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500 euro note

It is one of the highest value circulating banknotes in the world, worth around 630 USD, 4,000 CNY, 50,100 JPY, 600 CHF or 400 GBP.

Akhmed Zakayev

On 7 December 2002, Zakayev returned to the UK but the British authorities arrested him briefly at London Heathrow Airport; he was released on 50,000 GBP bail, which was paid by British actress Vanessa Redgrave, his friend who had travelled with him from Denmark.

Alparslan Türkeş

The indictment said that Türkeş' account in a U.K. branch of the Deutsche Bank held 575,000 DM, 845,000 USD, and 367,000 GBP.

Amy Winehouse Foundation

Such events include the auction of the iconic polka dot chiffon dress worn by Winehouse on the cover of her critically acclaimed second album Back to Black - with a winning bid of £36,000 GBP.

Atlético Pinares

In Juli 2012 the Honduran football arbitration court (Tribunal de Arbitraje de Fútbol) has set due the accumulated debts of second division Hispano of Comayagua, which had reached almost one million lempiras (at the time 40,000 EUR / 31,500 GBP / US$51,000) to be paid within five days.

Avro 547

Despite this, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) bought the first prototype in November 1920 for GBP 2,798 with the intention of using it on a route between Charleville and Katherine.

Cairo Metro

The ticket price is EGP 1.00 for each journey (about GBP 0.10, EUR 0.13, or USD 0.16, average exchange rate for December 2012), regardless of distance.

Comayagua F.C.

In Julu 2012 the Honduran football arbitration court (Tribunal de Arbitraje de Fútbol) has set due the accumulated debts of the club, which have reached almost one million lempiras (at the time 40,000 EUR / 31,500 GBP / 51,000 USD) to be paid within five days.

Cyril Walsh

In 1926, he won the T E Rofe Prize, worth £ 6, for the best history essay in the state, writing on the Mutiny on the Bounty.

First Solution Money Transfer

In June 2007, the company went into liquidation owing nearly GB£2  million pounds to the public, the majority of whom were from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh.

Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013

On 16 February, GBP revealed that the music video for "Waterfall" was being filmed at Chavchavadze House-Museum in Tsinandali and in Tbilisi, directed by Temur Kvirkvelia.

Japan Tobacco International

In 2007, Gallaher Group, a FTSE 100 business, was acquired by Japan Tobacco Inc. for GBP 9.4 billion.

John Coape Sherbrooke

The financing of Dalhousie college, now Dalhousie University in Halifax had largely come from custom duties collected by Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, then lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia during the occupation of Castine, Maine during the War of 1812, investing GBP£7000 as the initial endowment and GBP£3000 reserved for the actual construction of the college.

John E. Blakeley

Initially relying on London studios, rising costs encouraged him to found the Mancunian Film Studios in his hometown in 1947, on GBP 70,000 capital.

LineOne

LineOne was then put up for sale after it became obvious that everyone involved was not going to make the hundreds of millions of pounds that LineOne was originally valued at in the middle of the dot-com bubble and it was bought by Italian telecommunications giant Tiscali on April 26, 2001 for GBP £62,000,000 (EUR €100,000,000).

Talla Reservoir

In the mid-1890s the land was secured from the Trustees of the Earl of Wemyss and March Estates for £20,000.

William de Bois Maclaren

On the recommendation of P.B. Nevill, acting on behalf of Baden-Powell, Maclaren purchased the 53 acre Gilwell Hall estate near Epping Forest near the town of Chingford for GBP 7,000, and presented it as Gilwell Park to the Scout Association in July 1919.


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