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He published several books related to his finance work. He is a founding board member of Grameen America and Grameen Foundation , which support microcredit. [ 7 ] Yunus also served on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation , a public charity to support UN causes, from 1998 to 2021. [ 8 ]
The city of Savannah was founded on that date, along with the Province of Georgia. Because of the friendship between Oglethorpe and Tomochici, [ 3 ] Savannah was able to flourish unhindered by warfare with Native American tribes that marked the beginnings of many early American colonies.
A religious history of the American people (1973), Classic comprehensive coverage of all denominations. Albright, Raymond Wolf. A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1964). Bell, James B. A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution. (2008). 323 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-54297-6; Bonomi, Patricia U.
[g] Ohio and Western Pennsylvania became nearly vacant Iroquois hunting grounds, exploited for furs, but ten years later the Iroquois, having also adopted tribal members of peoples they'd recently thrashed, found themselves in a new war with the Susquehannocks who lived down below the Allegheny Front, the escarpment above most of today's ...
Many businesses founded to service the growing population exist today, notably Levi Strauss & Co. clothing, Ghirardelli chocolate, and Wells Fargo bank. Many famous railroad, banking, and mining tycoons or " robber barons " such as Charles Crocker , Mark Hopkins , Collis P. Huntington , and Leland Stanford settled in the city in its Nob Hill ...
A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.
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