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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. 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 ...

  4. Byzantine flags and insignia - Wikipedia

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    Byzantine flags and insignia. For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through hereditary right. [1] Various large aristocratic families employed certain symbols to identify themselves; [1] the use of the cross, and of icons of Christ, the ...

  5. Valknut - Wikipedia

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    Valknut variations. On the left unicursal trefoil forms; on the right tricursal linked triangle forms. The valknut is a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles. It appears on a variety of objects from the archaeological record of the ancient Germanic peoples. The term valknut is a modern development; it is not known what term or terms ...

  6. Genealogical numbering systems - Wikipedia

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    The Henry System is a descending system created by Reginald Buchanan Henry for a genealogy of the families of the presidents of the United States that he wrote in 1935. [3] It can be organized either by generation or not. The system begins with 1. The oldest child becomes 11, the next child is 12, and so on.

  7. List of gay icons - Wikipedia

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    Saint Sebastian, history's first recorded male gay icon Sappho of Lesbos. Sappho of Lesbos was an Archaic Greek poet known for composing sentimental lyrics about women. Perceived homoerotism in her poems have led to her becoming a symbol for lesbianism, with her name and home island inspiring the terms sapphic and lesbian respectively. Her ...

  8. Jägermeister - Wikipedia

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    Jägermeister (/ ˈ j eɪ ɡ ər m aɪ s t ər / YAY-gər-my-stər, German: [ˈjɛːɡɐˌmaɪstɐ] ⓘ) is a German digestif made with 56 herbs and spices.Developed in 1934 by Wilhelm and Curt Mast, it has an alcohol by volume of 35% (61 degrees proof, or US 70 proof).

  9. Artificial general intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that matches or surpasses human capabilities across a wide range of cognitive tasks. This is in contrast to narrow AI, which is designed for specific tasks.