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Andrew Carnegie, in 1912.

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and founder of the steel industry in the United States. After selling his steel interests to U.S. Steel in 1901, Carnegie became for some years the richest man in the world. He gave away his fortune to a series of philanthropies in America, Scotland and the British Empire, promoting libraries, higher education, science, and world peace. Rejecting the "robber baron" epithet hurled by radicals, he opposed imperialism and was one of the most visible leaders of the Efficiency Movement in the Gilded Age and during the Progressive Era was a major proponent of philanthropy through the "Gospel of Wealth."[more...]

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The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a popular uprising that created an element of constitutional monarchy in Russia following Nicholas II's October Manifesto of 1905. The uprising was caused mainly by the horrible showing of Russian forces in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904/1905 but also because of the increased visibility of social agitators such as Socialists, Anarchists, Liberals and other revolutionaries such as Nihilists in Russian society. [more...]