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Williams College (BA) Harvard University (MBA) Subject. United States presidency. Spouse. Afsaneh Mashayekhi. Children. 2. Michael Richard Beschloss[1] (born November 30, 1955) [2] is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency. [3][4][5] He is the author of nine books on the presidency.
The Chicago Cubs win their first World Series; 1908 The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the second year in a row; Binga Bank in business. [33] 1909: Burnham's Plan of Chicago presented. [17] 1910: Population: 2,185,283. [1] [34] July 1: Comiskey Park opened (originally called White Sox Park). December 22: Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910)
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
Michael Chabon (/ ˈʃeɪbɒn / SHAY-bon; [1] born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. [2] Born in Washington, D.C., he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984.
The Killer Angels is a 1974 historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975.The book depicts the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and the days leading up to it: June 29, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and ...
Timeline. (novel) Timeline is a science fiction novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his twelfth under his own name and twenty-second overall, published in November 1999. It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining ...
John Michael Crichton (/ ˈkraɪtən /; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.