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Logo for the centennial of land-grant universities. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [1] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [2]
A league can also be a unit of area, used to express the area of land, that is equal to 25 million square varas. A (square) league is equivalent to about 4,428.4 acres (1,792.11 ha). It was used in the archaic system of old Spanish land grants affecting Texas and parts of adjoining states and this use of league is used throughout the Texas ...
AmTrust Financial Services was founded by brothers George Karfunkel and Michael Karfunkel in 1998. [7] [8] In 2005, Ronald E. (Ron) Pipoly was appointed as CFO. [9] [10] AmTrust began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on November 13, 2006. [11]