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    A tontine (/ˈtɒntaɪn, -iːn, ˌtɒnˈtiːn/) is an investment linked to a living person which provides an income for as long as that person is alive. Such...
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    The Tontine Coffee House was a coffeehouse in Manhattan, New York City, established in early 1793. Situated at 82 Wall Street, on the north-west corner...
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  • tontine is an investment plan for raising capital, devised in the 17th century. Tontine may also refer to: Tontine Building, in Vermont, USA Tontine Buildings...
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  • East Twickenham to the west. Its construction was privately funded by a tontine scheme, for which tolls were charged until 1859. Because the river meanders...
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  • 27 January 1975. On 9 May 1974, 53-year-old Quek Lee Eng, the head of a tontine group and wife of a wealthy local textile merchant Sim Keng Soy (aged 54...
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  • Tontine is an Australian manufacturer of pillows and quilts. The company can trace its origins back to 1870 when the Galt family commenced manufacturing...
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    push of industry into the area forced its demolition in 1858. The name "Tontine" derives from a financial scheme originated by Neapolitan banker Lorenzo...
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    and coffee houses. In 1793, they coordinated their business inside the Tontine Coffee House on the corner of Wall and Water streets. The document is now...
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  • Tontine Park was a football ground in Renton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was the home ground of Renton F.C. from 1878 until 1922, including their...
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    and designed by architect Edith Hughes. Linked to the Tolbooth stood the Tontine Hotel and its Assembly Rooms, designed from 1737 by architect Allan Dreghorn...
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  • slowing economy, netting $200 million in the process. Pershing Square Tontine Holdings was a blank check company formed by Bill Ackman that went public...
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    The Tontine Buildings is a former hotel in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, built in the late 18th century by the Staffordshire and Worcestershire...
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  • 19th century, a lawyer explains to a group of young boys that a form of tontine has been organised; £1,000 has been invested for each child (£20,000 in...
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  • Tontine (foaled 1822) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in 1825. When the other horses...
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    the daughter of restaurateurs Eugene and Barbara McCoy, once managers of Tontine restaurant near Stokesley, who now run the Crathorne Arms pub in Crathorne...
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    term in Australian English. After a series of mergers and acquisitions, Tontine Group has held the Doona trademark since 1991. Kimptons' adoption of the...
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    The Tontine Building is a historic mixed-use commercial and residential building at 500 Coolidge Highway (United States Route 5) in Guilford, Vermont...
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  • Neapolitan banker. He is sometimes credited with the invention of the tontine, a form of pension, although it has also been suggested that he simply...
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    story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne...
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  • Angel") Ingrid Park ("Catch of the Day", "As If Nothing Had Happened" and "Tontine") Bree Peters ("Three Coins in a Fountain") Donogh Rees ("Playing the Lie")...
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  • of the war, the unit had discovered several paintings and agreed on a tontine, placing the paintings in a crate, and the final surviving member would...
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  • Catgut (1819), Rowena (1820), Zeal (1821), Whizgig (1822), Zinc (1823), Tontine (1825), Problem (1826), Arab (1827) Leading owner (8 wins): 4th Duke of...
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    Tontine is an historical French gambling game for five to twelve players using playing cards. It is a social game of pure chance in which the chips (jetons)...
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    Present. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-3935-9. Weir, David (1989). "Tontines, Public Finance, and Revolution in France and England, 1688–1789". The...
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  • his fellow students and teachers. Later while working in the Cleveland Tontine restaurant business, he would entertain his customers with unrehearsed...
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    Building Pearl Street Station St. Paul Building Singer Building Stadt Huys Tontine Coffee House Tower Building Western Union Telegraph Building World Trade...
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  • them. The guests conclude that they have been called together due to a tontine made by relatives, who all died in a hotel fire during their last annual...
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    Building Pearl Street Station St. Paul Building Singer Building Stadt Huys Tontine Coffee House Tower Building Western Union Telegraph Building World Trade...
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  • up by a mysterious character named The Benefactor. Assassination market Tontine Policy Analysis Market Matheson, Whitney (July 6, 2004). "Celebrity obsession...
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    Budge. The Cleveland Tontine to Clack Lane End improvement opened in the early 1970s. It drops towards the Cleveland Tontine at the junction with the...
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