No Ordinary Man is the second studio album by American country music artist Tracy Byrd. It features the singles The First Step , Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous , Watermelon Crawl and The Keeper of the Stars , all of which reached Top Five on the Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-selling album, No Ordinary Man was certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of two million copies in the U.S. Although not a Number One, The Keeper of the Stars is considered one of Byrd's signature songs.
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Twenty-one year old Hermann Schussler (1842-1919) emigrated to California, from Switzerland, in 1864. Two years later, at the age of 23, he became Chief Engineer of the Spring Valley Water Works. Schussler was no ordinary young man. Born in the village of Rastebe in the Grand Duchy of Oldenberg, Germany, he came to California speaking little English. Armed with studies in civil engineering at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Zurich and a little engineering experience in Switzerland, Schussler rode into California on horseback with only a carpet bag for his personal belongings.
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