4.  Born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.  http://www.biography.com/people/albert- einstein-9285408 http://www.biography.com/people/albert- einstein-9285408

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7.  Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835. In 1848 the family emigrated to the United States, settling in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. There, at the age of 13, Andrew began his career as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory. A voracious reader, he took advantage of the generosity of an Allegheny citizen who opened his library to local working boys. Books provided most of his education as he moved from being a Western Union messenger boy to telegraph operator and then to a series of positions leading to the superintendent of the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

8.  Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic career began around 1870. He is best known for his gifts of free public library buildings. His first such gift was to his native Dunfermline in 1881, and it was followed by similar gifts to 2,509 communities in the English-speaking world.

10.  Carnegie with little brother

12.  Luisa Moreno  She was a Guatemalan-born labor leader who was active in organizing for the United Cannery, Agricultural, and Packing Workers Association (UCAPAWA) during the 1930s. In July 1940, she moved to San Diego to work on a labor union newspaper and to continue her organizing activities among the women cannery workers. She and her friend Robert Galván helped organize the United Fish Cannery Workers Union, UCAPAWA, Local 64, and they soon organized hundreds of fish and cannery workers in the largest San Diego canneries.

13.  Moreno felt that her fate was wrapped up in her union activism: "They can never deport the people that I've worked with and with those things that were accomplished for the benefit of hundreds of thousand of workers -- things that can never be destroyed." She considered racism a factor as well when she wrote on March 16, 1950, "We are right back in the pages of that revealing book on the 'Asiatic and the Alien...' No Constitution for us, who are neither citizens nor persons, but a freakish creation called 'aliens.'"  Luisa Moreno was one of several militant Hispanic leaders who had never become citizens. Instead they took an American identity through their participation in unions and political organization, primarily in San Diego and Los Angeles. Now, in historian Sanchez's words, they "faced deportation for the political activities they had engaged in under the rubric of a newfound ethnic Americanism."

15.  In the 1920s, Luisa Moreno was interested in archaeology, poetry, politics, fashion, and contemporary art. In 1927 she met her friend, the famed artist Diego Rivera in Mexico City. Their visit is documented by this rare unpublished photograph. Courtesy Carlos Larralde. 

16.  Luisa Moreno in 1939, mailing membership records to a union office in Los Angeles. Courtesy Carlos Larralde.

19.  Dankmar Adler was a pioneer and a leader in developing and building steel-framed skyscrapers in the 1880s. Adler was also an expert in acoustics for building auditoriums and theaters. Adler was born in Eisenach, Germany, on July 3, 1844.  Dankmar Adler was the partner of architect Louis H. Sullivan. Together, they designed more than 150 buildings in the post-fire building boom from 1880 to 1895. They gained fame especially with the high- profile Auditorium Building and Theatre project, which showcased Adler’s expertise in acoustic and structural engineering.Louis H. SullivanAuditorium Building and Theatre

20. Wainwright Building An acoustical and aesthetic masterpiece: the Auditorium Theatre. Photo credit: Francesca Russell

22. Walter Percy Chrysler (1875-1940) When Germany's Daimler-Benz AG merged with America's Chrysler Corporation in 1998 to form DaimlerChrysler, few people realized the complete irony involved. The American founder of Chrysler was a descendent of the German Johann Phillip Kreisler (1672-17??) who sailed to the New World in 1709. W.P. Chrysler was born in Wamego, Kansas on April 2, 1875. He founded the Chrysler Corporation in 1924. His ancestors came from the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Guntersblum.

27.  Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany, in 1923 during the Weimar Republic to a family of German Jews. His father, Louis Kissinger (1887–1982) was a schoolteacher. His mother, Paula (Stern) Kissinger (1901–1998) was a homemaker. Kissinger has a younger brother, Walter Kissinger. The surname Kissinger was adopted in 1817 by his great- great-grandfather Meyer Löb, after the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen. [4] In 1938, fleeing Nazi persecution, his family moved to London, England, before arriving in New York on September 5. Kissinger served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon, and continued as Secretary of State under Nixon's successor Gerald Ford.FürthWeimar RepublicGerman JewsBavarianspa townBad Kissingen [4]NaziNational Security AdvisorSecretary of StateRichard NixonGerald Ford

28.  A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. In that period, he extended the policy of détente. This policy led to a significant relaxation in U.S.-Soviet tensions and played a crucial role in 1971 talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. The talks concluded with a rapprochement between the United States and the People's Republic of China, and the formation of a new strategic anti-Soviet Sino-American alignment. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to establish a ceasefire and U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. The ceasefire, however, was not durable. [20] As National Security Advisor, in 1974 Kissinger directed the much- debated National Security Study Memorandum 200. RealpolitikUnited States foreign policy détenteZhou EnlairapprochementNobel Peace Prizeceasefire [20]National Security Study Memorandum 200

29. , 1973, five days after PinocThe CIA in Kissinger’s time was known to participate in activites to overthrow “unsuitable” leaders in other countries. This is a conversation about the overthrow in Chile.  On September 16het had assumed power, the following exchange about the coup took place between Kissinger and President Nixon:

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35. " The design of the new Chancery Building of the People's Republic of China makes it a fine addition to Washington DC's great embassies. I believe this building is very important for China not only architecturally but also symbolically," says I.M. Pei.

37. Receiving Medal of Freedom from President Obama 2009.