way. In the first year‚ Pemberton sold just 9 glasses of Coca-Cola a day. A century later‚ the Coca-Cola Company has produced more than 10 billion gallons of syrup. Unfortunately for Pemberton he died 1888 without realizing the success of the beverage her created. Over the course of three years 1888 – 1891‚ Atlanta businessman Asa Griggs Candler secured rights to the business for a total of about $2‚300. Candler would become the Company’s first president‚ and the first to bring real vision to the
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Chinese Immigration to the U.S. First Chinese to arrive in the U.S. was around 1820. Subsequent Chinese immigrants who came from the 1820s up to the late 1840s were mainly men. In 1852‚ the ratio of Chinese males to females in California was 1‚681:1. Due to the lack of Chinese women in the U.S. at that time‚ a number of men intermarried with Americans of Eastern European descent. However‚ the majority of male immigrants lived as bachelors. The first major immigration wave started around the
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Reading: Extracts from Kant’s Critique of Judgment Throughout Critique of Judgment‚ Kant (1888) analyses the four reflective judgments. These are the good‚ the agreeable‚ the beautiful and the sublime. The agreeable is a subjective‚ personal form of pleasure‚ whilst the good is an objective judgment. For Kant‚ an act is either moral or immoral‚ nothing in between. Furthermore‚ the agreeable is not a universal force‚ unlike the beautiful. Yet the sublime‚ as opposed to the beautiful‚ can not
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Wright attended university for less than a semester‚ after which he decided to move to chicago spontaneously in 1887. In Chicago‚ Wright acquires a job as a draftsmen but quickly asks to work for Louis Sullivan (the best architect in Chicago). In 1888 Frank Lloyd Wright takes an apprenticeship with Louis Sullivan. At a church function Wright met a woman named Katherine (Kitty) and married her in 1889.
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attempt to dig a sea-level canal not only drove up costs up to £217 million‚ but the dirt piled up on the sides of the excavation created malarial swamps that sent death rates up ending over 22.000 workers lives before the project was cancelled in 1888 after the French canal company went bankrupt‚ nearly dragging the French economy down with it (The big ditch‚ page 61). During the time the French attempted to build the canal‚ the U.S. was experimenting with a new canal in Nicaragua‚ which failed
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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is remembered as one of the classical writers of English short stories‚ and it is very much due to her works that the short story gained a full literary status. In The Garden Party‚ we meet Laura Sheridan‚ a young girl living in the rich Sheridan family. She was the youngest daughter in the family. The theme of The Garden Party is very simple. All conversations and descriptions was about the garden party and the death of the poor young man who left his wife and five
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unable to withstand the boycott‚ and many fled to Cork‚ where they were welcomed by the local population. Census returns record one Jew in Limerick in 1861. This doubled by 1871 and doubled again by 1881. Increases to 35‚ 90 and 130 are shown for 1888‚ 1892‚ and 1896 respectively. A small number of Lithuanian Jewish tradespeople‚ fleeing persecution in their homeland‚ began arriving in Limerick in 1878. They initially formed an accepted part of the city’s retail trade‚ centred on Collooney St. The
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Salesians history begins in 1845 when John Bosco opened a night school for boys in Valdocco‚ which is currently part of Turin. Over the next few years‚ Bosco opened several other night schools and made a set of rules in 1857. John Bosco passed away in 1888‚ but that did not stop the spread of the Salesians. In 1911 the Salesians were established in Columbia‚ China‚ India‚ South Africa‚ Tunisia‚ Venezuela‚ and the United States. It is still around today with over 20‚000 members in 2‚711 houses. In 2000
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because of the civil war.This is also why the marble the monument is in two different colors because they used a different color marble to finish the monument.Work resumed in 1880‚ and the monument was finally finished in 1884 and opened to the public in 1888.The monument was modeled after the obelisks of ancient Egypt. The monument is one of the tallest masonry structures in the world standing at 555 feet tall‚ and the top layer is only accessible by elevator. The Washington
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(and what they should do) was a Frenchman called Henri Fayol. Fayol was a mining engineer who became the managing director of an ailing coal mining firm and turned it into a highly successful coal and steel business. All this took place between 1888 and 1918‚ when he retired. In 1916‚ after many years of thinking about the job of the manager‚ he published a small book called General and Industrial Management. Henry Fayol was years ahead of his time in linking strategy and organizational
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