Cornelius Vanderbilt

She had bought property along the way and things like that.

But a year after she got there, she made money because she had also become friends with Cornelius Vanderbilt.

And he says that she advised him, her spirits told him what to do.

But of course, he probably could tell her also, here's what you need to do.

By the way, that man needs to run for Congress in Tennessee.

That feels like a guy that knew James Madison and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

You have James Madison, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Colton Hawthorne.

Which one of these does not belong? Probably James Madison.

I would assume.

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Here's what I don't get about the great Colton Hawthorne.

And granted, he's probably been hanging out with Cornelius Vanderbilt and all of those guys.

Right.

Is, yes, a spiritualist, the channeler and necromancer, a woman who with her sister were touring the United States like the Fox sisters were doing magic tricks for money and developing a reputation also as a as a as a prophetess, a modern prophetess who began to work for the blue blood elites like Cornelius Vanderbilt.

who adored her and her sister, and bankrolled their stockbrokerage company.

She was the first female stockbroker.

You know, Frederick Douglass was what a what a courageous woman.

It's like, no, she was she was really dirty into dark magic.

And and Cornelius Vanderbilt.

When he died, his son did two things.

Or do you think it could be? Do you think? And this should appeal to you, Skylar.

Do you think it could be a coincidence or not that the primary funders of suffrage and the women's liberation movement were people like J.P. Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Rockefellers, the Ford Foundation, people who had a vested interest in getting cheap labor into their big factories? You know, we're talking about an age of industry in the United States where these people are building and expanding infrastructure and factories across the country, and they couldn't quite import enough pork.

Or Irish or Chinese workers.

So they thought, hmm, let's liberate the women and we can get them all into the factories.

The conflict? Chef George Crum, born George Speck, was working as a cook.

A demanding customer, often rumored to be shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, repeatedly sent back his order of French fried potatoes, complaining they were too thick, soft, and soggy.

Annoyed by the criticism, Crum decided to teach the customer a lesson.

He sliced the potatoes paper thin, fried them until they were hard and crisp, and loaded them with salt.

And finally, let's talk about Newport, Rhode Island.

The Vanderbilts built their summer cottages there, which is a delightfully dishonest name for a house like the Breakers, the 70-room Italian Renaissance Palace, finished for Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1895.

Same year, same family, darker story.

Alva Vanderbilt, who'd built the nearby marble house, wanted a title in the family.

exactly.

So whereas in New York City, Commodore Vanderbilt, the big powerhouse in the city, he wants to build a railroad going right into what was then the heart of Manhattan, which is lower Manhattan, not as it is today, central Manhattan.

But he can't do it, so he has to stop at 42nd Street.

And if he wants to take trains and build a station there, if he wants to take trains south of there, he has to pull them by... by horses, and this was a municipal ordinance because the smoke and the noise were disturbing people, and residents complained, and the city put a stop to it.

And then you spend a third of the document talking about how, oh, by the way, our product could kill everyone.

You know, what do you do with that? Can you imagine Cornelius Vanderbilt as he's building the railroads to link the east and west coast in one of the most formative events of American industry? And I'm going, and we might kill everyone.

You know, that kind of thing.

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