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it would be his two brothers, Henry and David, who would open up the Moluccas. Both were now serving under Lancaster; and both would eventually join brother John in an eastern grave.

The legacy was truly amazing. His work on fish, the initial research on glaciers, the impact of his writing on the Ice Age, the zest and glamour he brought to American culture at a critical moment, were all contributions of the first order. His beloved Museum of Comparative Zoology—the Agassiz Museum, or simply the Agassiz, as it came to be known i

In practice, once the railroad was in operation, it was to mean the more or less permanent stationing of American gunboats in Panamanian waters and the landing of American marines and sailors during a half dozen revolutions or “disturbances,” including the disturbance of 1903, the so-called Panama Revolution, which marked the final separation of Pa

Gray, with whom he had broken completely, became convinced that the illustrious Agassiz mind was in a state of rapid deterioration. “This man,” wrote Gray, “who might have been so useful to science and promised so much here has been for years a delusion, a snare, and a…

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The Riggs National Bank headquarters

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start with a trusted guidebook such as Fodor’s or Lonely Planet—on or off line.

The organization of the St. Louis Bridge project offers a fine example of Carnegie’s methods. Railroad bridges were entrepreneurial ventures, usually financed by bond sales, which were repaid from railroad leases. The St. Louis Bridge Co.—primary owner Andrew Carnegie, silent partners Tom Scott and J. Edgar Thomson—clinched the St. Louis contract i