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Signature. Carnegie as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Andrew Carnegie (English: / kɑːrˈnɛɡi / kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; [2][3][note 1] November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the ...
He was transferred to a federal prison in North Carolina before dying of cancer on April 8, 2017. [12] [13] Eppolito was incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Tucson, a high-security federal prison. [9] He died on November 3, 2019, in federal custody at a Tucson hospital. [9] His cause of death has not been disclosed. [5]
TB Joshua. TB Joshua in 2014. Temitope Balogun Joshua (12 June 1963 – 5 June 2021) was a Nigerian charismatic pastor and televangelist. He was the leader and founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), [2] a Christian megachurch that runs the Emmanuel TV television station from Lagos, Nigeria. Joshua was widely known across Africa and ...
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ForMemRS, [1] HFRSE (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf] ⓘ; 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1887 – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants.
Andrew Carnegie was a Pittsburgh industrialist who made a fortune from his huge Carnegie Steel Company in the late 1800s, but who also wrote that the "man who dies rich dies disgraced." [4] One of his philanthropic ventures was the support of public libraries. Initially he helped fund them in places where he had a connection, but starting in ...
Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. [5] He is the son of Mamie Edna (née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher, [6] and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961), [2] a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961. [7] He has three older siblings. [8] Some of Morgan's great-great-grandparents were enslaved people who ...
World Without End is a best-selling 2007 historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. It is the second book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to 1989's The Pillars of the Earth. World Without End takes place in the same fictional town as Pillars of the Earth – Kingsbridge – and features the descendants of some Pillars ...
Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson from a story by Franzoni. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou and Richard Harris. [a] Crowe portrays the Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is ...