John D. Rockefeller went into business when he was 20, and he picked up his first oil well as a sideline. He soon saw that that was the right horse to ride. Even before automobiles and airplanes laid their heavy claim on oil, it'd begun replacing coal in the power industries.
Andrew Carnegie makes the better hero. He, after all, was part and parcel of the emerging technologies that made our country. And his giving sprang from some deep-seated core of principle. Yet the Rockefeller clan assumed the mantle of public service. They've become political leaders and professional givers -- one died doing anthropological research in New Guinea.
Bad they didn't like them
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As a result of the Peloponnesian War, Sparta, which had primarily been a continental culture, became a naval power. At its peak, Sparta overpowered many key Greek states, including the elite Athenian navy.
Yup what he said is right !
1999 <span>In 1977, responding to nearly 20 years of
Panamanian protest, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Panama's General
Omar Torrijos signed two new treaties that replaced the original 1903 agreement and called for a transfer of canal control in <span>1999</span></span>
