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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. Nordart - Wikipedia

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    NordArt is an international contemporary art exhibition and a non-profit cultural initiative of the ACO Group and the cities of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg. It has taken place annually in the summer since 1999 at Carlshütte, a former iron foundry. The site features 22,000 m² of interior space and 60,000 m² for outdoor installations.

  4. Currency sign (generic) - Wikipedia

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    U+00A4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN ( ¤) Category. The currency sign ¤ is a character used to denote an unspecified currency. It can be described as a circle the size of a lowercase character with four short radiating arms at 45° (NE), 135° (SE), 225° (SW) and 315° (NW). It is raised slightly above the baseline. The character is sometimes called scarab.

  5. Old North Church - Wikipedia

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    For this, Old North's steeple has become an iconic symbol of liberty in the U.S. While the 1727 load of logwood donated by the "Gentlemen of the Bay of Honduras" was a substantial contribution to the funds needed for the first steeple, in 1737 Old North Church leaders began a subscription campaign to collect the remaining funds needed to ...

  6. Syphax - Wikipedia

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    Syphax (Ancient Greek: Σύφαξ, Sýphax; Punic: 𐤎𐤐𐤒, SPQ) was a king of the Masaesyli tribe of western Numidia (present-day Algeria) during the last quarter of the 3rd century BC.

  7. First Eagle Investments - Wikipedia

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    1345 Avenue of the Americas. New York City, U.S. Key people. Mehdi Mahmud, President and Chief Executive Officer. Number of employees. 427 (2021) Website. www .firsteagle .com. First Eagle Investments is a US investment management company based in New York City that is an adviser to the First Eagle Funds.

  8. Ticker symbol - Wikipedia

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    A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. In short, ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) representing specific assets or securities listed on a stock exchange or traded publicly.

  9. Tasseography - Wikipedia

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    Tasseography (also known as tasseomancy, tassology, or tasseology) is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments . The terms derive from the French word tasse ( cup ), which in turn derives from the Arabic loan-word into French tassa, and the respective Greek suffixes -graph ...