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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 late ...
The Most Toys. " The Most Toys " is the 22nd episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the 70th episode of the series overall. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet crew of the Federation starship Enterprise -D.
Date apprehended. December 11, 2008. Bernard Lawrence Madoff (/ ˈmeɪdɔːf / MAY-dawf; [ 2 ] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. [ 3 ][ 4 ] He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq ...
Lou Pearlman. Louis Jay Pearlman (June 19, 1954 – August 19, 2016) was an American music manager and scam artist. He was the person behind many successful 1990s boy bands, having formed and funded the Backstreet Boys. After their massive success, he then developed NSYNC.
Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Edward Epstein (/ ˈɛpstiːn / EP-steen; [1] January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and sex offender. [2][3] Born and raised in New York City, Epstein began his professional life as a teacher at the Dalton School despite lacking a college degree. After his dismissal from the school in 1976, he ...
James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels. [ 1 ]
Her house in Hove was sold (and demolished for redevelopment as high-density flats) around 2005 for £1.5 million, [98] of which she has given away £300,000, citing Andrew Carnegie: "A man who dies rich, dies shamed." [66] Burchill's second son, Jack Landesman, died by suicide in late June 2015, aged 29.
The Gospel of Wealth. " Wealth ", [2] more commonly known as " The Gospel of Wealth ", [3] is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June [4] of 1889 [5] that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. The article was published in the North American Review, an opinion magazine for America's ...