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What happened next was alarmingly reminiscent of Truman Hunt’s tour. According to American newspaper reports, in the winter of 1913 a group of starving Igorrotes was found wandering the streets of Ghent, Belgium. The group’s interpreters, Ellis Tongai and James Amok, wrote to President Woodrow Wilson begging for his assistance. In their letter, the
... See moreSmithsonian Magazine • The Igorrote Tribe Traveled the World for Show And Made These Two Men Rich
In this, as in so many other ways, he was without peer, the preeminent builder of the frontier economy of the Northwest. By controlling the transportation structure of the region—a near-monopoly railroad that, at the time of his death, was only beginning to feel the competition of automobiles and public highways—he exercised more sweeping economic
... See moreMichael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
A word on Rockefeller as a manager, for he has a claim to be not only the first great corporate executive but one of the greatest ever.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Ici, en la personne de Rudolf Steiner, futur fondateur de l’anthroposophie14, à qui ses disciples édifièrent plus tard écoles et académies somptueuses pour l’aider à imposer sa doctrine, je rencontrai de nouveau, pour la première fois depuis Theodor Herzl, un homme que le destin allait charger de devenir le guide de millions de gens.
Stefan Zweig • Le Monde d'hier: Souvenirs d'un Européen (French Edition)
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Alderman Sir Thomas Smythe,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
She reached London to a joyous welcome in June 1603 after a voyage remarkable only for the fact that she called at St Helena, thus inaugurating the Company’s long association with that island,