Answer
Basically the pawnbrokers offered secured loans to individuals against personal property.
Explanation
Pawnbrokers are people being an individual or a business or an organisation who offers money as loans to people which is secured with an item or personal property is used as a collateral. whenever you pawn a property or an item it means that you are you are using it as a collatel. And the pawnbroker will agree to give you cash and hold your item until the time you will pay back as per the agreement.
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"The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve in their standard communications units of the Pacific theater. Code talking, however, was pioneered by the Cherokee and Choctaw peoples during World War I.
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They sent and received verbally encrypted messages over radio to and from the battlefield during World War 1.
The industrial revolution began in Great Britain as it had most coal and iron which enabled it to build factories and machines. It spread from Britain towards Europe, where it mostly developed in Germany and it also spread into the US.