Teenage Titanic victim's fateful words written from 'magnificent' liner to his parents three days before 1912 sinking are revealed in unearthed letter
Aged just 16, Thomas Cupper Mudd from Huntingfield, Suffolk, was among the youngest of the 1,500 people lost in the Titanic ...
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The Controversial History Of The Astor Family, One Of America’s Most Prominent Dynasties
The story of the Astor family is one of immense fortune, ambition, tragedy, and scandal. It all began with John Jacob Astor, an immigrant from modern-day Germany who arrived in the United States ...
Students thrilled as PPS bookmobile delivers books, surprises, and OMSI golden keys
Packed with hundreds of new reads for students, the Portland Public Schools (PPS) bookmobile visited Astor K-8 and Chavez K-8 ...
Commercial Observer6d
The Waldorf Astoria’s New Condos Took a Heavy Legal Lift
The landmarked nature of a property that was going to also be part hotel presented attorneys with a maze of challenges.
Smithsonian Magazine18d
How a Leading Black Historian Uncovered Her Own Family’s Painful Past—and Why Her Ancestors’ Stories Give Her Hope
Martha S. Jones’ new memoir draws on genealogical research and memories shared by relatives ...
Green Bay Press-Gazette18d
What should Green Bay name its new elementary school? Here's what you said.
Keeping with the education theme, another respondent suggested naming the school after John Jacob Astor, who donated the land the first Green Bay city-owned school was built on. Still another ...
The New York Times21d
M. Paul Friedberg, Landscape Architect Who Celebrated the City, Dies at 93
His early work was part of a wave of civic reform in the mid-1960s, led by Mayor John V ... For the Jacob Riis Houses, a project funded by the Astor Foundation, he created a community space ...
Sooke News Mirror7d
SOOKE HISTORY: How the Hudson’s Bay Company shaped Sooke’s early industry
Prior to the Dunsmuirs' arrival, the John Muir family from Scotland had become indentured to the HBC and sailed to the New ...
Gentleman's Journal17d
St. Regis moves into Mumbai and Dubai
Since the opening of the first St. Regis hotel in New York City over a century ago by John Jacob Astor IV, the brand has remained steadfast to an uncompromising level of bespoke and anticipatory ...