Hudson's Private Theatricals for Home Performance
Author: Francis Hudson
Publisher:
Published: 1870
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
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Dragons
Author: Liam Byrne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-05-26
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1781857466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men. DRAGONS tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, saviour of the East India Company; financier Nathan Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; William Lever, brand-builder, philanthropist, and creator of Britain's first great multinational; and John Spedan Lewis, founder of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. At the start of the 21st century Britain remains a major economic power. DRAGONS is both a rousing celebration of British business genius and a fascinatingly informative narrative of a neglected but essential strand of our island's story.
Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal
Author: Lloyd C. Douglas
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-11-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoctor Hudson's Secret Journal is the scandalous and suspenseful journal of a highly successful doctor during World War I. Excerpt: "THIS has been an eventful day. We formally opened our new hospital this afternoon. The city's medical profession was ably represented and many of our well-to-do philanthropists came for tea and a tour of inspection. Everybody commented on our astounding luck in disposing of the shabby old building in Cadillac Square for a quarter of a million."
The Last Prison
Author: Danial F. Lisarelli
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 1999-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781581127836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive years ago, I was told that Union prisoners of war from the Civil War were buried in Hempstead, Texas. In being a descendent of six Union veterans of the Civil War, I was obligated to investigate. The story turned out to be true, but there was much more to it than what I bargained for.
Hudson's Kill
Author: Paddy Hirsch
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0765399180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in 1803 New York, Hudson's Kill is the riveting next historical thriller from NPR reporter and producer Paddy Hirsch, perfect for fans of The Alienist and Gangs of New York. New York in 1803 is rife with tension as the city expands, and whoever knows where the city will build can control it. And violence builds as a mysterious provocateur pits the city’s black and Irish gangs against each other. When a young black girl is found stabbed to death, both Justy Flanagan, now a City Marshal, and Kerry O’Toole, now a school teacher, decide separately to go after the killer. They each find their way to a shadowy community on the fringes of the growing city, where they uncover a craven political conspiracy bound up with a criminal enterprise that is stunning in its depravity. Justy and Kerry have to fight to save themselves and the city, and only then can they bring the girl’s killer to justice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Murder in Their Hearts
Author: David Thomas Murphy
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 0871953021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn March 1824 a group of angry and intoxicated settlers brutally murdered nine Indians camped along a tributary of Fall Creek. The carnage was recounted in lurid detail in the contemporary press, and the events that followed sparked a national sensation. Murder in Their Hearts: The Fall Creek Massacre tells that, although violence between settlers and Native Americans was not unusual during the early nineteenth century, in this particular incident the white men responsible for the murders were singled out and hunted down, brought to trial, convicted by a jury of their neighbors, and, for the first time under American law, sentenced to death and executed for the murder of Native Americans.
Enter Rumour
Author: Robert Bernard
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0571287859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe common perception of Britain's Victorian era as one of strict and strait-laced conformity has long been subject to rebuttal, and Robert Bernard Martin's Enter Rumour (1962) was an early and distinguished endeavour in this line. Herein Martin weighs the evidence of four scandalous incidents that aroused great public interest during the first dozen years of Victoria's reign, each of them emanating from 'what the Victorians might have called the higher orders of society.' Martin recounts the sorry tale of Lady Flora Hastings, victim of Court gossip; Lord Eglinton, who tried and failed to revive the medieval tournament; the strange case of the St Cross Hospital Charity; and George Hudson, 'Railway King', whose rise and fall remains a story for our times. Martin examines sources expertly and further explores how three of these scandals were transformed into fiction - by none less than Dickens, Disraeli and Trollope.
Hudson's
Author: Michael Hauser
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780738533551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history of the once-tallest department store, and features information on the building's auditorium, circulating library, dining rooms, barber shops, holiday exhibits, and the world's largest American flag.
Arctic Explorers
Author: Frances Hern
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1926936132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is no saga in Canadian history as full of hardship, catastrophe and mystery as the search for the Northwest Passage. Since the 15th century, the ice-choked Arctic waterway has been sought and travelled by daring men seeking profit, glory or a chance to test themselves against the merciless North. Frances Hern takes us aboard ships with the explorers whose names are memorialized on modern maps of northern Canada: Martin Frobisher, daring privateer in the service of Elizabeth I; Henry Hudson, a navigator who may have driven his crew to mutiny; John Franklin, whose last voyage became an enduring northern mystery; the talented Orkneyman John Rae, a surgeon and surveyor on the trail of Franklin. Also vividly recounted are the gruelling overland treks of Samuel Hearne; the heroic exploits of Roald Amundsen, leader of the first expedition to traverse the passage; and the incredible voyages of Henry Larsen, captain of the RCMP vessel St. Roch.
