41. Classic Literature, Titles, Authors, Birthdates 18641945. Astor, John Jacob,, Journey In Other Worlds, A,, 1763-1848.Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn,, Rezanov,, 1857-1948. Atherton http://www.nonstopenglish.com/Classic_literature.asp?PagePosition=6

42. HIST419 - Sicilia 2/7 The case of John Jacob Astor. HBS case TK McCraw, John Jacob Astor 1763-1848, 9-391-261. WEEK 3 EARLY INDUSTRIALIZATION 2/12 Textile industry pioneers. http://www.inform.umd.edu/HIST/Faculty/DSicilia/courses/419/

THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN BUSINESS The course History 419A Spring 1996 M/W 11:00-12:30 IBM-TQ Teaching Theater Van Munching Hall 2203 The instructor Dr. David Sicilia Office: Key 2101-J Office phone: 405-7778 E-mail: DS190@umail.umd.edu Office hours: M 9:00-10:00, W 8:30-10:00 This course explores the evolution of American entrepreneurship, businessmanagement, and organizational structure within the context of changing publicpolicy, technology, labor, ideology, and markets. We will give special emphasis toentrepreneurial innovation, the rise of big business, regulation, mass marketing,and global competition. "The Evolution of American Business" is designed to facilitate student-centered,interactive learning. We will rely on the case method developed at the HarvardBusiness School and utilize many of the powerful instructional hardware andsoftware tools in the IBM-TQ Teaching Theater. Students will be expected to engageregularly and thoughtfully in class oral and electronic discussions, collaborativeprojects, and electronic reflector dialogues. Prerequisites: None. Typing skills useful.

43. Anecdote Realer Dealer? Astor Business Investing States, once declared that a man who has a million dollars is as well off as ifhe were rich. Astor, John Jacob (17631848), American financier Sources C http://anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=7029

44. Index Culture and Anarchy Astor, John Jacob (17631848) A Journey in OtherWorlds Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn (1857-1948) Rezanov The http://www.changanyouth.xahu.edu.cn/pages/novel/A/

English Classics 3000 A ( Listed by Author ) Abbott, Edwin A. (1838-1926) Flatland Abelard, Peter (1079-1142) Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes Adams, Andy (1859-1935) The Outlet Adams, Henry (1838-1918) Democracy An American Novel The Education of Henry Adams Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Orations Addams, Jane (1860-1935) Newer Ideals of Peace Twenty Years at Hull House Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Days with Sir Roger de Coverley Essays and Tales Aeschylus ( 525-456BC ) Agamemnon The Choephori Eumendidas The Persians ... The Suppliants Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882) Windsor Castle Alcott, Louise May (1832-1888) Behind a Mask , or, A Woman's Power Eight Cousins Flower Fables Good Wives ... Rose in Bloom Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907) The Cruise of the Dolphin Majorie Daw An Old Town By The Sea Ponkapog Papers ... The Story of a Bad Boy Alger, Horatio (1834-1899) Ballads and Poems Bound to Rise The Cash Boy Cast Upon the Breakers ... Frank's Campaign , or, The Farm and the Camp Joe the Hotel Boy Paul Prescott's Charge Paul the Peddler ... Phil,the Fiddler Allen, James Lane (1849-1925) The Choir Invisible Altsheler, Joseph A. (1862-1919)

45. Astoria A bitter battle for naming the village was finally named by supporters andfriends of John Jacob Astor (17631848), not least Stephen Halsey. http://www.forgotten-ny.com/streetnecrology/astorianecro/astoria.html

HOME LAMPS ADS TROLLEYS ... CEMETERIES Turning to the dusty, dogeared Book of Forgotten Street Names, making a mental note to replace the yellowed scotch tape that holds the cover together, we see that the tome plops open to... Astoria, Queens. Like Flushing, Astoria's pedigree dates to the mid-1600s, when William Hallett received a grant for the area surrounding what is now Hallett's Cove by Peter Stuyvesant. However, the oldest structures in the region date to the mid-1800s, after fur merchant Stephen Ailing Halsey had incorporated the village in 1839. Astoria was named for a man who apparently never set foot in it. A bitter battle for naming the village was finally named by supporters and friends of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), not least Stephen Halsey. Astor, entrepreneur and real estate tycoon, had become the wealthiest man in America by 1840 with a net worth of over $40 million. (As it turns out, Astor did live in "Astoria"his summer home, built on what is now East 87th Street near York Avenuefrom which he could see the new Long Island Village named for him.) Like most other towns and villages in Queens, Astoria (which on this Forgotten page we'll describe as having the East River on the north and west, Broadway on the south, and Hazen and 51st Streets on the east as its boundaries) carried names for its streets, but it also had its own numbering system, which we'll also touch on.

46. Germans In America - Chronology 1784 John Jacob Astor (17631848) left his village of Waldorf in Germanyand arrived in the United States in 1784 with $25 and seven flutes. http://www.usembassy.de/usa/etexts/ga1-chronology.htm

Germans in America - Chronology Several Germans were among the settlers at Jamestown. Peter Minuit, a German, came to New Amsterdam to serve as the governor of the Dutch colony, New Netherlands. Later he governed the Swedish colony in Delaware. Thirteen families of German Mennonites seeking religious freedom arrived in Pennsylvania; led by Franz Pastorius, they purchased 43,000 acres of land and founded Germantown, six miles north of Philadelphia. The settling of the British colonies by small German-speaking religious groups continued. The groups included Swiss Mennonites, Baptist Dunkers, Schwenkfelders, Moravians, Amish, and Waldensians; most German immigrants belonged to the main Lutheran and Reformed churches. The central colonies received the greatest part of this immigration, especially Pennsylvania. As many as half of these immigrants came as redemptioners, that is, they agreed to work in America for four to seven years in exchange for free passage across the Atlantic. German settlers designed and built the Conestoga wagon, which was used in the opening of the American Frontier. Protestants were expelled from Salzburg, Austria, in this year. They subsequently founded Ebenezer, Georgia.

47. Astor - AnsMe.com Dictionary (define) 1. American capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (17631848)Synonyms John Jacob Astor 2. British politician (born in the United http://define.ansme.com/words/a/astor.html

Search: Web Sites Dictionary - Define Dictionary - Sounds Like Dictionary - Relations Dictionary - Rhymes Dictionary - Translate Sponsors Index astomatous astonied astonish astonished ... astonishment Astor astound astounded astounding astraddle ... astragalus Dictionary - Astor Show Definition Sounds Similar Relations Rhymes Translate Definition for Astor Astor (noun) American capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848) Synonyms: John Jacob Astor British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964) Synonyms: Nancy Witcher Astor Viscountess Astor Source: WordNet ® 1.7, © 2001 Princeton University All other brands are property of their respective owners. Directory Dictionary AIM Smileys Contact Us

48. I MASSONI FAMOSI Translate this page Astor, John Jacob, (1763-1848), Finanziere, USA. Atatürk, MustaphaKemal, (1881-1938), Soldato, leader nazionalista e statista, Turchia. http://www.lamelagrana.net/famosi/A.html

Abancourt, Charles Xavier Joseph Franqueville d’ Uomo di stato [Francia] Abarca de Bolea, Pedro Pablo (conte di Aranda) Politico, diplomatico e militare [Spagna] Abba, Giuseppe Cesare Patriota e scrittore [Italia] Abbott, Houghton R. Deputato del West Virginia [U.S.A.] Abbott, John Joseph Caldwell Primo Ministro e politico [Canada] Abbott, Robert Sengstacke Direttore ed editore di giornale [U.S.A.] Abbott, Sewall W. Senatore del New Hampshire [U.S.A.] Abbott, Walter W. Deputato dello stato di New York [U.S.A.] Abbott, William Alexander (Bud) Attore [U.S.A.] Abd-el-Kader Patriota [Algeria] Abdnor, James Deputato e Senatore [U.S.A.] Abdhu, Muhammad Religioso musulmano e riformatore politico [Egitto] Abel, Niels Henrik Matematico [Norvegia] Abele, Homer E. (Pete Abele) Deputato [U.S.A.] Abercrombie, John William Deputato [U.S.A.] Abercromby, Ralph Generale e parlamentare [Inghilterra] Abernathy, Ralph Attivista politico, religioso [U.S.A.] Abernethy, Charles Laban Deputato [U.S.A.] Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle

49. CARPATHO-RUTHENICA The idea of creating the New York Public Library developed in 1895, when the libraryof John Jacob Astor (17631848), which included a great number of rare http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/ruthenic.htm

CARPATHO-RUTHENICA IN THE SLAVIC AND BALTIC DIVISION OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND ITS SLAVIC AND BALTIC DIVISION The idea of creating the New York Public Library developed in 1895, when the library of John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), which included a great number of rare books, was unified with the library of James Lenox (1800-1880). A donation of 15,000 volumes from the library of Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886), together with $2,000, 000 for the new library, made the foundation possible. In 1901, eleven public libraries from all over the city joined The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. The first site of the Library (Lower Manhattan) soon turned out to be too small and necessitated construction of new home for the Library (completed 1911). The building, which is a national landmark, was located at the corner of 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. The main reading room of the Library can accommodate 800 people. The New York Public Library is a private institution which serves readers on a non-paying basis. It is responsible for operating of 4 research centers (with 39 million items, including 12 million books) and 82 branch libraries (10,5 million items, including 5,9 million books) and is governed by a 43-member Board of Trustees. The Research Libraries depend heavily on private contributions. The Branch Libraries are primarily supported by the City and State of New York. The acquisition of materials is done in a variety of ways. The library mostly buys (sometimes also exchanges) books. The growth of the collection is also a direct result of valuable gifts.

50. Author Index 1941 Arnim, Ludwig Achim, Freiherr von, 17811831 Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d.1935 Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568 Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848 Atherton, Gertrude http://www.worldwide-library.co.uk/Authors/author_index.htm

Home Author Title Topic ... Book Club The Worldwide Library making e-books available to everyone worldwide without charge now. How to use this library Book Club Index by Author Index by Title ... Sponsors Author Index Select the letter the authors surname begins with, or below in the editors and compilers index, to go to the listing of authors with this letter and then click on the authors name to see information on the author and what books they are known to have written. there are a number of authors with the same name, and in those cases the lifespan dates will help. Let us know of any errors you see. Authors A B C D ... Z Editors and compilers A B C D ... Z Authors A Abbott, David Phelps, 1863-1934 Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926 AKA: Square, A Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877 Adams, Andy, 1859-1935 Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

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52. GENERAL COLLECTION MANUSCRIPT MISCELLANY expand/contract this heading, ASKIN, ARNOLD. expand/contract this heading, Astor,John Jacob, 17631848. expand/contract this heading, ATHERSTONE, EDWIN, 1788-1872. http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.genmisc1.nav.html

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53. German Names (2) - German Language To name just a few John Jacob Astor (17631848, millionaire), Claus Spreckels(1818-1908, sugar baron), Dwight D. Eisenhower (Eisenhauer, 1890-1969), Babe http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa050399.htm

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54. A John Jacob Astor (17631848) Founder of the Astor family fortune based in NewYork City. He was born in Waldorf, Germany, and came to the US in 1764. http://members.tripod.com/slalli/a.htm

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55. Correspondence Of Thomas Jefferson / Addressee Listing / A-C Astor, John Jacob (17631848) German-born; became leader in fur trade and thena major New York City real estate speculator. COMMERCE Fur Trade, 13 Apr 1808. http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/jefferson_1.html

S chool of C ooperative I ndividualism HOME This is a searchable data base of excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. The excerts re organized alphabetically by subject. A special index to each subject section takes you to a complete listing. Or, you may browse the data base alphabetically by addressee. The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson * Addressees A - C * GO TO SUBJECT INDEX ADDRESSEE SUBJECT DATE A Adams, Abigail (1744-1818) Wife of John Adams. ADAMS, JOHN Relationship With 13 Jun 1804 Adams, Abigail CALLENDER, JAMES T. Relationship With 22 Jul 1804 Adams, Abigail CONSTITUTION United States Sedition Law 11 Sep 1804 Adams, Abigail EDUCATION Reading 22 Aug 1813 Adams, Abigail ENGLISH PEOPLE 21 Jun 1785 Adams, Abigail

56. Discoverers Web Alphabetical List A John Jacob Astor (Germany (lived in USA), 17631848) New York businessman whofrom 1810 to 1813 owned a fort at the mouth of the Columbia. The Astorians. http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha/a.html

A James William Abert (USA, 1820-1897) 1845: Explores the upper reaches of the Canadian River. Antonio de Abreu (Portugal, dates unkown) 1511-1512: Captain of the first Portuguese expedition to the Moluccas. Tbe Portuguese Empire Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi (Italy, 1873-1933) 1897: First to ascend Mount St. Elias 1899-1900: Leader of an expedition to try to reach the North Pole by dogsleds from Franz Jozefland. 1906: Climbs and explores the Ruwenzori Mountains 1909: Tries to climb the K2 (Spain, 1597?-1676) 1639: Joins Teixeira on his voyage back down the Amazon. His journal is the first published description of the Amazon. William Adams (England, 1575?-1620) Mahu and de Cordes The Voyage of 'de Liefde' Aelius Gallus (Rome) 25 BC: Undertakes a failed attempt to conquer Yemen. The Roman period (Spain, ?-1734) 1720-2: Governor of Coahuila and Texas. 1721-2: Reconquers Texas on the French, builds various missions and presidios. Aguayo Expedition (Spain, 1489?-1531?) 1511: Shipwrecks off the coast of Yucatan. Lives among the Maya. 1519: Picked up by the expedition of Cortes, for which he becomes an interpreter.

57. Gates Y Los Ricos Norteamericanos Translate this page 4. John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) 78.000 millones, comercio de pieles ybienes raíces. 5. Bill Gates (1955-) 62.000 millones, software. http://www.el-mundo.es/navegante/98/noviembre/19/gates.html

Jueves, 19 de noviembre de 1998 EL MUNDO DIARIO DEL NAVEGANTE NAVEGANTE ARIADNA INFORMATICA Gates y los ricos norteamericanos ROBERT J. SAMUELSON Una encuesta de CBS News, de 1996, preguntaba: "¿Cree usted que es posible en este país comenzar desde la pobreza, trabajar duro y hacerse rico?". Respuesta: 78%, sí; 18%, no. Pero la riqueza excesiva también es sospechosa. "Los estadounidenses creen que la sociedad, ahora, pone demasiado énfasis en el dinero", escriben los analistas de la opinión pública Everett Caril Ladd y Karlyn Bowman, en Actitudes hacia la desigualdad económica. En el año 1992, alrededor de dos tercios de los estadounidenses creían que los ricos usaban "su riqueza principalmente para proteger sus posiciones en la sociedad". 2. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919): 101.000 millones, acero. 3. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877): 96.000 millones, navieras y ferrocarriles. 5. Bill Gates (1955-): 62.000 millones, software. Pocos magnates del siglo XIX eran populares. "Los caricaturistas los representaban con chistera, hocico de cerdo... manipuladores de los políticos y de la gente", según escribe el columnista John Steele Gordon, de American Heritage. Pero los estereotipos eran demasiado intolerantes y de miras estrechas. Los superricos elevaron los niveles de vida, al reducir los costos y expandir los mercados.

58. Forbes.com: Richest Americans In History 3 John Jacob Astor (17631848) Wealth 0.93% of the US economy. His initialfortune came from the fur trade, then later in New York real estate. http://www.forbes.com/asap/98/0824/032.htm

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59. South Dakota Fast Facts And Trivia Built in 1832 by John Jacob Astor's (17631848) American Fur Company as part ofits expansion into the Upper Missouri region, the trading activities at the http://www.50states.com/facts/sdakota.htm

50states.com Yellow Pages White Pages Biographies ... Search South Dakota Fast Facts and Trivia To learn more about "Search the Web" Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore in 1927. Creation of the Shrine to Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million, though it's now deemed priceless. The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln are sculpted into Mount Rushmore the world's greatest mountain carving. Fossilized remains of life 50 million years ago have been arranged in unusual forms, which is Lemmon's mark of distinction at the world's largest petrified wood park. Perhaps the most significant fur trade/military fort on the western American frontier, Fort Pierre Chouteau was the largest (almost 300' square) and best equipped trading post in the northern Great Plains. Built in 1832 by John Jacob Astor's (1763-1848) American Fur Company as part of its expansion into the Upper Missouri region, the trading activities at the site exemplified the commercial alliance critical to the success of the fur business. Jack McCall was tried, convicted and hanged two miles north of Yankton in 1877 for the shooting of Wild Bill Hickok. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the Yankton cemetery.

60. Untitled Andrew Carnegie (18351919) $110 billion 3. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) $100 billion 4. John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) $85 billion 5. William Gates http://smi.stanford.edu/people/isg/facts.html

Does money favour people with the "right names"? NEW SCIENTIST WEEKLY NEWSLETTER No. 111, 17 November 2001 NOMINATIVE determinism took a new twist in the 1 September issue of The Economist, which noted the alphabetic bias among the names of the world's richest five men at the time: Gates, Buffet, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht. Moreover, it noted, the heads of government of the G7 industrialised nations were Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien, Koizumi and someone in the second half of the alphabet. What can be going on here? Not as much as it might seem at first sight. Feedback has weighed the London telephone directories, and it appears that approximately 65 per cent of the entries are in the first half of the alphabet. Even so, a skilled statistician could no doubt find something significant about these distributions. The Economist's columnist hypothesises that the effect may start in school, with Zysman sitting at the back of the class and Aaronson getting all the attention. Perhaps a reader with access to a citation index can dig up some more data to help the investigation. Does this phenomenon occur in science, and is it related to discipline? What about the social sciences, where authors are listed alphabetically? Top 10 Richest Men Of All Time (as of October 2002) 1. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) $200 billion 2. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) $110 billion 3. Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) $100 billion 4. John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) $85 billion 5. William Gates III $60 billion 6. Lawrence J. Ellison $55 billion 7. King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud $30 billion 8. Warren Buffett $28 billion 9. Paul Allen $25 billion 10. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan $ 23 billion - The Luck Project http://www.luckfactor.co.uk/ The results of this work reveal that people are not born lucky. Instead, lucky people are, without realising it, using four basic principles to create good fortune in their lives. Principle One: Maximise Chance Opportunities Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing and acting upon chance opportunities. They do this in various ways, including networking, adopting a relaxed attitude to life and by being open to new experiences. Principle Two: Listening to Lucky Hunches Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to their intuition and gut feelings. In addition, they take steps to actively boost their intuitive abilities by, for example, meditating and clearing their mind of other thoughts. Principle Three: Expect Good Fortune Lucky people are certain that the future is going to be full of good fortune. These expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies by helping lucky people persist in the face of failure, and shape their interactions with others in a positive way. Principle Four: Turn Bad Luck to Good Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and often even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, do not dwell on the ill fortune, and take control of the situation.

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