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This document provides information about several famous Poles and their accomplishments. It mentions several Polish historical figures who have received Nobel Prizes, including Marie Curie who received the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, writer Henryk Sienkiewicz who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and poet Czeslaw Milosz who also received the Nobel Prize in Literature. It also notes Polish union activist and former president Lech Walesa who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983.
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The document summarizes a presentation about the devastating Johnstown Flood of 1889 in Pennsylvania. It provides background on the dangerous location of Johnstown and describes how a privately owned earthen dam failed on May 31st, releasing a massive wall of water that killed over 2,200 people and destroyed much of the town. The presentation discusses the specifics of the poorly maintained dam, the immense destruction caused by the floodwaters, and lessons about future prevention through government oversight and mitigation efforts.
Charles Dickens was an English writer born in 1812 who lived in several places in London during his early life. He became famous in the 1830s for his novels and short stories which were popular during his lifetime and criticized social issues. Some of his most famous novels included Pickwick Papers which brought him widespread fame when it was published in 1836. Dickens was considered one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian era and is still widely remembered today for his distinctive characters and social commentary in his works. He wrote over 30 novels during his career before passing away in 1870.
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- Implement source control, comments, error handling, debugging capabilities, and automated testing to make the code easy to maintain and modify.
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BECOMING MODERN: AMERICA IN THE 1920S
PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTION
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Radio—is it “a blessing or a curse?” It is “virtually useless,” “just another disintegrating toy.” It is “a Tremendous
Contribution,” “the only means of instantaneous communication yet devised by man.” Radio “will elect the next
president”; its listeners comprise “an organization that in days to come will be the most powerful in the world.”
However one judged radio as it grew from a “helpless youngster” into a “husky adolescence” in the 1920s, one thing
was clear—“There it is, up in the air, absolutely free, waiting for you to pull it down with the aid of electricity.” The
vast array of opinion on radio’s value and future is apparent in this excerpted commentary from the decade.
Radio broadcasting is spectacular and amusing but
virtually useless. It is difficult to make out a convincing case
for the value of listening to the material now served out by
the American broadcasters. Even if the quality of this
material be improved, as it undoubtedly will be, one must still question whether the home
amusement thus so easily provided will sufficiently raise the level of public culture to be worth
what it costs in time and money and the diversion of human effort. It is quite possible to argue,
indeed, that the very ease with which information or what-not reaches one by radio makes it just so
much the less valuable. In educational matters, as in commerce, men usually value things by what
they cost. Culture painlessly acquired is likely to be lost as painlessly—and as promptly.
Is the whole radio excitement to result, then, in nothing but a further debauching [morally
corrupting] of the American mind in the direction of still lazier cravings for sensationalism? I
believe not. There are at least two directions, quite different ones, in which radio has already
proved its utility and its right to
survive. One of these is its practical
service as a means of communica-
tion. The other is its effect, contin-
ually growing more evident, in
stimulating the revival of that
exceedingly useful and desirable
creature, the amateur scientist.
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and Moving Picture Age in online collection Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 (Library of Congress). Search in process for
copyright holder of Forum content. Photograph above: “The shut-in’s Sunday service,” March 28, 1923, Clark Music Co.; courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints &
Photographs Division. Complete image credits at americainclass.org/ sources/becomingmodern/imagecredits.htm.
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This document is an introduction to Booker T. Washington's autobiography "Up From Slavery". It provides background on Washington's education and the influences that shaped him. Washington had an extraordinary education under Samuel Armstrong, the founder of Hampton Institute, who was himself influenced by Williams College president Dr. Mark Hopkins. The introduction describes the author's first visit to Tuskegee Institute, where he was impressed by Washington's focus on practical, industrial education for African Americans and his students' earnestness, in contrast to more political or theological approaches of the time. It emphasizes how Washington found the path toward racial progress through education and work.
This document contains information about the effects of territorial expansion on Native Americans, including the Indian Removal Act which forced them on the Trail of Tears. It discusses artists like George Catlin who recorded Native American cultures before expansion. Maps show the movement of settlers and the decline of Native American populations. The document also addresses how expansion affected Plains tribes and their link to the buffalo. It discusses the mythic Western landscape in American art and contains pictures and descriptions of Native American art forms like basketry and weaving that were influenced by European contact.
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The Life of an Idea: The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
Author(s): Martin Ridge
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of an Idea
The Significance of Frederick
Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
by Martin Ridge
One of the favorite discussion topics among
American historians is the question: what piece
of American historical writing has been most
influential in American life? Although the
subject seems almost trivial, given serious
thought it is a challenge. There are, after all,
only a handful of historians whose work has
reached beyond the "Halls of Ivy" and even
fewer who seem to have had an impact on
American culture. Such a group would include
Charles A. Beard, Alfred Chandler, Oscar
Handlin, Richard Hofstadter, Perry Miller,
Samuel Eliot Morison, Francis Parkman,
Arthur Schlesinger, Frederick Jackson
Turner, and C. Vann Woodward, to name only
the more prominent.
From the works of these authors, Frederick
Jackson Turner's brief essay, "The Signifi-
cance of the Frontier in American History," is
the most logical choice for the most influential
piece of historical writing. Turner's essay oc-
cupies a unique place in American history as
well as in American historiography.1 There is
a valid reason for this. It, more than any other
piece of historical scholarship, most affected
the American's self and institutional percep-
tions. "The Significance of the Frontier in
American History" is, in fact, a masterpiece.
A masterpiece is not merely an outstanding
work or something that identifies its creator
as a master craftsman in the field. A master-
piece should change the way a public sees,
feels, or thinks about reality. It should ...
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1. Adapted from the foreword,
text, and imagery of
“Spencer Trask: Enigmatic Titan”
2. ”“Spencer Trask has so profoundly inspired me
that I am compelled to share his story…
Kevin Kimberlin
Chairman, Spencer Trask & Co.
— 2 —
3. Spencer Trask backed
entrepreneurs who changed the world,
leaving a rich legacy that
ripples through our lives every day
Trask supported Edison’s incandescent light and ran the first electric network
He built one of only a handful of Wall Street firms to survive almost a century
He helped New York Times emerge from the ruins of receivership and remake itself into
one of the world’s most influential newspapers
He financed the westward expansion of the US. Railroads,
the beginning of the music industry,
and the national rollout of electricity…
…thus helping usher in the modern age
— 3 —
4. — 4 —
Mr. Trask’s financial support of the electric lighting industry in its
pioneer days was a potent feature in securing to the community the
advantages and conveniences of the electric light and his unbound faith
and stupendous confidence in the future of the central
station business laid the foundation for its future prosperity.
New York Edison Company
”
“
5. — 5 —
Trask’s support of the arts is unparalleled in American history
As a founder of the National Arts Club, Trask was ahead of his time, insisting on
admitting women
With Clara Barton, he led national Red Cross fundraising efforts
He helped found Teacher’s College, then primarily a women’s college, now part of
Columbia University
He turned his estate in Saratoga Springs in the Yaddo artist’s retreat
—Progressive Humanitarian—
6. — 6 —
Yaddo has welcomed such luminaries as James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein,
Flannery O’Connor, Langston Hughes, Truman Capote, and John Cheever, who said:
YADDO
Guests at Yaddo have collectively won:
Sixty-Three Pulitzer Prizes
Fifty-eight National Book Awards
One Nobel Prize
The forty or so acres on which the principal buildings of Yaddo stand have seen more
distinguished activity in the arts than any other piece of
ground in the English speaking community and perhaps the world.
John Cheever
”“
poets.org pen.org brainpickings.org pbs.org amsaw.org
7. — 7 —
His generosity was so great that he sheltered and fed
all his friends, rich and poor alike,
provided they possessed talent and ability.
The New York Times
”
“
8. — 8 —
New York can ill afford to
lose Spencer Trask. He
ignored the favorite on
public-spirited men of
wealth. Though he belonged
to many of the larger clubs,
he rarely entered their
doors…He was not a
stockholder of the opera or a
supporter of fashionable
amusements.
His charities were
large and unostentatious.
New York Times editorial
eulogizing Spencer Trask
”
“
9. — 9 —
To him life gave its best, and from him it demanded
a heavy toll of affliction and grief. But sorrow
could not dishearten him and pain did not unnerve
him. They only seemed to strengthen his will.
He had but one object:
to do right and serve his fellow man.
Charles Evans Hughes
Governor of New York
”
“
10. — 10 —
His harvests did not make men poorer, but richer, for the money made
life more abundant to him and to all those with whom he had to do.
William T. Evans
National Arts Club
”“
11. — 11 —
For a man’s life consisteth not in
the abundance of the things
which he possesseth.
from The Parable of the Rich Fool,
found in Spencer Trask’s wallet after his death
”
“
12. — 12 —
Through Spencer Trask, entrepreneurs and artists alike gained support for their dreams.
He helped electrify the world, illuminate social issues with The New York Times, and,
through Yaddo, entertain and enlighten us for a century.
The more I learned about Spencer Trask, the more he helped me see what really matters:
faith, the power of human creativity, and a long term commitment to people worth
being loved and admired.
I could not have found a better role model.
”
“
Kevin Kimberlin
Chairman, Spencer Trask & Co.