The Illinois Storytellers series brings you first-person pieces from distinctive Illinois voices. Ed Jackson, Jr. (FAA ’73), who spent fifteen years as chief architect for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, shares insights into how he and his team brought the memorial from the origina ...
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/hall-of-fame/thomas-perkins/ In February 1789 went to China. 4 years after Empress of China 1815 opened a store of Opium in meditarranian to buy Turquish His first great philanthropic achievement was helping to found the Massachus ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/22/usa.davidteather https://racism.org/articles/citizenship-rights/21-slavery-to-reparations/117-reparations/536-repara30 My name is Deadria Farmer-Paellmann. I am Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group a not-for-profit organizat ...
Grenville Dodge , a skilled civil engineer, had surveyed potential routes for the transcontinental railroad in the 1850s. During the Civil War, he served as a Union Army officer and became known for his engineering and military expertise. In 1863, while serving in the Union Army, Dodge me ...
麻省， 豪宅，棉花，铁路，运河 significant impact on American history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_family Eli Whitney 's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled cotton seeds to be removed 50 times faster, a breakthrough which led the country to become home ...
Born to a family of of prominent farmers and manufacturers (Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was a distant cousin), young Asa Whitney displayed ambition in business. In his teens he went to New York to work his way up the mercantile ladder. By the 1820s purchasing jobs sent him often to ...
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