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  2. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

  3. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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    The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Absolute power corrupts absolutely (John Dalberg-Acton, 1887) [6] Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families) Actions speak louder than words; Adversity makes strange bedfellows; All good things come to him who waits; All good things must come to an end; All hands on deck/to the pump; All is grist that comes to the mill

  5. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  6. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The quotation "all men are created equal" is found in the United States Declaration of Independence and emblematic of the America's founding ideals.The final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jefferson during the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776. [1]

  7. The 'Cookie Monster' Study Reveals How Power Corrupts People

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    The 'Cookie Monster' Study Reveals How Power Corrupts People. Business Insider. Updated July 14, 2016 at 7:39 PM. Edgar Alvarez. By Shana Lebowitz

  8. The Current War - Wikipedia

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    The Current War [a] is a 2017 American historical drama film inspired by the 19th-century competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over which electric power delivery system would be used in the United States (often referred to as the "war of the currents").

  9. 85 George Orwell Quotes About Truth, Politics and Power

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    10. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 11. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”