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Arkham Intelligence - Wikipedia

Miggy Morel founded Arkham in 2020 and received investments from angel investors including Tim Draper, Joe Lonsdale of Palantir Technologies, and Sam Altman of OpenAI and Worldcoin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_In…
Arkham Intelligence provided data in January 2023 that identified “an alleged nexus of money laundering” from a much smaller exchange called Bitzlato through intermediate wallets of Binance.

In July 2014, Tim Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Image
Service auction of seized bitcoins from the Silk Road website.

In April 2015, a reality program called Startup U featured Draper University's seven-week program in a 10-episode series.

The show included Miss USA 2013, Erin Brady.

Draper University formed a partnership with Image
Arizona State University and Global Silicon Valley in May 2016.

Brady represented the US at Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia.

In 1999, Crow was asked by Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet to become chairman of the Image
board for In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm.

In 2002, Crow was appointed the 16th and current President of Arizona State University.

At Columbia, Crow was instrumental in developing the university's digital online education strategy and in creating the
Columbia Earth Institute.

Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is located at Columbia University in New York City.

It was named after Robert H. Goddard.

The George C. Marshall institute was founded in 1984 by Frederick Seitz (former President of the Image
United States National Academy of Sciences), Robert Jastrow(founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies), and William Nierenberg (former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). The institute's primary aim, initially, was to play a role in defense policy
debates, defending Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or "Star Wars"). In particular, it sought to defend SDI "from attack by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and in particular by the equally prominent physicists Hans Bethe, Richard Garwin, and astronomer
Carl Sagan."

In 2012, the institute took over the responsibility for running the Missilethreat.com website from the Claremont Institute. Missilethreat.com aims to inform the American people of missile threats, thereby
encouraging the deployment of a ballistic missile defense system. Since the closure of the institute, the website has been maintained by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

The chairman of the CSIS board of trustees is Missilethreat.com
Thomas Pritzker, who is also chairman and chief executive officer of The Pritzker Organization.

Pritzker was named in a deposition filed under oath by Virginia Giuffre related to her being sexually trafficked through the Jeffrey Epstein network. She testified in the deposition Image
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that she once was sexually abused by Pritzker.

Giuffre used imagery of a blue Morpho butterfly to symbolize the transformation.

Famous collections include those of the London jeweler Dru Drury and the Dutch merchant Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, the Paris diplomat Image
Georges Rousseau-Decelle, the financier Walter Rothschild, the Romanov Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia and the, English and German respectively, businessmen James John Joicey and Curt Eisner.

As an active Zionist and a close friend of Chaim Weizmann, Walt worked to Image
formulate the draft declaration for a Jewish homeland in British Mandate-Palestine. On 2 November 1917, he received a letter from the British foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, addressed to his London home at 148 Piccadilly. In the letter, the British government declared its Image
support for the establishment in Palestine of "a national home for the Jewish people". The letter became known as the Balfour Declaration.

His title was inherited by his nephew (Nathaniel Mayer) Victor Rothschild.

Victor Rothschild joined the Cambridge Apostles, where he became Image
friends with Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby, members of the Cambridge Spy Ring.

His sister Miriam Louisa Rothschild was recruited to work at Bletchley Park on codebreaking with Alan Turing.

The first personnel of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) moved Image
to Bletchley Park on 15 August 1939.

From 1959 through his death, Horace Rowan Gaither was a general partner and co-founder of Draper, Gaither & Anderson, one of the first venture capital firms on the west coast of the U.S., together with William H. Draper Jr., a retired Army Image
general and Frederick L. Anderson, a retired Air Force general.

Through his son William, he was the grandfather of actress Polly Draper and venture capitalist Timothy C. Draper who founded Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Synthetic Genomics was founded in the spring of 2005 by Image
J. Craig Venter, Nobel Laureate Hamilton O. Smith, Juan Enriquez, and David Kiernan. Venter (and Smith)'s previous company, Celera Genomics, was a driving force in the race to sequence the human genome.

In 2001 anthrax attacks, TIGR worked with the National Science Foundation Image
and the FBI to sequence the strain of Bacillus anthracis used in bioterrorism attacks.

The government settled lawsuits that were filed by the widow of the first anthrax victim Bob Stevens for $2.5 million with no admission of liability. Image
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