They had to start from scratch in Manitoba, building a log home and providing food for the family. It was said that they nearly froze and starved to death the first years in their drafty old cabin.In 1886 a terrible prairie fire from across the river swept up the valley and north east...
As soon as her spurious offspring was brought to light, the countess treated him with every kind of unnatural cruelty. She committed him to the care of a poor woman to educate as her own and prevented the Earl of Rivers from making him a bequest of £6,000 by declaring that he was ...
A Portuguese Christian pilgrim to Jerusalem noted at the start of the 1560s that about thirty Jews living there came from Portugal. Surely, he means Jews who in Portugal were (at least, ostensible) Catholics (David 1987, p. 66). 3 The Ottoman Turkish documents use the word *ifranjiye ha...
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Milton Snavely Hershey, an American chocolatier, pioneered the manufacture of caramel, using fresh milk. He launched the Lancaster Caramel Company, which achieved bulk exports, and then sold it to start a new company that supplied mass-produced milk chocolate, previously a luxury item. The first ...
as for huan1, i think you may mean 欢,that means happy, fun. so what is the only surname matches this? i think you mean焦,and the whole name 焦欢 sounds like交换 which means fun to have sex. you want a phrase or something else? cuz is random to choose a character ...
Early Cochranes.It was thought that the ancestry of this family began with a Viking warrior who settled in Renfrewshire between the eighth and tenth centuries. The name was of territorial origin and the Cochranes took the name of the lands in the ancient barony of Cochrane. ...
Le Hardy family at Jersey in the Channel Islands ever since Clement Le Hardy left France for that island in the 1360’s. A later Clement le Hardy was Bailiff of Jersey from 1485 to 1493, but seems to have ended his days in a “verminous prison” after a disagreement with the Governor....
She was ’wiped out.’ We went from being very rich, with a Rolls-Royce and chauffeur and servants, to being very poor.”Where did the money go? Anthony thinks that one of the shady, white-collar criminals with whom his father consorted managed to steal the entire amount. Mark, a ...
It is thought that this name was an anglicization of the Gaelic word coinmheadh meaning “free billet” for troops that were stationed there.Conway later appeared on the east coast of Scotland, particularly in Dundee, but also in larger numbers around Glasgow in the Scottish Lowlands where ...