Sentences with phrase «century robber»

Read a bit of history, and you'll find that's precisely what the late nineteenth century robber barons in oil, steel and rail did.

Amazon's a bit like the late nineteenth - century robber barons of steel, rail and oil.

It is time to fight the 21st century robber - barons and cleanse our government of grifters and sycophants.

Not exact matches

Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, a prison built in the 19th century that housed Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton, has been a museum since 1994.

«We are seeing similar problems to what we saw with grave - robbers centuries ago,» she said, referring to the 19th - century practice of obtaining cadavers in ways that violated the dignity of the dead.

Jay Gould, American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous «robber barons» of 19th - century American capitalism.

These were all notoriously robbers and in the first century the last two would also be especially hated as «Quislings», because they collected taxes from their fellow Jews on behalf of hated Gentiles.

A third had been cleaned out by grave robbers centuries earlier.

century grave robbers provided cadavers).

The sport began in Finland in the 1990s and is based on a 19th century Finnish legend Ronkainen the Robber who allegedly auditioned members of his gang by making them run through a difficult course carrying either a heavy sack, or a woman stolen from a nearby village.

Inspired by grave robbers during the plague in 15th century England, this blend was historically believed to protect them from illness when robbing dead plague victims.

The movie begins in the 19th century; grave - robber Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden) is being brought to his fate; paraded in -LSB-...]

In a Trinidad Garza social studies class, Engelhart recalls how a teacher introduced her students to robber barons — unethical American businessmen in the late 19th century, and later big businesses throughout the 1930s and 70s: «I want you to read this information about the robber barons, and then write down two questions: one about a fact that you don't understand and what you need to know about it, and a thinking question: How?

The site in Assassin's Creed 3 Pc Game has a fantastic history of real - world events and follows the centuries - old struggle between the robbers fighting for peace with free will, and the Templars who want peace through control.

Whore of Babylon & Robber Barons depicts the Book of Revelations beast composed of notorious 19th Century American merchants atop a sea of 1960s political conventioneers.

In one particularly staggering section, «Visions and Myths of a Nation,» a gallery devoted to the 19th century features an elaborate gilded mantelpiece by the Herter Brothers, the robber barons» interior decorators of choice, on the same wall as an 1801 silver peace medal by John Matthias Reich bearing the word «friendship.»