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The Wall Street Journal Other daily editions include The Asian Wall Street Journal, edited in Hong Kong, and The Wall Street Journal Europe, edited in Brussels. 1  The Wall Street Journal was founded by Charles H. Dow, of Dow Jones & Company, primarily to cover business and financial news. The first issue was published on July 8, 1889. The newspaper’s accuracy and the breadth and detail of its coverage won it respect and success from the start.
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Shake Shack Founder Reveals His 2 Best Career Decisions That Led to IPO The founder and CEO of Shake Shack are on a high as the New York-based food chain's stock soars in its IPO today. Danny Meyer, Shake Shack founder and Union Square Hospitality Group founder, said today's event was the culmination of a 30-year journey that began when he opened Union Square Cafe at age 27. At the time, his family wanted him to be a lawyer.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution In October 1876 the newspaper became The Daily Constitution, before settling on the name The Atlanta Constitution in September 1881. During the 1880s, editor Henry W. Grady was a spokesman for the New South, and encouraged industrial development.
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- Jotham Meeker arrives in Westport from Michigan, bringing the first printing press to Kansas. Jotham Meeker starts the first newspaper in the state of Kansas, the Shawnee Sun, also the first newspaper in the Shawnee language. A Military Road is built from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas to Ft. Gibson, Arkansas.
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Robert L. Johnson Biography Synopsis. Robert L. Johnson was born on April 8, 1946, in Hickory, Mississippi. Johnson founded Black Entertainment Television (BET) in 1979 with his wife, Sheila. He became the first African-American billionaire after selling the network to Viacom in 2001.
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"The ""Yellow Fever"" of Journalism" The Yellow Fever of Journalism. Yellow Journalism is a term first coined during the famous newspaper wars between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer II. Pulitzer's paper the New York World and Hearst's New York Journal changed the content of newspapers adding more sensationalized stories and increasing the use of drawings and cartoons.
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William Randolph Hearst Publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) built his media empire after inheriting the San Francisco Examiner from his father.
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Biography Glaser's other well-known work includes a cache of posters that defined the style of the '60s and early '70s, and numerous logos, including such instantly familiar identities as Barron's and the Brooklyn Brewery. He is a co-founder of New York magazine and helped set that magazine's honest and irreverent tone.
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403 Forbidden C.F. Nugent eventually sold the sand mine to brothers William J. and George W. Cannon Jr. George Cannon, Sr. was an international foundry expert and founder of the Campbell, Wyant and Cannon Foundry (CWC) in Muskegon.
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- Quick Facts. Nike was previously known as Blue Ribbon Sports (RBS) founded in 1964 by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman. Phil Knight was a middle distance runner hailing from Portland who trained under track and field coach Bill Bowerman.
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Joseph Smith Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon.
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Nick Swinmurn: Zappos' silent founder Many people probably think it was Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh who founded one of the largest footwear retailers in the United States. It wasn’t. The guy who came up with the idea and persuaded Hsieh to invest is Nick Swinmurn, a quiet entrepreneur. His willingness to put success before ego was amply rewarded when Amazon acquired Zappos for $1.2 billion. His story: I was born in England, and we moved to the United States when I was 7.
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John Rawls (1921â2002) His first book, A Theory of Justice [TJ] (1971), revitalized the social-contract tradition, using it to articulate and defend a detailed vision of egalitarian liberalism.
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San Diego Comic-Con It was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 by a group of San Diegans, which included Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, and Mike Towry; later, it was called the San Diego Comic Book Convention.
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Who founded the Guinness world records? The idea came from Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the  Guinness Brewery in 1951. He could not find the facts he needed to  settle an argument, so the idea of a co…mpilation of records was  born. The first book came out in 1954 and was given free to promote  the Guinness stouts.
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Meet Our World-Class Team JEFF JANSSEN, M.S. Janssen Sports Leadership Center Founder and President, North Carolina, Razorback, Gamecock, Charlotte, and Barton Leadership Academy Director. Widely considered the world's top expert on Sports Leadership, Jeff Janssen is the founder and president of the Janssen Sports Leadership Center.
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Julian Assange: Why I Founded WikiLeaks Julian Assange: Why I Founded WikiLeaks. By On 12/24/14 at 9:35 AM. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves from a window with Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister Ricardo Patino at Ecuador's embassy in central London June 16, 2013.
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Schwinn Bicycle Company Schwinn Bicycle Company. The Schwinn Bicycle Company was founded by German-born mechanical engineer Ignaz Schwinn (1860–1945) in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manufacturer of American bicycles through most of the 20th century.
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Tim Berners-Lee Weaving the Web - the book. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded and Directs the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web. He founded the Web Foundation whose mission is that the WWW serves Humanity, and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London.
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World TeamTennis First league. The World Team Tennis (WTT) Professional Tennis league was founded in 1973 by four people: Larry King (owner of San Francisco Golden Gaters), Dennis Murphy (founder of the World Hockey Association), Fred Barman and Jordan Kaiser.
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- Here are important moments in the emergence of yellow journalism in the late nineteenth century. 1895 November 7 — William Randolph Hearst’s acquisition of the moribund New York Morning Journal is formally announced. Hearst promptly drops “Morning” from the newspaper’s title. His arrival in New York is a seismic event and sets in motion a circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, initiating the yellow press period. Hearst soon lures from the World several talented editors and writers.
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The Germans in America 1733 - John Peter Zenger, who came to America as an indentured servant from the Palatinate region of Germany, founded a newspaper, The New-York Weekly Journal; two years later he was acquitted in a landmark trial involving freedom of the press.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Brooklyn, NY USA. The Jehovah's Witnesses tradition is a religion founded in the late 19th century C.E. in the United States. Founded by Charles Taze Russell, Jehovah's Witnesses grew out of the Christian Millerite movement and has since spread worldwide.
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Who Was the Founder of Jehovahâs Witnesses? Who Was the Founder of Jehovah’s Witnesses? The modern-day organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses began at the end of the 19th century. At that time, a small group of Bible students who lived near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States, began a systematic analysis of the Bible.
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- About Mensa International. What is Mensa? Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ.
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- Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) was developed after Mitsuyo Maeda brought judo to Brazil in 1914. Maeda agreed to teach the art to Luiz França and Carlos Gracie, son of his friend, businessman and politician Gastão Gracie.