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).
Smallpox killed tens of thousands of Indians in the New World. 1  Iceland is an example of how devastating smallpox could be. 2  In 1707 smallpox first appeared in Iceland, in two years 18,000 of the islands 50,000 inhabitants died of it.