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Carnegie was also known to be a great journalist.
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.
Carnegie also established large pension funds in 1901 for his former employees at Homestead and, in 1905, for American college professors.
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 opposed
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.
The Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations, the ACLU, and the California Teachers Association opposed the measure.
: In this chapter, notably the shortest in the book, Carnegie analyzes two letters and describes how to appeal to someone's vanity with the term " do me a favor " as opposed to directly asking for something which does not offer the same feeling of importance to the recipient of the request.
Despite being a supporter of culture in general, Carnegie was opposed to the multipurpose facility the village intended to build, as it exceeded his default start-up donation of $ 10, 000.

Carnegie and annexation
On the matter of American annexation, Carnegie had always thought it is an unwise gesture for the United States.
He did not oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Carnegie stood still on his opposition towards the annexation of the Philippines.
The annexation by Seattle of the city of Ballard brought with it another already established Carnegie library, and a further Carnegie donation of $ 70, 000 in 1911 built the Queen Anne branch ( opened 1914 ) and the Columbia Branch ( opened December 31, 1915 in Columbia City ).

Carnegie and Cuba
* 1900-American Friends open work in Cuba ; Ecumenical Missionary Conference in Carnegie Hall, New York ( 162 mission boards represented ); 189 missionaries and their children killed in Boxer Rebellion in China ; South African Andrew Murray writes The Key to the Missionary Problem in which he challenges the church to hold weeks of prayer for the world
Outside Wisconsin, the Orchestra has made 12 appearances at Carnegie Hall, most recently at the 2012 Spring For Music Festival, and toured Cuba, Japan, Europe, and the Dominican Republic.
He is the author, co-author, co-editor of and contributor to a variety of books including The Global Century: Globalization and National Security ( National Defense University ), Cuba: The Contours of Change ( Lynn Rienner Publishers ), The Price of Peace: Emergency Economic Intervention and U. S. Foreign Policy ( Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ), The Common Market: Uniting the European Community ( Franklin Watts ) and The Big Emerging Markets ( Bernan Press ).

Carnegie and by
An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.
Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.
The Symphony Of The Air, greatly assisted by Van Cliburn, last night got its seven-concert Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall off to a good start.
In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.
Carnegie started as a telegrapher and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges and oil derricks.
His mother, Margaret Morrison Carnegie, earned money by binding shoes.
In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.
Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the United States.
In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile ( 685 km ) long railway, and a line of lake steamships.
The holdings were incorporated in the United States Steel Corporation, a trust organized by Morgan, and Carnegie retired from business.
Although still actively involved in running his many businesses, Carnegie had become a regular contributor to numerous magazines, most notably the Nineteenth Century, under the editorship of James Knowles, and the influential North American Review, led by editor Lloyd Bryce.
Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Although Cambria Iron and Steel's facilities were heavily damaged by the flood, they returned to full production within a year .. After the flood, Carnegie built Johnstown a new library to replace the one built by Cambria's chief legal counsel Cyrus Elder, which was destroyed in the flood.
Though Carnegie claims to be a disciple of Spencer many of his actions went against the ideas espouse by Spencer.
Carnegie was an ardent supporter of commercial “ survival of the fittest ” and sought to immunity from business challenges by dominating all phases of the steel manufacturing procedure.
In a notably Spencerian manner, Carnegie argued that unions impeded the natural reduction of prices by pushing up costs, which blocked evolutionary progress.
Carnegie built his wealth in the steel industry by maintaining an extensively integrated operating system.
Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.
* Disney's Scrooge McDuck is thought to have been inspired by Carnegie.
The Carnegie Collections of the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library consist of the archives of the following organizations founded by Carnegie: The Carnegie Corporation of New York ( CCNY ); The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ( CEIP ); the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ( CFAT ); The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs ( CCEIA ).

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