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2. Edwin Drake - Wikipedia

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   Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully drill ...

3. List of executive search firms - Wikipedia

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   Executive search (informally often referred to as headhunting) is a specialized recruitment service which organizations pay to seek out and recruit highly qualified candidates for senior-level and executive jobs.

4. History of the petroleum industry - Wikipedia

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   The modern U.S. petroleum industry is considered to have begun with Edwin Drake's drilling of a 69-foot (21 m) oil well in 1859, [37] on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania, for the Seneca Oil Company (originally yielding 25 barrels per day (4.0 m 3 /d), by the end of the year output was at the rate of 15 barrels per day (2.4 m 3 /d)).

5. Democratic governors recruit government workers laid off by Trump

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   Hawaii Governor Josh Green, a Democrat, ordered the fast-tracking of credential checks for some federal workers and for state agencies to make a conditional job offer within 14 days of receiving ...

6. Drake Well - Wikipedia

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   The Drake Well is a 69.5-foot-deep (21.2 m) oil well in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania, the success of which sparked the first oil boom in the United States. The well is the centerpiece of the Drake Well Museum located 3 miles (5 km) south of Titusville .

7. George Bissell (industrialist) - Wikipedia

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   Colonel Edwin Drake became involved in the enterprise through his employment with Seneca Oil Co., and Drake played a critical role in the first successful oil well in the region. Bissell, through Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co., invested heavily in the surrounding region with significant financial success. [ 11 ]

8. What's in our names? How our streets and landmarks tell our ...

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   Riley was born into slavery in 1857 and worked odd jobs until landing his first teaching position in 1877. ... Edwin Andrew Hayden was a popular professor of philosophy and psychology at Florida ...

9. Book excerpt: "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live"

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   Michaels likes to say that everyone in the entertainment business has two jobs: their actual job and figuring out how to fix SNL. (When J. D. Salinger died, in 2010, letters surfaced in which even ...