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The boldness of philanthropists [PDF]
Science, 2016 Last week, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced their new philanthropic initiative with the goal of “curing, preventing, and managing all diseases by the end of the century.” This may raise some eyebrows, but this effort—part of the $45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—joins forces with other philanthropists to push the envelope and support ...
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Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2022 Julian Price used his inherited wealth to revitalize downtown Asheville, North Carolina. This documentary review reflects on his passion for community, and the concepts he believed would bring the city back from decay.
Susan A. Kelly
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Les Archives de la planète, entre ressource documentaire et matière à récits
Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2022 The technical developments of the late 19th century, which favoured travel and the mechanical recording of reality, gave rise to world-documentation ventures.
Valérie Perlès
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Slavica Revalensia, 2018 This is a prefaced publication of a previously unknown Nikolai Leskov’s review of The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, which he read in the translation by Yulia Zasetskaia (1835—1882), a philanthropist and an ardent follower of Lord Radstock ...
Olga Makarevich
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article focuses on the charitable activities of the Armenian businessmen in the resort town of Pyatigorsk in the end of XVIII - beginning of XX centuries.
V. Z. Akopyan, A. A. Ilyasova
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The Bible and the spade as E. Brenton’s way to save the poor [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2022 The article, through the activities of the English philanthropist E. Brenton, examines the problem of pauperization of the population of Great Britain in the 19th century, the causes of pauperization, the consequences and solutions are clarified.
Olga Yablonskaya
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THE KHATRANOV BROTHERS: NAKHICHEVAN'S CHARITIES AND COMMON FIGURES
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article is devoted to public and charitable activities of the famous representatives of the Nakhichevan elite - the Khatranov brothers. Traditions of charity in the Khatranov family were laid by their grandfather - the city head Harutyun Pogosovich ...
Sarkis Kazarov
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Bio / Ethical Predisposition as the Motivation of the Medical Profession
Crkva u Svijetu, 2023 Diverse moral and ethical value judgment of individual opting for future medical occupation, depends due to the different motivations and bio / ethical predisposition, but also to the professional relationship.
Suzana Vuletić, Gordana Pelčić
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Interesting Beings and Racial Difference in Fictions of the Haitian Revolution
Karib, 2018 This article examines two novels about the Haitian Revolution, namely Leonora Sansay’s epistolary novel Secret History, or the Horrors of St. Domingo (1808) and an extended rewriting of this novel entitled Zelica, the Creole (1820), which has been ...
Michael Boyden
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Uniform buttons within the context of the collection of the Waldes Museum of Buttons and Fasteners [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2020 The study deals with uniform buttons in the collection of the Waldes Museum of Buttons and Fasteners in Prague-Vršovice, which was founded at the initiative of Prague industrialist and philanthropist Jindřich Waldes.
Hrušková, Kateřina
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