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MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, on July 14, 2005. He reached his goal of trading up to a house with the fourteenth transaction, trading a movie role for a house. This is the list of all transactions MacDonald made: [2] On July 14, 2005, he went to Vancouver and traded the paperclip for a fish-shaped pen.
The Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (CAYMC) is a government office building and courthouse in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Originally called the City-County Building, it was renamed for the former Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young, shortly after his death in 1997. It houses the headquarters of the government of the City of Detroit, as well as ...
Atkinson Avenue is an east–west street located in the geographic heart of the city of Detroit, Michigan. The historic district had 225 houses in 2010. [ 1 ] Atkinson Avenue was named in honor of William Francis Atkinson. Held prisoner by the Confederacy, Atkinson courageously escaped and rose to the rank of captain before leaving the service ...
N. Osborn & Company. The Detroit City Hall was the seat of government for the city of Detroit, Michigan from 1871 to 1961. The building sat on the west side of Campus Martius bounded by Griswold Street to the west, Michigan Avenue to the north, Woodward Avenue to the east, and Fort Street to the south where One Kennedy Square stands today.
Brenda B. Jones (born October 24, 1959) is an American politician who served as a member of the Detroit City Council from 2006 to 2022, and as the president of the City Council from 2014 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Jones also briefly served as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district from November 29 ...
For 29-year-old Demi Skipper, inspiration came by way of a TED Talk and a red paper clip. The TEDxVienna Talk speaker in question was Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian blogger who is perhaps better known ...
Died. February 6, 1950. (1950-02-06) (aged 87) Detroit, Michigan. Political party. Republican. John Christian Lodge (August 12, 1862 – February 6, 1950) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1922 to 1923, in 1924, and from 1927 to 1929. He spent over 30 years on the Detroit City Council.
The Spirit of Detroit is a monument with a large bronze statue created by Marshall Fredericks and located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Fredericks also designed the seal of Wayne County at the time he was designing The Spirit of Detroit, as it was a part of the work and the county had no seal ...