John Warne Gates
John Warne Gates 1855-1911, American financier and promoter, known as Bet-a-Million Gates, b. near Chicago. He discovered a market for wire fencing on the Western plains, began the manufacture of fencing in St. Louis, and, by a succession of consolidations and promotion schemes, organized (1898) the American Steel and Wire Company. He was a well-known figure on the grain and stock exchanges and later, interesting himself in oil, became prominent in the development of Port Arthur, Tex.
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Two Bards: Zhukovsky and Bowring (1).(Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky)
Magazine article from: Germano-Slavica; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...s great poet-translator Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky and was published two years...Yakovlevna Bessarab in her book Zhukovsky: Kniga o velikom russkom poete...literary historian and comparatist Vasily Ivanovich Kuleshov, Bowring...
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Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky , 1783-1852, Russian poet and translator. Zhukovsky wrote fine lyrics and odes, including...flexibility, subtlety, and grace. Zhukovsky was tutor to the future Czar Alexander...
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