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Bear Mountain, historic sites, Hudson River parks might not exist today without this group

New Jersey Herald 25 Apr 2025
Rising in sheer cliffs along the western edge of the Hudson River, the Palisades are a national landmark ... John D. Rockefeller Sr ... His son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., later acquired land on the New York side to preserve the view from New Jersey ...
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Two fundraisers slated this year to benefit restoration of The Old Tavern

The Willoughby News-Herald 25 Apr 2025
This year’s Unionville Derby is being conducted for the first time since 2019 ... Main St ... and associate of John D. Rockefeller, lived in Unionville and maintained a thriving horse farm,” according to information provided by the society ... ....
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What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the ...

The Conversation 24 Apr 2025
“Drain the paddies!” ... 1 ... By 1929, as the world teetered on the edge of the Great Depression, John D. Rockefeller had amassed such a vast fortune – valued at roughly 1.5% of America’s entire GDP – that newspapers hailed him the world’s first billionaire.
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With federal funding in question, artists can navigate a perilous future by looking to the past

Phys Dot Org 21 Apr 2025
are worried ... Private arts funding soared during this period, with some titans of industry, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, seeing it as their duty to build museums, theaters and libraries for the public ... Subscribe ... The future is now ... ....
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Enjoy 'cinnamon-colored sand' and views of 'Old Florida' along The Loop in Volusia County

News Journal - Daytona Beach 16 Apr 2025
Special stops on The Loop in that area include The Casements, a former home of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, and the Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens ... The Casements is the name for the former Ormond Beach home of John D. Rockefeller.
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Once lost to time, first structure at William & Mary is rediscovered

Daily Press 16 Apr 2025
WILLIAMSBURG — Nearly 95 years ago, brick kilns were discovered adjacent to William & Mary’s Sir Christopher Wren building but subsequently were lost to history ... John D. Rockefeller Jr ... Thomas Layton/The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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From the Archives: The legacy of Ogden ‘Dinny’ Phipps

News-Press - Fort Myers 13 Apr 2025
We’ve also recapped the forming of the county’s newest city, Estero and its most unique, Matlacha, Burnt Store, Sanibel and Iona ... He brought hunting companions, like Nelson Rockefeller and John Whitney, American ambassador to the Court of St ...
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OPINION: From Red Scare to MAGA: It’s an old story we’ve seen before

The Lewiston Tribune 11 Apr 2025
“The arc of the moral universe is long,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ... But the Age of McKinley, not unlike our age, was a time of vast income inequality and, while great fortunes accumulated — think John D. Rockefeller or J.P ... Before Sen ... Robert Oppenheimer.
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Careless people: the decline and fall of the tech bros

RTE 09 Apr 2025
If you read the biographies of the great captains of industry of the 19th and 20th century such as Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller or Henry Ford, you'll find stories of hard-working men who started off with good ideas and made good products ... .
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No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

ProPublica 08 Apr 2025
The world has never seen such colossal fortunes as we behold in the present age the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans, and the Rockefellers, with their aggregated billions of hoarded wealth.”.
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All Jack Black Movies Ranked

Rotten Tomatoes 08 Apr 2025
Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is the owner of a failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned ... John Cusack , Iben Hjejle , Todd Louiso , Jack Black ... John Stevenson , Mark Osborne ... Nelson Rockefeller (John Cusack) commissions.
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