[Ben Bolt]

Bump for America ! It is still the best thing on this planet .

[IronJack]

I've always heard the Latin mottoes translated slightly differently. "Annuit Coeptis" was always "God Smiles on Our Endeavors." And "Novus Ordo Seclorum" was "A New Order of Nature." I don't know that that changes any of the meanings, but I fancy mine.

Thanks for this piece. Details on the Great Seal are usually listed in almanacs and encylopedias, for those interested. Symbols are important tools for maintaining a society's continuity. Which may explain why the Left is so bent on diminishing them or forsaking them entirely.

[TLI]

 

Where is the second bird on the one dollar bill?

 

[Libloather]

"E PLURIBUS UNUM", meaning, "one nation from many people".

Not according to Aldork2000...

[Willie Green]

The only problem with the $1 bill is that inflation has eroded its value.

I'm not crazy about the PC origins of the Sacagawea dollar coin, but I do have to admit that it is aestheticly attractive, functional and convenient. (Sure beats that wretched Susan B. Anthony dollar they screwed up.)

Time to retire the paper dollar and move to a coin.

Might as well discontinue pennies while we're at it.
They've become nothing but a nuisance.

[2Trievers]

Can't agree with you Willie ... I like to fold my bills ... makes them useful for something! LOL &;-)

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[DonQ]

A good deal of the detail of the seal was NOT the work of Franklin, et al. They did suggest an eagle with a shield on one side and a pyramid with "the eye of Providence" on the other. But the original seal, which lasted through most of the 19th century, looked like something that I would draw on a napkin.

Around 1880, Congress commissioned Louis Tiffany, the NY jeweler and artist, to work up a better version of the seal. It's Tiffany's product you see on the back of the dollar bill. The shadows, the feathers, the steps, etc., are Tiffany's embellishments.

[Centurion2000]

Notice what the Eagle holds in his talons. He holds an olive branch and arrows. This country wants peace, but we will never be afraid to fight to preserve peace. The Eagle always wants to face the olive branch, but in time of war, his gaze turns toward the arrows.

Interesting. Has the Presidential seal ever had the eagle facing the arrows ?

[agitator]

Actual size

[Horatio Bunce]

I like your report on the dollar bill. My only compliant on this though (you may find that I have many others elsewhere) is that the pyramid symbol on the back does not stand for America's promising future. It is "The All-Seeing Eye," as you have corretly stated, but that is a symbol used in the organization known as "The Order of the Illuminati", a very dangerous and anti-freedom organization started May 1, 1781, and influential in the French Revolution.

Again, I agree with the majority of your post. I cannot however come to an agreement on this issue however.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Wait I thought the pyramid was the illuminati showing their future goals of global government with their spooky eye watching and the words new world order.

You musta looked at it without your tin foil hat on.

[KS Flyover]

Hey, can anybody break this? I need to get some smokes.

[Louburger]

Boy, I wish I had a million of these.