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  2. Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia

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    Carnegie as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Andrew Carnegie (English: / k ɑːr ˈ n ɛ ɡ i / kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; [2] [3] [note 1] November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.

  3. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle - Wikipedia

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    The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing).Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force (USAF) selected McDonnell Douglas's design in 1969 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority fighter.

  4. Wreck of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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    The Titanic surfacing on a poster publicising the film Raise the Titanic.The scene depicted would not have been physically possible. In the mid-1960s, a hosiery worker from Baldock, England, named Douglas Woolley devised a plan to find the Titanic using a bathyscaphe and raise the wreck by inflating nylon balloons that would be attached to her hull. [9]

  5. Railroad Tycoon 3 - Wikipedia

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    Train at a service tower. With nearly 60 locomotives in the game (nearly 70 in the Coast to Coast expansion), the game has the most locomotives of the Railroad Tycoon franchise with locomotives from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Poland, Russia and more even fictional locomotives like the E-88 and the TransEuro, the latter of which is a fictional name ...

  6. Military organization - Wikipedia

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    Military organization or military organisation is the structuring of the armed forces of a state so as to offer such military capability as a national defense policy may require. Formal military organization tends to use hierarchical forms (see Modern hierarchy for terminology and approximate troop strength per hierarchical unit).

  7. Tycoon (1947 film) - Wikipedia

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    Tycoon is a 1947 American Technicolor romantic drama film directed by Richard Wallace and starring John Wayne, Laraine Day and Cedric Hardwicke. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures . It is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Charles Elbert Scoggins .

  8. The Last Tycoon - Wikipedia

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    The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson , a critic and writer. According to Publishers Weekly , the novel is "generally considered a roman à clef ", with its lead character, Monroe Stahr, modeled after film producer Irving ...

  9. The Last Tycoon (2012 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Last Tycoon (Chinese: 大上海) is a 2012 Hong Kong period drama film directed by Wong Jing, starring Chow Yun-fat, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng and Huang Xiaoming.The film was released in mainland China on 22 December 2012, and in Hong Kong on 3 January 2013.