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Published on January 07, 2012
BANGLADESH TAKA VOTED MOST BEAUTIFUL BANK NOTE
- Bangladesh 2 taka note was ranked 1st among the most beautiful bank notes worldwide, according to a poll at Russian online entertainment outlet.
São Tome and Principe's 50 thous. dobra note became the runner-up followed by 1 Bahamian dollar and 5 Bahraini dinars.
Georgia's 10 lari note was voted 5th, with 10 Hong Kong dollars, 10 Cook Islands dollars, 50 Israeli shekels, 20 thous. Island krona note, 50 Faeroe Islands kronurs positioned 6-10th resp.
New Zealand, Romania, Maldives, Singapore, Comoros, French Polynesia, Switzerland, Sweden, Jamaica and Japan were voted 11-20th.
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Today in Armenian history- 1824 Birth, in Constantinople, of the author Archbishop Arsen Aytenian, of the Mkhitarist Congregation.
- 1825 Birth of Armenian linguist, philologist, and the future Head Abbot of the Mkhitarist Congregation of Vienna, Arsen Aytnyan.
- 1828 End of the two-month reconciliation negotiations of Dehkhrak.
- 1880 Birth of director Arshak Burdjalyan in Astrakhan (Russia). He was one of the founders of the Armenian school of theater directors.
- 1915 The Central Council of the Social Democrat (Hntshak) Party in Paris appeals to the world to save the Armenians of Western Armenia (living under Turkish misrule) from the danger of annihilation. The Armenian Genocide of about one million Armenians started some four months later.
- 1920 Death of writer Vahan Terian.
- 1925 Opening of the Martiros Saryan exhibition in Paris.
- 1984 President Francois Mitterand of France gives a speech condemning the Armenian Genocide.
- 1994 Horadiz is retaken by the Artsakh forces.
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