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A scrip (or chit in India) is any substitute for legal tender. [1]

101 relations: American Express, Andrew Jackson, Austria, Barter, Calgary Dollar, California, Canada, Canadian Tire, Canadian Tire money, Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op, Casino token, Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chiemgauer, Chipshop, Coal town, Company scrip, Company store, Complementary currency, Consumers Union, Coupon, Cowry, Credit, Currency, Detroit Community Scrip, Digital currency, Disney dollar, Dividend, Early American currency, Employment, Exonumia, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Federal Trade Commission, Financial crisis of 2007–2008, Frequent-flyer program, Germany, Gift card, Gift voucher reseller, Great Depression, Great Recession, Hagen, IOU, Ithaca Hours, Kut Chum District, Lamar, Colorado, Land grant, Legal tender, List of companies paying scrip dividends, Local currency, Logging, Loyalty, ..., Massachusetts, Mastercard, Métis in Canada, Meal voucher, Medium of exchange, Merit (Buddhism), Microsoft Points, Military base, Military occupation, Mining, Monetary economics, Morrill Land-Grant Acts, Notgeld, Numismatics, Ohio, Ontario, Pittsboro, North Carolina, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Prisoner-of-war camp, Private currency, Prosperity certificate, Republican-American, School voucher, Scrip issue, Scrip of Edo period Japan, Specie Circular, Spintria, Stock market, Store of value, Stored-value card, SVM (company), Thai baht, Thai language, Thailand, The Berkshires, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Press Democrat, The Walt Disney Company, Third Geneva Convention, Token coin, Township, Traverse City, Michigan, Truck system, United States, Virtual currency, Visa Inc., Voucher, Washington (state), Wii Shop Channel, World War I, World War II. Expand index (51 more) »

American Express

The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center in New York City.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Barter

In trade, barter is a system of exchange where participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.

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Calgary Dollar

The Calgary Dollar is a local currency in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian Tire

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which sells a wide range of automotive, hardware, sports and leisure, and home products.

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Canadian Tire money

Canadian Tire money, officially Canadian Tire 'money', (CTM) is a loyalty program operated by the Canadian retail chain Canadian Tire.

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Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op

The Capitol Hill Babysitting Cooperative (CHBC) is a cooperative located in Washington D.C., whose purpose is to fairly distribute the responsibility of babysitting between its members.

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Casino token

Casino tokens (also known as casino or gaming chips, checks, or cheques) are small discs used in lieu of currency in casinos.

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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 11 is a chapter of Title 11, the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.

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Chiemgauer

Chiemgauer is the name of a regional local currency started in 2003 in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany.

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Chipshop

Chipshop is a hamlet in the civil parish of Lamerton in the West Devon district of Devon, England.

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Coal town

A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch is typically situated in a remote place and provides residences for a population of miners to reside near a coal mine.

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Company scrip

Company scrip is scrip (a substitute for government-issued legal tender or currency) issued by a company to pay its employees.

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Company store

A company store is a retail store selling a limited range of food, clothing and daily necessities to employees of a company.

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Complementary currency

A complementary currency is a currency or medium of exchange which is not a national currency, but which is thought of as supplementing or complementing national currencies.

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Consumers Union

Consumers Union (CU) is a United States-based non-profit organization focusing on product testing, investigative journalism, and consumer advocacy.

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Coupon

In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be redeemed for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product.

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Cowry

Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

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Credit

Credit (from Latin credit, "(he/she/it) believes") is the trust which allows one party to provide money or resources to another party where that second party does not reimburse the first party immediately (thereby generating a debt), but instead promises either to repay or return those resources (or other materials of equal value) at a later date.

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Currency

A currency (from curraunt, "in circulation", from currens, -entis), in the most specific use of the word, refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.

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Detroit Community Scrip

Detroit Community Scrip, also called Detroit Cheers, is a local currency used in Detroit, Michigan.

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Digital currency

Digital currency (digital money or electronic money or electronic currency) is a type of currency available only in digital form, not in physical (such as banknotes and coins).

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Disney dollar

Disney dollars are a form of corporate scrip sold by The Walt Disney Company and redeemable for goods or services at many Disney facilities.

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Dividend

A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits.

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Early American currency

Early American currency went through several stages of development in colonial and post-Revolutionary history of the United States.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

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Exonumia

Exonumia are numismatic items (such as tokens, medals, or scrip) other than coins and paper money.

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Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

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Financial crisis of 2007–2008

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Frequent-flyer program

A frequent-flyer program (FFP) is a loyalty program offered by an airline.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gift card

A gift card (also known as gift certificate in North America, or gift voucher or gift token in the UK) is a prepaid stored-value money card usually issued by a retailer or bank to be used as an alternative to cash for purchases within a particular store or related businesses.

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Gift voucher reseller

A gift voucher reseller is a company or individual who purchases gift vouchers, gift certificates or giftcards from the manufacturer or owner with a discount for bulk purchase, and then sells these products on to other companies at face value, or with a discount applied for volume.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.

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Hagen

Hagen is the 41st-largest city in Germany.

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IOU

An IOU (abbreviated from the phrase "I owe you") is usually an informal document acknowledging debt.

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Ithaca Hours

The Ithaca HOUR is a local currency used in Ithaca, New York and is the oldest and largest local currency system in the United States that is still operating.

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Kut Chum District

Kut Chum (กุดชุม) is a district (amphoe) of Yasothon Province in northeastern Thailand.

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Lamar, Colorado

Lamar is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Prowers County, Colorado, United States.

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Land grant

A land grant is a gift of real estate – land or its use privileges – made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service.

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Legal tender

Legal tender is a medium of payment recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation.

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List of companies paying scrip dividends

This is a list of publicly traded companies that offer their shareholders the option to be paid with scrip dividends.

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Local currency

In economics, a local currency is a currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations.

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Logging

Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars.

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Loyalty

Loyalty, in general use, is a devotion and faithfulness to a nation, cause, philosophy, country, group, or person.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Mastercard

Mastercard Incorporated (stylized as MasterCard from 1979 to 2016 and mastercard since 2016) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in the Mastercard International Global Headquarters in Purchase, New York, United States.

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Métis in Canada

The Métis in Canada are a group of peoples in Canada who trace their descent to First Nations peoples and European settlers.

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Meal voucher

A meal voucher or luncheon voucher is a voucher for a meal given to employees as an employee benefit, allowing them to eat at outside restaurants, typically for lunch.

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Medium of exchange

A medium of exchange is a tradeable entity used to avoid the inconveniences of a pure barter system.

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Merit (Buddhism)

Merit (puṇya, puñña) is a concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics.

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Microsoft Points

Microsoft Points, introduced in November 2005 as Xbox Live Points, were a digital currency issued by Microsoft for use on its Xbox and Zune product lines.

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Military base

A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations.

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Military occupation

Military occupation is effective provisional control by a certain ruling power over a territory which is not under the formal sovereignty of that entity, without the violation of the actual sovereign.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Monetary economics

Monetary economics is a branch of economics that provides a framework for analyzing money in its functions as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account.

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Morrill Land-Grant Acts

The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales.

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Notgeld

Notgeld (German for "emergency money" or "necessity money") refers to money issued by an institution in a time of economic or political crisis.

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Numismatics

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, and related objects.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Pittsboro, North Carolina

Pittsboro is a town in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Prisoner-of-war camp

A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of enemy combatants captured by a belligerent power in time of war.

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Private currency

A private currency is a currency issued by a private entity, be it an individual, a commercial business or a nonprofit enterprise.

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Prosperity certificate

In 1936, the Alberta Social Credit Party-led government of the Province of Alberta, Canada, introduced prosperity certificates in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.

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Republican-American

The Republican-American is a family-owned newspaper based in Waterbury, Connecticut.

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School voucher

A school voucher, also called an education voucher, in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for a student at a school chosen by the student or the student's parents.

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Scrip issue

A scrip issue, also known as capitalisation issue or bonus issue, is a form of secondary issue where a company's cash reserves are converted into new shares and given to existing shareholders, or an issue of additional shares to shareholders in proportion to the shares already held.

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Scrip of Edo period Japan

During the Edo period, feudal domains of Japan issued scrip called for use within the domain.

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Specie Circular

The Specie Circular is a United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 pursuant to the Coinage Act and carried out by his successor, President Martin Van Buren.

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Spintria

A spintria (plural, spintriae) is a small bronze or brass Roman token, possibly for use in brothels, although none of the literature on the spintriae contains any evidence to support this assertion.

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Stock market

A stock market, equity market or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers (a loose network of economic transactions, not a physical facility or discrete entity) of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.

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Store of value

A store of value is the function of an asset that can be saved, retrieved and exchanged at a later time, and be predictably useful when retrieved.

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Stored-value card

A stored-value card is a payments card with a monetary value stored on the card itself, not in an external account maintained by a financial institution.

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SVM (company)

SVM, originally known as Stored Value Marketing, is a provider of gasoline, restaurant, and other retail gift cards also known as stored value cards based in Des Plaines, Illinois.

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Thai baht

The baht (บาท,; sign: ฿; code: THB) is the currency of Thailand.

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Thai language

Thai, Central Thai, or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the first language of the Central Thai people and vast majority Thai of Chinese origin.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Berkshires

The Berkshires are a highland geologic region located in the western parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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The Press Democrat

The Press Democrat, with the largest circulation in the California North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), is a daily newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Third Geneva Convention

The Third Geneva Convention, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, is one of the four treaties of the Geneva Conventions.

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Token coin

In the study of numismatics, token coins or trade tokens are coin-like objects used instead of coins.

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Township

Township refers to various kinds of settlements in different countries.

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Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Truck system

A truck system is an arrangement in which employees are paid in commodities or some money substitute (such as vouchers or token coins, called in some dialects scrip or chit) rather than with standard money.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Virtual currency

Virtual currency, or virtual money, is a type of unregulated, digital money, which is issued and usually controlled by its developers and used and accepted among the members of a specific virtual community.

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Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. (also known as Visa, stylized as VISA) is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Foster City, California, United States.

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Voucher

A voucher is a bond of the redeemable transaction type which is worth a certain monetary value and which may be spent only for specific reasons or on specific goods.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wii Shop Channel

The Wii Shop Channel is an online shop for the Wii video game console that allows users to download Virtual Console games, WiiWare games, and additional channels.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip

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