
According to the 1870 federal census, one percent of the people owned 72 percent of all the wealth in the great industrial city of Pittsburgh. What’s more, just half of these wealthiest one percent (0.5% of the population) owned 59 percent, well more than half of all the wealth in historic Pittsburgh. In fact, all
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Hillary Clinton Marches in the 2008 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pittsburgh on March 15th, 2008. Photo by Matthew David Carter.
On March 15, 2008 Hillary Clinton walked in Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Throughout the latter half of March and most all of April she was waging an intense campaign throughout Pennsylvania to
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The College and University Personnel Association — HR (CUPA-HR) 2009 salary survey unsurprisingly shows salaries for academic historians have remained relatively flat over the past year. Overall, there’s slight annual growth in each category with the largest growth, surprisingly, in the new assitant professor hires category. Robert Townsend of the AHA says that this is
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An amazingly interesting and insightful graph from EPCOR, Edmonton’s water utility for 300,000 residents, was recently published showing water consumption in Edmonton during the Olympic gold medal hockey game between Canada and the United States. Roughly two-thirds of Canadians watched the game.
Edmonton Water Consumption During Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Game
The quantities listed in
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Steelers Legend Franco Harris During the 2008 St. Patrick's Day Parade. Pittsburgh, PA March 15, 2008. Photo by Matthew David Carter
Franco Harris is a Hall of Fame American football player and a famous Pittsburgh Steeler. The signature moment of his professional football career and the stuff of Pittsburgh sports legend was catching
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