Embed David Swensen speaks in 2012 at an event honoring Jack Bogle, who created the first index fund. Like Bogle, Swensen was a champion of the everyday investor who he thought should invest in low-fee index funds and steer clear of actively managed mutual funds with higher fees. Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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David Swensen speaks in 2012 at an event honoring Jack Bogle, who created the first index fund. Like Bogle, Swensen was a champion of the everyday investor who he thought should invest in low-fee index funds and steer clear of actively managed mutual funds with higher fees.
Robert Donaldson devoted 27 years of his professional life to the National Library, expanding its national role DR Robert Donaldson, who has died at the age of 94, was profoundly conscientious in his dedication to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, and to its public role and the readers it served. It was common to see him leaving the library in the evenings, carrying not one but two briefcases with papers for scrutiny at home. He was highly respected within the library and among the wider community of research librarians for his deep knowledge of rare book librarianship and scholarship, and for his intellectual integrity, unfailing courtesy and professional commitment.
daily dose of trivia for all the history buffs out there. So sit back and take a ride to all the fascinating things that happened today!
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in people, and hence, every day has been a significant one in the foibles of History. Let’s take a tour of “This Day in History – 5th of May”.
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
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Kublai Khan was a Mongolian general and statesman who was the grandson and greatest successor of Genghis Khan. He was the fifth emperor (reigned 1260–94) of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty. In 1279 he completed the conquest of China begun by Genghis Khan and became the first Yuan ruler of all of China.
The Comedy of Errors will be set by the sea in a karaoke bar.
Award-winning director Matthew Parker said: “Think Brighton beach and end of pier style for our production of
The Comedy of Errors.
The cast of the OVO production of The Comedy of Errors set for the Roman Theatre Open Air Festival in St Albans.
- Credit: OVO I love this play; it’s really funny and has all the zip and pace of a classic farce but with really funny characters and lots of room for physical comedy. I’ve decided that two of the characters in our production run a beachfront karaoke bar, which means that the show will be liberally peppered with karaoke classics throughout… as well as hipsters, drag queens, fortune tellers and nuns!”
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