Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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New York. Many and wonderful were the sights they saw on the eventfultravels. In England they tarried a day and a night with QueenVictoria at Windsor castle; they lingered for a time at the tomb ofShakspeare, and looked in upim the cottage of Anne. Hathaway atStratford-upon-Avon. They peered into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, and wanderedamong the excavations of Pompeii. They looked over the ruins ofThebes, studied the hieroglyphics on the old obelisks up the Nile;wondered at ruins of immense size, the pyramids, and the relics ofmighty edifices that existed when Egypt was in her glory, 5,000 yearsago. They stood in Jerusalem at the point where Christ bore the cross;saw the place of crucifixion, the tomb, and the rock that was rent in twain at the time of the^^^r^^^l. Saviors death. They examined St. Peterschurch in Rome, 430 feet inhight. with its capacity for shel-tering 50, OOOpeople. which took176 years to build, going throughthe reign of twenty popes,and employing the services of
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§ BIRTHPLACE OF At Point Pleasant, Ohiu. on Mrs. Grant a few intimate friends. Countries Visited—The f..Ilowing were the princiicicouTitries visited by the Grantparly in their tonr around tieworld: Enj^lund, Irelainl.Scotland, Beli^inra, Germany,Denmark, Norway, Sweden,Holland, Russia, Poland, Ba-varia, Spain, Portugal, France,Italy, Sicily. Ezypt, Palestine,Turkey. Greece. India, Siani, China and -lapan. titlen Visiteil — The most prominent cities where the party haltedon Iheir journey were; Liverpool. Manchester. London, Briis.sels,Cologne, Krankfort, Geneva, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle,Shetlleld, Stratford-on-Avon, Birmingham, Paris, Naples, Pompeii,Palermo, Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem, Constantinoi)le,Rome. Florence, Venice, Milan. Kotterdnm, Amsterdam, Berlin,Hamburg, Copenhagen. Gotlenburg. Christiana, Stockholm, St.Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw in Poland, Vienna, Munich, Vichy,Bordeaux, Madrid, Lisbon. Diililiii. li.lfii-^t. lionibay. .leypoor. twihe :irchitects, am

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