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Long ago your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham, Nahor and Haran, lived beyond the Euphrates River, and they worshiped other gods…
Nahor was the son of Terah. He had two brothers, Abraham and Haran. His wife, Milcah, was Haran's daughter.
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Laban was the son of Bethuel the Aramean, and brother of Rebekah. She would become Isaac’s wife. “These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks—in fact, everything you see is mine."
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In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of King Jehoshaphat (r. 872-848 BC), son and successor of King Asa. When King Jehoshaphat died, he was buried in the City of David, then his son Jehoram (r. 853-841 BC) became king of Judah.
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Present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Illyrian and Celtic tribes until the 1st century BC, when the Romans conquered the region establishing the provinces of Pannonia and Noricum.
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Babylonian officers were outfitted in striking red uniforms, belts encircling their waists, and turbans crowning their heads.
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The ancient civilization, known as the Land of Punt, is believed to have been located in modern-day Somalia from around 3000 to 1500 BC.
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Pharaoh gave Joseph a new Egyptian name, Zaphenath-paneah. He also gave him a wife, whose name was Asenath. Two sons were born to Joseph and his wife, Manasseh and Ephraim.
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Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Marie Curie, was a Polish physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium. She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first and only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
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Known as Michanikos, the Machine Man, little is known with certainty about the life of Heron of Alexandria, including the period in which he lived. What is known, is that he was familiar with the works of Archimedes, Philo of Byzantium, and other Greek inventors.
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We'll explore the life of Elon Musk, the South African entrepreneur involved in reinventing automotive, aerospace, solar energy, energy storage, satellite, high-speed ground transportation and multi-planetary expansion.
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In 1903, Maggie Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, offering checking and savings accounts, mortgages, and loans to provide economic empowerment to women and help strengthen Richmond's emerging black middle class.
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This week’s “Notable People in History” newsletter features Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates. who started the company with the vision of putting a personal computer on every desk and in every home.
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This week's LinkedIn newsletter features Warren Buffett. He believes that a prudent investor should be more concerned about what’s going on inside of a business than in the stock market.
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With over 1,000 patents to his name, Thomas Edison's inventions include the phonograph, the lightbulb, a kinetographic theater, the magnetic iron ore separator, along with the electrographic vote recorder.
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Olive Ann Beech was born on September 25, 1903 in Waverly, Kansas to Franklin Benjamin Mellor and Susannah Miller Mellor. She was the youngest of four girls and would become the co-founder, president, and chairwoman of Beech Aircraft Corporation. Her career spanned 50 years prior to her retirement in September 1982, she was the first woman to head a major aircraft company.
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According to a 2020 publication, the number of people unbanked globally was listed at more than 2 billion. The number one reason cited within this demographic in the US is not having enough money to meet minimum balance requirements.
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Among Benjamin Franklin's favorite books were John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Plutarch's Lives, Daniel Defoe's Essay on Projects, and Cotton Mather's Bonifacius: An Essay to Do Good, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's essays in the British publication The Spectator.