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<p>[QUOTE="FlyingMoose, post: 183031, member: 6572"]That quarter (at least the one in the Wiki picture, I don't have a real one in front of me) uses some non-letter braille characters. I wonder why they did this, since it would be too small to actually be useful. It says:</p><p><br /></p><p>-HELen</p><p>-KELLer</p><p><br /></p><p>the "en" and "er" are each only one character of braille</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/special/BRAILLE.HTM" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/special/BRAILLE.HTM" rel="nofollow">http://www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/special/BRAILLE.HTM</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(I don't know much about Braille, I just thought that the letters looked inconsistant)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, there's a play about Helen Keller which is put on at the actual house where she grew up. It was tried on Broadway, but the director they got for that didn't do a good job, and it opened to horrible reviews and closed immediately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="FlyingMoose, post: 183031, member: 6572"]That quarter (at least the one in the Wiki picture, I don't have a real one in front of me) uses some non-letter braille characters. I wonder why they did this, since it would be too small to actually be useful. It says: -HELen -KELLer the "en" and "er" are each only one character of braille [url]http://www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/special/BRAILLE.HTM[/url] (I don't know much about Braille, I just thought that the letters looked inconsistant) Also, there's a play about Helen Keller which is put on at the actual house where she grew up. It was tried on Broadway, but the director they got for that didn't do a good job, and it opened to horrible reviews and closed immediately.[/QUOTE]
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