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Hace 3 días · It was with the arrival of W. Averell Harriman, Roosevelt’s special envoy, that this seduction took on a new aspect. In 1939, an increasingly dissolute Randolph had decided that the risk of his going to war was too great for the Churchill line and that he should marry immediately.
Hace 3 días · Harriman asked two famous Norwegian ski jumpers to find a location for a ski jump. One was Sigmund Ruud, a 1928 Olympic Silver Medalist and 1937 National Jumping Champion. The other was Alf Engen, a professional ski jumping champion from 1931 to 1935 and holder of five world professional distance records. They selected a site between Dollar and ...
Hace 4 días · Averell Harriman was born on November 15, 1891 and died on July 26, 1986. Averell Harriman would have been 94 years old at the time of death or 123 years old today.
Hace 4 días · Few could have anticipated the good fortune that would befall Cornelius Vander Starr. Born in 1892 to struggling European immigrants, Vander Starr was unremarkable by any measure. He was raised on the Pomo Indian reservation in Mendocino County, California where a military post, Ft. Bragg, had been established to keep settlers at bay while elites extracted the resources. Resident lumber mills ...
Hace 5 días · Charles Spencer's wife Lady Karen loves sharing updates from her home Althorp House and on Thursday she shared a sweet photo of one of their rarely-seen companions. See photo.
Hace 5 días · The Princess Royal lives on the 700-acre estate, Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire, with her daughter Zara Tindall and husband Mike as neighbours. See Princess Anne's charming personal touches she ...
Hace 2 días · Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S. secretary of commerce.He was the nominee of the new Progressive Party in the 1948 ...
