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  2. Cornelius Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), nicknamed "the Commodore", was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. [1] [2] After working with his father's business, Vanderbilt worked his way into leadership positions in the inland water trade and invested in the rapidly growing railroad industry, effectively transforming the geography of the ...

  3. Draining and development of the Everglades - Wikipedia

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    Marines search for Seminoles among the mangroves during the Second Seminole War. American involvement in the Everglades began during the Second Seminole War (1836–42), a costly and very unpopular conflict. The United States spent between $30 million and $40 million and lost between 1,500 and 3,000 lives.

  4. Railroad Tycoon - Wikipedia

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    Railroad Tycoon. Railroad Tycoon is a business simulation game series. There are five games in the series; the original Railroad Tycoon (1990), Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (1993), Railroad Tycoon II (1998), Railroad Tycoon 3 (2003), and Sid Meier's Railroads! (2006). Railroad Tycoon was written by game designer Sid Meier and published by MicroProse.

  5. List of Roblox games - Wikipedia

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    Tower of Hell. Tower of Hell is a multiplayer platform game where the player must get past a variety of obstacles to get to the top of the tower. [ 118] Unlike traditional Roblox obstacle courses, there are no checkpoints. [ 119] Tower of Hell has been played around 19.2 billion times as of October 2022.

  6. Call of Duty: WWII - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Call of Duty: WWII is a 2017 first-person shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It was released worldwide on November 3, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One. It is the fourteenth main installment in the Call of Duty series and the first title in the series to be ...

  7. Orient Express - Wikipedia

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    The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe, with terminal stations in Paris in the northwest and Istanbul in the southeast, and branches extending service ...

  8. Outline of the Post-War New World Map - Wikipedia

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    Outline of the Post-War New World Map. Published 1942, Philadelphia, PA. The map was self-published by Gomberg and offered for sale for $1 in magazines such as American Teacher in 1942 and Survey Graphic in 1944 (seen here). The Outline of the Post-War New World Map was a map completed before the attack on Pearl Harbor [1] and self-published on ...

  9. List of MicroProse games - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of games made by the American video game developer and publisher MicroProse.The games in this list were developed internally by MicroProse.Some games made by other developers were published under MicroProse's Microplay or MicroStyle label.