Tag: carnegie

• The Sky is Choking Us (AKA: Never Take Blue Skies for Granted)

  Here’s a photo of our street at the moment. Notice those beautifully green hills in the background? Of course not, they are completely covered by a thick layer of smog courtesy of Indonesia. We’ve had occasional bad visibility in the past from time to time, but I’ve seen nothing like this in my ten years…

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  October 4, 2015

  Current Events, Penang

  air pollution, air quality, blue ridge mountains, carnegie, clear cutting, frick, Indonesia, Penang, Pittsburgh

• Know Your History: Rockefeller Breaks Up & Gets Richer

  In 1912, after decades of pummeling the competition with unfair business practices and intimidation, the oil titan, John D. Rockefeller, sat and listened as a federal court dismantled his empire right in front of his eyes. Buoyed by the Sherman Anti-Trust act of a few years earlier, the government was finally ready to take on…

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  October 2, 2015

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  anti-trust, carnegie, Gilded Age, JP Morgan, Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Roosevelt, sherman anti-trust, Standard Oil