May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone[?] was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Sears & Roebuck[?], later Sears[?], its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
... de Orellana - first to navigate down the Amazon River
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William Parry[?], (born 1790), Arctic explorer
Robert Edwin Peary, (1856-1920), first man to reac ...