Saturday, September 25, 2021

Philadelphia cream cheese

                        

Philadelphia cream cheese was invented in 1872 by a man named William Lawrance but not in Philadelphia but Chester Ny. It was marketed as Philadelphia cream cheese because at that time Philadelphia Pa was well known for there high quality Dairy farm in 1880 Lawrence partnered with A.L Reynolds  years later they sold to the Phoenix cheese company then in 1982 they merged with Kraft and is still vary popular till this day 

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Stambovsky v Ackley

 


This 4628 square foot 5 bedroom 3 !/2 bathroom in Nyack Ny home  was bought by George and Helen Ackley in the 1960s they raised 4 children in this home and lived there for 31 yrs in the early 90sthe Ackleys decided to sell and a man named Jeffery Stambovsky in the end the sale would fall through   and not for what you would expect on top of the 6 Ackleys there are 3 ghosts Ackleys made it clear that the home was haunted to the buyer didn't believe them or something and went forward but when he to look at the house in person the town let him know the home was on a 5 house walking ghost tour of the city  Stombovsky sued Hellen and her realtor for fraudulent misrepresentation and tried to get out of contract . When it came to closing day Stombovsky didn't show forfeiting his $32,500 down payment on the $650,000 home. The court said that because the home was well known for being haunted the defendant Stambovsky went back on his word and his case was thrown out Stambovsky appealed it with the New York supreme court and won not its called the ghostbuster ruling is now taught in law schools

Monday, September 13, 2021

Robber barons

 


A robber baron is a derogatory name for a person who becomes rich and powerful at others expense whether it be low wages or fraud.

J.P Morgan

Andrew Carnegie


John D Rockefeller

Henry Ford

J P Morgan is one of the biggest robber barons. He started a number of Rail Systems Steel company's  and General Electric.J P Morgan bought Carnegie steel for $480 million in 1901 (converted to 15,416,640,00.00 today) making it the first billion dollar corporation and making him richer than John D Rockefeller. John D built his empire by building a monopoly called Standerd oil how he did this was with outrageous cousts to ship or hed just drive them out of business. In 1890 he owned 90% of petroleum in the U.S. Cornelius Vanderbilt who was an industrialist and did shipping and rail. Henry ford was also a Robber baron and made cars available to the everyday man. Even thought they were the richest men in America and were thought to be corrupt alot of them donated money to charities or started collages like Vanderbilt University in NY 


Sunday, September 5, 2021

Grace Brown

 


Grace Brown was born in South Otselic Ny on March 20th 1886 to a dairy farmer named Frank Brown and his wife Betsy, The 5th of 9 children. When Grace was 18yrs old she moved to Cortland NY and lived with her older sister Ada so she could work at the brand new Gillette skirt factory that was built in 1906 by Noah Gillette. While working in the factory Grace met Noah's nephew Chester Gillette who was born to Frank and Louisia who were part of the salvation army and  with their religious values they had no use for worldly goods or money and it made it hard for Chester to get a good education. When Chester was 19 he moved to Cortland to live with Noah. Noah paid for Chester to go to Oberlin preparatory in Ohio after doing poorly Chester went back to Courtland to work in the factory Chester found Grace Brown attractive enough to have a sexual relationship but had his eyes on a socialite named Harriet Benedict from a wealthy ny family. In the spring of 1906 Grace discovered she was pregnant and begged Chester to marry her in July they decided to take a trip to the Adirondacks Grace thought he was going to surprise her with a wedding. The couple met in DeRuyter took a train to Utica then a train to Tupper Lake where they stay were Chester used an false name Carl Graham to match the monogram on his luggage but then went to Big Moose Lake.


July 11th they rented a row boat and went out for the day but did not return so the owner of the boat rental sent a search party by steam boat eventually finding the boat overturned a child saw a mass in the water when it was pulled up it was the body of the missing woman but the man is nowhere to be found. When Grace's family was notified they never heard of a Carl Graham but knew of Chester Gillette, two men saw Chester walking in the woods in a suit trying to get to Eagle Bay. Chester was found at the arrowhead hotel in Inet Ny laughing and bragging about a drowning that wasn't reported yet. The trial took place in Herkimer county Chesters uncle Noah would not pay for his lawyer so he had a public defender and said grace killed herself, Chester was convicted of premeditated murder. He was sent to the electric chair on march 30th 1908 at Auburn prison in Auburn ny. Chesters final resting place is in Soule cemetery in Sennett Ny   


Monday, May 10, 2021

Alice Liddell

                                                                  




 Alice Liddel was born May 4th, 1852 to Henry and Lorina Liddel in Westminster London. She was the 4th of ten children. When Alice was  4 Years old her family moves to Oxford where her family met Charles Dodgson hes better known under his pen name Lewis Carroll in 1862 rowing down the Thames river from Oxford to Godstew for a picnic Alice asked Charles to tell her and her sister Edith and Lorina a story. The story was about a girl named Alice who followed a white rabbit down a rabbit hole to the wonderful world of wonderland  The relationship only lasted till 1863 no one sure why the Liddells and Dodgson stopped talking. it's speculated that Dodgson wanted to marry the eleven-year-old Alice but her parents may have thought he wasn't good enough for her.  Dogson wrote it under the name “underground” and sent it to  an author friend eventually changing the title to “Alice’s Adventures in Under Ground”

Sunday, May 2, 2021

The Resolute Desk


 In 1848 the HMS Resolute set sail to find Sir John Franklin who got lost trying to find a northwest passage for the British government the resolute became trapped in ice and was abandoned in 1854 but was recovered by an American whaler in 1956 she was returned to Queen Victoria. The wood from the HMS Resolute was used by cabinet makers who were hired by the British government to make three desks the first a gift to the  American president Rutherford B Hayes from Queen Victoria. Seven presidents have used the desk either in the oval office or in their private study. The second desk is smaller called the queen victoria desk or the Grinnell desk gifted to the widow of Henry Grinnell in 1880 and is in the New Bedford whaling museum in Massachusetts. The third desk is a writing desk that was commissioned  by queen victoria and is part of the royal collection



Monday, April 26, 2021

Grace O'Malley The Irish Pirate Queen


 Grace O’Malley was born in Clare Island County Mayo Ireland in 1530 to  Eoghan (Owen) and Maeve (Margaret)  O’Maille. Even though grace had one stepbrother, she inherited her family’s land, in Clew

Bay and the surrounding area. She was not formally educated but could read write and speak multiple languages. when she was a young girl her father told her she couldn’t sail because she was a girl so she chopped off her hair to look like a boy she also learned complicated sailing skills. When she was sixteen she married Donal O’Flaherty they had three children Owen, Murrough, and Margaret. When Donal stopped paying attention to the O’Flaherty clan Grace took over she started raiding ships going to the port of Galway demanding payments for safe passage in the O’Flaherty waters. When Donal was killed Grace defended his fortress from the clan Donal originally took it from. When she was forced from her husband’s castle she went back to Clare island. When grace had her crew she had as many as 200 sailing and fighting men and started raiding chips from Spain Portugal and France that sailed need clew bay. Her life at sea was hard with no privacy bad hygiene and being the only woman on board she could never show any signs of weakness and had to be physically and mentally stronger than her all-male crew. When grace got pregnant with her fourth child with her second husband she gave birth below deck while recovering her ship was attacked by Algerian pirates and her crew couldn’t handle her being gone being incredibly mad she went to the deck half-naked shooting her musket yelling and swearing. The pirates shooked at how she looked fled. In 1593 graces 2  sons and her brother were captured by England she met with Queen Elizabeth and grace didn’t speak English and Elizabeth didn’t speak Irish they spoke in Latin. Grace most likely died at RockFleet castle around the same time Elizabeth died

Friday, April 16, 2021

Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh

 



Born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born February 6th, 1921 to Princess Alice of Battenburg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark the youngest of 5 being the only boy. When Phillip was 8 months old his family was exiled from Greece when his father was accused of treason when he worked with the greek army His family fled to Paris where they spent the next 10yrs. Phillip barely saw his parents in 1931 Alice had a nervous breakdown and was sent to a sanitarium in Switzerland. The day she was taking away the 5 children were sent away to return to their mother being gone later being diagnoses with schizophrenia. By 10 yrs old all 4 of his sisters had married german royalty and his father living in the south of France he was by himself. Alice's family took over Philip’s care. In 1937 at 16 his sister her husband and 2 children and a full term stillborn were killed in a plan crashed . Its beloved the crash happended during and emergency landing then his uncle and guardian George Mountbatten died from cancer. When he was 18yrs old he was at the royal naval college in England where he met 13yr old princess Elizabeth of york 7yrs later in 1947 they announced they were engaged. Before they got married Philip gave up his titles including his claim to the greek thrown gave himself the last name Mountbatten became a British citizen and confirmed at the church of England also agreed to not invite his sisters to the wedding due to them being married to germans. On his wedding day, King George gifted Phillip the titles duke of Edinburgh Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich. The queen and Philip have 4 children Charles prince of whales, Ann Princess royal, Prince Edward Earl of Wessex, and Prince Andrew Duke of york they have eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren sadly Prince Philip passed away on April 9th, 2021 at 99ys old and married 73yrs RIP ❤

Friday, January 22, 2021

1000!?!?!

 Omg!?!?! I'm 20 vewie's for 1000 total cam we get it by the end of the month it would be so cool if it happends

Sunday, January 17, 2021

The Tower of london







Built on the bank of the River Thames  The towers official name is Her Majestys Royal Palace and the fortress of the Tower of London was built in 1078 by William Conqueror in 1100 the castle was turned in to prison some of the more notable prisoners are






Ann Boleyn the second wife of Henry the 8th executed on May 19th, 1546.


                                                 


Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned twice at the tower the first time in 1592 the second time his family joined him were he fathered one of his children and devoted his time to writing, The princes of the tower to princes ages twelve and ten in 1483 the boys have placed them there after fathers death by there uncle and stripped them of there titles then took the throne for himself,


then Lady Jane Gray was the only queen for nine days when she was put in the Tower for treason.

The 143  crown jewels are held in the tower from rings to sovereign crowns and scepters all guarded but the yeoman warders or beefeaters. The tower is  also well known or its ghosts of various past inmates that have been executed

Sunday, January 10, 2021

George Boldt

 


George Boldt was a Prussian immigrant At the age of 13, George started working in hotel kitchens and worked his way up to manager of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in new york city and owner of Bellevue-Stradford hotel in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.


George and his wife loved the thousand island in new york state and dreamed of building a castle together so they bought Hart Island later changing the spelling to Heart Island Boldt Castle was built between 1900 and 1904 The castle was going to be a gift to Boldt’s wife Louise but construction stopped after her passing. George never returned to Heart Island but spent summers for the rest of his life in the thousand islands. Boldt passed away in 1913 The island cost George 20k to build the castle cost 2.5M (68m in today’s money) The island sat for 73 years till the Thousand Island Bridge Authority bought the island in 1977 for $! With the agreement that all proceeds would go to renovations so far, they have spent $15m on renovating the castle




Philadelphia cream cheese

                         Philadelphia cream cheese was invented in 1872 by a man named William Lawrance but not in Philadelphia but Chest...