As soon as he realized that the Titanic had struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, John Jacob Astor IV sprung into ...
When the Titanic set sail in 1912, the “onboard storage pantry” had 40,000 eggs. Today, in 2025, we’ve had much murmuring ...
The woman who once owned Astor died in 2007 at the age of 105, and the man who owned Astor’s only son, Anthony Marshall (above right), died last November at the age of 90. His second wife (also known ...
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In 1911, when 18-year-old Madeleine Force marries John Jacob Astor, a divorced man almost 30 years her senior, gossips follow eagerly their every move. However, their publicly scandalous relationship, ...
The NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver champion is formally presented the Astor Challenge Cup at the conclusion of the season. The trophy was commissioned more than a century ago by Vincent Astor, son of ...