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The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it attempts to help students "establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry.
Arthur Conolly (2 July 1807, London – 17 June 1842, Bukhara) was a British intelligence officer, explorer and writer. He was a captain of the 6th Bengal Light Cavalry in the service of the British East India Company. [1]
[8] [note 2] Neither of the two eyewitnesses—an anonymous Portuguese pilot and Pêro Vaz de Caminha—give a list of captains in their sources. Pedro Álvares Cabral. The Second Armada was to be headed by the Portuguese nobleman Pedro Álvares Cabral, a master of the Order of Christ.
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The issue of Captain America featuring the reveal of Bucky as the Winter Soldier went to a second printing, and subsequent issues had "robust" sales. [1] The story arc has placed on numerous best-of lists, with Comic Book Resources, Newsarama, and Screen Rant each ranking "The Winter Soldier" as the best Captain America story of all time. [12 ...
A bride and groom can't agree on the size of their wedding — so they've decided to each plan their own event. In a post on Reddit's "Wedding Shaming" forum, a user shared that their sister-in ...
The valuation proved to be conservative: After a bidding battle, Chinese billionaire Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for the viral work. For his money, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur received a roll ...
After a decline in popularity from the height of their success in the mid-1970s, the Captain and Tennille signed with Casablanca Records under the guidance of Neil Bogart. "Do That to Me One More Time" was a comeback for the duo, but they failed to achieve further success on Casablanca and their contract was not renewed.