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Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch was an American real estate developer and hobbyist outdoorsman. He bought into and later fully owned the company that became Abercrombie & Fitch.
Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (born 1866)
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the…
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (born 1860)
John Mackenzie Moore was a Canadian architect and politician who served as the mayor of London, Ontario, from 1926 to 1927. An apprentice of William Robinson and Thomas Henry Tracy…
John Mackenzie Moore, Canadian architect (b
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst C
The 1930 Salmas earthquake occurred on 7 May at 01:34:26 IRST in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The earthquake, which was among Iran's largest, measured 7.1 on the moment magnitud…
An earthquake struck northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, killing up to 3,000 people
Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
The Chrysler Building is a 1,046-foot-tall (319 m), Art Deco skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of …
Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was sur