When it was opened to the public in 1908, the Singer Building at 149 Broadway held the record, however briefly, as the tallest skyscraper in the world. Sixty years later, it had the honor of setting a more enduring record â as the worldâs largest skyscraper ever to be peacefully demolished.
The total number of Indians slaughtered by Americans is difficult to pin down. Understandably the U.S. government has painted a much more benign picture, even though responsible for actions of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The government range is 1 to 4 million deaths (murders).
Within a generation, the Native Indians were killed off by whole-scale massacres, starvation, and epidemics brought in by the white settlers, and by the 1840s, the Indian population shrank to fewer than one tenth the population before the Caucasians arrived.