictures Of Each Penny
The first of four new pennies chronicling Abraham Lincoln's rise from a small Kentucky cabin will be put into circulation Thursday to honor the 16th president's 200th birthday.
The coin's front is unchanged, but the reverse depicts a tiny log cabin, representing the one-room dwelling where Lincoln was born near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
The new one-cent piece is being unveiled by the U.S. Mint as part of Lincoln's bicentennial celebration, being held Thursday morning near his birthplace.
The remaining coins, set for release later this year, show other phases of Honest Abe's life: a young man reading while sitting on a log during his formative years in Indiana; Lincoln the state legislator speaking in front of the Illinois capitol; and the unfinished dome of the U.S. Capitol.
Oh lisah, that IS good news. Best recovery wishes to them all.
Skipping-what-else-is-new to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is PixKristin's birthday.
Happy birthday, Kristin! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!
Also, IIRC, even if it's not on the Buffista Calendar, MFNlaw is Kristin's birthday's sister, so lots of wishes for her as well.
And belated wishes for -t, whose birthday was yesterday (they're belated because I didn't manage to have any computer time yesterday, alas. I'm sorry about that).
I just hauled over 3,500 pennies to the CoinStar machine last weekend.
It's easier for us to come up with possibly faulty percentages ourselves than to ask HR, who may or may not ever answer.
I think HR filled it out for me. That's how I was Hispanic for a day last year.
I just hauled over 3,500 pennies to the CoinStar machine last weekend.
I first read that as "penises".
That's how I was Hispanic for a day last year.
So it wasn't on "National Be-Hispanic Day"?
Human-animal bonding
Hmph. So my cat really is abnormal. She rejects my oxytocin-inducing gestures!
Ugh. I've been drowing in work all week. Need a break.
Etiquette question:
So, all those grade school and high school friends I haven't seen or thought about in twenty years...I can defriend them now, right?
We had our little, "aw, your kids are cute you look great I'm glad you're alive" conversations.
But a lot of them have JUST DISCOVERED social networking and I feel like I'm drowning in newbies who say weirdly inappropriate things and I just want them to catch up for a few years when the LOL! LOL! has been beaten out of them.
I am a social networking SNOB.
Happy birthday, Kristin and MFNLaw!
Happy birthdays, y'all!!
I think HR filled it out for me. That's how I was Hispanic for a day last year.
Heh -- I know someone who was listed as Hispanic at work for a long time, when she's not. Her partner is, and she speaks Spanish, but still. My other justification for what I'm doing is, we're just providing percentages, and that could go wrong in any number of ways!
