All posts tagged "apprentice"

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  Business and Labor

  Timothy Dexter, the Ridiculous Millionaire Who Sold Coals to Newcastle

  Timothy Dexter was considered a lucky fool for selling coal to Newcastle and bed warmers to the tropics – and somehow making...

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  Politics and Military

  Connecticut’s Edward Bancroft Sides with the British in 1776 – Secretly

  Connecticut physician Edward Bancroft had friends in high places. He was a former student and classmate of Connecticut’s Silas Deane, as well...