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Leeper also self-published her autobiography ... people were barred from working at mills owned by John Odell, James Cannon and other white men “except for very menial labor,” McCullough said. Built ...

There are few people in the world of technology with more interesting stories to tell than Bill Gates. The entrepreneur and co-founder of Microsoft has seen computers morph from hulking machines t ...