There are book repositories all over the world which are casually referred to as “Carnegie libraries” because their construction was personally bankrolled by one of the richest men to ever make his home on the North American continent, Andrew Carnegie. All right, that’s a little too modest: He was one of the richest people in all of recorded history.
He handed out the grants like a one-man Federal Reserve.
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