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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund sponsors the Museum of the Year award (known as the Gulbenkian Prize from 2003 to 2007 and the Art Fund Prize from 2008 to 2012). This is a £100,000 prize awarded annually to the museum or gallery that had the most imaginative, innovative or popular project during the previous year. [11]

  3. List of most expensive domain names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of domain names that sold for $3 million USD or more. The list is limited to pure domain name and cash-only sales. Sales which included website content or involved equity deals are not listed.

  4. Trian Partners - Wikipedia

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    Trian Fund Management, L.P., which uses the trade name Trian Partners, is an American hedge fund management firm headquartered in New York City. As an activist investor , the firm has pushed for significant change at some of America's largest corporations.

  5. Nobel Prize - Wikipedia

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    The capital of the Nobel Foundation today is invested 50% in shares, 20% bonds and 30% other investments (e.g. hedge funds or real estate). The distribution can vary by 10 percent. At the beginning of 2008, 64% of the funds were invested mainly in American and European stocks, 20% in bonds, plus 12% in real estate and hedge funds.

  6. S.A.C. Capital Advisors - Wikipedia

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    History. The company's name 'SAC Capital' derived from Steven A Cohen's initials. The company started trading with $25 million in 1992, grew its assets under management to $16 billion, and became the world's highest-returning hedge fund: SAC averaged annual returns of 30% net of fees under a 3% management fee and 50% performance fee from 1992 to 2013.

  7. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased.

  8. List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Michigan

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    Firsts in state history Patrick Miles: First African American male to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan (2012) Law degree. First African American male law graduate: Gabriel F. Hargo in 1870; Lawyers. First African American: John C. McLeod (1870)

  9. List of Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [9] and the government of the Soviet ...