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Biographical profile of Marshall Field, founder of the Chicago store bearing his name and benefactor of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and what is now known as the Field Museum of Natural History. The New York Times called Field the "richest merchant in the world," and "the largest individual taxpayer...

Biographical profile of William Wrigley, Jr., the master salesman who established the Wrigley chewing gum empire. Wrigley's story, as told by award-winning author and syndicated columnist Daniel Alef, is the quintessential Horatio Alger-like tale of rising from the depth of poverty to achieve unrivaled...

Although Samuel Colt died in 1862 at age 47, he had lived a remarkably full life, one filled with enough controversy, calamity, failure and success to fill several novels. And, at the time, he was America's wealthiest inventor. Colt's widow took over the reins of the Colt Armory, memorialized Colt's...

Success is not the absence of failure and the Milton Snavely Hershey story is concrete proof of this aphorism: he had a string of successive failures and only one success, the formation of Hershey Chocolate. His failures were so striking and so devastating his friends and family lost all confidence in...

In 1928 William Paley, son of one of the nation's largest cigar producers, purchased United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations. He renamed it the Columbia Broadcasting System and built it into one of the nation's largest radio networks before turning to television....

In 2008 U.S. domestic airlines carried nearly 750 million passengers domestically and internationally. The growth of commercial air transportation and the number of passengers flying today can be laid at the feet of one of the great aviation pioneers, Juan Trippe, who began a crusade to create an air...

In 1894, Will K. Kellogg was experimenting with a more digestible form of wheat for patients at his brother John's Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan. Will mixed a wheat paste and accidentally let it stand overnight. In the morning he took the tempered remains, put them through a roller, and each grain...

Biographical profile of one of the titans of American broadcasting, David Sarnoff, a pioneer in the field of radio and television who founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and established a telecommunications and consumer electronics giant Radio Corporation of America (RCA). He ushered in the...

Seinen ersten Roman Beerholms Vorstelung verfasste Daniel Kehlmann während seines Studiums in Wien. Ein Literaturkritiker riet ihm, ihn in der Toilette herunterzuspülen. Seitdem hat er 15 weitere Bücher geschrieben und gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsautoren....

At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists--and perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. Seth's distinctive drawing style strikingly recalls a bygone era of cartooning, an apt vehicle for melancholy,...

A nine-piece girl group from South Korea, Girls' Generation, also known as SNSD or So Nyeo Shi Dae, was a SM Entertainment creation, to go along with that company's other dance-pop group, the all-boy Super Junior.   Members Hyoyeon, Jessica, Seohyun, Sooyoung, Sunny, Taeyeon,...

Les murmures de Saint-Pierre A la pointe de Penmarc’h, en pays bigouden, se dresse , depuis 1897, le phare d’Eckmühl : « le plus puissant de tout l’Univers disait-on alors ». A l’occasion du centenaire de son inauguration , en 1997, des peintres amateurs ont dressé une...

Central Park, a verdant refuge from the teeming, ever-shaded concrete corridors that crisscross Manhattan is beloved by both tourists and New Yorkers. The 700-acre park with winding paths, undulating hills, carpets of flowers in spring equally resplendent with fall colors dotted with lakes, was America's...

Together as the most-successful husband-and-wife duo ever, Sonny & Cher sold over 10 million singles worldwide and topped the charts in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States with original hits Baby Don't Go, Sing C'est La Vie, Little Man and,...