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A. Dean Lindsay made claims for all extraterrestrial objects on June 15, 1936, and sent a letter to Pittsburgh Notary Public along with a deed and money for establishment of the property. The public sent offers to buy objects from him as well. [3] He had previously made claims on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. [21]
Some sources suggest a value as high as $265.62 billion, while others put it closer to $47.24 billion due to limited public data on the Church's finances. Former totals the value of land, real estate, investments and holdings of the Catholic Church and its institutions. [2] [3] Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) 31.11 India: Hinduism
This is a list of charities accused of ties to terrorism. A number of charities have been accused or convicted in court of using their revenues to fund terrorism or revolutionary movements, rather than for the humanitarian purposes for which contributions were ostensibly collected.
This is a list of wealthiest charitable foundations worldwide. It consists of the 50 largest charitable foundations, private foundations engaged in philanthropy, and other charitable organizations such as charitable trusts that have disclosed their assets.
[18] [19] The Lunar Library also contained an unannounced microscopic sample of tardigrades, a form of life that can go into suspended animation and survive in space. Nova Spivack called himself a " space pirate " who contaminated the Moon by doing so, while some scientists argued that tardigrades were already present there.
For a long time, the way philanthropy worked was simple: Rich people gave their money to museums and churches and opera houses and Harvard. Their names went up on buildings, charities gave them made-up awards, their grandkids went to rehab, the Earth went around the sun. But philanthropy is changing.
“It’s like when a woman goes in for labor, and the baby comes out dead,” she said. “That’s how it felt to me.” The Lagos state government flattened Badia East in February 2013 to clear land in an urban renewal zone financed by the World Bank, the global lender committed to fighting poverty.
The Holy Land Foundation (HLF, Arabic: مؤسسة الأرض المقدسة للإغاثة والتنمية, romanized: muʾassasa al-ʾarḍ al-muqaddasatu lil-ʾighātha wat-tanmiya, lit. 'Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development'), originally known as Occupied Land Fund, was the largest Islamic charity in the United