From its newly expanded presence in Brussels, Carnegie Europe combines the work of its research platform with the fresh perspectives of Carnegie's centres in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, and Beirut, bringing a unique global vision to the European policy community.

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

The money was secured by the act of his mother placing a $ 500 mortgage on the family's $ 700 home, but the opportunity was only available because of Carnegie's close relationship with Scott.

Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.

The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.

Carnegie's criticism of British society did not mean dislike ; on the contrary, one of Carnegie's ambitions was to act as a catalyst for a close association between the English-speaking peoples.

However, Carnegie's reputation was permanently damaged by the Homestead events.

Their work was published in 1928 after Carnegie's death in Hill's book The Law of Success ( ISBN 0-87980-447-5 ) and in 1937, Think and Grow Rich ( ISBN 1-59330-200-2 ).

The most famous example of this was the Homestead Strike of 1892, when industrialist Henry Clay Frick hired a large contingent of Pinkerton men to regain possession of Andrew Carnegie's steel mill during a lock-out at Homestead, Pennsylvania.

In 1906, N & W president Lucius E. Johnson was brought to the Standard Oil building at 26 Broadway in New York City by Andrew Carnegie to meet with one of Carnegie's old friends: Henry Huttleston Rogers.

The goal was to buy out Carnegie's steel business and merge it with several other steel, coal, mining and shipping firms to create the United States Steel Corporation.

Lottick's father, Dr Edward Lottick, stated that his initial impression of Scientology was that it was similar to Dale Carnegie's techniques.

Frick and Carnegie's partnership was strained over actions taken in response to the Homestead Steel Strike, an 1892 labor strike at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, called by the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers Union.

Built to a massive size and covering a full city block, Frick told friends he was building it to " make Carnegie's place look like a miner's shack.

Carnegie's single largest commitment in this field was his creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The central thesis of Carnegie's essay was the peril of allowing large sums of money to be passed into the hands of persons or organizations ill-equipped mentally or emotionally to cope with them.

Scottish Baronial was one of the styles used in Carnegie's native Scotland.

Each style was chosen by the community, although as the years went by James Bertram, Carnegie's secretary, became less tolerant of designs which were not to his taste.

James Bertram, Carnegie's personal secretary who ran the program, was never without requests.

The impact of Carnegie's library philanthropy was maximized by his timing.

Interest in libraries was also heightened at a crucial time in their early development by Carnegie's high profile and his genuine belief in their importance.

In 1935, the centennial of his Carnegie's birth, a copy of the portrait of him originally painted by F. Luis Mora was given to libraries he helped fund.

Initially, his father had thought that Scientology was similar to Dale Carnegie's self-improvement techniques ; however, after his ordeal, the elder Lottick came to believe that the organization is a " school for psychopaths ".

Carnegie's empire grew to include the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, ( named for John Edgar Thomson, Carnegie's former boss and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad ), Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill ( Wilson, Walker & County ), the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines.

The Braddock Library included a tunnel entrance for Carnegie's millworkers to enter the bathhouse in the basement to clean up before entering the facilities ( which originally included billiard tables ).

The borough prides itself in being the " Birth Place of Steel " for having Andrew Carnegie's Edgar Thomson Steel Works since 1873.

I shall not bury them but give them to the lads who long for a wider education "; his philosophy quietly anticipated Andrew Carnegie's much publicized Gospel of Wealth by more than 25 years.

J. P. Morgan and the attorney Elbert H. Gary founded U. S. Steel in 1901 ( incorporated on February 25 ) by combining Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry " Judge " Moore's National Steel Company for $ 492 million ($ billion today ).

In the late 1940s, the Carnegie Corporation of New York arranged for microfilming of the correspondence files relating to Andrew Carnegie's gifts and grants to communities for the public libraries and church organs.

In the steel industry, for example, after the routing of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers in its titanic strike against Andrew Carnegie's steel operations at Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1892, and the defeat, a generation later, of the 1919 steel strike, the craft unions within the AFL claimed that any attempt to organize steel workers must recognize their separate craft jurisdictions: workers who used bricks to build kilns or similar structures would have to belong to the brickmasons union, workers who sawed wood to build structures within the plant should be carpenters, and so forth.

Carnegie Hall commissioned the song cycle The Seven Deadly Sins: A Song Cycle for McDonald, and she performed it at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on June 2, 2004.

Late in 1893, Douglas was appointed a director of a new mining exploration company, thus securing finances for Carnegie's prospecting.

At first, the terrain was largely flat, and consisted almost entirely of spinifex and sand ( hence the name Spinifex and Sand for Carnegie's published account of the expedition ).

The museum's origins can be traced to 1886 with Andrew Carnegie's initial concept: " I am thinking of incorporating with the plan for a library that of an art-gallery in which shall be preserved a record of the progress and development of pictorial art in America ".

There was even a landing for Thomas Carnegie's steam-powered yacht, the Missoe.

Shrewd investments included real estate holdings in downtown Pittsburgh, coal fields, and a $ 10, 000 loan to Henry Clay Frick in 1871, which would provide the coke for Andrew Carnegie's steel mills.

Dale Carnegie's first job out of college was working for Armour & Company as their South Omaha sales representative.

In October 2008, as part of Carnegie's year-long festival celebrating the legacy of Leonard Bernstein, the BSO performed the late composer's large scale work, Mass: A Theatre Piece for Players, Singers and Dancers.

Carnegie Corporation has helped establish or endowed a variety of institutions, including the Carnegie libraries, the National Research Council, the Russian Research Center at Harvard, and the Children's Television Workshop, and for many years heavily supported Carnegie's other philanthropic organizations, especially Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ( CEIP ), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ( CFAT ), and the Carnegie Institution for Science ( CIS ).

In the riots of 1892 at Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a group of 300 Pinkerton detectives, whom the company had hired to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, were fired upon by strikers and 10 were killed.

Carnegie's personal experience as an immigrant, who with help from others worked his way into a position of wealth, reinforced his belief in a society based on merit, where anyone who worked hard could become successful.

During winter he worked at research stations in Tucson, Arizona and Santa Barbara, California, while in the summer he performed fieldwork at the Carnegie's " Alpine Laboratory ," a research station in Angel Canyon on the slopes of Pikes Peak, Colorado.