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  2. Francis Barton Gummere - Wikipedia

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    Gummere married Amelia Smith Mott (1859-1937) in 1882; she was a noted scholar of Quaker history. Their son Richard Mott Gummere was a professor of Latin and headmaster of the William Penn Charter School. Their second son Samuel James Gummere had a military career, reaching the rank of major. A third son, Francis Barton Gummere Jr., was an invalid.

  3. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    [9] [10] The development of Christianity, by contrast, has its influence split between Jesus's initial teachings and foundational work, and Paul the Apostle, who played a pivotal role in the early spread of Christianity as well as distinguishing its doctrines and practices from Judaism and the other Greek and Roman religions of the time period ...

  4. John Gummere - Wikipedia

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    John Gummere (1784-1845) was an American astronomer and one of the founders of Haverford College in Pennsylvania. [1] He was born in 1784 near Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. [ 2 ] His son Samuel James Gummere (1811-1874) was the first president of Haverford College , and his grandson Francis Barton Gummere (1855-1919) was an influential scholar of ...

  5. List of Vassar College people - Wikipedia

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    Marian Thurm, class of 1974 – author of short stories and novels, has taught Creative Writing at Yale and Columbia; Elizabeth Spires, class of 1974 – poet and children's book writer; Paco Underhill, class of 1975 – environmental psychologist and business writer; Judith Regan, class of 1975 – publisher

  6. Gordon Tullock - Wikipedia

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    An example of rent seeking is when a firm, union, or special-interest group lobbies political actors (e.g., politicians or bureaucrats) to influence legislation in a beneficial manner. This can lead to moral hazard when politicians make policy decisions based on the lobby instead of the efficiency of the policy.

  7. The Pump House Gang - Wikipedia

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    The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and articles by Tom Wolfe.The pieces in the book explore various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s.The title essay is based on a two-part New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine article titled The New Life Out There, [1] about Jack Macpherson and his social circle of surfers that congregated at a sewage pump house at Windansea Beach ...

  8. Inside the harrowing true story behind 'Society of the Snow'

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    The plane crash at the center of Netflix's "Society of the Snow" is based on the true story of a 1972 disaster in the Andes involving a Uruguayan rugby team.

  9. The Rochdale Pioneers - Wikipedia

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    The story is set in 1844 when a group of working-class people from the town of Rochdale came together to change the unfair society they were living in. . Fed up with dishonest and corrupt shopkeepers selling poor quality products at high prices they decide to take matters into their own hands.