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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. Index funds: What they are and how to invest in them - AOL

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    Index funds are mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that have one simple goal: To mirror the market or a portion of it. For example, an S&P 500 index fund tracks the collective ...

  4. Fidelity Magellan Fund - Wikipedia

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    The Fidelity Magellan Fund ( Mutual fund: FMAGX) is a U.S.-domiciled mutual fund from the Fidelity family of funds. [1] It is perhaps the world's best-known actively managed mutual fund, known particularly for its record-setting growth under the management of Peter Lynch from 1977 to 1990. [2] On January 14, 2008, Fidelity announced that the ...

  5. Nadar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Nadar (caste) Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Virudhunagar. The Nadar community was not a single caste, but developed from an assortment of related subcastes, which in course of time came under the single banner ...

  6. Wikipedia:On this day/Today - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia:On this day/Today. Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 21 [ talk · edit · history ] May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. 1138 – The Crusades: The siege of Shaizar ended, and the Emir of Shaizar became a vassal of the Byzantine Empire. 1864 – American Civil War: The inconclusive Battle of ...

  7. P.E.O. Sisterhood - Wikipedia

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    History. The Sisterhood was founded on January 21, 1869, as a seven-member sorority at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.It was the second sorority to be founded in the U.S., after I. C. Sorosis (now known as Pi Beta Phi) in Monmouth, Illinois in April 1867.

  8. Cool Japan - Wikipedia

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    The fund was launched in 2013, and the Japanese government committed to the Cool Japan Fund ¥50 billion ($500 million) over 20 years, with a target of ¥60 billion ($600 million) via private investor partnerships.

  9. National symbols of the United States - Wikipedia

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    References. ^ 4 U.S.C. § 1 ("The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field."); § 2 ("On the admission of a new State into the Union one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such addition shall take effect on ...