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    Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 – August 26, 1950) was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named...
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    replica of the 1893 steam carriage built by Ransom E. Olds on display, prior to the founding of the Olds Motor Works, which was the official name of Oldsmobile...
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    Boji Tower (redirect from Olds Tower)
    tower was originally constructed as the Olds Tower, named after the automotive industrialist, Ransom Eli Olds, who was the main financier of the tower...
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    Oldsmobile (redirect from Olds Motor Works)
    time-intensive. After Ransom Olds merged Olds Motor Vehicle Co. with the Olds Gas Engine Works in 1899, the newly formed entity was known as Olds Motor Works."...
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    through at least 1953, and made REO (the initials of its founder, Ransom Eli Olds) one of the better-known manufacturers of commercial vehicles in America...
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    REO Speedwagon, from the REO Speed Wagon, a 1915 truck designed by Ransom Eli Olds. Doughty had seen the name written on the blackboard when he walked...
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    automobile in the United States, is where Ransom Eli Olds built factories along Washington Avenue. Ransom Eli Olds' home, which once overlooked the factories...
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    Robert Olds, who arrived from Sherborne, Dorset, in 1667, include automotive pioneer Ransom Eli Olds, Copperhead Ohio politician Edson Baldwin Olds, his...
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    1885, he was working once again, this time in orange groves. When Ransom Eli Olds, one of the pioneers of the American automotive industry purchased...
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    birthplace of the commercial automobile in the US, REO Town is named after Ransom Eli Olds, an automobile pioneer, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands...
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    inventor of the Oldsmobile and REO Cars, Ransom Eli Olds purchased 37,541 acres in Tampa Bay. Originally named R.E. Olds-On-the-Bay, it is now known as the...
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    between the years 1890 and 1945 include John Froelich's tractor (1892), Ransom Eli Olds' assembly line (1901), Willis Carrier's air-conditioning (1902), the...
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  • Okamoto (?–), Japan – Okamoto Cubes = modifications of Rubik's Cube Ransom Eli Olds (1864–1950), U.S. – Assembly line Lucien Olivier (1838–1883), Belgium...
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    Nash, professional WWE wrestler No Kum-sok, North Korean defector Ransom Eli Olds, automobile pioneer Pavlina Osta, radio host Josef Papp, engineer Kitty...
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    at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach Papers at the Harry Ransom Center The Bookwrap video interviews The short film The...
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    trustees, gaining participation by James Gamble (of Procter & Gamble), Ransom Eli Olds (of Oldsmobile and REO MotorCompany) and Thomas H. White (of White...
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    Ashtabula Larry Obhof, attorney and former President of the Ohio Senate Ransom Eli Olds, pioneer of the American automobile industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile...
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    Seeing themselves as their American equivalent, they wished to emulate the old world dwellings on American soil, and spent extravagantly to do so, often...
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    playwright Muhsin Muhammad - NFL football star Ransom E. Olds - Automobile Manufacturer; founded Olds Motor Vehicle Company Larry Page - co-founder of...
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    demolished by the beginning of 1980. It was delisted from the NRHP in 1986. Ransom Eli Olds became a partner in his father's machine shop in 1885. He soon developed...
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    T. Gushee, C. A. Parcells, C. W. Harrah, E. W. Lewis, C. S. Mott, Ransom Eli Olds, Ralph Hazlett Upson, R. D. Chapin, P. Ball, H. H. Knight, H. M. Bixby...
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    at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach Papers at the Harry Ransom Center Anne Jackson interviews at the University of Wisconsin's...
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    postmaster, mayor, county commissioner and school trustee Okeechobee Ransom Eli Olds Oldsmobile inventor; purchased land, platted & founded Oldsmar; built...
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  • patriarch Eli Gemstone. Eli and his immature children, Jesse, Judy and Kelvin, lead opulent lives funded by church donations. In the first season, Eli's estranged...
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    1965 Ransom Eli Olds Commemorative Designation Picnic shelter on Central between Casino Wayne and Ruse Road, Belle Isle Detroit September 4, 1997 Old Rawsonville...
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  • Prestcote dead, smothered in his sleep. Einon will not ransom a live man with a dead one. Eliud, Elis and six others of Einon's party must remain as suspects...
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  • Terrell Louis Ransom Jr. (born July 5, 2003), also known as Kid Prodigy, is an American actor. He is mostly known for his roles on The Amazing World of...
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    Dreamcatcher (2003), The Sixth Sense (1999), Righteous Kill (2008), and Ransom (1996), as well as the role of Carwood Lipton in the World War II miniseries...
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  • Wolfgang Panzer [de] Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Saul Rubinek, Geneviève Bujold, Eli Wallach, Robert Joy, Bernd Michael Lade, Walter Kreye Crime Canadian-German...
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    attendance, which Walsh considers a form of grooming. In February 2022, Eli Erlick, a transgender activist, alleged that Walsh had invited dozens of...
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