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Articles: Canada - Czechoslovakia

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  • Canada $20 – Read the story behind the Aboriginal sculpture of “Raven and the First Men”.
  • Canada $50 – The King Prime Minister and a polar science icebreaker. 
  • Central African Republic – Bokassa: A Dictator with a Napoleon Complex 
  • China – Meet Xiang Luo, the precocious child who taught Confuscius, depicted on the back of this banknote.
  • Congo D.R. –Some details about the fearsome looking Tshokwe Mwana Pwo Tribal Mask.

  • Cook Islands – Read the entertaining legend of Ina and the Shark, shown on this three dollar banknote.  

  • Croatia – The Amazing Scientist Roger Joseph Boscovich: Engineer, physicist, geologist, diplomat, particle physicist, astronomer and in his spare time, a poet.

  • Czechoslovakia – Meet Jan Zizka aka John One-Eye, who may have been the first to use a primitive armored tank, and was the first to write a code of military conduct for his troops.

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