The man who invented the clock is Christiaan Huygens. Galileo used a pendulum clock, but Huygens is the one credited for inventing the real clock.
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born into modest circumstances in upstate New York, he entered the then-fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio refinery.Rockefeller had a tendency to be generous because he wanted the future good will of his new partners and employees. “He treated everybody fairly,” concluded one oil man. “When we sold out he gave us a fair price. Some refiners tried to impose on him and when they found they could not do it, they abused him
The civil war and resistence fighters
The role of New Netherland in the history of the United States of America. ... The seal of New Netherland ... represents an early attempt to set out the principle of religious toleration.
