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Leo Frank - Wikipedia

Frank accepted the position, and traveled to Germany to study pencil manufacturing at the Eberhard Faber pencil factory. After a nine-month apprenticeship, Frank returned to the United States and began working at the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank

National Pencil Company in August 1908. The headquarters of the United Nations occupies a site beside the East River between 42nd and 48th Streets, on between 17 and 18 acres (6.9 and 7.3 ha)[a] of land purchased from the real estate developer William Zeckendorf Sr.[11] At the

time, the site was part of Turtle Bay, which contained slaughterhouses and tenement buildings, as well as the original Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory.[9] By the 1910s, there was also a pencil factory and a gas company building in Turtle Bay, on the site of the current UN

headquarters. The development of Sutton Place and Beekman Place, north of the current UN site, came in the 1920s. A yacht club on the site was proposed in 1925, but it proved to be too expensive.[11]

In 1946, Zeckendorf purchased the land with the intention to create an

"X City" on the site.[10] This complex was to contain an office building and a hotel, each 57 stories tall, and an entertainment complex between them. The X City would have also had smaller apartment and office towers.[11] However, the $8.5 million ($74 million in 2019)

for X City never materialized, and Nelson Rockefeller purchased an option for Zeckendorf's waterfront land in Turtle Bay.

In December 1958, Zeckendorf entered into a deal with Spyros Skouras, head of 20th Century-Fox

Zeckendorf also owned New York's famous Chrysler Building and the venerable Hotel Astor in Times Square. He purchased Chicago's famous Robie House in 1958, before transferring ownership to the University of Chicago. He developed two of I. M. Pei's early skyscrapers — the Mile

High Center (now part of Wells Fargo Center) in downtown Denver, and Place Ville Marie in downtown Montreal.
Zeckendorf also partnered with Chicago real estate titan Arthur Rubloff to develop a stretch of Michigan Avenue into what Rubloff dubbed the Magnificent Mile. The

Rubloff Company was eventually acquired by Prudential and subsequently has become a division of Berkshire Hathaway.

In 1960, Zeckendorf solved his problem by partnering with Alcoa in a joint-venture relationship to finally build Century City

A tablet marking where in November 1888, the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, now Aluminum Company of America, produced the first commercial run of aluminium by the Hall Electrolytic Process. Tablet installed by Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania in 1938.

Alfred Ephraim Hunt was a 19th-century American metallurgist and industrialist best known for founding the company that would eventually become Alcoa, the world's largest producer and distributor of aluminum. With the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Hunt helped to organize

Battery B, a light artillery battery of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and was elected its first captain. (Hunt 1951, 3) He fought in the Puerto Rican theater of operation. He returned from the war in 1898 and died one year later from complications from the malaria he had

contracted during the war.

The bid was withdrawn when Alcan announced a friendly takeover by Rio Tinto in July 2007.

However, this changed in 1925, when Sir Auckland Geddes succeeded Lord Alfred Milner as chairman.

Milner's partial German ancestry dates to his paternal grandmother, married to an Englishman who settled in the Grand Duchy of Hesse (modern state of Hesse in west-central Germany). In the 19th century, prior to the unification of Germany, the territory of what is now Hesse

comprised the territories of Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Duchy of Nassau, the free city of Frankfurt and the Electorate of Hesse (also known as Hesse-Cassel). The Landgrave Frederick II (1720–1785) ruled as a benevolent despot, from 1760 to 1785. He combined Enlightenment ideas

with Christian values, cameralist plans for central control of the economy, and a militaristic approach toward diplomacy.[20] He funded the depleted treasury of the poor government by loaning 19,000 soldiers in complete military formations to Great Britain to fight in North

America during the American Revolutionary War, 1776–1783. These soldiers, commonly known as Hessians, fought under the British flag. The British used the Hessians in several conflicts, including in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

In June 1945, Kissinger was made commandant of the Bensheim metro CIC detachment, Bergstrasse district of Hesse, with responsibility for de-Nazification of the district. Although he possessed absolute authority and powers of arrest, Kissinger took care to avoid abuses against

the local population by his command.[24]
In 1946, Kissinger was reassigned to teach at the European Command Intelligence School at Camp King and, as a civilian employee following his separation from the army, continued to serve in this role.

In July 1946 General Reinhard Gehlen arrived to Camp King and established the Gehlen Organization which later went on to become the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or "Federal Intelligence Service").

The building was the headquarters for production administration of dyes, pharmaceutical drugs, magnesium, lubricating oil, explosives, and methanol, and for research projects relating to the development of synthetic oil and rubber during World War II. Notably IG Farben

scientists discovered the first antibiotic, fundamentally reformed medical research and "opened a new era in medicine."[5] After World War II, the IG Farben Building served as the headquarters for the Supreme Allied Command and from 1949 to 1952 the High Commissioner for

Germany (HICOG). Notably Dwight D. Eisenhower had his office in the building. It became the principal location for implementing the Marshall Plan, which supported the post-war reconstruction of Europe. The 1948 Frankfurt Documents, which led to the creation of a West German

state allied with the western powers, were signed in the building. The IG Farben Building served as the headquarters for the US Army's V Corps and the Northern Area Command (NACOM) until 1995. It was also the headquarters of the CIA in Germany. During the early Cold War, it was

referred to by US authorities as the Headquarters Building, United States Army Europe (USAREUR); the US Army renamed the building the General Creighton W. Abrams Building in 1975.[1] It was informally referred to as "The Pentagon of Europe."[

The IG Farben Building was developed on land known as the Grüneburggelände. In 1837, the property belonged to the Rothschild family. It was part of the "Affensteiner Feld", an area in the north of today's Frankfurt Westend District. The name Affenstein derives from an ancient

Christian memorial that once stood here on the road outside Frankfurt. It was known as the "Avestein" as in Ave Maria but in the local Frankfurt dialect it was called the "Affe Stein". In 1864, the city's psychiatric hospital was erected on the site.[3] Here, Dr Heinrich Hoffman

hired Alois Alzheimer to work in the hospital, where they both explored progressive methods of treating the mentally ill.[4] The Grüneburgpark was established in 1880 on the larger western part of the site.

The mineral deposit was discovered in 1915 by English geologist Robert Rich Sharp (1881–1958).[4][5] The mine was worked from 1921 onwards. Uranium-bearing ore was initially exported to Olen, Belgium for the extraction of radium,[6] and uranium.

The 20th century brought new techniques in cancer treatment, including radiation therapy. In 1921, Marie Curie visited the New York Cancer Hospital, by then renamed the General Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, to see the brick and steel vault

where the hospital kept its four grams of radium—at the time the largest accumulation in the world.

Curie's quest to create a new laboratory did not end with the University of Paris, however. In her later years, she headed the Radium Institute (Institut du radium, now Curie

Institute, Institut Curie), a radioactivity laboratory created for her by the Pasteur Institute and the University of Paris. She became the director of the Red Cross Radiology Service and set up France's first military radiology centre, operational by late 1914.

The medical hospital, neglected, lay overgrown and vandalized for many decades. In the neighborhood the building become popularly known as "the castle" due to its gothic round towers. Through the years, many promising developers expressed interest in the decaying property. Among

some of them were hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager, best known as part owner of Studio 54, whose attempt to renovate the landmark into luxury apartments failed.

In the year of Grant's diagnosis, John Jacob Astor III, Elizabeth H. Cullum, John E. Parsons, Thomas A. Emmet, Joseph W. Drexel and other prominent New Yorkers laid the cornerstone for the New York Cancer Hospital, the country's first to devote itself exclusively to the care of

cancer patients. In 1859, he built a home at 338 Fifth Avenue, today the street address of the Empire State Building. Later, he had an imposing vacation home, Beaulieu, built in Newport, Rhode Island, and he had a country estate, Nuits, at Ardsley-on-Hudson in Irvington,

New York. Astor increasingly visited London in his later years. His son moved there permanently with his family in 1891 and became a British citizen in 1899 later being made Lord Astor. The two portions of the Waldorf–Astoria hotel had 1,300 bedrooms, making it the largest hotel

in the world at the time.[34] After the death of its founding proprietor, George Boldt, in early 1918, the hotel lease was purchased by Thomas Coleman du Pont. The French colony of New France used Kahnawake as part of a southwestern defence for Ville-Marie (later Montreal) and

placed a military garrison there. The Jesuits founded a mission to administer to local Mohawk and other First Nations. This was also a base for those missionary priests who were sent to the west. Jesuit records give a settlement date of 1719.

Conceived and built at a time when Montreal was the Metropolis of Canada, the structure's largest occupant and anchor tenant was the Head Office of the Royal Bank of Canada, the country's largest bank, which moved from its previous head office at 360 St Jacques in Old Montreal.

The second new large corporate tenant was the Aluminum Company of Canada (ALCAN) who established in November 1962 occupying 6 floors of the building.[7] The central plaza became an important new public space in downtown Montreal, hosting an historic election rally for

Pierre Elliott Trudeau during the 1968 federal election.[5]
Developer William Zeckendorf founded Trizec Properties in order to build Place Ville Marie.[8] He lost a bet to then Royal Bank President Earle McLaughlin, making payment in full (US$0.10) in an elaborate dime encased in

acrylic. Exactly what the bet concerned is unknown.
In 1975 Air Canada's headquarters were at 1 Place Ville Marie.[9]
Mayor Jean Drapeau chose the name himself. Ville-Marie was the name of the Catholic colony founded at what is now Montreal in 1642.[

In addition to the Royal Bank, McLaughlin served on the board of directors of a number of corporations including Canadian Pacific Railway, Algoma Steel, Metropolitan Life and General Motors (a board which he was appointed to after the retirement of Sam McLaughlin, his first

cousin once removed). He was a member of the board of governors of the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Council of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Following his retirement from banking, he served as chancellor of Concordia University (1982–1986) and was a trustee of Queen's

University who awarded him their alumni John B. Stirling Montreal Medal in 1967. Some claim that the computer lab was not damaged, except for several million computer punch cards that were sent fluttering to the street below; but a Canadian Broadcast Corporation documentary

shows smashed computer tape drives and extensive fire damage. The damage was listed in millions of dollars. Several of the occupiers had privileged backgrounds, coming from wealthy West Indian families; among those arrested and convicted were Roosevelt Douglas, who later became

Prime Minister of Dominica, and who was a son of one of the richest men in Dominica. Also arrested was Anne Cools, who later became a Canadian Senator. Deeply involved also was student Cheddi "Joey" Jagan Jr., son of Guyana's prime minister.

While attending Sir George Williams, Douglas, who worked as a teachers assistant in the Political Science Department, became President of the Conservative Student Union becoming friends with Canadian political leaders including Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque.

Douglas also became the Executive Chairman of the Libyan-based World Mathaba, a group that trained and advised guerrilla resistance movements worldwide. In this capacity he persuaded Colonel Gaddafi to begin negotiations with the British for the trial of suspects in the Lockerbie

bombing,[9] and supported anti-apartheid movements such as the African National Congress (ANC), which provided critical support to the toppling of apartheid and the freeing of Nelson Mandela. In the Libyan Civil War, Mathaba featured articles and republished blog posts[18]

from a pro-Gaddafi perspective, including reporting on Hugo Chavez's support for the Gaddafi government,[19] while it also reported on Western opposition to the NATO military intervention, citing articles by Dennis Kucinich, among others.[20] Frontline reports were regularly

published summarizing each day's events, with claims of many battlefield victories by Gaddafi loyalists.[15][21][22] On 16 August 2011, three months after rebels had defeated Gaddafi forces in Misrata, the news agency reported that "Misrata has been liberated by loyalist

volunteers of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan Defence Forces."It further reported on 25 August 2011, that news reports showing Tripoli in the hands of the rebels were "fake footage from Qatar" made using a "replica of Tripoli in Qatar ... used to spread fake media reports

on Jazeera, CNN and the BBC world wide."[24][25] As late as 1 September 2011, with the opposition in control of most of the country, the agency claimed that Gaddafi still had "massive support among an estimated 95% of the population."[

On 13 October 2011, Mathaba reported that 80% of both Tripoli and Benghazi were controlled by Gaddafi loyalists, as well as 90-100% of the southern portion of the country.[27] When NATO declared after the announcement of Gaddafi's death on 20 October that it would soon cease its

military operations in the country, Mathaba stated that NATO had "surrendered".[28] The agency also insisted that the video and images of Gaddafi's capture and body were faked and that he was "not captured and not killed" but "very much alive in more ways than one", and though

he "does not need to speak... in the future if the time is right... he may choose to address us again". Readers were instructed to continue to spread the Green Charter in the meantime

The Mathaba News Agency has provided hosting and news services for the International Green Charter Movement (IGCM),[3] based on Gaddafi's Green Book and given coverage to the political philosophy it espouses, known as the Third Universal Theory. It also hosts a forum[4] and a

private microblogging service.[5] Mathaba refers to itself as "the first stateless news organization in history" with the stated goal of offering readers "a better understanding of public issues and positive development".