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Manville Corp
Manville Corporation Post Office Box 5108Denver, Colorado 80217U.S.A.(303) 978-2000Fax: (303) 978-2440 Public Company Incorporated: 1901 as H. W. Johns-Manville CorporationEmployees: 16,000Sales: $2.02 millionStock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 2621 Paper Mills; 2631 Paperboard Mills; 3296 Mineral... Read more |
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Champion Enterprises Inc
Champion Enterprises, Inc. 2701 University Drive, Suite 320Auburn Mills, Michigan 48236U.S.A.(810) 340-9090Fax: (810) 340-935 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1953 as Champion Home Builders, Co.Employees: 5,000Sales: $798 million (1995)Stock Exchanges: New York Chicago PacificSICs: 2451 Mobile Homes;... Read more |
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Popcorn
Popcorn Background Before about 1912, less than 19,000 acres (7,700 hectares) of farmland were dedicated to growing popcorn, but the electric popcorn machine and the microwave increased the demand for "prairie gold." Today, annual consumption of popcorn in America exceeds 1... Read more |
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Oswald Garrison Villard
Oswald Garrison Villard 1872-1949, American editor and author, b. Wiesbaden, Germany, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1893; M.A., 1896). The son of Henry Villard and the grandson, on his mother's side, of William Lloyd Garrison, he was a lifelong liberal and a pacifist. In 1897 he became an editorial writer... Read more |
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John Campbell
John Campbell 1653-1728, American editor, b. Scotland. After emigrating to Boston, he was postmaster of the city from 1702 to 1718 and wrote newsletters for regular patrons. In 1704 he started printing these newsletters as a weekly half sheet, devoted mostly to foreign news, entitled the Boston... Read more |
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Privateers
CORSAIRS naval freebooters (often mistakenly called pirates) of many nations. The corsairs sailed under the colors of the so-called Barbary states of North Africa from the early sixteenth century until the European naval powers suppressed their activity after the end of the Napoleonic wars.... Read more |
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dame schools
dame schools. Before the Education Act of 1870, many young children were taught by unqualified women in their own homes. The dame schools, which were often in the country, were privately supported and fees were charged. The curriculum was narrow and concentrated on reading and writing. Dame schools... Read more |
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John Boydell
John Boydell , 1719-1804, English engraver and print publisher, originator and builder of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. He studied engraving in London and early began to amass his fortune with the publication of his engravings of views of England and Wales. It is as the publisher of works by... Read more |
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Esau
Esau [Heb.,=hairy], in the Bible, son of Isaac, who sold his birthright to his younger twin, Jacob , for lentil stew and who was tricked by Jacob out of his father's blessing. Also known as Edom [Heb.,=ruddy], the disinherited Esau settled on Mt. Seir, which became the home of his descendants,... Read more |
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Greeting card industry
Greeting Card Background Greeting cards are pieces of paper or cardboard upon which photos, drawings, and a verse of cheer, greeting, celebration, condolence, etc. have been printed or engraved. Greeting cards are decorated with a variety of images and include messages to... Read more |
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By the Hand Of an Assassin; In the Papers of John Wilkes Booth, Clues to an...
...The Writings of John Wilkes Booth," which was edited by Taper and John Rhodehamel, a scholar...heirs until they sold them to Taper...years since, her home has become a Lincoln...effects of John ... |
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Wilkes Booth Home Being Auctioned
...Online 08-12-1999 Wilkes Booth Home Being Auctioned BEL AIR...presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth is to be auctioned...Hall, is scheduled to be sold Oct. 16. It is worth...a country retreat for ... |
 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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Warming to cold trail of John Wilkes Booth; Tours follow 12-day flight of...
...trail of assassin John Wilkes Booth as he made his way...Elizabeth Leonard, John J. and Cornelia...sponsored bus tours are sold out until next fall...Edwin Stanton's home across from Franklin...says Donald E. ... |
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Childhood home of assassin John Wilkes Booth for sale
The childhood home of John Wilkes Booth - who murdered President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 - is scheduled to be sold by auction. The 4-bedroom, brick...to Baltimore from England in 1821. John Wilkes also was a ... |
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Booth boyhood home put on auction block
...history: at one time home to both world-renowned...Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth and his brother, John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated...has become more than John Wilkes Booth's house. ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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EXPERTS SEEK TO OPEN BOOTH'S GRAVE.(Main)
...pathologists are prepared to open John Wilkes Booth's presumed grave as...Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, or the First True...remained at the funeral home. Bates, who published...Bates' wife ... |
 "The Charleston Gazette (Charleston, WV)")
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Ga. museum to auction Old South treasures: Confederate currency, cotton gin...
...rifles, cannonballs and a 19th-century photograph of John Wilkes Booth. It amounted to a sort of crazy uncle roosting in Atlanta...leaflets for politicians running for office. Flying home from one mission, he followed the wrong set of railroad... |
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History in jeopardy: Tudor Hall's fate interests Bard fans, Civil War...
...The 19th century brick home - best known as the birthplace...presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth - will hit the auction...since the Booth family sold it in 1878, is not only...father's death, Edwin, John ... |
 "Providence Journal (Providence, RI)")
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One Middletown mansion with storied past: $5 million.
...built for Edwin Booth, the famous tragic...Lincoln, will be sold for more than...agreement to be sold next month for...summer and vacation home. Yesterday, a...Boothden is being sold by Eleanor Seaman...after his brother, ... |
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Investigate A Historic Murder Case
...play, and the murderer, John Wilkes Booth, is on the loose. What...are told that a boy who sold peanuts was ordered to...there while looking for a home in Washington. Police...American Brutus: John Wilkes ... |
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