| Rockefeller Center: Columbia University, General Electric, RCA, NBC, Diego Rivera, News Corporation, Wallace Harrison, Alfred P. Sloan Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Group, Books (Editor), Books, LLC (Created by) |
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ISBN: 1155719670 ISBN-13: 9781155719672 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $21.81 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 116. Chapters: Columbia University, General Electric, RCA, NBC, Diego Rivera, News Corporation, Wallace Harrison, Alfred P. Sloan, Christie's, Radio City Music Hall, Goldman Sachs, Nelson Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, Rockefeller Foundation, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., David Sarnoff, Associated Press, NBCUniversal, Allen Welsh Dulles, Jack Welch, GE Building, Stavros Niarchos, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, McGraw-Hill, Laurance Rockefeller, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Time-Life, John D. Rockefeller III, Sixth Avenue, Paul Manship, Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, Cradle Will Rock, Simon & Schuster, Ivy Lee, Jerry Speyer, Rainbow Room, 47th-50th Streets - Rockefeller Center, The Rockettes, NBC Radio City Studios, Center Theatre (New York, New York), Exxon Building, Tishman Speyer, Time-Life Building, Nintendo World Store, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper, Rockefeller Group, J. Richardson Dilworth, Man at the Crossroads, Mitsubishi Estate Co.. Excerpt: Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Today the University operates four global centers overseas in Amman, Jordan; Beijing, China; Paris, France; and Mumbai, India. The University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain. After the American Revolutionary War King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784. The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University. That same y... |