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Hace 2 días · Además, The St. Regis La Bahía Blanca Resort ofrece 16 suites, como la Suite John Jacob Astor o la Junior Suite Carolina Astor. Sin embargo, el epitome del lujo se esconde en la última planta del hotel: el cuarto piso alberga la Suite Real , una magnífica estancia de 167 metros cuadrados, que más que una habitación, es una ...
Hace 20 horas · Kurzman, who calls “Titanic” a “remarkable movie,” revealed that director Cameron recently invited him and ancestors of John Jacob Astor IV and Margaret “Molly” Brown to participate in the National Geographic channel’s new one-hour special “Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron.”
Hace 3 días · The historic Astor Row in Harlem dates back to land purchased by John Jacob Astor in 1844 for the sum of $10,000 on what is now 130th Street between Lenox Avenue and Fifth Avenue in Harlem....
Hace 1 día · As the Titanic sank, John Jacob Astor was reportedly seen “smoking a cigarette and chatting with another passenger.” This is how the British auction house Henry Aldridge Born in 1864, John Jacob Astor, fourth of his name, was an ancestor of a fur trader of German origin who amassed a colossal fortune in the 19th century, as detailed in this blog article from the American Library of Congress.
Hace 3 días · The family fortune was founded by John Jacob Astor who made his money in the fur trade. Astor’s successors greatly expanded the family wealth in the New York City real estate market.
Hace 3 días · The lions were “born” in the Bronx and first dubbed Leo Astor and Leo Lenox after John Jacob Astor and James Lenox, who founded the library. At one point, Fortitude became temporarily...
Hace 3 días · Those who died included famous millionaires like, John Jacob Astor, as well as the designer of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews. In all, first-class passengers had a higher rate of survival at 62 percent than second-class passengers, at 43 percent, or steerage passengers, at 25 percent.
