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I placed out of History.  Engineers ain't got no time for that shit.

Who the hell here would even note that besides you 🤪 when someone like Rudolf Diesel died on this date in 1913 he invented the diesel engine or Casey Stengel in 1975 or Henry Ford II in 1987 or Tony Curtiss in 2010 or Mac Davis and Helen Reddy in 2020. Maybe your Red Car has sprung a leak or is running funny

Or did he?


https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982169915/

I didn't have to do that, but for some reason UT did require one soft science course.  I took sociology and discovered that there were actually very attractive females on campus.  Who knew?

Not me, History was my major and always my thing.

Been doing a deep dive on WWI lately.  Not sure there's ever been a higher level of insanity in nations sacrificing their own troops than Verdun in 1916.  The goal being to "bleed the Germans/French white."

after that deep drive you might want to read 
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret Macmillan

Was not a history major, but my Phd program had a lot of history in it (1st and 2nd century Roman empire). Also, I regularly pick out a place in history and take a deep drive.  Past year has been the antebellum period.  I generally prefer biographies over actual history books, but both are in the agenda

after that deep drive you might want to read
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Margaret Macmillan

Was not a history major, but my Phd program had a lot of history in it (1st and 2nd century Roman empire). Also, I regularly pick out a place in history and take a deep drive.  Past year has been the antebellum period.  I generally prefer biographies over actual history books, but both are in the agenda

I'm finishing my 79 th book on WWII, might try that I have a few books in queu before that. Versailles ensured there would be another war

Engineers who don't study history are doomed to iterate it.  

on this date............John D. Rockefeller became the world's first recorded billionaire on September 29, 1916.


Key Details of the Milestone
• The Date: September 29, 1916, marked the point when newspapers and financial observers calculated his massive net worth crossed the $1 billion mark.
• Source of Wealth: Even though the U.S. Supreme Court broke up his Standard Oil monopoly in 1911, his shares in the 34 independent successor companies (such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, or ExxonMobil and Chevron later on) soared in value.
• Legacy: Rockefeller gave away more than $500 million of his fortune during his lifetime to medical research, education, and public health, founding institutions like the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Foundation.