... the fact that it was a volunteer task.3 There were only approximately fifteen hundred firefighters at the time and they were not paid for their efforts. Firemen hastened to the scene of the conflagration. Even though they spent the previous night fighting two bad fires, they ... and would refuse all potential customers except for the rich. Also, many people were arrested for looting. "Seventeen blocks were consumed and upwards of twenty millions of property converted into smokes and ashes."5 The burnt district seized some thirteen acres and nearly seven hundred buildings were swept .....

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... perception they were built, with the help of gigantic armies of slaves, by the ancient pharaohs of Egypt as tombs for preserving their royal bodies. Pyramids were meant to be monuments to the pharaoh's greatness, filled with great treasures for the afterlife. Now for some actually interesting facts I found. It is thirty times larger than the Empire State Building, the Pyramid's features are ... , a flat solid granite mountain happens to be located just beneath the surface of the ground directly under the Pyramid . The Great Pyramid according to my source had a base of 13.6 acres, a heigh...

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... Tenderloin. After several years of planning, on June 22nd 1903, construction began. On November 27th 1910, nearly a decade later, Penn Station was open to the public. The station was eight acres and the fourth largest building at the time. The station was a symbol of progress and hope in New York at the turn of the century. Eighteen million people utilized the ... this photo to display that the processes of creating the railroad involved people of many races. Therefore, the railroad was made for everyone. "When I walked into Penn Station, I felt like a queen because I felt as if someone...

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Sitting on the corner of 34th and 5th streets on about two acres of land sits one of man's greatest engineering feats, the granddaddy of all modern skyscrapers, the Empire State building. Standing 1453 feet tall and having 102 ... ). Excavation began on Jan. 22, 1930 of this building designed by Architects from Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates. They started construction on March 17, 1930. They set a fast pace for constructing this building they were going up 4.5 stories a week that's flying (Empire State Building facts page). When I look back on this building I can't believe how they got this ...

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... of the Wizard of Oz: 1977, Alyean Harnetz, New York: Alfred Knof). "MGM balked at the guarantee. Margaret Hamilton's agent demanded, "I never did work for less than a two week guarantee." The studio was willing to guarantee three. Margaret Hamilton insisted on holding out and got her six weeks guarantee. It turned ... out it was hardly worth fighting for. "Since she worked on the picture, she earned a salary of $18,541.68" (p 126). The main concern of MGM appeared to be cast ... For Munchkin Land, Cedric Gibbons and his team built an entire model town that was one fourth of life size 122...

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... river front. (Babe Ruth) Babe Ruth experienced little if any love from his parents. They soon had to send young Ruth to St. Mary's Industrial School for boys. They signed the seven-year-old's custody over to Xaverian Brothers which was a Catholic order of Jesuit Missionaries who ran St. Mary's. (Babe Ruth ... with Ruth and provided guidance and support. Brother Mathis helped him develop his baseball game. The help from brother Mathis helped Babe Ruth realize his love for children. (Babe Ruth) Baseball was a very positive influence on recreation sports at St. Mary's. Ruth played all the p...

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... History Index. http://www.ukans.edu/~usa/index.html: Maintained by a history professor and arranged by subject: labor history and agricultural history. Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History. http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/afrores.html: This site is indexed and linked to a wide variety of ... audience. John Brown: He was a huge abolitionist who led uprising in Kansas and Virginia. He helped free the slaves. He felt it was God's will for him to help destroy slavery. He became an abolitionist when, as a young boy, he saw a good friend, a young, black ...

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... moral centers and values. There are many examples of this in the story. Nick, until the end of the story, tried to hold true moral statue for himself. For instance, Nick says "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known- (64), upholding a virtue of honesty to himself and to ... described by Nick as a "factual imitation of some Hatel de Ville in Normandy with a tower on one side . . . and more than forty acres of lawn and garden- (9). Gatsby himself did not use much of the house, and he also purchased many things to fill it that he never ... some last hope and . . . [Nick]...

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... a school construction project. Mr. Wright left the school in 1887 and took a train to Chicago. There, he became a designer for the well known firm, Adler and Sulivan. There they built the twelve story Chicago Auditorium, the Wainwright building, and many more great ... harmony among the elements." Wright admired his tradition-breaking theories. At the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair, a whole new world opened up for the architect. Adler and Sulivan's Transportation Building was the only one not built in the classic style. Frank and Sulivan both ... for two years. Their relationship was shunned u...

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... others hair and giving others henna tattoos. We found a food both were the guys running it weren't even collecting money. They were in fact giving out food for free. We thought that was great and so we basically camped out around this makeshift stand and filled up on their soda and candy. Once our stomachs began to ... that everyone had congregated around, and my younger brother and I went swimming with the strangers in the lake. We swung on the rope swings into the water for what seemed like forever, we had opted to wear our clothes though some had not. Finally we joined our dad back a...

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... this, Stillman purchased massive properties of the Garza grant north and northwest of Matamoros from the children of Jose Narciso Cavazos. He now owned 4,676 acres of land, supposedly. The sale wasn't definite, it turns out that the children had no right to sell the land because his oldest child, Juan ... was illegal according to Spanish and Mexican law. Stillman didn't care and continued on with his business. He set up a town company to sell lots for up to 1,500 dollars. Stillman founded the town in 1848 and he named it Brownsville after Fort Brown Post Commander Major Jacob Brown. By 1...

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