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Maria Anna Fisher
Maria Anna Fisher (1819–1911), also known as Anna Maria Fisher, was an African American baker, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Beginning around 1834, at the age of 15, she sold homemade biscuits door to door in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 12.5 cents each. With her earnings she eventually purchased a fourteen-room house and more than a dozen other houses that she rented out for additional income. She never raised the price for her biscuits. Death and legacy Fisher died in 1911 and left a $70,000 estate to charities, including the Tuskegee Institute and the Hampton Institute. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Maria Anna 1819 births 1911 deaths 20th-century African-American businesspeople 20th-century American businesspeople American bakers Businesspeople from Philadelphia Philanthropists from Pennsylvania 19th-century American businesspeople 19th-century American businesswomen 19th-century American philanthropists 20th-century African-American women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
