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| x Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Roosevelt Institution |
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (pronounced /ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as...
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| Eleanor Roosevelt High School | |||
| Eleanor Roosevelt High School | |||
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| x Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Roosevelt Institution |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and...
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| Roosevelt University | |||
| USS Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||
| Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History | |||
| Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute | |||
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| x Theodore Roosevelt |
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Roosevelt Institution |
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919; pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the Progressive...
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| x Fotheringay Castle |
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Fotheringay |
Fotheringhay Castle was in the village of Fotheringhay 3½ miles (6 km) to the north of the market town of Oundle, Northamptonshire (grid reference TL061930).
King Richard III was born here in 1452 and it was also where Mary, Queen of Scots was tried...
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| x Thomas Jefferson |
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Jefferson High School |
The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, had an ambivalent relationship with the institution of slavery. During his lifetime, Jefferson attempted twice to legislate the emancipation of slaves, one time in 1769 at the Virginia...
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| Jefferson High School | |||
| Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | |||
| Bloomington Jefferson High School | |||
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| x Marie Ames Byrd | Marie Byrd Land | ||
| x Amerigo Vespucci |
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SS Amerigo Vespucci |
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer. The continent of America is popularly believed to have derived its name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.
Amerigo Vespucci...
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| Amerigo Vespucci | |||
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| x Christopher Columbus |
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District of Columbia |
Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration...
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| Colombia | |||
| Space Shuttle Columbia | |||
| Columbia University | |||
| Columbia Pictures | |||
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| x Oxford |
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Oxford |
Oxford (pronounced /ˈɒksfɚd/ ( listen)) is a city, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. The city has a population of just under 165,000, with 151,000 living within the district boundary. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run...
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| Oxford County | |||
| x William Douglas |
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Sir William Douglas "le Hardi" (the Bold), Lord of Douglas (born after 1243 – c. 1298) was a Scottish nobleman and warlord.
William Douglas was the son of William Longleg, Lord of Douglas and it is supposed by his possible second wife, Constance of...
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| x William Douglas, Castle Douglas | Castle Douglas |
Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet (died 1809) was a Scottish landowner and industrialist, best known for founding the planned town of Castle Douglas in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, south-west Scotland.
He began life as a humble pedlar but soon...
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| x Minix |
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GNU/Linux |
MINIX is a Unix-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture. Andrew S. Tanenbaum wrote the operating system to be used for educational purposes; MINIX also inspired the creation of the Linux kernel. Its name is a portmanteau...
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| x René Descartes |
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Descartes' theorem |
René Descartes (French pronunciation: [ʁəne dekaʁt]), (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (Latinized form), was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch...
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| Descartes Prize | |||
| Tour Descartes | |||
| Cartesian coordinate system | |||
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| x Archimedes |
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Archimedes' screw |
Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης; c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical...
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| Archimedean spiral | |||
| Archimedean property | |||
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| x Mahatma Gandhi |
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Ghandi India |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, pronounced [moːɦənˈdaːs kəɾəmˈtʂənd ˈɡaːndʱiː] ( listen); 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence...
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| Propagandhi | |||
| Gandhi Memorial International School | |||
| Gandhi Memorial International Foundation | |||
| x Ramon Magsaysay |
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Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation |
Magsaysay redirects here, for other uses see Magsaysay (disambiguation).
Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay (August 31, 1907 - March 17, 1957) was the third President of the Third Republic of the Philippines from December 30, 1953 until his death in a plane...
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| x Diponegoro |
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Diponegoro University |
Prince Diponegoro, born Bendoro Raden Mas Ontowiryo (November 11, 1785 – January 8, 1855) was a Javanese prince who opposed the Dutch colonial rule. He played an important role in the Java War (1825-1830). In 1830, the Dutch exiled him to Makassar....
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| x Gajah Mada |
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Gadjah Mada University |
Gajah Mada (translated as Elephant General) (d. circa 1364) was, according to Javanese old manuscripts, poems and mythology, a powerful military leader and prime minister (mahapatih) of the Majapahit Empire, credited with bringing the empire to its...
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| x James Madison |
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James Madison College |
James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the ...
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| x Anthony Wayne |
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Fort Wayne |
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him...
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| Wayne County | |||
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| x Benjamin Franklin |
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Franklin & Marshall College |
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) was an inventor, publisher. scientist, and statesman, who is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He was a major figure in the Enlightenment, known as a printer, satirist,...
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| Franklin Institute | |||
| Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology | |||
| State of Franklin | |||
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| x John Marshall |
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Franklin & Marshall College |
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4,...
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| x George Marshall |
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Marshall Plan |
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by...
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| x Alfred Nobel |
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Nobel Prize |
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments...
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| x Jay Pritzker | Pritzker Prize |
Jay Arthur Pritzker (26 August 1922 - 23 January 1999) was an American entrepreneur and conglomerate organizer.
Pritzker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Fanny Doppelt and A. N. Pritzker. His brother was Robert Pritzker. He was the father...
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| x John F. Kennedy |
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John F. Kennedy University |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29 , 1917 – November 22 , 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy , was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Major events...
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| Kennedy Space Center | |||
| John F. Kennedy School, Berlin | |||
| John F. Kennedy School of Government | |||
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | |||
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| x Jane K. Sather | Sather Tower | ||
| x Peder Sather | Sather Gate |
Peder Sather (September 25, 1810 - December 28, 1886) was a prominent Norwegian-born American banker who is best known for his legacy to the University of California, Berkeley. His widow, Jane K. Sather, donated money in his memory for two of the...
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| x Sather Tower |
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Sather |
Sather Tower is a campanile (bell and clock tower) on the University of California, Berkeley campus. It is more commonly known as The Campanile (pronounced /kæmpəˈniːle/ "camp-uh-NEE-lee") due to its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in...
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| x John Hope Franklin |
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Franklin Humanities Institute |
John Hope Franklin (2 January 1915 – 25 March 2009) was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. The John...
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| x Francis of Assisi |
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San Francisco |
Saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone; 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226) was a Catholic deacon and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.
He is known as the patron saint of animals, the...
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| St. Francis Fountain and Candy | |||
| University of Saint Francis | |||
| Saint Francis of Assisi College System Calamba | |||
| x Ada Lovelace |
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Ada |
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron. She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace.
She is...
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| x John Donald Daly | Daly City |
John D. Daly (1840 – January 1, 1923) was a businessman and landowner. The city of Daly City, California was named after him when it incorporated in 1911.
Daly started out from Boston in 1853 at the age of 13, accompanying his mother by ship. His...
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| x Henry Hudson |
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Hudson River |
Henry Hudson (d. ca. 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. After several voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore a prospective Northeast Passage to India, Hudson explored the region around modern New...
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| x Francis Scott Key |
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Francis Scott Key Bridge |
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe...
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| x Anne Arundell | Annapolis |
Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore, née Arundell (1615–1649), was an English noblewoman, daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, and wife of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, the founder of the Province of Maryland colony....
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| x Elizabeth I of England |
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Virginia |
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor...
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| Elizabethan era | |||
| Elizabethan architecture | |||
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| English Renaissance theatre | |||
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| x William III of England |
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College of William and Mary |
William III (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was a sovereign Prince of Orange by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned...
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| Williamsburg | |||
| x Mary II of England |
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College of William and Mary |
Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 until her death. Mary, a Protestant, came to the thrones following the Glorious Revolution, which resulted in the deposition of her Roman...
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| x Henrietta Maria of France |
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Maryland |
Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie de France); (25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was the Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I.
She was the mother of two kings, Charles II and James II, and...
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| x Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore |
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Baltimore |
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (August 8, 1605 – November 30, 1675), usually called Cecil, was an English coloniser who was the first proprietor of the Maryland colony. He received the proprietorship that was intended for his father, George...
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| Baltimore County | |||
| x George of Denmark |
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Prince George's County |
Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland PC Danish: Prins Jørgen, hertug af Cumberland (2 April 1653 – 28 October 1708) was the husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain.
Prince George was born Prince Jørgen, in Copenhagen, the third son...
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| x Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland |
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Prince William County |
The Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (William Augustus; 26 April 1721[N.S.] – 31 October 1765) was a younger son of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach. He is generally best remembered for his role in putting down the Jacobite...
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| x George I of Great Britain |
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King George County |
George I (George Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698.
George was born in Lower Saxony, in what is...
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| x Jack London |
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Jack London Square |
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was...
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| x Adolph Sutro |
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Mount Sutro |
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29, 1830 – August 8, 1898) was the 24th mayor of San Francisco, California, and second Jewish mayor, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896. He is today perhaps best remembered for the various San Francisco...
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| x Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom |
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Victoria |
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death. Her reign as the...
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| Victoria | |||
| Victoria | |||
| Victoria and Albert Museum | |||
| Victorian morality | |||
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| x Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
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Victoria and Albert Museum |
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
He was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg...
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| x Henry Tate |
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Tate Gallery |
Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet (March 11, 1819 – December 5, 1899) was an English sugar merchant from Chorley, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery, London.
Henry Tate was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the son of a clergyman. When he was 13, he...
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| x John Jacob Astor IV |
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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel |
John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking...
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| x William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor |
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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel |
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was a financier and statesman and a member of the prominent Astor family.
William Astor was born in New York City, the only child of John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890) and...
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| x Joseph Hirshhorn |
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
Joseph Herman Hirshhorn (August 11, 1899 – August 31, 1981) was an entrepreneur, financier and art collector. Born in Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children, Hirshhorn emigrated to the United States with his widowed mother at the age of six....
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| x James Laughlin Phillips | Phillips Collection | ||
| x Duncan Clinch Phillips | Phillips Collection | ||
| x Albert C. Barnes |
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Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia |
Albert Coombs Barnes (January 2, 1872 – July 24, 1951) was an American inventor and art collector. With the fortune made from the development of the antiseptic drug Argyrol, he founded the Barnes Foundation, a museum created from his private...
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| x Enoch Pratt |
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Enoch Pratt Free Library |
Enoch Pratt (1808 - 1896) was an American businessman in Baltimore, Maryland, a Unitarian, and a philanthropist.
Born in North Middleborough, Massachusetts, and educated at the Bridgewater Academy there, Enoch Pratt clerked in a Boston hardware firm...
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| x Leland Stanford, Jr. |
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Stanford University |
Leland Stanford Jr. (May 14, 1868 in Sacramento, California – March 13, 1884 in Florence, Italy), Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, was the only child of Governor Leland Stanford of California and his wife Jane Stanford nee Lathrop, and is the...
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| x George Peabody |
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Peabody Art Collection, Maryland State Archives |
George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute. He was born in what was then South Danvers, Massachusetts (now Peabody, Massachusetts), to a family with Puritan...
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| Peabody Institute Library | |||
| Peabody Institute Library | |||
| George Peabody Library | |||
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| x George Foster Peabody |
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Peabody Award |
George Foster Peabody (July 27, 1852 in Columbus, Georgia - March 4, 1938 in Warm Springs, Georgia) was a banker and philanthropist.
He was born to George Henry Peabody and Elvira Peabody (nee Canfield) as the first of four children. Both parents...
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| x Rachel Workman MacRobert | MacRobert Award | ||
