History of the family from the founder of the fortune, John Jacob Astor to the present-day generation, including the English branch of the family.
History of the family from the founder of the fortune, John Jacob Astor to the present-day generation, including the English branch of the family In "Who's Who" Vincent Astor lists his occupation as "head of the Astor family in U.S".
In another respect, though, the regulations speak to the present day, to a generation of students and parents who stay in contact by cellphone and e-mail on a practically hourly basis.
I will leave it to others to judge what difference my leadership made, if any, but I will say that I entered each day with a laser focus on preserving this great public treasure, not just in the present day, but for generations of Californians to come.
It's as if Roxy were the agent of reconciliation — not of one merely lover to another but of Godard to the present day, to the rising generation.
Despite this persecution, the scissor dancing rituals persisted in secret, passed down from generation to generation to the present day.
Jobst Bittner is a charismatic evangelical cleric who thinks the present-day generation of Germans must investigate and in some deep sense repent for the sins of their forebears: the misdeeds of the nation as a whole and their immediate relatives.
It's a vast, synoptic view of the state of black people's lives— in Brooklyn, in Fort Greene, in the present day and of Lee's own, from the double perspective of what he sees now and of how the very ambitions and legacies that gave rise to the last thirty-plus years of his filmmaking translate into the present day, for himself and for a new generation.
For longtime Birmingham, Alabama, resident Charles Woods, the civil rights movement is not just an important moment from history ― it's a lesson that carries through to the present day, and can help inform the next generation.
Each chapter of the novel is narrated from the perspective of a descendant of either Effia or Esi, one representative for each generation, and the two bloodlines alternate up to the present day.
The aim of the show is to connect several different generations of explorers, from colonial times through the present day.
