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Thomas C. Durant: The Union Pacific Vice President Behind the Crédit Mobilier Scheme
NEW YORK, July 10 — Thomas C. Durant, the 19th-century railroad baron who helped build the Union Pacific…
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Leland Stanford drove the golden spike that joined the nation’s railroads in 1869
Stanford was one of the ‘Big Four’ investors — a group that included Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins,…
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Boeing Engineer Joe Sutter Led 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ Development
SEATTLE, July 10 — The Boeing 747 did not simply change aviation; it redrew the geopolitical map of…
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Comedian Zelenskyy’s rise from satire to Ukraine’s presidency
KYIV, July 9 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remains in office under martial law as of 2024, according…
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Vint Cerf, one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet,’ co-designed TCP/IP
MOUNTAIN VIEW, July 9 — 1983. That is the year the modern internet went live. On January 1,…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy: From Comedy to War-Torn Presidency
KYIV, July 9 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who rose from a career in comedy to lead his…
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Rudolf Diesel’s Engine Changed the World, but His Death at Sea Is Still Unexplained
PARIS, July 9 — Against the backdrop of a world still dependent on fossil fuels, the ghost of…
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Oleksiy Reznikov Won Western Arms for Ukraine, Then Faced a Procurement Scandal
KYIV, July 9 — Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine’s former Defense Minister, remains a figure of intense scrutiny nearly three…
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Dies at 90, Leaving a Mixed Record on Reform
RIYADH, July 9 — King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who ruled Saudi Arabia from 2005 until his…
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Jack Kilby, Texas Instruments Engineer, Invented Integrated Circuit, Won Nobel
DALLAS, July 8 — 1958. That is the year that matters. On September 12 of that year, Jack…
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Bradford Parkinson Led GPS Development as Air Force Colonel
LOS ANGELES, July 8 — The man who made it possible for a driver in a strange city…
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Nearly half of young Americans under 30 still live with parents
WASHINGTON — Nearly half of all Americans under the age of 30 were living with their parents in…
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Bernard Bigot, ITER Director, Champion of Fusion, Dies
PARIS, July 6 — Dr. Bernard Bigot, the French chemist who led the ITER fusion project from 2015…
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Wildland Firefighter Week of Remembrance Honors Fallen Crews After Snyder Fire Deaths
WASHINGTON, July 1 — This week, the nation pauses to remember the wildland firefighters who have given their…
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Tim Berners-Lee built the World Wide Web at CERN and gave it away free
GENEVA, July 6 — The World Wide Web turned another year older this week, and its origin story…
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Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Died at 94 in March 2023
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 — The semiconductor industry that Gordon Moore helped build now faces a reckoning without…
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Anand Mahindra Offers Help to 80-Year-Old Violinist Earning ₹100 a Day
KOLKATA, July 6 — For almost eight decades, a humble violinist has stood on the streets of Kolkata,…
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Kolkata Street Violinist, 80, Gets Mahindra Help After Viral Video
Bhagwan Mallick has been playing violin on Kolkata streets for nearly eight decades. He is 80 years old…
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Kolkata Street Violinist, 80, Plays for ₹100 Daily After Eight Decades
Bhagwan Mallick’s violin is held together by history. That’s not poetry. It’s what people see when they watch…
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Columnist Yalowitz urges focus on personal liberation dates beyond July Fourth
BURLINGTON, Vt. — The bunting is down. The sparklers are cold. And Daniel Cantor Yalowitz is asking people…
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Tasuku Honjo: The Nobel Scientist Behind PD-1 Cancer Therapy
TOKYO, July 5 — The Japanese immunologist Tasuku Honjo, who shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
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Coordinated Search Effort Fails to Locate Missing Child in Lake Erie
DETROIT, July 3 — For communities across the Great Lakes region, the news carries a heavy weight. The…
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Work pals cycle 1,000 miles to honor Prestwick colleague Kieran
PRESTWICK, July 3 — A group of work colleagues are cycling from Land’s End to Sumburgh Airport in…
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Holocaust Restitution Architect Judah Gribetz Dies at 97
NEW YORK, July 3 — Judah Gribetz, the lawyer and architect of the landmark restitution plan that distributed…
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