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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. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Since at least the early 1980s, the price of a stamp has closely followed the consumer price index. The large jumps in the early 1900s are because a change by a single penny was significant compared to the cost of the stamp. For example, the price increase from $0.02 to $0.03 on July 6, 1932, was a 50% increase in cost. Historical notes

  4. Timeline of the 2000s United States housing bubble - Wikipedia

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    1997–2005: Mortgage fraud increased by 1,411 percent. [39] 2000–2003: Early 2000s recession (exact time varies by country). 2001–2005: United States housing bubble (part of the world housing bubble ). 2001: US Federal Reserve lowers Federal funds rate eleven times, from 6.5% to 1.75%.

  5. Historic Preservation Fund - Wikipedia

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    The fund has made disbursements every year as far back as 1991, documented in available charts, yet half of the amount has never been allocated or appropriated to the intended programs. Rather than allocating the full amount or royalty revenues to the seven funds, these revenues stay in the U.S. Treasury and are, in effect, used in a ...

  6. Best total stock market index funds - AOL

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    Wilshire 5000 Index Investment Fund (WFIVX) This fund seeks to replicate the total return of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index, which includes about 3,500 stocks and is market-cap weighted ...

  7. Philadelphia Savings Fund Society - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society ( PSFS ), originally called the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, was a savings bank headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. PSFS was founded in December 1816, the first savings bank to organize and do business in the United States. The bank would develop as one of the largest savings ...

  8. National Register of Historic Places - Wikipedia

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    The National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP) is the United States federal government 's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic ...

  9. 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. [32] 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.