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$120 Million Donation Makes First Arkansas Art School Possible
A donation of $120 million from the Walton Family Foundation will help establish the University of Arkansas School of Art.
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How Much Do The Biggest Stars In The NBA Actually Make?
NBA players make a lot of money – but it's not nearly as much as it seems. Check out how some of the league's top earners end up losing more than half of their salary every year.
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The Mercedes-AMG Project One Hybrid Concept Car Will One Day Cost $2.7M
The Mercedes-AMG Project One concept car will belie its environmentally friendly hybrid vehicle status with more than a thousand horsepower, and a top speed that easily exceeds 200 miles per hour.
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Philippine President Duterte's Son Has Alleged Ties To $125 Million Drug Shipment
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's son (and vice mayor of the city of Davaou) Paolo has been accused of clearing the way for a huge, $125 shipment of narcotics to be shipped into the country from China in May.
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Former Lottery Employee Gets 25 Years In Prison For Rigging Jackpots
After rigging rigging computer codes to produce winning numbers for years in various states, an Iowa court sentences a former lottery worker to 25 years in prison.
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Uber Could Be Spending More Than $200M On New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
In the business world, it's common practice for a poached CEO's forfeited unvested shares in his or her former company to be paid for by the new one as an incentive to take the new position.
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Vacheron Constantin's Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600: A $1M Watch
The one-of-a-kind Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600 boasts 23 complications within its works, making it the most complicated Constantin wristwatch.
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This Homeowner Is Accepting Bitcoin For His $6.4 Million Miami Home
In 2014, one Miami homeowner decided that when he put his $6.4 million home back on the market, he would allow buyers to purchase the property in Bitcoin.
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Germany Successfully Repatriated $31 Billion Worth Of Gold From New York And Paris
The process of returning the gold to the German treasury took four years, which should let you know this wasn't a paltry amount of gold–it's valued at nearly $31 billion.
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Google Has Paid Apple Billions To Remain Default iOS Search Engine
That's up from the $1 billion Google paid Apple in 2014 to stay the default search engine on iOS devices like the iPhone, not chump change even to a big, famously cash-rich company like Apple.
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Mavis Wanczyk Is The Winner Of The Largest Single-Ticket Powerball Jackpot In History
That $336 million is taken out of a lump sum $480 million, which Wanczyk opted to take instead of the full jackpot in installments. And she's now instantly richer than a surprising list of top tier celebrities.
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Gordon Hartman Built A $35 Million Theme Park For His Daughter And Those With Special Needs
Morgan's Wonderland, located in San Antonio, Texas, is designed to be an amusement park of "total inclusion," where anyone, regardless of any special needs they might have.
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At 16 Dawn Lafreeda Started Waiting Tables At Denny's, Today She Owns 75 Locations.
At 16 she took a job as a Denny's hostess. At 23 she bought her first franchise. Today Dawn Lafreeda owns 75 Denny's locations and is one of the most successful franchise owners in the country.
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The $3 Million Bugatti Chiron Is The New, Fastest Car In The World
With a top speed that exceeds 260 miles per hour, the Bugatti Chiron is clearly an ambitious project to say the least, and you probably already know that that kind of ambition does not come cheap.
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Australian Commonwealth Bank Scraps CEO Bonus Over Money Laundering
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has scrapped its chief executive's bonus for damaging the bank's reputation with allegations of money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws.