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  • 1Mario Gabelli — Mario Joseph Gabelli (born June 19, 1942) is an American stock investor, investment advisor, and financial analyst. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors (GAMCO Investors) a $30 billion dollar global… …

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  • 2College and university endowments in the United States — In the United States, the total financial endowment can be over one billion dollars at many of the richest universities. [http://www.nacubo.org/x2376.xml National Association of Colleges and University Business Professionals Endowment Study]… …

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  • 3Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences — (short KGI) is a small graduate school in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1997 through a startup grant of $50 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation. KGI is a member of the Claremont Colleges.KGI offers a professional science masters… …

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  • 4Flick family — The Flick family is a wealthy German industrial and political dynasty, heir to an industrial empire embracing coal, steel and the DaimlerChrysler company.Friedrich Flick was the founder of the dynasty after establishing a major industrial… …

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  • 5McCormick Observatory — Leander McCormick Observatory Leander McCormick Observatory in 2010 …

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  • 6William Patton Thornton — Dr. William Patton Thornton (February 6, 1817 in Hillsboro, Ohio – October 10, 1883, in College Hill, Ohio), son of William and Martha Patton Thornton, was a prominent physician, educator, author, politician, and member of the influential… …

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  • 7Kellstadt Graduate School of Business — Mission Catholic, Vincetian, Urban Established …

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  • 8Buddy Fletcher — Infobox Person image size = 150px name = Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. caption = birth name = birth date = 1966 birth place = death date = death place = death cause = resting place = resting place coordinates = residence = The Dakota city state|New… …

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  • 9chair — n. piece of furniture for sitting 1) a camp (BE), folding; deck; easy; rocking; swivel chair professorship 2) to endow; establish a chair 3) to be appointed to, receive a chair 4) to hold, occupy a chair 5) to give up, relinquish a chair 6) a… …

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  • 10Alan Dundes — with a wooden Norwegian statue of a tale called Squeezing the Stone Alan Dundes, (September 8, 1934 – March 30, 2005)[1] was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central to establishing th …

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