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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. Lists of most expensive items by category - Wikipedia

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    List of most expensive films. List of most expensive music videos. List of most expensive non-fungible tokens. List of most expensive photographs. List of most expensive albums. List of most valuable records. List of most expensive music deals. List of most expensive television series. List of most expensive video games to develop.

  4. List of valuable items purchased at discard sales - Wikipedia

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    Purchase price Purchase year Resale price Resale year Dunlap broadside [1] Flea market Pennsylvania, U.S. US$4 (equivalent to $9.83 in 2023) 1989: US$2,420,000 (equivalent to $5,413,516 in 2023) 1991 Ding bowl (Song Dynasty) [2] Tag sale New York, U.S. US$3 (equivalent to $4.41 in 2023) 2007 US$2,200,000 (equivalent to $2,877,600 in 2023) 2013

  5. Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare amendment (July 30, 1965). Former President Harry S. Truman (seated) and his wife, Bess, are on the far right.. Originally, the name "Medicare" in the United States referred to a program providing medical care for families of people serving in the military as part of the Dependents' Medical Care Act, which was passed in 1956. [5]

  6. Alfred Winslow Jones - Wikipedia

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    Anna Luise Hauser née Block. Mary Carter. Children. Anthony Winslow Jones. Dale Burch. Alfred Winslow Jones (9 September 1900 – 2 June 1989) was an American investor, hedge fund manager, and sociologist. He is credited with forming the first modern hedge fund and is widely regarded as the "father of the hedge fund industry." [1]

  7. List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...

  8. List of countries by price level - Wikipedia

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    Countries by global price level (World average=100) Rank County/Territory Global price level (% of world average) [2] Year 1 Bermuda: 193.5 2021 2 Barbados: 188.9 2021 3 Cayman Islands: 184.7 2021 4 Switzerland: 181.4 2021 5 Israel: 179.1 2021 6 Iceland: 177.1 2021 7 Turks and Caicos Islands: 172.8 2021 8 Australia: 168.6 2021 9 Norway: 165.3 ...

  9. List of United States presidential assassination attempts and ...

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    This article lists assassinations and assassination attempts on incumbent and former presidents and presidents-elect, but not on those who had not yet been elected president. Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon ...