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Draper Family Stories by The Draper Family
Location: United States
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A Collection of Stories, Poems and Songs of the Draper Family by the Draper Family and for EVERYBODY
WARNING: DUE TO LARGE CONTENT, SOME PICTURES TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD
DRAPER FAMILY STORIES BY THE DRAPER FAMILY
Thomas Draper Sr. a.1690 - 1735
Meet your Grand Father: Thomas Draper Sr. A man of many mysteries!"
Everybody hits a brick wall sooner or latter when searching for their ancestors. Our grandfather, Thomas Draper Sr. together with his wife Sarah built a huge big brick wall to keep us from finding their mail box and drive way! Our car of genealogy speeds down the ancestry highway into a fog, crashing head first in North Farnham Parish, a British Colony on the east coast of America, which gets stuck in the mud before falling into the Atlantic ocean on a swim to British-Irish shores.
The year is 1690! We are trapped in a foggy
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Mark Foy (businessman)
Australian businessman who established Mark Foy's Department Store in Sydney
Mark Foy (15 February 1865 – 15 November 1950) was an Australian retail businessman and entrepreneur who established the department store Mark Foy's in Sydney. He also opened the Hydro Majestic Hotel in the Blue Mountains, a hydropathic resort with Swiss doctors and kurort water from Baden in Germany. In addition he was a keen sportsman with interests in gevär shooting, boxing, sailing and motor racing.[1]
Early life
[edit]Mark Foy was born in Bendigo, Victoria on 15 February 1865. His father, Mark Foy Snr.,[2] had emigrated from Ireland in 1858. Foy's parents had gone to the goldfields establishing various stores. In 1870, Foy's father moved to Melbourne where he set up a drapery shop in Smith Street, Collingwood. This business prospered, occupying three shops by 1875 and six by 1880. Suffering from ill health, Foy Snr. and his wife left for europe, handi
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The Fastest Kid On the Block: The Marty Glickman Story
Marty Glickman, the incomparable sportscaster and Olympian athlete, writes of his five decades in sports. And what a career it was! At the heart of his autobiography is the notorious incident at the 1936 "Nazi Olympics" in Berlin. Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the American track and field team, were dropped from the 400-meter relay team. More than any other event that would shape his life, this would be a defining moment for Glickman, one that would propel him into one of the richest and longest career in sports broadcasting history. In The Fastest Kid on the Block, Glickman recounts his beginnings as an athlete in Brooklyn and his early years at Syracuse University. After his devastating experience at the Olympics, he began his broadcasting career. As one of the best-known voices of New York City sports, he announced many of the most exciting games in sports history, including baseball, hockey, football, wrest