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It’s called the statue of the Three Lies because it isn’t John Harvard, but only a student model; he wasn’t the founder, only the first benefactor, who donated his 400-book library; and the date is wrong (it should be 1636).
Following the death after an attempted robbery in Monaco of billionaire Syrian-born banker Edmond J. Safra, the Jerusalem Post Sunday praised his work for Israeli Sephardim through the International Sephardi Education Foundation, of which he was the chief benefactor.
(The element with atomic number 61 is not found naturally, and this number was allocated to promethium , when proof of its existence was confirmed by American chemists, who named it for Prometheus, in Greek mythology the earliest teacher and benefactor of mankind.)
A massive fortress was built overlooking the Temple Mount, which Herod named “Antonia” in honor of his Roman friend and benefactor, Mark Antony.
In 1943 the Duke intervened in the investigation of the murder of Canadian multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes, a longtime benefactor of the Bahamas who gave his name to Nassau’s first airfield.