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Eduardo Luiz Saverin [4] [5] [6]  ( / ˈ s æ v ər ɪ n / ;  Portuguese:  [eduˈaɾdu luˈis ˈsaveɾĩ] ; born 19 March 1982) is a Brazilian  Internet entrepreneur  and  angel investor . [7]  Saverin is one of the co-founders of  Facebook . [8]  As of 2015, he owns 53 million Facebook shares [9]  (approximately 0.4% of all outstanding shares) and has a net worth of $8.7 billion, [10]  according to  Forbes . He has also invested in early-stage startups such as  Qwiki [11]  and  Jumio . [12] In what was seen by some as a move to avoid U.S. taxes, Saverin  renounced  his U.S. citizenship in September 2011. [13] [14]  According to Saverin, he renounced his citizenship because of his "interest in working and living in Singapore" where he has been since 2009. [15]  He avoided an estimated $700 million in capital gains taxes; this generated some media attention and controversy. [7] [16] [17]  Saverin denies that he left the U.S. to avoid paying taxes. [13] Contents    [ hide ] 

Facebook  is an American  for-profit corporation  and an online  social media  and  social networking service  based in  Menlo Park, California . The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by  Mark Zuckerberg , along with fellow  Harvard College  students and roommates,  Eduardo Saverin ,  Andrew McCollum ,  Dustin Moskovitz  and  Chris Hughes . [5] [6] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to  higher education institutions in the Boston area , the  Ivy League  schools and  Stanford University . Facebook gradually added support for students at various other universities, and eventually to high school students as well. Since 2006, anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement, depending on applicable local laws. [7]  The Facebook name comes from the  face book  directories often giv

History [ edit ] The oldest classical Greek and Latin writing had little or no space between words and could be written in  boustrophedon  (alternating directions). Over time, text direction (left to right) became standardized, and  word dividers  and  terminal punctuation  became common. The first way to divide sentences into groups was the original  paragraphos , similar to an  underscore  at the beginning of the new group. [3]  The Greek  paragraphos  evolved into the  pilcrow  (¶), which in English manuscripts in the  Middle Ages  can be seen inserted inline between sentences. The  hedera leaf  (e.g. ☙) has also been used in the same way. Indented paragraphs demonstrated in the US Constitution In ancient manuscripts, another means to divide sentences into paragraphs was a line break ( newline ) followed by an  initial  at the beginning of the next paragraph. An initial is an oversized capital letter, sometimes outdented beyond the margin of the text. This style can be