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  2. George Soros - Wikipedia

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    George Soros [a] HonFBA (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) [1] [2] is a Hungarian-American [b] businessman, investor, and philanthropist. [7] [8] As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, [9] [10] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, [11] of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune.

  3. Deafness in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italian Sign Language was officially recognized by the Italian parliament on May 19, 2021, as part of a coronavirus relief bill that recognized, promoted, and would protect LIS and LISt (Italian Tactile Sign Language). [19] This meant the official acknowledgement of LIS interpreters as professions and the spread of LIS in government offices. [19]

  4. Academic grading in Italy - Wikipedia

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    In Italian primary and secondary school a 10-point scale is used, 6 being the minimum grade for passing. Traditionally in the most prestigious high schools (Liceo Classico, Liceo Scientifico, Liceo Linguistico and Liceo delle Scienze Umane), grades vary within a limited range, between 2 and 8, often with each professor applying his/her own custom.

  5. Italian honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Any Italian monarch (as in Spain) might informally be addressed or referred to with this prefix, for example King Carlos III of Spain was widely known in his Neapolitan realm as "Don Carlo". Genealogical databases and dynastic works still reserve the title for this class of noble by tradition, although it is no longer a right under Italian law.

  6. Signed Italian - Wikipedia

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    They apply the words (signs) of Italian Sign Language to oral Italian word order and grammar. The difference is the degree of adherence to the oral language: Signed Italian is frequently used with simultaneous "translation", and consists of oral language accompanied by sign and fingerspelling. Signed Exact Italian has additional signs for ...

  7. Diplom - Wikipedia

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    A Diplom (German: ⓘ, from Ancient Greek: δίπλωμα diploma) is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine and only for engineers in France, Greece, Hungary, North ...

  8. Italian Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Italian Sign Language (Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its phonology ...

  9. Pound sign - Wikipedia

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    The £ grapheme in a selection of fonts The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England.