| 单词 | shilling |
| 例句 | On November 24, 1859, on a wintry Thursday morning, Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection appeared in bookstores in England, priced at fifteen shillings a copy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Bringing in a scalp made them two hundred shillings. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She saves a few shillings from her wages taking care of Mr. Sliney to buy bread, ham, brawn, cheese, lemonade and a few bottles of stout. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I think I’ve got a bright new shilling somewhere in my pocket, and if I have, the boy shall have it.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Corn, that used to cost a few shillings a bushel, cost twenty-five dollars a bushel—in silver. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to be alive when I’m fifteen and I want the shilling tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Now what do I do,” asked the Wart, “to earn my shilling?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1670, settlers who worked as laborers made two shillings a day. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The price of the meal was set at a deliberately hefty fifteen shillings to discourage those whose qualifications were merely cerebral. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Hold on there! I’ll take the goats. Witched or no, goats is worth twenty shillings apiece.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The boys at the post office tell me I’m lucky to get the Carmody family telegram, a shilling tip, one of the biggest tips you’ll ever get in Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Nat thought back over the years—the shilling he’d invested in Tom Perry’s expectations—the hundred and thirty-five dollars he had risked in his first venture on the Henry. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But the laws weren’t any use: if you had to pay two shillings for nails, you couldn’t sell them for two shillings, no matter what the law said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People gave him pound and ten shilling notes for Christmas and birthdays, they gave him more because he hadn't got a father, and then there was pocket money. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I tell her I earned a shilling and she says I can go to the Lyric, I deserve it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Then it must be a shilling,” observed the coachman. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z As Johnny went from house to house talking about unpaid bills of eight shillings, he was thinking of the punch. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After a little he said, “Eight hundred and forty-three pounds, fifteen shillings, and six and one-fourth pence. Tell me about Machico.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s working in his uncle Anthony’s pub twelve hours a day, twenty-five shillings a week and every day soup and a sandwich. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “Of course, two shillings a day is high for a carpenter, but—” Sometimes Kit wanted to stop her ears. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She told him that she would give him a shilling if he wore it now, and would give him a shilling every time he put it on. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I work with Mr. Hannon after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the half day on Saturday morning and that means three shillings for my mother though she worries all the time over my eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I kneel in the pew and think of Quasimodo locked in the coal hole under the stairs and I wonder, Should I give him the shilling anyway for his career at the BBC? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z "There's another shilling in it," Mr. Armin said. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘I believe I owe you eight shillings?’ he said, with a wide smile on his dark, ruddy face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Armin crouched and dropped a shilling into the man's filthy hat. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The union leadership had repeatedly pressed the Chamber of Mines for a minimum wage of ten shillings a day, as well as family housing and two weeks’ paid leave. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eamon told me early in the day, Don’t sell the bloody page for less than five shillings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The morning after Oliver’s burial Dad went to the Labour Exchange to sign and collect the week’s dole, nineteen shillings and sixpence. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z You can be a man without bringing home a shilling. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Michael entitles us to a few extra shillings on the dole but Mam says it isn’t enough and now she has to go to the St.Vincent de Paul Society for food. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z With one hand, Nat held on to Father’s hand; with the other, he clutched the shilling in his pocket. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All those stars millions of light years away shilling down on me—me glued to a minor planet spinning around its own gigantic sum. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m constantly shrinking- The truth of the matter is that Father is thinking of business and profit, of shillings and pence. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Mother called me to help figure the bills and exchange the many kinds of money: pence from Massachusetts, shillings from Virginia, British pounds, and French francs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If the rent for this room is five shillings a week we’ll have fourteen shillings for food and clothes and coal to boil the water for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The coachman answered, “A shilling—unless you wish to make it more.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I copied the number into my guidebook and dialed from a pay telephone, sorting through the coins with which I was still unfamiliar, smaller and lighter than shillings, heavier and brighter than paisas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z You’d sell a bag of nails for a shilling, and when you went out to buy some more you’d find that the price had gone up to two shillings. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He put on the coat for the shilling. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right If you come up early tomorrow morning, I’ll have something for you to do to earn a shilling or so.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d like to show the world the tips Mr. Hannon lets me keep, four shillings, and the shilling he gives me for the morning’s work, five shillings altogether. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She knows what he’s up to, that he can’t wait to spend his last few shillings in the pubs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Although Johnny told him three times about those eight shillings, he was not sure whether the idea had penetrated the wild Irishman’s thick skull or not. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The rent of our new home was seventeen shillings and sixpence per month. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When he returns, he tells Mam we’ll be getting nineteen shillings a week. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That they shall pay a fine of forty shillings each, and that they be forbidden hereafter, on certainty of thirty lashes at the whipping post, to enter the boundaries of the township of Wethersfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I never tell them I stopped taking the shilling tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She’s like everyone else in Limerick, ashamed of the TB, and she doesn’t give me a shilling or any kind of tip. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He flipped the shilling into the air, caught it, and grinned. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The others were sceptical, and Wren offered to give Hooke a book to the value of 40 shillings if he could produce the proof in two months. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Nat gulped, clutched his shilling, and tried to remember what to say. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her about the shilling he had found, and the good-luck spell. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Morris sent two canvas bags containing “410 Spanish dollars, two English crowns, 10 shillings sixpence, and a French half crown.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave her a shilling: she put it into an old stocking-foot which she took out of her pocket, and having tied it round and returned it, she told me to hold out my hand. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Men touch their caps and say they’re sorry for his troubles and some pat my head and give me pennies, twenty-four pennies, two shillings. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Where will we get a house for six shillings a week? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She then exclaimed, “You refuse a sixpence. You must want a shilling, but you shall not have it!” and then threw the coin at me, and drove off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A shilling a week makes a big difference and she gives me tuppence to see the Dead End Kids at the Lyric after I’m finished the reading. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Dennis had the craving, so he did, for a nice sheep’s head with a bit of cabbage and a spud so up with me to Barry the butcher with the last few shillings I had. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Out of that two pounds, I paid thirteen shillings and fourpence a month for my room at the Xhomas’. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She gives me two shillings to have tea and a bun for my birthday. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Grandma paid the rent, ten shillings for two weeks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z What we did was get around the law by charging the legal two shillings for the nails, or whatever it was, and then charge a shilling more for the bag we sold them in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Take tuppence and leave the rest of the shilling on the mantelpiece downstairs so that she can send out for a loaf of bread for the tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Two shillings. I offer you a crown and two shillings.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I asked for what sum he would take me there; he said thirty shillings; I answered I had but twenty; well, he would try to make it do. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There were as many as 400,000 African miners working on the Reef, most of them making no more than two shillings a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only one shilling to see the giant peach!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z “I tell you what. If you want these books, I’ll sell them to you for just what I paid for them at the auction: one hundred and fifty-eight pounds and ten shillings.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll be back next week and if you don’t have the money, one pound eight shillings and sixpence total, ’tis out on the pavement you’ll be with the skies dripping on your furniture. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He pulled his purse from inside his drenched doublet, took out two shillings, and pressed them into the unconscious man's hand. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z When he assumed the presidency, the ANC had seventeen shillings and sixpence in its treasury, and he had boosted the amount to four thousand pounds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some stop at the bookie to study the form and place a shilling or two on a sure thing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z If he said one pound eight shillings, it would mean the next night at eight. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys at the post office say I must have been having a great time with the shilling tip and Theresa Carmody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The dole is nineteen shillings and sixpence a week, the rent is six and six, and that leaves thirteen shillings to feed and clothe five people and keep us warm in the winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Now I’ll be white like everyone else in Leamy s, no float, no horse, no shillings to bring home to my mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Stones split the 30-guinea performance fee six ways, which somehow meant that Jones got £6 and 10 shillings, everyone else got a fiver. Start it up: the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' first gig 2012-07-09T18:01:01Z But then the shilling starts, and things get really strange. ‘People’s Republic of Desire’ Review: A Virtual Craze Makes Actual Cash 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z One day while taking some pork trimmings to Walthamstow a strange old man with home-made shoes told him to wager a shilling on Velvet Kipper to place in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Some kind of explanation: unspeakable nougat and trained cats 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z I’m sure you’ve all missed ’em: The ha’penny, farthing and shilling. Style Invitational Week 1400: Back on track 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z But we had a holiday in London and we went to the Savoy for Christmas lunch and it cost a few shillings – I didn’t get that as a boy,” he says. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Its three parallel sage leaves match images on Franklin’s 1760s shilling notes for Delaware’s government; the bills bear the slogan “To Counterfeit is DEATH.” How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z But, Gekoski suggests, in their ashy absence, the memoirs became far more thrilling than if they had made themselves available for the price of a shilling in the usual way. Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature by Rick Gekoski – review 2013-06-29T08:00:54Z This meant they rented at 13 shillings, against a local council house at five shillings. Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z Tickets cost a lot more than a shilling, and the matches are televised to an estimated 1 billion people worldwide. Tradition reigns at Wimbledon 140 years after the tennis tournament began 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z There are shady sellers shilling questionable “seeds” online, rabid collectors swiping cuttings from botanical gardens and poachers ripping rare specimens out of their habitats without permits. How Much Would You Pay for a Houseplant? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z After a fierce bidding war, a book that was priced on publication at just seven shillings and sixpence eventually sold for £40,630 to book dealer Christian Jonkers from Jonkers Rare Books. Agatha Christie Poirot book sells for more than £40,000 at auction 2012-06-27T12:55:48Z Most likely, he would dismiss the present reviewer – a fellow at the New America Foundation and Stanford University, both of which take quite a drubbing in Free Ride – as shilling for Google. Free Ride by Robert Levine ? review 2011-08-18T11:24:01Z "You had to pay the doctor five shillings before he'd even put his foot over the threshold," June recalls. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z The lad didn’t quite know what he had, and he sold it for six shillings, equal to $17 today. ‘The One-Cent Magenta’ is a brisk tale of ‘the most valuable stamp in the world’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z It's commercially successful, but so artistically inhibiting that even the great theatrical innovator Robert Lepage found himself stymied when he took the Cirque shilling. Kooza – review 2013-01-09T14:18:11Z He tended his own garden of cash crops, according to information presented at the house, and at 22 he bought a Bible from his master for seven shillings and sixpence. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Comparing Ruth’s pitchman prowess to that of O. J. Simpson, she has Simpson the running back shilling for Avis, not Hertz. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Carlson assures his wide-eyed followers that Sinclair had firsthand knowledge of Obama back then, claiming that the "media" shilling for the presidential candidate – you know, they – summarily dismissed Sinclair's claims as absurd. People say Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson's love of conspiracy theories is desperate – and dangerous 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z They accepted it and paid me seven shillings and sixpence. Barbara Taylor Bradford: My family values 2013-03-15T13:00:01Z But the shilling for Fox’s bizarre-o competition show — in which celebrities of varying stature and relevance sing pop songs while hidden behind ridiculously elaborate costumes and masks — was next-level. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2019 Emmys 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Know any friends who are denominating their kids’ college savings accounts in Somali shillings? Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z Gore Vidal followed in the footsteps of William Faulkner and F Scott Fitzgerald when he took the Hollywood shilling and signed on as a screenwriter for MGM. Gore Vidal: not just about the books 2012-08-01T11:26:07Z I love mango and had a bunch of Tanzanian shillings and was able to buy 2 large baskets of mango and a stalk of bananas. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Only 1,000 copies were printed and sold for a shilling apiece, and experts believe fewer than 30 have survived, he said. Cheers! Or not: ‘Scandalous’ 1st Christmas card up for sale 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z "The members pay a shilling a week for eight to ten weeks before Christmas, and in addition to a goose, are generally entitled to a bottle of gin for their ten shillings," it said. Dickens, refrigeration and New World turkey: Behind the decline of the traditional Christmas goose 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z If more filmmakers were as "eccentric" and "difficult" as Godard and Malick, there would be a lot more art in movies and a lot less naked shilling. The delightful disappearance of Jean-Luc Godard 2010-08-30T18:31:00Z Cole was instrumental in setting up the Penny Post letter-delivery system in 1840 and imagining the first Christmas card, which sold for a shilling. World's first printed Christmas card goes on display at Dickens museum 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z I received two shillings and sixpence and said I would call back. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z It was unintentionally hilarious, this brief shilling from an artist never much concerned with the marketplace. Janelle Monáe, and Other Wondaland Artists, Step Back in Time at the Highline Ballroom 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z I think we made about two shillings each. Rich and poor 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z In his study he still possesses the flimsy 1967 issue of Review – price two shillings – that first featured his work. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z Some fictional predecessors appear in a display of “shilling shockers and penny dreadfuls.” Exhibition Review: A Sherlock Holmes Exhibition Stops in Ohio 2014-02-14T23:25:09Z How could one become a Person on just a few shillings a week? Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z Wash this down with fresh ginger sugar cane juice for 150 shillings. 36 Hours in Nairobi, Kenya 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z You mean, other than not shilling votes for him next time, Boss Tweed? Social Q?s: How to Handle a Friend Who Steals Your Look 2010-03-12T17:19:00Z Colonial shillings on paper, however, are relatively common. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z But then neither did the story of a Madison Avenue ad man making his name shilling for Big Tobacco in the early 1960s. 'Halt and Catch Fire' dives into '80s tech war with AMC flair 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Some aspects of the interview seem very dated—Wallace is smoking and madly shilling for his show’s corporate sponsor, Phillip Morris; Sanger looks matronly in her black satin dress and heavy brooches. The Pill’s Difficult Birth 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The sunken prize ships were a grievous loss: even the humblest sailor could expect a few shillings as his share if they had survived. Trafalgar account is rare voice from below deck 2010-10-19T09:46:00Z These would start off at five shillings on Saturday morning. Remembering artist Kurt Schwitters 2013-01-29T08:12:45Z And it’s still worth having on in the background, if only to help you maintain a list of companies to boycott for shilling themselves out for an appearance. It's time for The Apprentice to clear its desk and go 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In shrewder hands, this could read as a critique of the tourist-board shilling of certain movies. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z For 4,000 shillings, sit in their garden and indulge in fresh cheeses, organic salads, the ice cream and wine. 36 Hours in Nairobi, Kenya 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z It was followed by a 10 shilling note the next year. King Charles III becomes second monarch to appear on English money 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z And how could she repay Mr Ramage £40 when all she had was one and twenty pounds and five shillings? Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z The first ones, anyway, because what the partners were shilling turned out to be an early, if not the earliest, Ponzi scheme. New True-Crime Books for Fall 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Five years earlier, in 1890, his Faustian shilling shocker, “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” garnered over 200 reviews just in its magazine version. Review | How Oscar Wilde evolved from poet and playwright to symbol of martyrdom and individualism 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z On a 1775 Massachusetts 30 shilling note, a soldier holds a sword in one hand, Magna Carta in the other. Exhibition Review: ‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives 2013-12-16T23:52:04Z Prescription charges were one shilling and dental treatment cost a £1 flat fee. Nye Bevan's dream: a history of the NHS 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z For Dylan, shilling for Chrysler was actually yet another defiant act, giving the middle finger to those members of his generation who still cling to an image of him as a principled countercultural sage. Bob Dylan contains multitudes: Walt Whitman as Dylan's muse on "Murder Most Foul" 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z In 1929 – when this book is set – a supposed cure, known as Umckaloabo, was advertised in the press; an advertisement even less honest than Johnny's "official portrait of the king for one shilling". Philip Ardagh revels in an entertaining tale of personal ads, tuberculosis and skulduggery 2010-05-07T23:13:00Z There is a history of deception in the American news media, including prominent examples of reporters fabricating articles, stealing information, shilling for political and corporate interests, and impersonating everyone from police officers to mental patients. Chicago News Cooperative: Hildy Johnson Would Have Happily Hacked 2011-07-24T07:30:30Z My mum and dad couldn't afford piano lessons because they were five shillings a pop. Critic's comedy choice 2011: Lenny Henry on tour 2011-01-03T07:59:01Z As "Full Moon Fever" was going platinum, I was absorbing every nuance throughout 40-hour workweeks while shilling it in suburban Missouri as a retail record clerk. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The colony was flooded with forged five shilling promissory notes, and Lycett was caught red-handed with a copper plate press in his possession. Joseph Lycett: From forger to artist 2013-10-11T16:13:16Z Novelists, including Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and George Eliot, released their works in chapters that cost a few shillings each. Antiques: Artifacts of the Titanic at Auctions as 2012 Centennial Nears 2011-10-06T22:54:35Z Even when people are trying to sell you something, their messages seem off-the-cuff, like trustworthy recommendations rather than sponsored shilling. Will TikTok Make You Buy It? 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z He noted that dessert alone cost Erasmus eight shillings and sixpence. Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z West's World is really what Auden called "a shilling life", the retelling of a career we love to read about, lazily written and sloppily edited. West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West by Lorna Gibb – review 2013-04-07T08:01:02Z Basically, people like it – they liked the shillings, pennies and farthings too, but they were abolished in the interests of reducing the nation's arithmetical agility. David Mitchell on new World Heritage sites 2011-03-27T00:05:36Z It was from Mr. Olaiya that Mr. Adé bought his first guitar for one pound and nine shillings, Mr. Adé notes in his memoir. Running Deep, the Roots of King Sunny Adé 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z An entry fee of 1,500 Kenya shillings, $17.50 at 85.4 shillings to the U.S. dollar, includes food, coffee and tea and a cocktail. Restaurant Report: The Juniper Kitchen in Nairobi, Kenya 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The real economic engine wasn’t the admission fee of one shilling, but the high-quality engravings by Boydell that were sold in the museum’s shop and by subscription. For a Shakespeare Anniversary, an Online Re-Creation of a 1796 Show 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z There was Ice Cube cavorting on an eight-story stage designed to look like a vending machine, shilling for corn chips. SXSW 2013: It's a wrap 2013-03-17T23:33:00Z If you have only 15 shillings left in the world, go and see Waiting for Godot. Young Arts Critics 2010: critical conditions 2010-05-24T20:30:00Z The director who burst on the scene with the borderline transgressive black-and-white cult classic Clerks is less an auteur and more a brand – a lesser Chris Hardwick, shilling T-shirts and oversized hockey jerseys. Kevin Smith and the triumph of commerce over art 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z And console yourself that if you do get ripped off — which is almost inevitable — the people on the other side of that 500 shilling note probably need it more than you. 36 Hours in Nairobi, Kenya 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z For the first song I recorded, I was offered a shilling. Jimmy Cliff and Carl Bradshaw on The Harder They Come 2012-08-20T17:20:20Z Is shilling in the rain worth the effort? For Theater Lovers, a City Is the Stage, and a Purple Cow Is a Prop 2011-08-12T22:44:06Z It strongly suggests that TA is more interested in shilling for big travel conglomerates than providing accurate information to the users of the site. TripAdvisor Icon Will Identify Hotels Where Sexual Assault Occurred 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Any woman who fulfils those criteria is more than welcome to take the king's shilling! Being male is not a prerequisite for hard SF 2012-08-07T11:18:42Z And I spent years at a desk learning how to do long division in pounds, shillings and pence. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z The Swedish stamp is a misprint of an 1855 shilling stamp in the wrong color. World's rarest stamp could fetch record auction price of $20 mln 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z They were less concerned with the lower end of the market, the shilling plain and two shilling coloured prints, which included the "drolls", social commentary, political satire and vulgar jokes. British Museum's rare prints purchase offers glimpse of vanished paintings 2010-10-03T17:10:00Z Mr. Mortensen, 57, who lives much of the time in Madrid with the Spanish actress Ariadna Gil, is hard to reach sometimes and dislikes what he calls “shilling” — the process of promoting a movie. Viggo Mortensen Goes Off the Grid With ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z It was made by Joseph Swan in 1881 and at the time cost a staggering 35 shillings, roughly equivalent to £130 today. Museums put oddball objects on show 2013-05-21T18:53:45Z It is all a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence: those who have money will buy the new product from those who do not, and everybody will measurably benefit all round. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z He voted Tory all his life and he worked all his life as a rent collector, bagging the pounds, shillings and pence from families who would never own their own home. LS Lowry's rage against the machine 2013-06-13T06:00:04Z His posters, when new, would have cost a few shillings at souvenir stands. Antiques: Princeton?s Faculty Room and Britain?s Rail Posters 2010-05-27T21:29:00Z It is not, of course, shilling for Donald Trump — or any other candidate. If the Founding Fathers replied to Trump in a tweet storm . . . 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Each cost five shillings and had a ridiculously ambitious print run of 5,000 copies. Clive Allison obituary 2011-08-03T18:57:01Z His prosthetic leg ached in the chilly chill; he had just split up with his wealthy girlfriend and he was down to his last three shillings. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith – digested read 2013-07-28T19:00:01Z It was an old and rusty pocket flintlock, probably not worth the three shillings he paid. Killing Queen Victoria 2012-07-22T18:00:00Z Did Ronnie, a 14-year-old cadet, steal a postal order for five shillings, forge a signature and deserve expulsion from naval college? The Winslow Boy – review 2013-03-24T00:06:01Z But is the time spent shilling in the rain worth the effort? ArtsBeat: Postcard from Edinburgh: Spirits of Fringe Festivalgoers Remain Undampened 2011-08-08T15:10:53Z What strikes me about this clip is that it feels like Romney is shilling for someone — but I'm not quite sure whom. "My favorite meat": Mitt Romney goes viral in an alien-like ode to hot dogs 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Thruppence Twopence A shilling A farthing "As for chimney-sweeping, and being hungry, and being beaten, he took all that for the way of the world, like the rain and snow and thunder..." Austerity in literature 2010-05-24T11:13:00Z You could give Leno good sportsmanship credit for shilling for his rival's show if the whole thing didn't look so tense and cranky anyway. 2010-02-08T13:08:00Z Fashionable ladies covered the walls of rooms with prints, and no elegant library was complete without albums of the most expensive examples, sold at up to 10 shillings each. British Museum's rare prints purchase offers glimpse of vanished paintings 2010-10-03T17:10:00Z Fish and chips is another favorite at 1,400 shillings. 36 Hours in Nairobi, Kenya 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z When I used to ride to school, my stepfather would tell me about English money, a dime or a shilling or whatever. 30 minutes with … Damian Marley 2012-07-19T10:43:07Z Kevin Munoz, a spokesman, described the election as “a choice between fighting for the middle class or shilling for rich special interests” and he said ”it’s a contrast we are more than happy to make.” Joe Biden wants to complete his goals on civil rights, taxes, and social services if he’s reelected 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z The government has also hiked the cost of acquiring citizenship or residence, including doubling the amount payable for children born to Kenyan citizens abroad to acquire permanent residence in Kenya to one million shillings. Kenya ID cards: New charge sparks outcry 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Wednesday’s announcement came days after Kenya’s central bank governor, Kamau Thugge, said the Kenyan shilling had for years been overvalued by 25%, which “ led the country to maintain an artificially strong exchange rate.” Kenya is raising passenger fares on a Chinese-built train as it struggles to repay record debts 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The government will help Kenyans who cannot contribute towards the fund through a kitty of 26 billion shillings. Kenya healthcare: President William Ruto signs controversial UHC bills 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a weakening of the Kenyan shilling, high global fuel prices and the repayment of foreign debt have continued to dominate politics. Kenya seeks more Chinese loans at ‘Belt and Road’ forum despite rising public debt 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z There have been a series of high profile deepfakes in recent weeks, with Tom Hanks warning on Monday that an advert appearing to be fronted by him shilling a dental plan was not real. MrBeast and BBC stars used in deepfake scam videos 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Obtaining or replacing various categories of passports will cost more than 50% more, while the fees for obtaining birth and death certificates have increased by more than four times, reaching 200 shillings. Kenya ID cards: New charge sparks outcry 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The government had projected it would rake in billions in the local currency, the Kenyan shilling, from the doubled digital services tax, but critics warned it would discourage tech investors. In San Francisco, Kenya’s president woos American tech companies despite increasing taxes at home 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The books cost just three shillings each - but now they can sell for tens of thousands of pounds. Town celebrates Robert Burns' first book of poems 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z Five years ago, he could make up to 4,000 shillings a day, enough to cover his basic necessities, including school fees, he says. Kenya demonstrations: 'I feel betrayed by William Ruto' 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z "I think whisky was two shillings and sixpence." Powys: Man spends 60 years pulling pints behind same bar 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Thugge, who has also worked for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, will face challenges including a long-running slide in the shilling currency and a heavy debt load that has strained government finances. Kenyan c.bank nominee gets approval from key parliamentary committee 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Losses of tea were additionally put at 120 million shillings by the association. Kenya tea company suspends operations after protesters burn machines 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z For example, in London in the 1860s, a male common laborer who possessed no particular skills could earn about twenty shillings a week. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z He laments there are times he now goes home with just 500 shillings after expenses "which is not enough to fuel the car the next day". Kenya demonstrations: 'I feel betrayed by William Ruto' 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z A quarter of salt was commonly sold for thirty-five shillings, which in former times was quite unheard of. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The Kenyan shilling traded slightly weaker against the dollar on Tuesday, under pressure from energy companies seeking foreign currency, traders said. Futures on shaky ground after disappointing earnings forecasts 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The Kenyan shilling traded slightly weaker against the dollar on Tuesday, under pressure from energy companies seeking foreign currency, traders said. US debt limit default could hit in early June to early August -think tank 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z A male English farmhand at the time would have earned approximately fourteen shillings a week. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Kenya shilling has been steadily weakening against the US dollar in recent months, making the cost of debt repayments even higher. Kenya demonstrations: 'I feel betrayed by William Ruto' 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The Kenyan shilling traded slightly weaker against the dollar on Tuesday, under pressure from energy companies seeking foreign currency, traders said. What to watch for in the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling meeting 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The Kenyan shilling traded slightly weaker against the dollar on Tuesday, under pressure from energy companies seeking foreign currency, traders said. KKR, Macquarie eyeing Singapore's waste management firm SembWaste - sources 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z The gilded silver spoon escaped the Parliamentary melting pot because a man who’d once worked for the king bought it for 16 shillings. Your guide to coronation bling: Crowns, scepters, diamonds and, ugh, ivory 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z In industries not yet mechanized, skilled crafts workers, all men, earned thirty shillings a week. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z "It's not going to be an overnight thing. We are at a bad place, depreciating shilling, debt and unemployment," she says. Kenya demonstrations: 'I feel betrayed by William Ruto' 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z This was a more thrilling and meaningful side of public relations, he said, than shilling for shaving cream or other consumer products. Richard Levick, crisis communications specialist, dies at 65 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z “We have known government officials to steal billions of shillings, not stealing iron sheets from the poor.” Uganda charges second minister in major corruption scandal 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The Kenyan shilling weakened slightly on Monday on demand for dollars from energy importers and foreign-owned firms looking to pay dividends to overseas shareholders, traders said. Exor picks Nohria as new chairman to succeed World Bank nominee Banga 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Before the coronation, transport officials set up a special bus service that gave royal fans a tour of the decorations around town for a shilling and six pence, or 21 cents at the time. As King Charles Adjusts to Being Center Stage, So Do His Impersonators 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Even before he bought Twitter, Musk emphasized the site’s need to crack down on spam and bots, particularly those shilling cryptocurrency. Elon Musk reinvents Twitter for the benefit of a power user: Himself 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Now he’s shilling for John Angelos, in a job that is probably short-term? LOVERRO: Nationals sale, MASN deal hinge on Orioles’ fate 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The lawsuit, which is backed by Amnesty International, seeks an award of 200 billion Kenya shillings, or $1.6 billion, to create a restitution fund for African victims of hate and violence incited on Facebook. Kenyan court says Meta can be sued for psychological distress 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The bank is also not worried about depreciation of the Kenyan shilling, and expects more external financing to support the government budget, Njoroge said. Davos 2023 Kenya inflation to fall back within target in Q1 -cenbank governor 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z When starting out, he paid just under two shillings for a gallon of diesel, he revealed. Sheffield lorry driver Brian Wilson, 90, passes health MoT 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The Kenyan shilling was steady on Wednesday, traders said, with limited foreign-currency demand from oil importers matched by supply. Five African migrants die, 10 missing after boat sinks off Tunisia 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Kenya's shilling was stable in early trade on Thursday, but it was expected to weaken during the session due to increased demand for dollars from oil retailers, traders said. Three prominent opponents of Tunisian president say they are under investigation 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Kenya's shilling weakened on Wednesday, due to a build-up in demand for dollars from oil retailing companies, traders said. Mediators meet to bolster Ethiopia truce amid signs of detente 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z This is an existential crisis for Emily Cooper, who, before her French sojourn, was happily shilling tag lines for I.B.S. drugs in Chicago. Emily Is Still in Paris. Why Are We Still Watching? 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z In a separate ruling in July, a court ordered Gachagua to repay 202 million shillings which it determined were the proceeds of corruption. Kenyan court drops $60 million corruption case against deputy president 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Brian recalls paying just under two shillings for a gallon of diesel. Sheffield lorry driver Brian Wilson, 90, says he is in for the long haul 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z With the Kenyan shilling down 6% this year, the cost of fuel and imported spare parts is soaring so much that some people are choosing to ditch their cars and take public transportation. ‘Bad situation’: Soaring U.S. dollar spreads pain worldwide 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z "I have instructed Treasury to work with ministries to find savings of 300 billion shillings in this year's budget," Ruto said in his first speech as president to parliament. Kenya's Ruto vows to cut spending, borrowing in move 'back to sanity' 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z When he speaks haltingly or stumbles over his syllables while defending the indefensible, his shilling has been interpreted as a sign of weakness. Perspective | Adam Silver was the ‘good’ commissioner. Why waste that defending bad guys? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Her face is the only monarch to appear on Australian money since decimal currency was introduced in 1966 when Australian dollars and cents replaced British-style pounds, shillings and pence. British queen’s death rekindles Australian republic debate 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z More darkly, it shows a once-towering world figure and Nobel Peace Laureate reduced to shilling for a Western interloper. Slice of life: Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut ad a time capsule. 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Two weeks later a letter arrived returning his six shillings subscription fee. They tried to stop him, but the Ghost Runner always got away 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Kenya's shilling was broadly stable against the dollar on Friday as dollar supply and demand started to ramp up after a post-election lull, traders said. Factbox: Ukraine's battlefield nuclear plant: what are the risks? 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Witness how the former "left wing" writers have been shilling for Jones, pretending he's a "free speech" hero instead of a man being held responsible for torturing the parents of murdered children. Alex Jones busted: How the Sandy Hook trial could lead to accountability for Donald Trump 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In 2018, a company registered under the names of Mr Ruto's wife and son was investigated over the supply of maize worth millions of Kenyan shillings, but the anti-corruption agency cleared it. Kenya elections: Why farmers like William Ruto's big ambitions 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z "The persistent drought has left us with a resource gap of more than 15 billion shillings required for interventions," said Margaret Kobia, the minister in charge of special programmes. Debt shadow may hang over Kenya's next president 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The case was later withdrawn and Ms Shebesh said she had forgiven the governor but later admitted to being paid millions of Kenyan shillings to settle the matter. Kenya election: Taking on the sexist bullies to stand 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z "I used to buy the cheapest flour at 85 shillings. Right now, flour is 150 shillings. When I am not able to make money, we sleep hungry." Kenya's cost-of-living crisis: 'I can't afford rice for my children' 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z But unable to get a formal job, he does manual work to earn a few shillings, as well as performing as an extra on local TV shows. Kenyan elections: The woman who rallies crowds - but won't vote 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But her tone is gleeful, mimicking the rhetoric of a motivational speaker turned corporate consultant, advising retired professors to “put your emeritus title to work” shilling for companies. A Playbook for Science Denial, ‘Scientific Phallocracy’ in the Animal Kingdom, and More 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z His attorneys appealed to have the amount reduced, and a judge slashed the bail money to 3 million shillings, which Besigye paid. World Digest: June 6, 2022 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z On Monday, a judge slashed the bail money to just 3 million shillings, which Besigye paid. Detained Ugandan opposition figure released after paying bail 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z A couple of weeks since we met, there is more bad news for Ms Kambua, the average price for two kilogrammes of maize flour is now above 200 shillings, a 25% increase. Kenya's cost-of-living crisis: 'I can't afford rice for my children' 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z "It's just nice to keep our heritage. I was brought up with pounds, shillings and pence and, you know, just why has it got to go?" she said. Britain wants to revive imperial measurements to mark Queen's jubilee 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z His real purpose for attending becomes clear at the end of his segment: he’s shilling his app, called Essay, that’s meant to help people write. Crypto is winning, and Bitcoin diehards are furious about it 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Belfort said he has refused to participate in the worst of the shilling. The Wolf of Crypto: Famous fraudster Jordan Belfort now boosting bitcoin 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The 23-carat Edward III coin, which features a leopard sitting upright wearing a banner, had a face value of three shillings or 36 silver pennies, auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb said. Edward III gold coin found by Norfolk detectorist sells for £174k 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z "Previously, a tomato which you see us selling now for 10 shillings, we would sell it for 5 shillings," vendor Elijah Machuki Nyabutohe tells me, pointing at a basket. Kenya's cost-of-living crisis: 'I can't afford rice for my children' 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z "About two days afterwards she and another who helped, Chunky Moor, were given a shilling each for what they did... it was a terrible accident," she said. Exhibition marks 100 years since girls died in Tipton Catastrophe 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z These female journalists were accused of a lot over the years, including shilling for brands and only reporting the fluff, but in truth they were providing a valuable resource. How female food writers penned their way out of the home kitchen 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z When six-year-old Carol Allison spent a year in Edinburgh with her granny, she was taken every week to the bank to deposit a shilling into her account. My forgotten bank account paid out 60 years later 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The Anglo-Saxon gold shilling, which dates from AD650-670, was bought in the sale room by a member of the trade for a client, the auctioneers said. Edward III gold coin found by Norfolk detectorist sells for £174k 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The question then becomes: what forms of celebrity shilling are legal? Justin Bieber’s NFT ape sure looks like monkey business 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The thesis generally boils down to the title of that first column: “Celebrity crypto shilling is a moral disaster.” Analysis | The celebs have gone crypto 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Then, in April, Parno revealed that a 380-year-old English shilling, made of silver in the royal mint in the Tower of London, had been found — also by crew chief Stevens. Rare 370-year-old Spanish cross found at Maryland archaeological site 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Carol paid in a shilling - now worth five pence - every week. My forgotten bank account paid out 60 years later 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z But with Fallon, “it seems to be less shilling and more just sharing a purchase.” Jimmy Fallon hyped his Bored Ape NFTs on 'The Tonight Show.' Conflict of interest? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “His nonstop vaccine shilling has turned many of his supporters off completely,” Torba said. Pro-Trump influencers flocked to alternative social networks. Their follower counts stalled soon after. 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z In return they receive a commission of 4 shillings for every litre of milk they sell. How vending machines are making life better for Kenyans 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Successful “BookTok” titles are generally pushed by enthusiastic readers weeping into their camera phones about how much they loved the book, not authors shilling their own work. Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The simple coin has the initials NE for New England on one side, and the Roman numeral XII, representing the 12 pennies in a shilling, on the other. Rare coin minted in Colonial New England sells for $350,000 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z In his memoirs, he describes how two pounds and 10 shillings bought him ties, handkerchiefs, razor blades, shorts and a tablecloth. Indian activists who helped change the face of modern Britain 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Am sorry to see him shilling for petty authoritarians who would deny you the right to make your own medical choices. Ted Cruz clashes with Seth MacFarlane after calling Big Bird vax tweet 'propaganda' 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z This is another example of Trump supporters' performative subversiveness, in which privileged white people play-act as victims while shilling for fascism. From "OK" to "Let's Go Brandon": A short history of insulting presidential nicknames 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Gay's father, who earned 27 shillings a week at the time, saved up for two years to buy his son a clarinet. Londonderry jazz musician Gay McIntyre has died aged 88 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The one shilling silver coin made in Boston in 1652 — considered the finest example of just a few dozen such coins known to still exist — was sold to an anonymous online bidder from the U.S., Rare coin minted in Colonial New England sells for $350,000 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The coin of rudimentary design has the initials NE for New England on one side, and the Roman numeral XII, for 12, the number of pennies in a shilling, on the other. Rare coin made in Colonial New England could fetch $300,000 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Coin specialist James Morton, who inspected the discovery for auctioneers Morton and Eden, said: "I could hardly believe my eyes when I realised that it was an excellent example of a New England shilling." Rare New England shilling found in Bywell Hall sweet tin 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Even someone with a friendly profile photo and a local phone number could be shilling a computer they know has problems. Tech is expensive! Ways you’re wasting money and smart fixes to save 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The coin, known as the Triple Unite, was minted in Oxford in 1643 during the English Civil War and had the value of 60 shillings, or three pounds. Rare Charles I coin minted in Oxford fetches £44,000 at auction 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Stephen Soi, who was the team leader and was tried alongside Wario, was found guilty of corruption and was sentenced to 10 years in prison or a fine of 103 million shillings. Kenyan court jails ex-sports minister for six years over graft 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “I can only assume that the shilling was brought back from America years ago by one of my forebears,” Beaumont said in a statement. Rare coin made in Colonial New England could fetch $300,000 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z He said: "I can only assume that the shilling was brought back from America years ago by one of my forebears." Rare New England shilling found in Bywell Hall sweet tin 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z It was heard all of the coins were silver and included half crowns, shillings and sixpences. Lindsey hoard: Coins stashed during Civil War declared treasure 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Frenetically boosting a coin online is known as “shilling,” and everyone in the cryptosphere knows people who shilled one night and were flush the next morning. Going for Broke in Cryptoland 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z But there are still plenty of Republicans shilling for Big Oil and pushing back against climate change provisions in the big legislation before Congress. Opinion | Apocalypse Right Now 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z An institution long respected worldwide as a source of independent news for foreign audiences was fast on its way to becoming just another vehicle for shilling Mr. Trump. Opinion | The Voice of America whistleblowers have been vindicated 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z "The royal treasury might talk in terms of pounds, shillings and pence, but the physical reality was sacks of silver pennies," said Dr Geake. Gold coins lost in Black Death confusion found in Reepham 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z "They said 10 shillings a week for a centrally heated room in central London," he remembers. Piccadilly 1965: How six Indian friends found their feet in the UK 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z The first documented mention of the giant doesn’t appear until 1694, in a church warden’s account of payment of three shillings to restore the site. Scientists unravel a mystery about a naked giant carved into an English hill 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z It was a silver shilling, bearing the likeness of the doomed King Charles I, and one day three centuries ago, someone lost it inside the Maryland colonial fort at St. Mary’s. Archaeologists find rare, nearly 380-year-old English coin during Maryland dig 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z This derived from my sojourn as a foreign correspondent in Nairobi in the 1980s, when the official exchange rate was about eight Kenya shillings to the dollar. Column: Coinbase brought bitcoin to Wall Street. That doesn’t make crypto legit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z They were replaced with the noble, worth six shillings and eight pence. Gold coins lost in Black Death confusion found in Reepham 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Churning out Twitter monologues about golf conditions and climate change is not exactly shilling for Hertz, but it keeps your name out there. Where Even O.J. Simpson Can Judge You 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z At the time, Chopra said those lawmakers were “shilling for predatory lenders.” President Biden’s SEC pick signals companies could face wave of new disclosure rules 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The shilling may predate the later use of tobacco as currency in Maryland, which happened after the colony established tobacco as a cash crop, Parno said. Archaeologists find rare, nearly 380-year-old English coin during Maryland dig 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Experienced foreign residents wouldn’t think of buying shillings at the official rate; they’d want the black market rate, which was closer to 16 shillings to the buck. Column: Coinbase brought bitcoin to Wall Street. That doesn’t make crypto legit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The Reepham find shows the leopard, which was worth three shillings, was in circulation for much longer than previously thought. Gold coins lost in Black Death confusion found in Reepham 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z About a year and a half later, records show “Negro Nathan” was paid 2 pounds and 5 shillings for cleaning rooms and making fires at the center of government in Annapolis. Historians seek out Black Americans who built State House 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z “Everyone was shilling for some kind of sugar.” Here’s why deep down we like rewatching the same old movies and shows — especially during the pandemic 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z A shilling in those days was valuable, but not that valuable, Parno said. Archaeologists find rare, nearly 380-year-old English coin during Maryland dig 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z On 14 February 1971, there were 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. Decimalisation and the coin you really want to find in your change 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z He is on the precipice of total irrelevance, and only needs the gentlest of pushes to fall into the abyss, reduced to shilling fake cancer cures on his email list. Republican Senators aren't beholden to their base — they'll acquit Trump because they agree with him 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Frankland agreed to pay Parr 10 shillings every time she played for the team - and a supplementary payment of a packet of Woodbine cigarettes. Lily Parr - the pioneer who drew capacity crowds 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z She got a job as a housekeeper and evidence suggests she sent five shillings a month to the home to help provide for her child. Tuam: 'I need to know what happened to my brothers' 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Linda, who improvised some of the tune in the studio, was paid for 10 shillings for the recording, so did not profit when it became a local hit in the 1940s. Seeking justice for Lion Sleeps Tonight composer 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The 50p coin was referred to as a 10 shilling coin at the time. Decimalisation and the coin you really want to find in your change 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Many children instead have turned up on the streets, in quarries wielding hammers, and in vast dumps picking through garbage in the hope of turning trash into a few shillings. A pandemic atlas: Kenya’s youth suffer collateral damage 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z She sold him to a woman who offered her 3,000 Kenyan shillings - about £20. Kenya's black market baby trade: A mother's choice 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Kansas City at New Orleans - We can already hear CBS shilling this as a Super Bowl preview. On Football: Big games ahead on the NFL schedule — maybe 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z The "battered" tree cost two shillings when it was first purchased in 1920. 'Underwhelming' Sheffield Christmas tree put up for 100th year 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Later that afternoon, Leparan called Rose to a meeting and instructed her to place the agreed 300,000 shillings on the table. Buying a baby on Nairobi's black market 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z In Glasgow, such was the clamour to see the game that tickets worth 21 shillings were going for £10 - almost 10 times their original cost. The Russians who came with a warning Britain wouldn't hear 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Instead, she toils in silence in her hometown, searching for fossils in the cliffs and shilling her findings to curious tourists for meager sums. Review: Winslet finds passion among the rocks in ‘Ammonite’ 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z That was perhaps best illustrated Thursday morning on NBC's "Today" show, with news staffers shilling for a Trump town hall event that network brass shamelessly and irresponsibly scheduled against a Biden event on ABC. The media could still screw up the election. Here's what they need to do instead 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z These are all very good things — and they are certainly a far sight better than Trump and Pence shilling for the status quo. The candidates don't get it: from the pandemic to the economy, the real problem is capitalism itself 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Biden would do well to remind them how Trump actually made the money he then proceeded to lose: By shilling for multi-level marketing schemes and cut-rate pizza chains. Biden should attack Trump as a massive, ludicrous failure — not just a tax cheat 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z George Washington purchased a lot in Alexandria for 10 pounds 10 shillings on May 9, 1763, according to the website “New to Alexandria.” A tidbit of historical intrigue is baked into this Alexandria house 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z He was fined two shillings, but praised by the magistrate for defending himself well. Fish, finance, football: The lesser-known John Hume 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, told his members last week in a call that “Republicans are stuck shilling for special interests.” Special Interests Mobilize to Get Piece of Next Virus Relief Package 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z His wife sought solace in the embraces of other women, but the only support Odhiambo received after his son’s death came in the form of crumpled shilling notes from neighbors. Kenyan fathers grapple with their sons’ deaths in police custody 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z One heyday Ricky-Tick poster advertised a Jimi Hendrix Experience concert with the entry fee of 7 shillings, 6 pence. Tracing the lost London venues that helped launch Amy Winehouse, Hendrix and punk 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z And on Late Night, Seth Meyers traced Trump’s hydroxychloroquine comments back to his long history of shilling scammy products, such as Trump Vodka and Trump University. Colbert on Trump taking unproven Covid-19 drug: 'A personal best in being the worst' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Hume and five others from the Bogside broke that cycle when they pooled their savings - a grand total of £8 and 10 shillings - to found Northern Ireland's first credit union in 1960. Fish, finance, football: The lesser-known John Hume 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z “And then what? Pay 28,000 shillings? We don’t earn now. I can’t pay 50 for a mask. And because I cough once, I will pay 28K? Don’t judge us for not going,” he said. Kenya’s preexisting condition: Mistrust in the government 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z But without the guests, the catering, hire of a venue, etc, in the end we only spent 50,000 Kenya shillings. Weddings, births and deaths in the age of Covid-19 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z But the sad truth is that as long as Christian right leaders keep on shilling for Republicans, the party will close its eyes and embrace them, no matter how many people have to die. The Christian right's hostility to science is definitely going to get people killed 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z According to Mutula Kilonzo, a lawmaker on a Kenyan senate committee that investigated the deal, its cost nearly doubled to 63 billion shillings as the health ministry ordered more equipment. Lenders cheered as Kenya binged on medical equipment. Did patients get help? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z He remembered queuing up on that Saturday for tickets costing a few shillings in those pre-decimal times. Live at Leeds: The Who 'threw everything into it' 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Michaels names names fearlessly, pointing the finger at product-defence practitioners and the front groups and think tanks that masquerade as independent while taking industry’s shilling. Truth decay: when uncertainty is weaponized 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Both later offered a few key endorsements with McConnell shilling for coal and Graham delivering an ad for guns. Alec Baldwin’s Trump returns as ‘Saturday Night Live’ takes impeachment to Judge Mathis' courtroom 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Into his 20s, the prince is said to have received feudal dues of 100 silver shillings and a pound of peppercorns from the mayor of Launceston in Cornwall. Harry and Meghan’s Big Funding Source Is Private. Sort of. 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z “Bung” is an informal term for toss, while a bob is slang for a shilling, a former British unit of currency. Big Ben, big bucks: Brexit bell plan hits financial hurdle 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z For refusing to vaccinate his fourth child, he was ordered to pay 10 shillings - half the average weekly wage - or spend seven days in prison. 'Better a felon's cell than a poisoned babe' 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z She got people to chant: "A shilling a kiss, a bob for two." 'I tried to become the first female British Asian Tory MP' 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z He already had 400,000 shillings in savings, and to raise the rest he returned from the capital, Kampala, to his family home, took three goats raised by his younger brothers, and sold them. Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then ran 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z He was convicted and given a fine of 10 shillings or seven days in prison if he defaulted. The Wales striker with more criminal convictions than caps 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z He stayed in a relatively modest room given his wealth, paying 30 pounds 10 shillings for an upper-deck cabin, C-30. A journey on the Titanic connects UCLA kicker J.J. Molson with Utah's Andrew Strauch 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z It is now looking to lend 10 billion shillings in the next phase, it said, without giving a timeframe. Kenyan lenders target small and medium businesses with digital loans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The anti-vaccine folks don’t care if he makes Big Money from selling these unproven vaccine alternatives, because he’s not shilling for Big Pharma. While Searching for the Perfect Vaccine, Keep Using the Very Good 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Any candidate on the ballot in 2020 who is still shilling for Trump will face an avalanche of ads reminding voters that he or she defended a thuggish president even after Trump threatened the whistleblower. Opinion | Americans have already seen enough for three articles of impeachment 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Thus, on 5 July 1841, some 500 passengers travelled by a special train for the 24-mile round trip, paying a shilling apiece. Former Thomas Cook bosses under fire for excessive pay 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In the US, the Federal Trade Commission wrote to high-profile influencers to warn them against “stealth shilling”, where they fail to disclose they are being paid by brands. Extreme makeup: how the girls and boys of Generation Z created a huge new subculture 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Lending to small and medium-sized businesses dropped by 1.9 trillion shillings since the cap was imposed, it added. Kenyan lenders target small and medium businesses with digital loans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z On April 3, 1769, Robert Hays paid 45 pounds, two shillings and sixpence for 339 and one-half acres in what would shortly become Franklin Township. ‘God’s blessing’: Murrysville family farm predates America 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z His rent was 1,100 Kenyan shillings a few years ago, now it’s 3,000. 'The people have power': Kenya's gang leader turned community builder 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z If the postman knocked on your door in the city of Birmingham, with a three-page letter from London, he would let you read it only if you coughed up two shillings and threepence. The Penny Post revolutionary who transformed how we send letters 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z “When the fees are just 2,000 shillings a month, we can manage,” he said. This young Kenyan chess champion wants to take her moves abroad. The bureaucracy is keeping her in check. 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Pretty employed him at the rate of thirty shillings a week and lodged him with her chauffeur. Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z To aspire to thinness is equated with fatphobia, lapsed feminism and shilling for the patriarchy. Beyoncé's crash diet plan sells an impossible, damaging ideal | Laura Snapes 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z He charged friends a penny to listen to cricket matches, and within a few years was selling home-made copies at five shillings each. This little-known inventor has probably saved your life 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z In this case, Republican leaders are shilling for a bigot. Opinion | Republican leaders are shilling for a bigot 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z This compared with food prices of 350-600 shillings previously, the company said. Jumia Food looks beyond Africa's middle class for growth 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z But much of what they were shilling was fiction. Essential California: For whom the mission bell tolls 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The 1,000 shilling note is the highest value note in Kenya and according to Mr Njoroge, the Kenyan shilling is the equivalent to the US dollar in east Africa, in terms of its recognition. Kenya's new banknotes and the battle against corruption 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z An approximate charge for roughly 18,751 days, with no cap on the fines or any adjustment for inflation, would be £234, seven shillings and nine old pennies, she said. Library book returned after 52 years 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z They turned their firepower on the attorney general, asking legitimate questions about whether he was shilling for his boss — especially after Mueller's leaked letter of complaint — while somehow turning him into Public Enemy No. 2. Mueller obession going strong as media, Trump keep pounding away 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Snyders set on the table a copy of the deed of transfer—dated 1888, signed by the colonial governor, and noting a payment of a hundred and thirty-seven pounds and ten shillings. Who Owns South Africa? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “The corruption we saw from the others has been a stumbling, bumbling type of shilling for private industries,” said Huffman, who has sponsored a bill to tighten regulations on former lobbyists. Interior secretary nominee David Bernhardt’s ethics problems aren’t going away 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Those exchanging less than 5m shillings would be able to do so at their local bank but any higher amounts will need approval from Kenya's central bank. Kenya's new banknotes and the battle against corruption 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “See if these work,” he said as she handed him 1,500 shillings for both, about $15. In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z And it would fluctuate wildly alongside the broader fortunes of the campaign you were shilling for. My dispiriting, infuriating – and illuminating – time as a political telemarketer 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z “Forget the clunky writing. To say that it should ‘sweep the awards’ is just obvious shilling. What went wrong for ‘A Star Is Born’ on the road to the Oscars 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z That last one ended up as the slogan for the cider he was shilling even while he was drinking himself to death. Matti Nykänen, the Flying Finn who fell so far, so fast | Andy Bull 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z But others have taken the agribusiness shilling and believe that their role in policymaking is simply to support the corporations that sell these poisons. Politicians are complicit in the killing of our insects – we will be next | Molly Scott Cato 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Of course, the Smith exhibit is not on the extensive list of Super Bowl-related parties, concerts and shilling that have swallowed up large swaths of Atlanta. Column: Atlanta art exhibit reminds us of Kaep’s brave stand 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Please understand that I’m not here shilling for Vanguard index funds — my point is to show you the difference that personal financial discipline and long-term compounding can make. Perspective | Have index funds or brokerage account? Two simple tips could be worth money. 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z At about 06:45 GMT on 11 November the princely sum of 46p - originally nine shillings and four pence - is deposited in the hollowed out base of an old Anglo-Saxon cross. There's nowt so queer as folklore 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z However, the 15 shilling cigarette bill remained unpaid. Princess Louise died leaving cigarettes debt 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Comey emerged from the interviews accusing Republicans of shilling for the president to the detriment of national security. Rancorous House probe of FBI and Justice Dept. ends quietly with interview of Loretta Lynch 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Jean would meet friends at the Ritz and Claridge's which were legally required to serve meals for five shillings during wartime. Obituary: Baroness Trumpington 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The journalists at The Times continue to divide with rhetoric like, “… an urban rapper shilling for David Duke’s party of choice.” Feedback: Kanye, Taylor and Jim Carrey — readers react to celebs getting political - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z “You might be fined 20 million shillings. I don’t think selling the turtle is the proper thing.” Rescuing Sea Turtles From Fishermen’s Nets 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The new approach was so successful, Lipton almost ran out of cash, pawning his gold watch for 30 shillings as he struck deals with the eager farmers. The tea tycoon who was 'world's best loser' 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z A boatman hooks another body out of the foul-smelling Thames, a grisly prize that will earn him five shillings. Princess Alice disaster: The Thames' 650 forgotten dead 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z In Bukele, another dusty suburb of Kampala, Chibuku Shake Shake, made by a unit of AB InBev from locally produced sorghum, is a popular drink at 1,500 Ugandan shillings a bottle. Beer Giants Tap Into Africa With Brews Under $1 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z "They spent all their savings on the park and when it opened they had four shillings left, so their biggest concern was that the first visitors would offer a pound note that they couldn't change." The immigrants who built Australia's 'fairytale' castles 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z And of course there were plenty of hucksters offering all sorts of lotions, potions and shows to separate the suckers from their shillings. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Many criticized Khloé for teaming up with the oft-maligned online retail giant and shilling for the company owned by the wealthiest man in the world. The Best Influencers Are Babies 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z It was an inexpensive trip - tickets were about two shillings, depending on which stop passengers travelled to. Princess Alice disaster: The Thames' 650 forgotten dead 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Two hundred Uganda shillings may not sound a lot, but activists argue that it represents a significant slice of what poorer people are paying for getting online. Why Uganda is taxing social media 'gossip' 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z During World War Two, Australian troops on R&R paid two shillings for a movie, a meal and a pair of swimmers. The immigrants who built Australia's 'fairytale' castles 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z I texted Yiannopoulos, who had recently been shilling dietary supplements from the InfoWars studio, in Texas, to ask whether this was true. How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z "I am a betting addict. I bet 100 Kenyan shillings a day and 1,000 to 1,500 Kenyan shillings during weekends," he says. 'I am a betting addict and I want to quit' 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z At Alliance, tuition is free; boarding fees are 54,000 shillings a year. Elite private schools are booming in Kenya 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, a court acquitted nearly two dozen officials at the agency over the alleged theft of 48 million shillings, or about $500,000, in 2015. Kenya charges 54 people in graft investigation, plans to probe banks 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, there was anger when a court acquitted nearly two dozen officials at the agency after a trial over the alleged theft of 48m shillings in 2015. Kenyan authorities detain 50 in anti-corruption drive 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Some accused the rating publication of “shilling” for traditional automakers. Tesla Model 3 updates coming after Consumer Reports found ‘big flaws’ 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z My iPhone fascinates them and they ask to see my braces, intently questioning how many “shillings” they cost. 5 High Schoolers and Their College Application Essays About Work, Money and Social Class 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z They want to know how many shillings it cost to fix his teeth that way and they mock him for his lack of soccer prowess. Quilts, Cows, Money and Meaning: College Essays That Stood Out 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Any content “that causes annoyance, threatens harm or evil, encourages or incites crime, or leads to public disorder” can lead to a writer’s licence being revoked or a 5m shilling fine. How African governments try to control what is said online 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But he also estimates that he loses 20bn shillings because national law exempts owners who occupy their properties from paying the tax. How African cities can pay for their own upkeep 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Maybe CR is just shilling for the ICE companies. Tesla Model 3 updates coming after Consumer Reports found ‘big flaws’ 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Not a single shilling of reparation, nor a single word of apology, has ever been granted by the British state to the people it enslaved, or their descendants. When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z “It will bring unity among the tribes and stabilize the economy. The shilling has gained against the dollar, and the stock market is also recovering.” Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga call truce in Kenya to heal divisions 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z At the end of February the government announced an emergency 90-day ban on all logging, driving up retail prices of charcoal by 500%, to as much as 5,000 shillings a bag in some cities. How illegal charcoal fuels war and harms the environment 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Its box proclaims that it cost five shillings and was produced in Manchester by the Two Worlds Publishing Company. 'Do you have any ectoplasm? Is it vaginal?' The return of punk artist Linder 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z "They paid the juvenile court 11 shillings and sixpence and took me home to Surrey." Did my parents leave me on a hillside to die? 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan environmentalist who began a movement to reforest her country by paying poor women a few shillings to plant trees. From the Death Desk: Why Most Obituaries Are Still of White Men 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z I won't call his shilling for Twenty mule team Borax "acting" any more than I call being a faux "reality" personality an actor. How the Spoils Were Doled Out to Trump Campaign Workers and Allies 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z They were "paid" a wage of one shilling a week - which went towards their upkeep - and were given a six-month probationary period. Bureaucats: The felines with official positions 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z As they left their prime teen years, lost their health and their looks, the women passed from “flash houses” for the wealthy to the cheap “shilling houses” and then to the alleys. A Blot on Ireland’s Past, Facing Demolition 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z After dinner, new members receive a certificate of investiture and, by club tradition, a British shilling. It’s Elementary: Sherlockians Take Manhattan 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Wages had halved since the end of the Napoleonic war: 12 shillings a week for 16-hour days, if you could get the work; a decade earlier, it had been 21 shillings a week. The bloody clash that changed Britain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z He told an interviewer: "I'd limited the number of people, who subscribed their five shillings a year, to 500, because I couldn't cope with a bigger number." The year veganism went mainstream 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The team was getting 60 million shillings a year from Sportpesa. Kenya betting firm pulls 600 million shillings sports sponsorship over 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z He then took a factory job in Birmingham, earning 14 shillings a week. Oldest shop worker dies after retiring 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z As for that teacher who dressed as the Scottish moor at the Babes’ costume ball, Maria Fleischhack, 34, she received her shilling at the Friday dinner and became a Baker Street Irregular. It’s Elementary: Sherlockians Take Manhattan 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Mainly, I knew that Hillary was a geed-head & a Russiaphobe & war monger in the extreme, that the Clintons basically owned the Democratic party, & mainstream media including the Times was shilling for them.. Opinion | The New Democratic Party 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Mine owners Davis and Sons, gave widows seven shillings a week and orphans two shillings a week and money to attend Sunday school, until a proper relief fund was set up. Ferndale pit explosion: 150 years on 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The situation was the same at the Kenya Rugby Union, which is losing 120 million shillings a year, used to prepare squads for the international rugby sevens series. Kenya betting firm pulls 600 million shillings sports sponsorship over 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z So what would he say to the child who thought spending a shilling on soda and snacks was a waste? Why is this Indian giving $200m to Florida? 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps they just wanted to go home or, more likely, they couldn’t afford the 1,500 shillings for water. No pain relief, no running water: the perils of childbirth in Tanzania | Leah McLaren 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z He has spent time shilling for applause and nationalist chants while so much important work remains undone, including simple appointments of people needed to keep the government functioning. Take a knee to stand for justice and pray for a return to decency 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z People fared much better when they were asked to name Vin Diesel movies, “adult websites”, or the little guys shilling Rice Krispies. Kimmel Proved No One on the Street Knows Who's in Congress 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The team was getting 60 million shillings a year from Sportpesa. Kenya betting firm pulls 600 million shillings sports sponsorship over 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The Nairobi Stock Exchange fell sharply after the court’s decision, while the Kenyan shilling weakened slightly. Kenya’s high court annuls the presidential election 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Sixty-three cents — or 2,300 Uganda shillings — for a pack of 10 Makapads is still a lot of money for some Ugandans, Musaazi said. For many African girls, menstruation means humiliation 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The central bank soon began issuing handwritten deposit receipts for specific amounts in pounds, shillings and pence, all signed by the chief cashier. U.K.’s New £10 Note Gets a Fresh Face: Jane Austen 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z According to the local history club, a recruiting sergeant for the army had come to Hinckley and was singing the praises of taking the King's shilling. The headstones with unusual stories to tell - BBC News 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The situation was the same at the Kenya Rugby Union, which is losing 120 million shillings a year, used to prepare squads for the international rugby sevens series. Kenya betting firm pulls 600 million shillings sports sponsorship over 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Hard aluminium fetches a lower price: he buys it for 70 shillings and sells for 90. Enterprise and ingenuity thrive amid the waste in Nairobi – photo essay 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The bond, which will be sold in several phases, aims to raise 5bn shillings for infrastructure projects—a tiny fraction of the 269bn shillings the government plans to borrow domestically this year. Kenya launches the world’s first mobile-only sovereign bond 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Whether it’s Ron Paul hawking Christian fundamentalist homeschool curricula and gold coins or Mike Huckabee shilling for cinnamon cancer cures, stuff like this simply does not exist on the political left. Sarah Palin’s political brand has been reduced to a clickbait farm 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The nearest equivalent bus is ticket is an extra 400 shillings. Kenya opens Nairobi-Mombasa Madaraka Express railway - BBC News 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z He anticipated that his income, after costs, might reach as much as 2,000 shillings on a good day. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Ordinary aluminium costs 100 shillings and resells for 120. Enterprise and ingenuity thrive amid the waste in Nairobi – photo essay 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Finance Minister Henry Rotich said the government was initially making a limited offer of 150 million shillings to test the new bond before a bigger offer in June. Kenya starts selling bonds via mobile phones - BBC News 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z “In my day, bikers valued freedom over everything, and were suspicious of any rich guy shilling for the ‘establishment’,” said Christie, in a recent blogpost titled Trumped on Two Wheels. Donald Trump loves Harley-Davidson. Do Harley riders love him back? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Painter said of Mr. Trump’s aides, “instead of trying to push him back on this, they’re jumping in this and shilling for the businesses alongside him.” Kellyanne Conway Promotes Ivanka Trump Brand, Raising Ethics Concerns 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “Every person we register here will receive the money, I said — 2,280 shillings! Every month. This money, you will get for the next 12 years. How many years?” The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z I’m not a fan of his shilling to get people to get a tax refund-related loan. Even if you’re dying to get your tax refund, don’t pay for an advance 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Visitors are charged 300 shillings, with an average of 50 people visiting per day. Cobra fang club: The rising popularity of Kenyan snake farms - BBC News 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is shilling pajamas these days—that is, specially-designed performance sleepwear from Under Armour—so he decided that the best sales pitch would involve a Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson impression. The Rock Is Not Impressed with Tom Brady's Rock Impression 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Delaney and his sibling, however, have been romantically involved, so there’s more to their dealings than just shillings and land deeds — any questions as to why the show’s called “Taboo”? The magnetic Tom Hardy anchors the darkly compelling 'Taboo' 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z There he found an M-Pesa stand and converted his mobile money into shillings. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z In the Puritan colonies of North America, those who celebrated Christmas were fined five shillings. Christmas: Embattled From the Beginning 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z When you take the corporate shilling, you are supposed to stop thinking for yourself. Celebrity isn’t just harmless fun – it’s the smiling face of the corporate machine | George Monbiot 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Even cricket, by taking the Sky shilling, has allowed its role in national life to be significantly reduced. Magnus Carlsen may be the man to push the barriers for global game of chess | Stephen Moss 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z In a doubly delicious irony, it now looks as though all this highly paid shilling may end up costing Giuliani the post he covets most in the Trump Administration: Secretary of State. Has Rudy Giuliani Been Done in by His Own Buck-Raking? 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z His income had gone from 600 shillings a week to 2,500 shillings — roughly $25, a princely sum for the area. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Yesterday: “That papaya. Five hundred shillings,” or about 25 cents. The History of Southern Africa, by Train 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Strimbu isn’t the only one shilling for Trump with his sign. Youngstown, Ohio: why voters are supporting Trump in a bellwether city 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Yet colonists paid only 1 shilling per capita in tax directly to the empire, compared with 26 shillings per capita in England. The still-unresolved struggles that gave birth to America 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson bought the property from King George III of England for 20 shillings. A Curious Plan to Fight Climate Change: Buy Mines, Sell Coal 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z “I used to go out drinking with 1,000 shillings, and I’d wake up in the bar with 100 shillings,” he said. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z All the officials pleaded not guilty during a court session in Nairobi and were released on bail of 200,000 Kenyan shillings each. Former Kenyan officials charged with theft, fraud 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z They also accused debate moderator Lester Holt of "shilling" for Mrs Clinton by asking Mr Trump "tough questions" and insisted that Republican candidates were "routinely treated unfairly" by moderators. Presidential debate 2016: US media on who won Clinton-Trump clash - BBC News 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z He spent a year in prison awaiting trial, with bail set at 20 million Tanzanian shillings—about $9,133 U.S. dollars—an impossible sum for him to pay. How Protecting Animals Led to Allegations of Torture and Rape In it, Quigley urged the groups to support him and accused Republicans of “shilling” for the natural gas industry amid policy battles over drilling regulations and power plant pollution. Wolf nominates longtime DEP official to be next secretary 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The most expensive thing she ever bought, she told me, was a chicken for 500 shillings, or about $5. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Vice cautioned the company that young audiences were so sophisticated they would reject anything that smelled vaguely of corporate shilling. L.A. Vice: Inside Media Mogul Shane Smith’s Santa Monica Estate 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “Well, that’s Donald Trump,” Pence quickly offered, immediately deflecting from his bit of revealing honesty to continue shilling on behalf of his party’s nominee. Mike Pence shocks Fox News host after laughing off Trump’s claim to 95% of Black support in 2020 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The medal, with 14 shillings, was given to his father who passed it to the police force as Francis' employers. Police solve WW1 soldier medal mystery - BBC News 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z It also cut the waiting rate per minute to 3 shillings from 4 shillings previously. Hundreds of Uber drivers in Kenya go on strike after price cuts 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z There is no reason for Mr. Bloomberg not to roll the dice in the last chance he will have for great national office by shilling for Hillary Clinton. Notable & Quotable: Black on Bloomberg 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z An aside: No, I’m not shilling for Vanguard funds. Behold! A world where even the bond market can surprise you 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z How perfect that he is now shilling for Trump. Tim Tebow Suggests He Won’t Speak at Republican Convention 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The deputy president said the government has increased the award package for Olympics medal winners to one million Kenyan shilling for gold medals, 750,000 for silver and 500,000 for bronze. Kenya hikes cash award for Olympic medals, warns dope cheats 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The enticement of six shillings a day - a decent wage for working men at that time - was a powerful incentive. The 18 sewer men who changed the war - BBC News 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Anderson.Paak gets the honor of shilling for a car for four minutes before cutting to another commercial. BET awards diary: searing political rhetoric and bloated back-slapping 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z He demanded £1, but on being told Mrs Little only had 10 shillings, took that instead. Littleport's hunger riots: Descendants mark 200th anniversary - BBC News 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z In Kenya, the average price of a package of eight sanitary towels costs approximately 50 Kenyan shillings—half of what most unskilled workers in slums and rural areas earn. Don't Let Periods Stop Girls From Receiving an Education 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Teams winning gold medals will be rewarded with 500,000 Kenyan shillings. Kenya hikes cash award for Olympic medals, warns dope cheats 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z By contrast, an unskilled tunneller's mate received two shillings and tuppence, while the infantryman in the trenches pocketed a meagre one shilling and threepence. The 18 sewer men who changed the war - BBC News 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z A single fare on that flight, including the first-class train fare from London Victoria, cost four pounds five shillings - equivalent to about £160 today. Images released to mark Gatwick Airport's 80th year - BBC News 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z A day later, Allen was finally confronted about the piece while shilling for his new movie at the Cannes Film Festival. Hollywood’s unforgivable Woody Allen cowardice: What the controversy at Cannes really proves 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Before that, British pounds, shillings and pence were used in the colonies. Your Monday Briefing 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Two future US presidents, Jefferson and Adams, visited “the birthplace” on Henley Street and paid a shilling to see Shakespeare’s grave. Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z And why not: who wants to be notified that your official team account is shilling for America’s most insipid coffee brand? LeBron James unfollows Cavaliers' official Twitter account 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z On 14 February 1966, Australia’s pounds, shillings and pence were replaced with dollars and cents. Five-cent coin losing currency 50 years after pushing out pounds and pence 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But Manning's shilling was still business: He owns a stake of two of the mega-brewer's distributors in his native state of Louisiana, according to trade publication Beer Business Daily. The real story of Peyton Manning’s weird love for Budweiser, Papa John’s and Gatorade 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z For some, that meant shredding on guitar in a room full of lit candles; for others, it meant shilling for various global corporations and being compensated accordingly. Who was Super Bowl 50's musical MVP? 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z “With the exception of a few family businesses and tenderpreneurs who raked in billions of shillings – thanks largely to political patronage – everyone is losing money in this country.” Blow to Kenya's media after editor sacked for criticising president 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Yet, there are also accounts of Cole selling at least some of the cards for a shilling apiece at his art gallery in London, possibly for charity. The History of the Christmas Card 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z After moving aggressively to stabilize the Kenyan shilling, the confident, 54-year-old Mr. Njoroge is gearing up for the expected increase of the Federal Reserve’s policy rate. The Opus Dei Central Banker Shaking Up Kenya 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Carlyle later submitted a bill for 259 pounds, 11 shillings and a half-pence in expenses, but made clear that he had already collected 198 pounds, 4 shillings and 2 pence from renters. History buried where a trendy riverfront hotel will soon stand 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Trading and listing of Imperial Bank's 2.0 billion shilling corporate bond, scheduled for Tuesday, was suspended, the Capital Markets Authority said. UPDATE 4-Kenya's Imperial Bank in receivership after possible malpractices 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z When he returned to his base, he followed the pilots’ tradition of paying his parachute packer 10 shillings for doing a good job. Fighter pilot “Ginger” Neil, 95, recalls the bodies flying at him in combat 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The exhibition space and artists’ residences are in the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, an after-hours 19th-century hot spot where punters would pay a shilling to be entertained by the likes of lion tamers and fortunetellers. London’s Newest Unassuming Art Destination 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z His deed of gift stipulated the public shouldn't pay "a sum exceeding one shilling" per visit. The man who bought Stonehenge - and then gave it away - BBC News 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z But, for the most part, these stars were shilling for other people. Bethenny Frankel and the Making of a Celebrity Brand 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z CR is shilling not only for the car but the government policies that subsidize it. Consumer Reports Spends Its Juice, Badly 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z But in Winkle's case, Baker says, the MBA went online to eBay and found an old shilling they were able to send to her, along with a letter of thanks. Century-Old Message in a Bottle Returned to Sender 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Inside each bottle was a postcard that promised a shilling to anyone who returned it. 'Oldest' message in a bottle found more than 108 years on - BBC News 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z When the London Social Club was first started in 1947, members paid five shillings a year into a fund to help any ex-prisoner known to be in hospital or undergoing economic hardship. VJ Day: Surviving the horrors of Japan's WW2 camps - BBC News 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Vivienne Milne from Jarrow, who was at the concert, said: "He apologised and his words were, 'it looks like the shilling didn't drop in the meter' and he said hopefully all will be well'." Tom Jones' Alnwick concert cut short after power cuts - BBC News 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z A long-term drop in tourism is partly driving the shilling’s slide. Bad News Dims Kenya’s Star Power 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z At this point, some of my more left-leaning readers will probably get mad, and say that I am shilling for employers, or for the rich. Instead of $15, Or $7.25, There Should Be No Federal Minimum Wage At All 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The office was also asked, but declined, to get involved in one case from 1896, with an estate including shillings and a horse. Art, royalties and other treasures of unclaimed estates - BBC News 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Eagle used his access to the carrier’s billing system to write a simple program that paid nurses ten Kenyan shillings, which included a small thank you amount for each SMS to the blood bank. This App Is Cashing In On Giving The World Free Data 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z He scrapes by on the 50 shillings he earns for each car he washes. Calling Obama ‘Our Son,’ Kenyans Nod Knowingly at His Critique 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Domestically, the shilling has been upsetting a lot of people. Bad News Dims Kenya’s Star Power 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z When he was shilling for votes in southeast Iowa on the last election, he went to a televisions station in Illinois to buy advertising time. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z KAMPALA—Uganda’s central bank raised its key lending rate on Monday to dampen inflationary pressures resulting from the huge slide in the local shilling in recent weeks. Uganda Raises Key Lending Rate 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z And it is not because they are wondering what he is going to do about the Kenyan shilling weakening against other currencies. Patrick Njoroge: Kenyan bank boss who doesn't want luxury house - BBC News 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The rhino’s horn fetched one pound and two shillings. The wine-o rhino: the rhinoceros with an alcohol problem 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Kenya’s currency, the shilling, has shed nearly 11% of its value against the dollar this year. Bad News Dims Kenya’s Star Power 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z A charitable reading of Schellnhuber would lead us to conclude that he’s not shilling for a new religion. Rush Limbaugh’s anti-Pope freakout proves that he needs a crash course in reading comprehension 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Last week, Mr. Mutebile said that it was unsustainable for the central bank to keep propping up the shilling beyond “levels which are not consistent with supply and demand.” Uganda Raises Key Lending Rate 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The biggest fights demand big money and terrestrial TV can't make the pounds, shillings and pence add up. Super-fight damaged boxing - Hatton 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But after one hundred years, it really is time to consign it to history, along with shillings, dreymen, and firkins. SAPVoice: After 100 Years, It's Time To Retire The Paper Invoice 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The tumbling shilling and surging inflation are spelling trouble for Kenyan households. Bad News Dims Kenya’s Star Power 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z The films can sell for up to 3,000 shillings - about $1 - but the team only has a window of about a week before they are pirated. Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z “A bag of rice from Somalia costs 1,500 shillings,” or almost $17, he said. Kenya Envisions a Border Wall That Keeps Shabab Violence Out 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z But if, as Ali claims, you "pay a few shillings and you can be sold out or set free" by the security services, then stemming the tide of recruitment, is going to be hard. Kenya failings drive al-Shabab recruitment 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z They charged Republicans of shilling for corporate America and showing indifference to the plight of the American worker. The Odd Couple: Democrats, Republicans and the New Politics of Trade 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Brian responded to the ad and became one of four “really incredibly scruffy and ill-educated urchins” running errands for a weekly wage of around 30 shillings. A Father’s Photographs, a Daughter’s Film and a Mother’s Discovered Life 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Ezbob gets its name from the British colloquialism for a shilling and is the trading name for Orange Money Ltd. Alibaba enlists startups to provide UK trade financing 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, many British banks continue to operate back-end systems in pounds, shillings, and pence. Banking on the internet-only revolution 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z That, followed by, of all possible guests on any possible weeknight, David Axelrod, the Obama campaign advisor who is now shilling a 528-page memoir, “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.” It was time for Jon Stewart to wrap up the joke anyway 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The Department of Defense is not alone in shilling for Obamacare. ERNEST ISTOOK: Obamacare enrollment advertising asked of federal workers, military 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Players in the tax game punished leaders when they received less than 460 shillings, on average, a figure 13% higher than the threshold for the aid group. No representation without taxation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s all felt like a nebulous experiment, as companies competed for our dollars, shilling technologies we didn’t quite understand or need. The Smart Homes of CES Turned Me Into a Believer 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z He was arrested, and a subsequent search of his home netted a cache of fake Ugandan shillings, Congolese francs, Ghanaian cedis, Indian rupees and euros, as well as various counterfeiting materials. US probes $2m Uganda 'currency scam' 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z He played second-string for Charlton Athletic, in London, and got paid ten shillings and sixpence a week. Inner Worlds: The Word Shed | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z More than 200 years ago benjamin franklin coined the now famous dictum that equated passing minutes and hours with shillings and pounds. Time and Technology March On Together 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z In both games each received the same amount—the leader 1,000 shillings and the citizen 500—but by different routes. No representation without taxation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In 1913, the Institute paid two pounds, 15 shillings and sixpence for about 20 photographs, for use in their fundraising activities. Market forces: Spitalfields children at the start of the 20th century 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z When Paul Dobson started going to Sunderland games in the 1960s he paid "three shillings on the bus and three shillings to get in". Lost football grounds - part II 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Or groups shilling for cellphone companies were able to sue cities that banned dangerous habits, like texting or phoning while driving? Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z At market, Nairobi City County profits by charging a 50 shilling fee each day from informal hawkers. The global business of secondhand clothes thrives in Kenya 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z In the first the leader got “aid” of 1,000 shillings and the citizen a “wage” of 500 shillings. No representation without taxation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z How do you divulge an ethically sufficient amount of information to stave off allegations of shilling? Twitch Takes a Step Toward Greater Broadcast Transparency 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z "I don’t want to be the guy who is clinging to his 15 minutes of internet fame a year from now, shilling potatoes or mayonnaise." This is what a $55,000 potato salad party looks like. 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z You won’t find the corpulent rapper shilling smoothies or other fancy fare; rather, his franchises sell the same lemon-pepper chicken he gleefully raps about. Rick Ross, Chicken Boss: How A Rapper Got His Wingstop 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Many people start with as little as 1,000 shillings, she said, enough to buy a clothes bundle that will earn a small profit. The global business of secondhand clothes thrives in Kenya 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z In the second the citizen was given 1,000 shillings, of which 500 was “taxed”. No representation without taxation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A breach of this rule could result in the offending garment being confiscated and a fine of 40 shillings. The power of a red dress 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z He pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings. Your Wednesday Briefing 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z |
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