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  2. Art Fund - Wikipedia

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    Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as well as lobbying on behalf of museums and galleries and their users.

  3. 1964 New York World's Fair - Wikipedia

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    The group began issuing $67.5 million in promissory notes in late 1960 to fund construction; [82] the WFC later reduced the amount to $64 million (consisting of $40 million in notes plus $24 million from the city). [83] At the time, the WFC's finance chairman predicted that the fair would earn over $200 million.

  4. World Wide Fund for Nature - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment. [5] It was formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States.

  5. House system at the California Institute of Technology

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    During the windstorm of 2013, the L broke apart into pieces, so the Lloydies rebuilt the "L" but replaced it instead with a double "L" that is now 16-feet tall. In 2018, neighbors and the city of Pasadena filed a complaint, as the Lloyd Christmas tree was a religious symbol. The tree is now referred to as the "Lloyd Lights".

  6. Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode. It is the second-to-last block of the Basic Multilingual Plane, followed only by the short Specials block at ...

  7. Financial Instrument Global Identifier - Wikipedia

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    www.openfigi.com. The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) (formerly Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID)) is an open standard, unique identifier of financial instruments that can be assigned to instruments including common stock, options, derivatives, futures, corporate and government bonds, municipals, currencies, and mortgage products.

  8. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.

  9. International Securities Identification Number - Wikipedia

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    An International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) is a code that uniquely identifies a security globally for the purposes of facilitating clearing, reporting and settlement of trades. Its structure is defined in ISO 6166. The ISIN code is a 12-character alphanumeric code that serves for uniform identification of a security through ...