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Tag Archives: Civil War
154 years ago this month, April 14, 1865, Mary and Abraham Lincoln invited a young couple to join them to see the popular English comedy play “Our American Cousin.” As it turned out, the simple, kind invitation doomed the recipients to madness and death after they witnessed President Lincoln’s assassination. AN UNCONVENTIONAL COUPLE Continue Reading »
April 11, 2018, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Andre Stojka, assassin, audiobook, Carl Bersch, Civil War, Clara Harris, Dr. Charles Leale, Germany, Hildesheim cemetery, Hildesheim Germany, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassination, Listen2Read audiobooks, Major Henry Reed Rathbone, Mary and Abraham Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, Northern Army, Province of Hanover, U.S. Consul, White House, “Lincoln’s Last Hours”, “Our American Cousin”
Watching the Olympic games from Brazil on television and witnessing the dedicated athletes and the beauty of the country seems to wash away all the Olympic media controversies and scandals. All this Brazilian imagery brought to mind a Brazilian adventure experienced by a man, who became the most famous sailor in recent history, Captain Continue Reading »
August 10, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: "The Voyage of The Destroyer From New York to Brazil", Admiral Custodio Jose de Melo, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Brazil, Brazilian Congress, Brazilian History, Brazilian Monarchy, Brazilian Navy, Brazilian President Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian Reublic, Captain Joshua Slocum, Civil War, Financial bubble, Financial leveraging, Floriano Peixoto, Ipanema Beach, John Erickson, Listen to Read, Listen2Read.com, MOXOTO, Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, THE DESTROYER, torpedo boat, USS Monitor, Vice President, Wall Street, “The Voyage of the Liberdade.”
In the early 1870’s, the spirits from the other side were summoned to Riverside, California by spiritualist Eliza Tibbets, who was well know for her séances on her farm near the Santa Ana River. Eliza Tibbets was newly arrived in Riverside from the East with her husband, Luther. Luther Tibbets had been in the Continue Reading »
February 24, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, audiobook, Bahia Brazil, California, Civil War, Eliza Tippets, Gettysburg Civil War Memorial Battlefield, Hypnotic Séance, John Erickson, Joshua Slocum, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Monitor, Navel Orange, Pernambuco Brazil, Richard Bergh, Riverside, Sandy Hook New Jersey, Santa Ana River, Séance, Spiritualism, Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds, US Department of Agriculture, Washington Navel Orange, William O Saunders, “Voyage of the Destroyer”, “Voyage of the Liberdade”
The gold came from the California gold fields in 1857 – an accumulation of 30,000 pounds of gold, worth today over 633 million dollars. The gold was owned by many different people, who carried it, individually, in person, down the California and Mexican coasts from San Francisco to Panama. After that, the gold was carried Continue Reading »
May 16, 2014, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: "Death Valley in '49", Andre Stojka, audiobook, Civil War, Colon – Panama, gold bars, hurricane, Isthmus of Panama, Listen2Read, maritime disaster, Odyssey Marine Explorer, OMEX, Panic of 1857, SS Central America, sunken treasure, William Lewis Manly
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