A community portal about Andrew Carnegie with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American businessman, a major and widely respected philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel...
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A community portal about Andrew Carnegie with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American businessman, a major and widely respected philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. He is known for having built one of the most powerful and influential corporations in United States history, and, later in his life, giving away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in Scotland, America and worldwide. Carnegie first invested in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks. But steel was what made him very rich. Before he invested in steel, he was going to stop working and start helping others, but instead he kept on working and got wealthier and wealthier. He then entered the iron business and discovered steel was very useful and made a lot of money. He founded the Carnegie Steel Company, which made him known as one of the “Captains of Industry”.
I was about 11 years old when I first fell love with a public library. Up until then, I had certainly been aware that they existed, even apart from the small one at my school, but they had nothing to do with me. At that tender age, however, I happened to read John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath...
Andrew Carnegie was a titan of the steel industry, one of the country's grand robber barons. But as the 19th century drew to a close, he began turning his attention to good works. After selling Carnegie Steel to JP Morgan in 1901 -- bringing him $4.5 billion in today's dollars -- Andrew...
Carnegie libraries are libraries which were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. More than 2,500 Carnegie libraries were built, including those belonging to public and university library systems. Carnegie earned the nickname Patron Saint of...
It's one of the greatest acts of philanthropy in American history. Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, shared his immense wealth by helping to fund the building of 1,681 libraries in cities throughout the ...
The name Carnegie holds a great deal of significance for me. Spending a large majority of my life on the East Coast, that name stirs visions of the crushed velvet seats of Carnegie Hall in Manhattan.
"The Chartiers Valley Partnership was formed late in 2003 with the goal of raising $8.6 million by late 2004 or early 2005 to refurbish the 104-year-old Andrew Carnegie Free Library. read more »
ANDREW BIRD U.S. TOUR CONFIRMED, DATES KICK OFF JANUARY 28 AT CARNEGIE HALL NOBLE BEAST OUT JANUARY 27
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Andrew Bird has confirmed dates for the first leg of a North American tour in support of his forthcoming new album Noble Beast. The tour will begin just after Noble Beast's...
In the wake of the January 27 Fat Possum release of his Noble Beast LP, the Windy City's whistlin' wonder Andrew Bird will hit the road in the States yet again on a month-long tour. While Swedish songster Loney, Dear will open most of the dates, the tour's first engagement, at New York City's...
Andrew Bird rocking for Barack Loney, Dear isn't opening for Andrew at the NYC show , but Loney, Dear is playing every other 2009 Andrew Bird show just announced .
It's Andrew Carnegie's 173rd birthday, and the always excellent Jacket Copy recently had an insightful post on the man and his gargantuan importance to the free library system, pulling a quote from a speech of ...
For Americans of an entrepreneurial bent, Dunfermline, Scotland, is best known for native son Andrew Carnegie, one of the 20th century's most influential industrialists and philanthropists.
Who gets your vote for the greatest Pittsburgher? Would it be Hugh Henry Breckinridge, who brought law and education to Pittsburgh when it was a rough, frontier town, or Andrew Carnegie, who forged Pittsburgh ...