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They themselves didn't, but some of their songs had classical instrumentation backing, and song-writers Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson may have gone on to do their own classical compositions independently after the band split up in 1982. The duo also wrote the musical 'Chess', which debuted in London's West End in 1986 and featured the hit single 'One Night In Bangkok'.

This is a very big question but in brief:

For example if people had more vegetables than they needed and not enough meat they would look for someone who had too much meat and not enough vegetables. They would then trade their extra vegetables for some of the extra meat.

This was called barter and was fine if both people had an excess of what the other wanted but it becomes more difficult when the other person has extra of what you want but they don't want what you have.

Taxation existed before money did. Powerful rulers would demand some of the produce of the people to feed the army and pay for their palaces and high living. In return they generally made sure that things were peaceful. In Egypt huge grain stores were set up and people were given receipts for their grain. The grain stores allowed the ruler (Pharaoh) to take his cut of their products but it also kept the grain safe from robbers and saver from rats and mice.

Anyone who took a receipt back to the grain store could take out a sack of grain.

Imagine someone in the market who has extra vegetables and they want some grain. The person with the grain in the store could now give the receipt for the grain instead of the sack of grain. This saved them carrying it around with them. It also meant that if the person with meat who wanted vegetables could do a barter trade for a grain receipt (even though he didn't want grain) and then take it to the person with the vegetables who wanted grain.

These receipts were an early form of money.

Over the years people have used things that would last a long time but were in short supply to be money. Gold coins, silver and so on, even salt. Up until 1971 in the UK the money was pounds shillings and pence. This was shown as £ s d (If the pound symbol doesn't immediately show on your computer hold down the Alt key and then press 156 on the key pad before letting go of the Alt key).

People used to think that the "s" in £ s d stood for shillings but it actually stood for saltam or salt. Which is what the Roman legions were often paid with. People use different things as money in different places. In prison prisoners often use tobacco or phone cards as they don't have access to much money.

As time went by people wanted to travel safely without carrying a lot of money. Many religious orders that existed in different countries saw a way to make money and keep travellers safe. The traveller could go to the religious order near to where he lived and give them some money to look after (say 100 gold pieces). They would then give him a piece of paper saying that he had given them 100 gold pieces. When he went abroad he knew that robbers weren't interested in paper so if he was stopped they would take the few coins he was carrying but not take the paper, as they saw it as worthless. Then when he arrived at where he was going he would be able to go to the local house of the same religious order and show them the paper. They would then let him take as much of the gold as he wanted. If he did not take it all they would give him another paper saying how much he had left so that he could take that to another religious order's house.

In those days the receipts, coins or papers represented wealth held elsewhere and no more money would be in circulation than there was wealth to back it.

Then banks started to print money on paper and sometimes there wasn't enough wealth to back it. Many projects in the development of the West in the USA were financed in this way with many people losing everything as they had been paid with money that had no value.

Governments still get their money from taxes, but governments often borrow money from banks to pay for the things they want to do. For example pay for armies, build roads, hospitals and so on. This means that they have to pay the money back to banks with interest. This means that they have to tax people more than the value of the things they bought so that the interest can be paid.

Banks lend money to all sorts of people and in the UK the banks print the money - not the government. The banks no longer have to limit the money they print to a store of wealth. There used to be the Gold Standard which meant that there was a pile of gold held in a bank and only as many pounds would be printed as the gold was worth. Nowadays banks can issue money to people as credit. This money could be a number in a book. There does not have to be cash.

In fact in the modern world most money does not exist as cash. It is merely figures in a computer file. If you want to buy something on the internet you can send an electronic message to the person you are buying from and your bank will transfer the money to their bank. You may use an intermediary like PayPal. Like the religious houses in the olden days PayPal is a trusted company that will do as they say with the money they have. This allows both parties in the transaction to feel safe. The person selling may be unsure of letting you have the goods before they see the money in their account or you may be unsure of paying for something that you have not got in your hand. That's where the trusted middle man comes in.

This is just a very brief overview and many things have been left out, but I hope it helps

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In his early years, the Safavid dynasty was internally weak and suject to foreign attack by the Ottomans and Uzbek. Problems and solutions are as follows:

1) Weak internal government
Abbas forcefully took the throne from his blind father, whos failure to rule effectively was the main cause of disloyalty and unpopularity among the troops and society.

2) Foriegn attack
He signed a peace treaty with the Ottomans to buy him time and resources to fight off the Uzbek. Once the Uzbek were defeated, he turned on the Ottomans and regained lost lands.

3) Lack of resources / culture
Abbas re-established control over the provinces and re-supplied the royal treasury with their revenues. He also took control of rich shorelines along the Caspian which had previously belonged to Russia. He moved the capital to Esfehan and took on huge building projects, making it among the most beautiful cities in the world. He also fought off western powers that held claim to middle eastern territories in the Persian Gulf. This allowed him to access shipping and trading routes, supplying Persia with more money and resources.

In addition, he seemed to rule his people with compassion and tolerance for their various beliefs. This may have encouraged a rich and diverse culture.

I don't think so.

Not only did they never win a Grammy, they were never nominated in any category.

it's a metaphor comparing a relationship to a fight (the battle of Waterloo ,lost by Napoleon ) ,the love between you and me is like a battle but unlike a fighter ,i'll surrender to your love easily !

because whatever i do ,i have more and more feelings for you !

Benny Andersson

Björn Ulveus

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Agnetha Fältskog

The Best of ABBA was created in 1975.

Well, it was clearly fabulous. Some journalists said she had the best bottom in pop. When some reporters asked her about this during Abba's 1977 Australia tour she wasn't impressed. "Don't they have bottoms in Australia?", she replied.

Mirza Abbas Khan Sheida died in 1949.

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ok firstly abbas names are the name of a person. It is a males name with an Arabic origin. These people called abbas are very extroadinary people. I know an abbas, hiz favourite word is . ........... to be continued

If he does he has not made it public.

They controlled trade.

See an ear nose and throat doctor, (ENT) and ask to be sent to a speech-language pathologist who can do therapy to improve your voice by strengthening your vocal cords.

She certainly is. The former Frida Lyngstad turns 66 on November 15, 2011. She is a noted philanthropist and environmentalist and lives in Switzerland. After marrying into German aristocracy in 1992, her full name now is Anni-Frid Prinzessin Reuss von Plauen.

Stig Andersson aka Stickan.

Bjorn Ulvaeus, the blond lead guitar player (beardless for most of their career; he grew a beard in the early 80s), was married to blond soprano Agnetha Faltskog.

Benny Andersson, the bearded keyboard player, was married to Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad, the brunette mezzo soprano.

It depends on your definition of 'hit'. Their songs placed differently on the charts depending on the country. In the U.S., ABBA had 14 song to make Top 40, but only 1 (Dancing Queen) hit the number 1 spot. In the UK the group has had 9 #1 hits, seven of those topped in the 1970s. Check out Wikipedia's or IMDb's ABBA discology.

Group: Troll

Hit song: Jimmy Dean

Graig Nettles was born on August 20, 1944.

ABBA did not have any Number 1 SINGLES in Japan (in fact, they had no Top 10s there, and only 5 Top 20s).

The ALBUM "Voulez Vous" went to Number 1 for 2 weeks in 1979, and 6 other albums went Top 10.

Despite their lack of super-high-charting singles and albums, their moderate success was still considered important, as it was uncommon for non-domestic artists to chart even that well.

This website gives the peak chart positions: http://home.zipworld.com.au/~callisto/japan.html

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