eBooks „albany“
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Bret Harte
Der Sheriff von Siskyou
Missouri - Band 3
- Abenteuer
- Deutsch
- 7689 Wörter
- Ab 14 Jahren
- 275
Der berüchtigte Major Overstone ist es gewohnt, seinen Willen mit brutaler Gewalt und gegen jedes Gesetz durchzusetzen. Als er aber den Sheriff von Siskyou erschießt, ist das Maß voll, und er muss fliehen. In dem kleinen Gangsternest Wynyards Bar findet er Unterschlupf und schwingt sich schnell zum Anführer der Desperados auf. Er wähnt sich in Sicherheit, doch hat er die Rechnung ohne den neuen Sheriff gemacht …
Der 1836 in Albany im Staate New York geborene Bret Harte folgte in jungen Jahren der Massenwanderung von Abenteurern und Glücksrittern, die, durch fabelhafte Goldfunde angelockt, seit 1848 nach Kalifornien zogen. Als Goldgräber hatte er kein Glück, fand jedoch zunächst in der kalifornischen Stadt Eureka, dann in San Francisco eine Stellung als Journalist und begann aus eigener Anschauung das Leben der Goldgräber zu schildern. Die realistische Darstellungskunst und der dramatische Aufbau seiner kalifornischen Erzählungen, zu denen »Der Sheriff von Siskyou« gehört, machten ihn bald zum einflussreichsten amerikanischen Novellisten der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er starb 1902 an Kehlkopfkrebs. [mehr]
Stichwörter: Abenteuer, Western, Wildwest, Klassiker
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W.A.P. Martin
The Awakening Of China
- Historisches
- Englisch
- 87736 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Martin was born in Livonia, Indiana.[2] He graduated from Indiana University in 1846, known at that time as Indiana College, and then studied theology at the Presbyterian seminary, New Albany, Indiana.[3] In 1850 Martin arrived in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, where he worked for the next ten years.
Martin served as interpreter for the United States minister William B. Reed, in negotiating the treaty of Treaty of Tientsin in 1858 with China, and in 1859 traveled with his successor, John Elliot Ward, to Beijing and to Edo, Japan.
From 1863 till 1868, he worked at Beijing, often as official interpreter for the American Minister to China, Anson Burlingame. He was reputed to be the first foreigner to make the journey from Beijing to Shanghai on the Grand Canal of China, and described the trip in the "Journal of the Asiatic Society" (1866). In 1869, Martin became president of the Tongwenguan in Beijing until 1895, and a professor of international law.[4] He acted as an adviser of Chinese officials on questions of international law when disputes arose with European powers, notably during the conflict with France in 1884-1885. In the same year he was made a mandarin of the third class.
Martin received the degree of D.D. from Lafayette College in 1860, and that of LL. D. from the University of the city of New York in 1870. [mehr]
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Various
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 139266 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 3
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
He was born Michael King, but his father changed his name in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's COINTELPRO for the rest of his life. [mehr]
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FRANK FOWLER
THE BRONCHO RIDER BOYS WITH THE TEXAS
- Abenteuer
- Englisch
- 49787 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Frank Fowler (July 12, 1852 - August 18, 1910) was an American figure and portrait painter, born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting in Europe at Florence, Italy for two years under Edwin White, and for seven years under Carolus-Duran in Paris, and under Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts.[1]
He assisted Duran on the fresco of Marie de Médicis in the Luxembourg. On his return to New York in 1879 he devoted himself for a time to mural painting, his most important work being the decoration of the ballroom at the Waldorf Hotel (1892) (The building exists no more, having been destroyed to provide a place where the Empire State Building could be erected). Later he painted chiefly portraits, including a number of public men. Some of his portraits have been kept at Albany, New York and elsewhere.
In the late 1890s, he resided in a home on at #16 The Enclosure, an artists' colony in Nutley, New Jersey.[2] He built a large studio on the back of that house, where he painted. The same studio was later owned by Michael Lenson, a well known New Jersey painter who was director of the mural division of the New Jersey WPA in the 1930s. Earlier, the same home was owned by Frederic Dana Marsh, the illustrator. The house was the childhood home of Reginald Marsh, the distinguished American painter. In 1892, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1900.
He wrote upon art topics for the magazines and several textbooks: Oil Painting (1885), Portrait and Figure Painting (1901) and Drawing In Charcoal And Crayon (1899).
Fowler died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1910.[3] [mehr]
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FRANK FOWLER
THE BRONCHO RIDER BOYS WITH FUNSTON AT VERA
- Abenteuer
- Englisch
- 55355 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 3
Frank Fowler (July 12, 1852 - August 18, 1910) was an American figure and portrait painter, born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting in Europe at Florence, Italy for two years under Edwin White, and for seven years under Carolus-Duran in Paris, and under Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts.[1]
He assisted Duran on the fresco of Marie de Médicis in the Luxembourg. On his return to New York in 1879 he devoted himself for a time to mural painting, his most important work being the decoration of the ballroom at the Waldorf Hotel (1892) (The building exists no more, having been destroyed to provide a place where the Empire State Building could be erected). Later he painted chiefly portraits, including a number of public men. Some of his portraits have been kept at Albany, New York and elsewhere.
In the late 1890s, he resided in a home on at #16 The Enclosure, an artists' colony in Nutley, New Jersey.[2] He built a large studio on the back of that house, where he painted. The same studio was later owned by Michael Lenson, a well known New Jersey painter who was director of the mural division of the New Jersey WPA in the 1930s. Earlier, the same home was owned by Frederic Dana Marsh, the illustrator. The house was the childhood home of Reginald Marsh, the distinguished American painter. In 1892, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1900.
He wrote upon art topics for the magazines and several textbooks: Oil Painting (1885), Portrait and Figure Painting (1901) and Drawing In Charcoal And Crayon (1899).
Fowler died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1910.[3] [mehr]
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Frank Fowler
THE BRONCHO RIDER BOYS ON THE WYOMING TRAIL
- Abenteuer
- Englisch
- 58571 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
- 1
Frank Fowler (July 12, 1852 - August 18, 1910) was an American figure and portrait painter, born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting in Europe at Florence, Italy for two years under Edwin White, and for seven years under Carolus-Duran in Paris, and under Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts.[1]
He assisted Duran on the fresco of Marie de Médicis in the Luxembourg. On his return to New York in 1879 he devoted himself for a time to mural painting, his most important work being the decoration of the ballroom at the Waldorf Hotel (1892) (The building exists no more, having been destroyed to provide a place where the Empire State Building could be erected). Later he painted chiefly portraits, including a number of public men. Some of his portraits have been kept at Albany, New York and elsewhere.
In the late 1890s, he resided in a home on at #16 The Enclosure, an artists' colony in Nutley, New Jersey.[2] He built a large studio on the back of that house, where he painted. The same studio was later owned by Michael Lenson, a well known New Jersey painter who was director of the mural division of the New Jersey WPA in the 1930s. Earlier, the same home was owned by Frederic Dana Marsh, the illustrator. The house was the childhood home of Reginald Marsh, the distinguished American painter. In 1892, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1900.
He wrote upon art topics for the magazines and several textbooks: Oil Painting (1885), Portrait and Figure Painting (1901) and Drawing In Charcoal And Crayon (1899).
Fowler died in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1910. [mehr]
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Percy Greg
Across The Zodiac (fiscle part-XII)
- Darstellende Kunst
- Englisch
- 169430 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
- 1
Once Only, In The Occasional Travelling Of Thirty Years, Did I Lose
Any Important Article Of Luggage; And That Loss Occurred, Not Under
The Haphazard, Devil-Take-The-Hindmost Confusion Of English, Or The
Elaborate Misrule Of Continental Journeys, But Through The Absolute
Perfection And Democratic Despotism Of The American System. I Had To
Give Up A Visit To The Scenery Of Cooper's Best Indian Novels--No
Slight Sacrifice--And Hasten At Once To New York To Repair The Loss.
This Incident Brought Me, On An Evening Near The Middle Of September
1874, On Board A River Steamboat Starting From Albany, The Capital Of
The State, For The Empire City. The Banks Of The Lower Hudson Are As
Well Worth Seeing As Those Of The Rhine Itself, But Even America Has
Not Yet Devised Means Of Lighting Them Up At Night, And Consequently I
Had No Amusement But Such As I Could Find In The Conversation Of My
Fellow-Travellers. With One Of These, Whose Abstinence From Personal
Questions Led Me To Take Him For An Englishman, I Spoke Of My Visit To
Niagara--The One Wonder Of The World That Answers Its Warranty--And To
Montreal. As I Spoke Of The Strong And General Canadian Feeling Of
Loyalty To The English Crown And Connection, A Yankee Bystander
Observed--
"Wal, Stranger, I Reckon We Could Take 'Em If We Wanted Tu!"
"Yes," I Replied, "If You Think Them Worth The Price. But If You Do,
You Rate Them Even More Highly Than They Rate Themselves; And English
Colonists Are Not Much Behind The Citizens Of The Model Republic In
Honest Self-Esteem."
"Wal," He Said, "How Much Du Yew Calc'late We Shall Hev To Pay?"
"Not More, Perhaps, Than You Can Afford; Only California, And Every
Atlantic Seaport From Portland To Galveston."
"Reckon Yew May Be About Right, Stranger," He Said, Falling Back With
Tolerable Good-Humour; And, To Do Them Justice, The Bystanders Seemed
To Think The Retort No Worse Than The Provocation Deserved. [mehr]
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Alice Duer Miller
The Happiest Time of Their Lives
- Darstellende Kunst
- Englisch
- 63607 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Alice Duer was born in New York City on July 28, 1874 into a wealthy family.[1] She was the daughter of James Gore King Duer[1][2][3][4] and Elizabeth Wilson Meads. Elizabeth was the daughter of Orlando Meads of Albany, New York. Her great grandfather was William Alexander Duer, who was the president of Columbia College, 1829–1842. Her great great grandfather, was William Duer,[1][5] an American lawyer, developer, and speculator from New York City. He had served in the Continental Congress and the convention that framed the New York Constitution. In 1778, he signed the United States Articles of Confederation. Her great great great grandfather was William Alexander, who claimed the disputed title of Earl of Stirling, and was an American Major-General during the American Revolutionary War.
She was also a descendant of Senator Rufus King, who was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented New York in the United States Senate, served as Minister to Britain, and was the Federalist candidate for both Vice President (1804, 1808) and President of the United States (1816)
At the time of her entrance into society, her family lost most of its fortune. She entered Barnard College[2][3][4] in 1895 studying mathematics and astronomy. She helped to pay for her studies by selling novels and short essays. She and her sister Caroline King Duer published a joint book of poems.[2][3][4] Alice graduated in June 1899.
On October 5, 1899, she married Henry Wise Miller[2][3][4] at Grace Church[6] Chapel in New York City.[7] He was born in 1877, the son of Lt. Commander Jacob Miller, in Nice, France, where his father was serving with the U.S. Navy. He was an 1892 graduate of Harvard University. They left for Costa Rica, where he attempted to develop rubber cultivation. This venture eventually failed; in 1903, she, her husband and young son returned to New York, where they lived in difficulty for some time, he working in the Stock Exchange, she teaching, which she hated. After a time, her husband earned more and she was able to dedicate her working time entirely to writing. [mehr]
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