Walter Kingsford was in A DISPATCH FROM REUTERS with Eddie Albert, who was in THE BIG PICTURE with Kevin Bacon.
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As you get older, three things happen.
You get older, and I can't remember the other two.
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TOMORROW IS
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Think about it though…
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…cactus is the singular.
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Cact-US.
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And cacti is the plural.
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Cact-I.
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It should really be the other way around.
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And
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One million (1,000,000) or one thousand thousand, is the natural number after 999,999 and before 1,000,001. The name is derived from Italian, where mille was 1,000, and 1,000,000 became milione, "a large thousand".
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How high would a stack of 1 million 1 dollar bills be (using .0043 inches per bill)? 1 million x .0043 = 4300 inches = 358.33 feet – using 10 feet per story, this is almost as high as a 36 story building!
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One billion is 1,000,000,000; one million is 1,000,000; that is, a Billion is 1000 times a Million — in fact, that is the definition of a Billion.
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The United States has never issued a million dollar bill. However, many businesses print million dollar bills for sale as novelties. Such bills do not assert that they are legal tender. The Secret Service has declared them legal to print or own and does not consider them counterfeit.
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In the year 1900, there were only 5,000 millionaires in the United States. In 2000, there were more than five million.