Résultats pour "The Baron" dans Histoire

Vivez la métamorphose d'une forteresse médiévale en une éclatante capitale intellectuelle de l'histoire européenne. Ce récit immersif vous guide à travers les rues brumeuses où s'entremêlent complots royaux, architecture majestueuse et révolutions de la pensée. Laissez-vous...

"The best, the liveliest and most illuminating" account of Rockefeller, Morgan, and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War (The New Republic). John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick...

From the moment of its publication in 1748, The Spirit of the Laws proved to be a controversial work provoking widespread interest. Within three years it had been translated into various European languages - and was swiftly added to the List of Prohibited Books by the Roman Catholic Church. It...

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.

Following in the footsteps of other key children's books from the Victorian era, Lockwood's vibrant novel centres on restless aristocratic youth, Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, otherwise known as Baron Trump, as he searches for adventure. Bored of his life of luxury in the Trump family home, Baron stumbles across a magical portal which transports him to the Russian Arctic, where he finds a curious underground world beneath his feet. As he journeys downward, Baron discovers strange new settings, and even stranger inhabitants.

What if your greatest weakness was actually your best advantage? We’re taught to idolize titans of industry as disciplined, rational masterminds. But history tells a far more interesting story. The architects of modern wealth didn’t rise above their flaws—they weaponized them. The Robber...

Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood was published in 1893. The novel recounts the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian von Troomp, who goes by the name "Baron Trump", and his dog Bulger, as they discover fantastic underground civilizations, offend the natives, escape from their involvements, and repeat this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump. The novel was part of a trend in American children's literature that responded to the demand for fantastic adventure stories created by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1893, a New York lawyer named Ingersoll Lockwood published a children's adventure novel about a wealthy, precocious boy who lived in a place called Castle Trump and was guided by a mentor known only as "Don." It sold modestly and was forgotten for...

“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award–winning author of In the Heart of the Sea). There was a...

Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood was published in 1893. The novel recounts the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, who goes by the name "Baron Trump", and his dog Bulger, as they discover fantastic underground civilizations, offend the natives, escape from their involvements, and repeat this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump.

Dicen que el enamoramiento juvenil nunca se olvida, tal vez porque es lo suficientemente puro y real. Después de años buscando a Anais Price, soñando con tenerla de nuevo a su lado, Federith Cooper ha de casarse con lady Caroline, puesto que lleva en sus entrañas al hijo de ambos, o eso...

Explorez les mystères de l'Égypte antique et découvrez comment un pharaon oublié devint une légende de l'archéologie. Parfait pour transformer votre trajet quotidien en une expédition temporelle fascinante, ce récit immersif ressuscite la dix-huitième dynastie. Naviguez entre réformes...

In the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game, an all-white University of Kentucky team was beaten by a team from Texas Western College (now UTEP) that fielded only black players. The game, played in the middle of the racially turbulent 1960s - part David and Goliath in short pants, part emancipation proclamation of college basketball - helped destroy stereotypes about black athletes.

Svela il mistero storico che ha trasformato un trionfo archeologico nella maledizione mortale più celebre di sempre. Perfetto per trasformare i tuoi tragitti quotidiani in un viaggio avvincente nella Valle dei Re, esplorando l'oscurità e il fascino delle tombe violate. Lasciati avvolgere da...

La brutal colisión entre el capitalismo desenfrenado y la desigualdad social forjó el destino de una potencia mundial. Ideal para acompañar tus trayectos diarios, este relato inmersivo te transporta a los humeantes ferrocarriles y ruidosas urbes del siglo XIX. Satisface tu curiosidad...

Explorez la naissance du capitalisme américain où l'extrême richesse des barons voleurs percute de violentes inégalités. Plongez dans une atmosphère historique fascinante et sombre, idéale pour transformer vos trajets quotidiens en une session d'apprentissage immersif. L'Amérique...

In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic with a penchant for Eastern mysticism and a hatred of communists, Baron Ungern-Sternberg took over Mongolia in 1920 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese, and native Mongolians.

A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean “Wado” Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Métro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle Époque...

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces.

L’horreur ne vient pas toujours des enfers… Dans ce podcast qui plaira aux passionné(e)s de TrueCrime, le Baron Sinistre explore les crimes qui ont marqué l’Histoire : tueurs en série, guerres, expériences scientifiques monstrueuses. D’Ed Gein à Dahmer, de Landru à Holmes, en passant par les atrocités des idéologies et des laboratoires, découvrez les ténèbres bien réelles qui ont inspiré la culture de l’horreur. Ici, pas de monstres imaginaires : seulement la cruauté humaine mise en lumière. Car oui… l’horreur est humaine.