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During this time, he was learning the skills which would help him become a leading figure in the industry years later. [2] When Bill was fourteen, his father succumbed to his illness. Jones was then in the care of his stepmother, who was left with ten children. Soon after his father's death, Bill Jones left home, heading for work in Philadelphia.
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.
Willi Herold (11 September 1925 – 14 November 1946), also known as the Executioner of Emsland, was a Nazi German war criminal.Near the end of the Second World War in Europe, Herold deserted from the German Army and, posing as a Luftwaffe captain, organized the mass execution of German deserters held at a prison camp.
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Riesenberg was the superintendent of the New York Nautical School on two occasions, from 1917 to 1919 as captain of the barkentine "Newport" and again from 1923 to 1924. Riesenberg was also a prolific author, publishing a textbook, Standard Seamanship for the Merchant Service that became commonly used, [ 2 ] as well as several maritime ...
Vanessa Williams is taking time off from her Devil Wears Prada performances in London following the death of her mother, Helen Louise Williams.. Vanessa, 61, and her family wrote that Helen died ...
On 7 July 1962 [1] the Tuaikaepau, under the command of captain David Fifita, [3] hit the outer edge of the Southern Minerva Reef. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] They all survived having spent the night clinging to the hull and at day break saw what would be their saviour: the hull of a Japanese fishing boat, Number 10, Noshemi Maru , K30, which had been wrecked ...
NEW YORK - Authorities are revealing more details surrounding the killing of a woman who was set on fire while sleeping on the New York City subway.. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, faces first- and second ...