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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.
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Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, etc. In militaries, the captain is typically at the level of an officer ...
Ainsworth was born on November 10, 1886, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.He entered the United States Naval Academy on June 21, 1906, and graduated on June 3, 1910. [1] Following successive two-year tours at sea in the battleship Iowa and in transport Prairie, he shifted to the battleship Florida during the spring of 1914, just in time to act as the adjutant of one of the battalions that landed at ...
Thomas Carlyle used it to inveigh against the democratic movements of his time. [4] More recently, it has become a staple of American political discussion, where it is viewed simply as its image of the state as a ship, in need of a government as officers to command it—and conspicuously absent of its anti-democratic, pro-absolutist original ...
Williams' mother, a music teacher, traveled overseas for the Sunday, Dec. 1 opening night of The Devil Wears Prada.. The trip was arranged “to celebrate her 85th birthday party surrounded by 150 ...
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Machine Gun Kelly is "doing the best he can" to get back together with Megan Fox following their breakup, with sources claiming the rapper "remains hopeful."