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Chapters: Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, John Jacob Astor, Jedediah Smith, Olaf Swenson, Seth Kinman, John Johnston, Ewing Young, Madeline La Framboise, Hugh Glass, Russel Farnham, Nicholas Boilvin, Jim Bridger, Christian Theodore Pedersen, Joseph Meek, John David Albert, Monjo Company, Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, Francis Vigo, William Henry Ashley, Hercules L. Dousman, Michel Cadotte, Pauline Weaver, Jacques Vieau, Isaac Slover. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 135. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Olaf Swenson ( December 16, 1883 - 1938) was a Seattle-based fur trader and adventurer active in Siberia and Alaska in the first third of the twentieth century. His career intersected with activities of notable explorers of the period, and with the Russian civil war. He is credited with leading the rescue of the Karluk survivors from Wrangell Island in 1914. According to historian Thomas C. Owen, Swenson's "practicality and zest for adventure made him an ideal entrepreneur on the arctic frontier...". Born and raised in Michigan, Swenson first reached the far north as a Nome prospector in 1901. The next year he signed on for a prospecting venture in Siberia, spending two summers and one winter on the Chukchi Peninsula. He returned to Siberia in 1905, this time with his wife and their infant son. His introduction to trading came when their ship was wrecked and he contracted to salvage cargo on a share basis. He continued to trade at Anadyr until 1911. In 1913, Swenson and C.L. Hibbard of Seattle formed the Hibbard-Swenson Company which operated trading schooners and steamers on the Siberian coast, buying furs and ivory and trading a variety of general merchandise until 1921. Swenson continued this business as Olaf Swenson ... Read more

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Chapters: John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, Edmund Bury, Evan Noel, Vane Pennell, Henry Brougham, Henry Leaf, Cecil Browning. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL (20 May 1886 19 July 1971) was a British military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family. He is sometimes referred to as "John Jacob Astor V", especially in standard genealogies of the Astor family. Lord Astor of Hever was born in New York City in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (18481919) and Mary Dahlgren Paul (18581894). He was a boy of five when his family left New York to live in England. He was raised on an estate purchased by his father at Cliveden-on-Thames in Buckinghamshire and was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. John Jacob Astor represented Great Britain in rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell, and winning bronze in the men's singles event. He served in the Life Guards and was Aide-de-Camp to Baron Hardinge, Viceroy of India between 1911 and 1914. He served in the British army during World War I, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur as a Chevalier. He held the office of Lieutenant of the City of London in 1926. He was Honorary Colonel of the Kent and Sussex Royal Guard Artillery, between 1927 and 1946 and Honorary Colonel of the 23rd London Regiment, between 1928 and 1949. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Kent from 1936 to 1962 and was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 5th Battalion, City of London (Home Guard) between 1940 and 1944. On 28 August 1916 married Violet Mary Elliot-Murray-...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=544389 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Jacob Astor, Oskar Schindler, Ernst Werner Von Siemens, Albert Ballin, Hermann Von Siemens, Walther Rathenau, Hanns Scharff, John Rabe, Hermann Simon, Caspar Voght, August Borsig, Henry Trefflich, Ralph H. Baer, Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Fritz Thyssen, Guido Henckel Von Donnersmarck, Johann Friedrich Cotta, Carl Hahn, Hasso Plattner, Richard Hartmann, Leopold Koppel, Susanne Klatten, William Ralph Merton, Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, John Kluge, Stefan Krauter, Julius Wernher, Warburg Family, Herbert Quandt, Andreas Renschler, Lars Windhorst, Robert Bosch, Dieter Zetsche, Alfred Beit, Julius Dorpmüller, August Thyssen, Charles Beyer, Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, Thomas Limberger, Karl Wilhelm Scheibler, Friedrich Minoux, Werner Von Alvensleben, Emil Kirdorf, August-Wilhelm Scheer, Theodor Bergmann, Harald Quandt, Karl Wittgenstein, Georg Wertheim, Klaus Agthe, Ernst Oppert, Roland Berger, Julius Fromm, George Krauss, Thomas Middelhoff, Toby E. Rodes, August Riedinger, Leo Kirch, Victor Mayer, Günter Faltin, Eduard Schulte, Carl F. W. Borgward, Johann Jakob Bethmann, Robert Garbe, Berthold Leibinger, Jakob Heilmann, Uwe Böning, Albert Von Maybach, Carl Krauch, Paul Camille Von Denis, Günther Quandt, Franz Ullrich, Alexander Straub, Francis Buchholz, Hans-Holger Albrecht, Hans-Peter Wild, Richard Paul Wagner, Michael Gleissner, Johann Andreas Schubert, Aby Rosen, Helmut Horten, Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff, Ludwig Loewe, Max Schlemmer, Ben Neumann, Klaus Zumwinkel, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Richard Steiff, Adolf Dassler, Ferdinand Schichau, Florian Lahnstein, Bernhard Eisenstuck, Ha. A. Mehler, Hans Scherenberg, Karl Heine, Friedrich Karl Flick, Helmut Maucher, Carl Friedrich Von Siemens, Tobias Lindemann, Joachim Zahn, Wilhelm Schmidt, Wilhelm Haller, Moritz Hochschild, Jochen Zeitz, Karl Albrecht, Stefan Quandt, Carl Melchior, Joseph Anton Von Maffei, Adolf Merckle, Ernst Fuhrmann, Jose...http://booksllc.net/?id=8322943 ... Read more

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Bound volume containing short biographies of Robert Owen, James Oliver, Stephen Girard, Mayer A. Rothschild, Philip D. Armour and John Jacob Astor. ... Read more

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Publisher: The American news companyPublication date: 1865Subjects: BusinessmenBiography ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: RMS Titanic, White Star Line, Molly Brown, Jack Phillips, John Jacob Astor IV, Robert Ballard, Charles Lightoller, Edith Rosenbaum, Lucy Christiana Duff Gordon, Lawrence Beesley, RMS Carpathia, Joseph Boxhall, Bruce Ismay, Jacques Futrelle, Millvina Dean, Benjamin Guggenheim, Harland & Wolff, Annie Clemmer Funk, Alfred Nourney, Isidor Straus, Dorothy Gibson, Karl Howell Behr, Henry Harris, William M. Murdoch, James P. Moody, Henry T. Wilde, Michel Navratil, Violet Jessop, Thomas Andrews, Reginald Lee, Archibald Butt, Wallace Hartley, Edward John Smith, Frederick Fleet, Robert Hichens, Richard Williams, Herbert Pitman, Californian, Archibald Gracie, Harold Lowe, Alexander Carlisle, Jean-Louis Michel, Francis Davis Millet,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Die RMS Titanic (engl. ) war ein Passagierschiff der britischen Reederei White Star Line. Sie wurde auf der Belfaster Werft Harland & Wolff gebaut und war bei der Indienststellung am 2. April 1912 das größte Schiff der Welt. Der zweite von drei Dampfern der Olympic-Klasse war wie seine Schwesterschiffe für den Liniendienst auf der Route Southampton-Cherbourg-Queenstown-New York, New York-Plymouth-Cherbourg-Southampton vorgesehen und sollte neue Maßstäbe im Reisekomfort setzen. Auf ihrer Jungfernfahrt kollidierte die Titanic am 14. April 1912 gegen 23:40 Uhr mit einem Eisberg und sank zwei Stunden und 40 Minuten nach dem Zusammenstoß im Nordatlantik. Trotz ausreichender Zeit zur Evakuierung starben - hauptsächlich wegen der unzureichenden Zahl an Rettungsbooten - zwischen 1490 und 1517 der über 2200 an Bord befindlichen Personen. Wegen der hohen Opferzahl zählt der Untergang der Titanic zu den gro...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=9101 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Dutch thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text. There are many editions of John Jacob Astor. This edition would be useful if you would like to enrich your Dutch-English vocabulary, whether for self-improvement or for preparation in advanced of college examinations. Webster's edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of difficult and potentially ambiguous English words. Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to "difficult, yet commonly used" English words. Rather than supply a single translation, many words are translated for a variety of meanings in Dutch, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of English without using the notes as a pure translation crutch. Having the reader decipher a word's meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. This edition is helpful to Dutch-speaking students enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP), an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) program, an English as a Second Language Program (ESL), or in a TOEFL® or TOEIC® preparation program. Students who are actively building their vocabularies in Dutch or English may also find this useful for Advanced Placement® (AP®) tests. TOEFL®, TOEIC®, AP® and Advanced Placement® are trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which has neither reviewed nor endorsed this book. This book is one of a series of Webster's paperbacks that allows the reader to obtain more value from the experience of reading. Translations are from Webster's Online Dictionary, derived from a meta-analysis of public sources, cited on the site. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Olympic Racquets Players of Great Britain, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, Edmund Bury, Evan Noel, Vane Pennell, Henry Brougham, Henry Leaf, Cecil Browning. Excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL (20 May 1886 19 July 1971) was a British military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family. He is sometimes referred to as "John Jacob Astor V", especially in standard genealogies of the Astor family. Lord Astor of Hever was born in New York City in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (18481919) and Mary Dahlgren Paul (18581894). He was a boy of five when his family left New York to live in England. He was raised on an estate purchased by his father at Cliveden-on-Thames in Buckinghamshire and was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. John Jacob Astor represented Great Britain in rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell, and winning bronze in the men's singles event. He served in the Life Guards and was Aide-de-Camp to Baron Hardinge, Viceroy of India between 1911 and 1914. He served in the British army during World War I, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur as a Chevalier. He held the office of Lieutenant of the City of London in 1926. He was Honorary Colonel of the Kent and Sussex Royal Guard Artillery, between 1927 and 1946 and Honorary Colonel of the 23rd London Regiment, between 1928 and 1949. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Kent from 1936 to 1962 and was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 5th Battalion, City of London (Home Guard) between 1940 and 1944. On 28 August 1916 married Violet Mary E... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=544389 ... Read more