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Carnegie was also known to be a great journalist.
Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.
In total Carnegie funded some 3, 000 libraries, located in 47 US states, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, what is now the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Fiji.
In addition to a library, Carnegie also bought the private estate which became Pittencrieff Park and opened it to all members of the public, establishing the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust to benefit the people of Dunfermline.
He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.
Carnegie also bought out some regional competitors, and merged with others, usually maintaining the majority shares in the companies.
Furthermore, Carnegie ’ s success was due to his convenient relationship with the railroad industries, which not only relied on steel for track, but were also making money from steel transport.
Besides Carnegie ’ s market manipulation, United States trade tariffs were also working in favor of the steel industry.
Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.
Moreover, Carnegie urged other wealthy people to contributed to society in the form of parks, works of art, libraries and other endeavors that improved the community, and contributed to the “ lasting good ” Carnegie also held a strong opinion against inherited wealth.
Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.
Beyond a gift of $ 10 million for peace promotion, Carnegie also encouraged the " scientific " investigation of the various causes of war, and the adoption of judicial methods that should eventually eliminate them.
In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).
The 2006 Carnegie Foundation classification listed Dartmouth as the only " majority-undergraduate ", " arts-and-sciences focus ", " research university " in the country that also had " some graduate coexistence " and " very high research activity.
Rappaport also painted Simon's commissioned portrait at Carnegie Mellon University.
IALA also received support from such prestigious groups as the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The North Side is also home to many popular attractions such as Heinz Field, PNC Park, Carnegie Science Center, National Aviary, Andy Warhol Museum, Mattress Factory installation art museum, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Highmark SportsWorks, Penn Brewery and Allegheny Observatory.
The study also estimated an additional 209, 000 Spanish flu deaths in 1918 A study sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1940 estimated the German civilian death toll at over 600, 000.
Carnegie Mellon University ( also known as Carnegie Mellon or simply CMU ) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Carnegie Mellon also maintains the Carnegie Mellon Los Angeles Center in North Hollywood, California where students in the Master of Entertainment Industry Management program are required to relocate to Los Angeles in their second year and attend classes at this facility.

Carnegie and established
* The Carnegie Medal for the best children's literature published in the UK was established in his name.
This pioneering project, which linked all computers and workstations on campus, set the standard for educational computing and established Carnegie Mellon as a leader in the use of technology in education and research.
Carnegie Mellon also established and administers the Robot Hall of Fame in partnership with the Carnegie Science Center.
* The Carnegie Hero Fund-was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of those killed saving or attempting to save others.
In 1918 the Carnegie Foundation established the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, now TIAA-CREF.
The building itself was originally established as a Carnegie library for the betterment of the people of the East End.
The Greenville Public Library was established as a Carnegie library and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Jacobs University has established student exchange programs with Universidad de Murcia Spain, Rice University, Washington State University, Carnegie Mellon University in the USA, Sciences Po in France, Lafayette College in the USA, Thammasat University in Thailand, Università degli Studi di Cagliari and Università degli Studi di Roma " La Sapienza " in Italy, and more recently with the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and Instituto de Empresa in Spain.
Las Vegas ' Carnegie Library, established in 1904, is the only surviving Carnegie Library in New Mexico.
The library was established in 1903 and was given a $ 50, 000 grant from Andrew Carnegie, making the structure a Carnegie library.
In preparation for the celebration of Carnegie Hall's centennial ( 1991 ), the Carnegie Hall Archives was established.
* The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is established in the UK.
Later on, Carnegie even established an institute of higher learning to teach the steel processes to the next generation.
The School of Computer Science ( SCS ) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is a leading private school for computer science established in 1965.
In the late 1990s, established companies like IBM and Compaq had microtransaction divisions, and research on micropayments and micropayment standards was performed at Carnegie Mellon and by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Additionally, in partnership with the al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Carnegie established the Al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia in Kazakhstan in late 2011.
The Carnegie Middle East Center was established in November, 2006.
There is a Carnegie library established by the Carnegie Foundation in 1917 which is well known for its manuscript-collection and its collection on Indian Ocean Islands books.

Carnegie and large
By 1889, the U. S. output of steel exceeded that of the UK, and Carnegie owned a large part of it.
Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.
Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, for example, Carnegie allowed his steel works to fill large orders of armor plate for the building of an enlarged and modernized United States Navy ; while he opposed American oversea expansion.
Carnegie Hall, built in 1909, is a large, two-storey, Neo-classical brick building on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada
It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.
His contacts included such diverse and well-known personages as Andrew Carnegie, William Howard Taft, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald, Robert Ogden, Collis Potter Huntington and William Henry Baldwin Jr., who donated large sums of money to agencies such as the Jeanes and Slater Funds.
This large " lifestyle " shopping center was built on the former site of the Carnegie Steel Works.
A large part of the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company existed in Munhall.
This large " LifeStyle " shopping center was built on the former site of the Carnegie Steel Works.
In the 20th century American philanthropy matured, with the development of very large private foundations created by titans of industry — Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, et al .— and later in the century with the professionalization of the field led and funded by those great foundations.
Rockefeller's interest in philanthropy on a large scale began in 1889, influenced by Andrew Carnegie's published essay, The Gospel of Wealth, which prompted him to write a letter to Carnegie praising him as an example to other rich men.
" Carnegie ordered the Homestead plant to manufacture large amounts of inventory so the plant could weather a strike.
With a large grant from Andrew Carnegie, the Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library, later known as the Houston Public Library, was founded in 1904.
Carnegie based his philosophy on the observation that the heirs of large fortunes frequently squandered them in riotous living rather than nurturing and growing them.
In the 1880s, the Elsternwick railway station was also the Melbourne end of the railway line to the large scale sugar beet processing mill at Rosstown ( see Rosstown Railway ) — now known as Carnegieand beyond.
North Road carries large volumes of traffic, but nearby shopping strips in Carnegie and Bentleigh have thrived by having more of a " village " feel.
The site is best known for the large number of well-preserved Miocene fossils, many of which were found at dig sites on Carnegie and University Hills.
He began this work with children, and then eventually moved on to large group psychodrama sessions that he held at Impromptu Group Theatre at Carnegie Hall.
After a large contribution from Andrew Carnegie it was chartered as the Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library.
However, it was not until the realization by Andrew Carnegie, that Western Pennsylvania possessed an optimum location for a very large scale American steel sector, that this area, especially Pittsburgh, became known for the industrial specialty that characterizes it today.
Just a few museums, like Carnegie Museum of Art, went to extraordinary lengths to develop their own large, unique casts.
And while some, such as Andrew Carnegie biographer Joseph Frazier Wall have concluded that Margaret Carnegie secretly favored Thomas, others such as Richard S. Tedlow disagree and conclude that Thomas was largely isolated and lonely within the extended Carnegie family and their large coterie of friends.

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