Podcasts about John Jacob Astor

Long before the Keweenaw Peninsula became a destination for hikers, bikers, and Lake Superior rock hounds, it was the stage for a national copper rush. Shortly after Michigan became a state in 1837,  Geologist Douglas Houghton was sent to Copper Harbor to explore reports from Native Americans about copper in the region. By 1844, Fort Wilkins was built to be the military base helping to keep the peace as fortune-seekers came to the state's most northern port. In this episode of the Lake Superior Podcast, Walt Lindala and Frida Waara talk with Barry James, Upper Peninsula historian with the Michigan History Center, about the fascinating past—and present—of this historic state park. From the 1840s copper rush chaos to Civil War reenactments, as well as lighthouse tours and tales of shipwrecks, Fort Wilkins remains a living classroom with extensive youth programs. Join us as we explore the enduring significance of this frontier fort—and the people working to keep its stories alive.Key Takeaways:Fort Wilkins was built in the mid-19th century in Copper Harbor to maintain law and order during the copper rush.The fort served as a frontier military post, supporting mining operations and maritime navigation in one of the most remote regions of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.The Copper Harbor Lighthouse and range lights were established in response to early shipwrecks, including the 1844 wreck of the John Jacob Astor, which supplied Fort Wilkins.Today, Fort Wilkins Historic State Park is part of the Keweenaw National Historical Park's heritage site network and offers youth camps, Civil War reenactments, and public education programs.Barry James and the Michigan History Center are working to expand exhibits, including a new display on how Fort Wilkins became a state park in 1923.Notable Quotes:“What it really represents is an excellent example of a mid-19th century military post as the United States was expanding westward.”“The Astor was the first wreck on Lake Superior in 1844. The military realized that their lifeline could be easily snapped.”“We also offer a living history program that's been ongoing since 1976, where we have costumed interpreters within the fort that represent the last occupation at Fort Wilkins, the summer of 1870.”“We've got 19 buildings on site, but 12 are original, dating back to the 1840s. So people can go into these buildings, look at the exhibits. We have period rooms with furniture and interpretation of the period.”“To get on the National Register of Historic Places, you really have to have something significant with the historic site, so that says enough right there.”Resources:Fort Wilkins Historic State Park: https://www.michigan.gov/mhc/museums/fwchl Michigan History Center: https://www.michigan.gov/mhcKeweenaw National Historical Park: https://www.nps.gov/keweConnect With Us:Website: https://nplsf.org/podcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NationalParksOfLakeSuperiorFoundationLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/national-parks-of-lake-superior-foundationSponsors:Cafe Imports: Supporting environmental sustainability in coffee-growing regions since 1993. Learn more at https://cafeimports.comNational Parks of Lake Superior Foundation: Support vital projects by donating at https://nplsf.org/donate

On the night of April 14, 1912, 2,224 people faced doom in the middle of the fridge north Atlantic. The luxury liner hailed as unsinkable was about to do just that and disappear beneath the waves. The tragedy has long captured the public imagination with heroic tales of millionaire John Jacob Astor going down with the ship like a gentleman and fictionalized romances about people who weren't really on board. Today lets met a handful of the real women who were on board that terrible night. We'll learn more about the famous first class ladies like Madeline Astor and Molly Brown but also met some of the lesser known passengers of second and third class including the only black family aboard. And we'll meet a crew member who was truly unsinkable. First Class: Helen Churchill Candee Molly Brown Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon Madeline Astor Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes Ida Straus Second Class: The Hart Family (Eva Heart) The Laroche Family The West Family (Barbara West) Third Class: The Goodwin Family (The Unknown Child) The Dean Family (Millvina Dean) Crew: Violet Jessop Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091781568503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyteatimelindsayholiday/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@historyteatime Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: “Allegro” by Emmit Fenn#HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes S6E11 - Join us as we dive deep into the mind of award winning author Nelson Aspen. He'll be in th ehouse telling his tales of his lifelong experiences uncovering his metaphysical connection to TITANIC victim, Milton Long and much more. Award-winning journalist and author Nelson Aspen announces the March 2025 release of his new historical fantasy, "Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale" Inspired by his own metaphysical connections to a lost TITANIC passenger, Aspen will celebrate the publication as part of the 113th anniversary commemoration during "Titanic Weekend," aboard the world famous RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California (April 12 - 14). Author, Nelson Aspen, will be joined by other Titanic authors, historians, experts and collectors. HELPFUL LINKS: VETERANS: https://www.va.gov/.../mental-health/suicide-prevention/ ADDICTION: https://lp.recoverycentersofamerica.com/.../continuum-of.../ Due you know someone that has lost their lives due to addiction? Or even someone that has made a full recovery? Reach out to Johnny Whitaker so they can help to celebrate the lives lost/ lives recovered at overdoseawareness0831@gmail.com Follow our guest http://www.nelsonaspen.com/ https://www.instagram.com/nelsonaspen/?hl=en https://x.com/nelsonaspen?lang=en http://bhbpr.com/ Toking with the Dead: https://www.stilltoking.com/ ————————————— Follow Still Toking With and their friends! https://smartpa.ge/5zv1 ————————————— Produced by Leo Pond and The Dorkening Podcast Network MORE ABOUT THE GUEST: elson's TITANIC knowledge has made him a sought after speaker on the subject for TV, radio, print and online outlets. As a showbiz presenter in addition to his Titanic expertise, Nelson is often engaged for commentary & analysis on any aspect of Titanic-mania and will be a special guest speaker on January's maiden voyage of Cunard's most anticipated new luxury liner, QUEEN ANNE. Inspired by the author's personal experiences, "Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale" spans time between the night in 1912 when Titanic met her tragic fate and the hedonistic party scene of modern Manhattan. This is a story of love and redemption denied to gay men by the constraints of the Edwardian world into which they were born. From rubbing elbows with the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor and other iconic figures from the so-called Ship of Dreams to metropolitan globe-trotting in an effort to unravel the mystery of their metaphysical connection, our two heroes are Kindred Spirits. Find out more at https://still-toking-with.pinecast.co Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/still-toking-with/4867aec7-881f-4686-8277-f0659a2ec2a0

Nelson Aspen is an award winning journalist, author and co-host of the popular “Titanic Talk”and appears regularly on GB News as a political commentator.  His book, "Your Home is Your Castle: Live Like an A-Lister in a Post Pandemic World" debuted at #1 on Amazon's Home Remodel & Renovation charts and his popular, steamy semi-autobiographical series "Dancing Between the Raindrops" will soon see another sequel to complete the trilogy.  He lives in New York City and you may visit him at www.nelsonaspen.com. Award-winning journalist and author Nelson Aspen announces the release of his new historical fantasy, "Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale" (March 18, 2025 / $15.99).  Inspired by his own metaphysical connections to a lost TITANIC passenger, Aspen will celebrate the publication as part of the 113th anniversary commemoration during "Titanic Weekend," aboard the world famous RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California (April 12 - 14). Author, Nelson Aspen, will be joined by other Titanic authors, historians, experts and collectors.     Nelson's TITANIC knowledge has made him a sought after speaker on the subject for TV, radio, print and online outlets. As a showbiz presenter in addition to his Titanic expertise, Nelson is often engaged for commentary & analysis on any aspect of Titanic-mania and will be a special guest speaker on January's maiden voyage of Cunard's most anticipated new luxury liner, QUEEN ANNE. Inspired by the author's personal experiences, "Kindred Spirits: A Titanic Tale" spans time between the night in 1912 when Titanic met her tragic fate and the hedonistic party scene of modern Manhattan.  This is a story of love and redemption denied to gay men by the constraints of the Edwardian world into which they were born.  From rubbing elbows with the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor and other iconic figures from the so-called Ship of Dreams to metropolitan globe-trotting in an effort to unravel the mystery of their metaphysical connection, our two heroes are Kindred Spirits.   Want to watch: YouTube Meisterkhan Pod (Please Subscribe)

Salty Dogs, you say? Yes, as in salt water taffy and sailing the seas in the late 1700s. Those are just a couple of landfalls this episode makes as we hear about RJ's trip to Portland, Astoria, and points in between, eat the saltwater taffy he brings us (don't worry, we were mostly careful about the misophonia), wonder how bathtubs in hotels and motels are somehow not slippery yet don't feel like sandpaper, and by a route we no longer recall get to talking about DNRs and a few of the many questions there are on that topic. You may be able to help us out on that one—it's an important topic and we are not really up to speed. Give us a hand. Have a few laughs. Maybe even learn something, who knows? Let's go!Links: Shed Dogs; Astoria; article on the magic shop in Astoria featuring the dude RJ and Sue spoke to there; John Jacob Astor; John Jacob Astor IV (the one that died on the Titanic); the Lewis and Clark Expedition; Cannon Beach; The Geology of the North Oregon Coast; Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area; Salt Water Taffy; the Interstate Bridge; an amazing video of the the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in a 35 mph wind; recycling plastic in BC; a typical Rivian repair; The Lexus LS400 and the Birth of the Japanese Luxury Brands; why paramedics need to ask about DNRs; fascinating HMS Victory video (even for someone like RJ who normally isn't drawn to this kind of stuff); Master & Commander.Theme music is Escaping like Indiana Jones by Komiku, with permission.

Kat covers the history of the most popular Christmas treat. Then Hayley covers the phenomenon of experiencing an unseen presence during a time of crisis or emergency. Last but not least, Alec covers the richest passenger aboard the RMS Titanic and his New York housewife DRAMA. Listen to the full episode in all it's glory only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/245-candy-canes-118478432 Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2024

Explore influential quotes and maxims from the investing and business world. This includes from: Warren Buffett, Mark Twain, Robert Kiyosaki, Albert Einstein, Dan Sullivan, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Suze Orman, and yours truly, Keith Weinhold. “Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.” -Mark Twain “Given a 10% chance of a 100x payoff, you should take that bet every time.” -Jeff Bezos “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” -Warren Buffett “Don't live below your means; expand your means.” -Rich Dad “The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.” -Andrew Carnegie “Savers are losers. Debtors are winners.” -Robert Kiyosaki Resources mentioned: For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE  or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments.  You get paid first: Text FAMILY to 66866 For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search “how to leave an Apple Podcasts review”  GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREmarketplace.com/Coach Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— text ‘GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Keith's personal Instagram: @keithweinhold   Complete episode transcript:   Keith Weinhold (00:00:00) - Welcome to GRE. I'm your host, Keith Weinhold. Real estate and other investing involves people from the disappointing to the mesmerizing. People have contributed countless quotes, maxims and aphorisms on investing today. All recite and then we'll discuss dozens of influential ones and what you could learn from this timeless wisdom today on get Rich education.   Robert Syslo (00:00:29) - Since 2014, the powerful get Rich education podcast has created more passive income for people than nearly any other show in the world. This show teaches you how to earn strong returns from passive real estate, investing in the best markets without losing your time being a flipper or landlord. Show host Keith Reinhold writes for both Forbes and Rich Dad Advisors and delivers a new show every week. Since 2014, there's been millions of listeners downloads and 188 world nations. He has A-list show guests include top selling personal finance author Robert Kiyosaki. Get Rich education can be heard on every podcast platform, plus has had its own dedicated Apple and Android listener. Phone apps build wealth on the go with the get Rich education podcast.   Robert Syslo (00:01:06) - Sign up now for the get Rich education podcast or visit get Rich education.com.   Corey Coates (00:01:14) - You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education.   Keith Weinhold (00:01:30) - Welcome to diary from Ellis Island, New York, to Ellensburg, Washington, and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm Keith Weinhold, and you're listening to get Rich education for the 508th consecutive week. Happy July. It's the first day of the quarter, and it's now the second half of the year. So late last year when you got takeaways from our goals episode here, I hope that you're still applying them today. We're doing something different on this show. For most episodes. I divulge a lot of my best guidance. Some even quote that material. But why don't I acknowledge others great quotes maxims in aphorisms along with some of my own? And then I'll tell you what you can learn from them. So yes, today it's about axioms, adages, mantras and quotes, maxims and aphorisms. Some of these you've heard, others you probably haven't.   Keith Weinhold (00:02:28) - The first one is the only place you get money is from other people. Yeah. Isn't that so solidly true? You've never received any money in your life from yourself, unless you try to counterfeit it and give it to yourself. It's always been from other people. When you realize that the only place that you do get money is from others, you realize the value of relationships and connectivity. The next one comes from the brilliant entrepreneurial coach Dan Sullivan. You are 100% disciplined to your set of habits. Gosh, this is a terrific reminder about the importance of how you have to often uncomfortably apply something new in order to up your skill set up your game. If you keep getting distracted, well, then that's a habit, and then you'll soon become disciplined to the habit of distraction. The next two go together, and they're about market investing. Nobody is more bearish than a sold out bull. And the other is bears make headlines. Bulls make money. Really the lesson there is that they're both reminders that it's better to stay invested rather than on the sidelines.   Keith Weinhold (00:03:53) - The next two are related to each other as well. Albert Einstein said, strive not to be a person of success, but rather to be a person of value. And then similarly, a more modern day spin on that. Tony Hsieh, the late CEO of Zappos. He said, Chase the vision, not the money and the money will end up following you. And the lesson here is, well, we'd all like more money, but if you focus on the money first, well then it doesn't want to follow you. You need to provide value and build the vision first, and then the money will follow and you know, to me, it's kind of like getting the girl if you act too interested in her and you get too aggressive, it's a turnoff. But if you quietly demonstrate that you're a person of value, or subtly suggest somehow in a way that their life could be improved by having a relationship with you or being around you, then they're more likely to follow. And yes, I'm fully aware that this is a heterosexual male analogy, and I use it because that is what I am.   Keith Weinhold (00:04:58) - So if you're something else, I'm sure you can follow along with that. The next quote is from Susie Kasam. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Gosh, isn't this so on point? It's about overcoming the fear in just trying. And then if you know that you've lived a life of trying, you're going to have fewer regrets. Thomas Edison yes, the light bulb guy in the co-founder of General Electric, he said the value of an idea lies in the using of it. Oh, yeah, that's a great reminder that knowledge isn't really power. It's knowledge plus action that creates power because an idea that remains idle doesn't do anyone any good. Hey, we're just getting started talking about investing in real estate quotes today here on episode 508 of get Rich education. And, you know, remarkably, these maxims and catchphrases, they're usually just 1 or 2 sentences, but yet they are so often packed with the wisdom such that these takeaways and lessons are like your three favorite ones today. They can change the trajectory of your entire life.   Keith Weinhold (00:06:20) - The next quote is one that I have said carefully bought real estate has the best risk adjusted return in. The world. And I don't need to explain that because we talk about that in some form or another on the show many weeks. Albert Schweitzer said success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you're doing, you will be successful. Yeah, I'd say that one is mostly true. Just mostly, though, there's no attribution here. On this next one, you might have heard the aphorism money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant. Yeah. Now, I've heard that one for a long time, and it took me a while to figure out what it really meant. And here's my take on that. If you make money, the master will. Then you'll, like, do almost anything. You'll trade your time for money. You'll sell your time for dollars instead. If you invest passively and it creates leveraged equity and income streams, oh, then money serves you.   Keith Weinhold (00:07:28) - It's no longer the master. That's what that means to me here in a real estate investor context. And, you know, it really underscores the importance of making money work for you. And is a follow up to last week's show. Whose money are we talking about here? Whose is it? It's focusing on getting other people's money to work for you, not just your own. Now, the next one is a quote that I've said on the show before, quite a while ago, though. And come on now, what would an episode about quotes, maxims and aphorisms be without some contribution from Mark Twain? Here Twain said, why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. that's just so, so good in business and in so many facets of your life, constantly playing it safe is the riskiest thing that you can actually do. Because a risk averse investor places a ceiling on his or her potential in a risk averse person imposes an upper limit on their very legacy. In fact, episode 275 of the get Rich education podcast is named Go Out on Limb precisely because of this Twain quote.   Keith Weinhold (00:08:45) - So listen to that episode if you want to hear a whole lot more about that. It's actually one of Twain's lesser known quotes, but perhaps his best one. The next one comes from famous value investor Benjamin Graham. He said the individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. Okay, so what's the difference there? A speculator takes big risks in hopes of making large quick gains. Conversely, an investor focuses on risk appropriate strategies to pursue longer term goals, which is really consistent with being a prudent, disciplined real estate investor. Presidential advisor Bernard Baruch contributed this to the investing world. Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. yes. Tried to time the market. It might be tempting, but it rarely works because no one really knows when the market has reached its top or its bottom. All you can really hope to do is buy lower and sell higher. But you're never going to buy at the trough and sell at the peak.   Keith Weinhold (00:10:00) - And even buying lower and selling higher is harder to do than it sounds, even though everyone knows that's what they're supposed to do. Albert Einstein is back here, he said. Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn't pays it. And as you've learned here on the show on previous episodes, compound interest. It does work arithmetically, but not in real life would apply to the stock market. Of course. My quote contribution to the investing world on this is compound interest is weak. Compound leverage is powerful. I broke that down just last week on the show, so I won't explain that again. Now, really, a central mantra in GR principle is don't live below your means, grow your means. But I must tell you, I can't really take credit for coining that particular one because from the rich dad world, the quote is don't live below your means, expand your means. But I did hear that from them first, and though it can't be certain, I think it was Sharon letter that coined that one.   Keith Weinhold (00:11:13) - A lot of people don't know this, but she was the original co-author of the book. Rich dad, Poor Dad with Robert Kiyosaki. And Sharon has been here on the show before, and if I have her back, I will ask her if she is the one that coined that. Don't live below your means. Expand. Your means. But yeah, I mean, what this quote really means is, in this one finite life that you have here on Earth, why in the world would you not only choose to live below your means, but actually take time and effort learning how to do a better job of living below your means when it just makes you miserable after a while, when instead you could use those same efforts to grow your means and you can only cut down so far. And there's an unlimited ceiling on the upside. And now there is one caveat here. I understand that if you're just getting on your feet, well, then living below your means might be a necessity for you in the short term.   Keith Weinhold (00:12:08) - And what's an example of living below your means? It's eating junk food because it's cheap and filling, expanding your means. That might be doing something like learning how to do a cost segregation to accelerate your depreciation. Write off on your 20 unit apartment building. But you know, even if you're in hardship, I still like live within your means more than the scarcity minded guidance of live below your means. Next is a terrific one, and it really reinforces the last quote a rich man digs for gold. A poor man is concerned with the cost of a shovel. Oh yeah, that's so good. And I don't know who to attribute that to. It's about growing your means and taking on and actually embracing calculated risks. Not every risk, calculated risk. And you can also live that regret free life this way. In fact, episode 91 of this show is called A Rich Man Digs for gold. So you can get more inspiration for that from that episode. Okay, this one comes from the commodities world where there are notoriously volatile prices.   Keith Weinhold (00:13:18) - How do you make a million? You start with 2 million. now, this next one is one that I don't really agree with that much. You really heard this a lot the last few years. It applies when you have a mortgage on a property, and that is the house is the liability and the debt is the asset. I know people are trying to be crafty. People kind of use this pithy quote when they're discussing how those that locked in at those artificially low mortgage rates years ago considered the debt so good that it's an asset. It's like, yeah, I know what you're saying. And I love good real estate debt and leverage and all that, of course. But really, for you, truly, then if the House is a liability and the debt is an asset like you're saying, then give away the house to someone else. If it's such a liability, and keep the debt to pay off yourself if it's really such an asset. A little humorous here. Next, Forbes magazine said, how do you make a million marry a millionaire? Or better yet, divorce one then more? Real estate ish is Jack Miller's quote how do you become a millionaire? Well, you borrow $1 million and you pay it off.   Keith Weinhold (00:14:31) - And I think we can all relate to that here at GRE. Better yet, borrow $1 million and don't pay it off yourself. Have tenants and inflation pay it down for you. And you know, inflation is getting to be a problem for any of these, like century old classic quotes that have the word millionaire in them. Because having a net worth of a million that actually used to mean you were wealthy, and now it just means you're not poor, but you might even be below middle class. Now, you probably heard of some of these next ones, but let's talk about what they mean. Warren Buffett said the stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. And then Benjamin Franklin said an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. I mean, yeah, that's pretty on point stuff there when it comes to investing. Nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. So do some research before you jump in. And you've almost certainly heard this next one from Warren Buffett.   Speaker 4 (00:15:28) - You want to be greedy when others are fearful, and you want to be fearful when others are greedy.   Keith Weinhold (00:15:32) - That is, be prepared to invest in a down market and to get out in a soaring market. As per the philosophy of Warren Buffett, it's far too easy for investors to lose perspective when something big goes wrong. A lot of people panic and sell their investments. And looking at history. The markets recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. They recover from the dotcom crash. They even recover from the Great Depression, although it took a long time. So they're probably going to get through whatever comes next as well, if you really follow that through what Buffett said there. Well, then at a time like this now, I mean, you could be looking at shedding stocks as they continue to approach and break all time highs. Carlos Slim, hello said with a good perspective on history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present and thus a clear vision of the future. Sure. Okay, that quote like that probably didn't sound very snappy and it's really simple, but he's telling us that if you want to know the future, check on the past.   Keith Weinhold (00:16:39) - Not always, but often. It will tell you the future directory, or at least that trajectories range. And this is similar to how I often say take history over hunches, like when you're applying economics to real estate investing. Now this next guy has been a controversial figure, but George Soros said it's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. Okay, I think that quote means that too many investors become almost obsessed with being right, even when the gains are small, winning big, and cutting your losses when you're wrong. They are more important than being right. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time. All right. Now, that's rather applicable to the high flying risk of, say, investing in startup companies. We'll see. Bezos himself, he took a lot of those bets, a 10% chance at a 100 X payoff. And that is exactly why he's one of the richest people in the world.   Keith Weinhold (00:17:49) - Now, if you haven't heard of John Bogle before, you should know who he is. He co-founded the Vanguard Group, and he's credited with popularizing the very concept of the index fund. I mean, Bogle transformed the entire investment management industry. John Bogle said, don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack. Okay? If it seems too hard to say, find the next Amazon. Well, John Bogle came up with the only sure way to get in on the action. By buying an index fund, investors can put a little bit of money into every stock, and that way they never miss out on the stock market's biggest winners. They're only going to have a small part. And what that means to a real estate investor is, say, rather than buying a single property in a really shabby neighborhood, that neighborhood will drag down your one property. So to apply boggles by the whole haystack quote. What you would do then is raise money to buy the entire block, or even the entire neighborhood and fix it up, therefore raising the values of all of the properties.   Keith Weinhold (00:18:55) - Back to Warren Buffett. He had this analogy about the high jump event from track and field. He said, I don't look to jump over seven foot bars. I look around for one foot bars that I can step over. Yeah. All right. I mean, investors often do make things too hard on themselves. The value stocks that Buffett prefers, they frequently outperform the market, making success easier. Supposedly sophisticated strategies like short selling. A lot of times they lose money in the long run. So profiting from those is more difficult. Now, you might have heard the quote, and it's from Philip Fisher. He said the stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Yeah. I mean, that's really another testament to the fact that investing without an education and research that's ultimately going to lead to pretty regrettable investment decisions. Research is a lot more than just listening to the popular opinion out there, because people often just then invest on hype or momentum without understanding things like a company's fundamentals or what value they create for society, or being attentive to price to earnings ratios.   Keith Weinhold (00:20:08) - Even Robert Arnott said in investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. You know, that's pretty on point at times. You have to step out of your comfort zone to realize any big gains. Know the boundaries of your comfort zone. Practice stepping out of it in small doses. As much as you need to know the market, you need to know yourself too. Can you handle staying in when everyone else is jumping out, or do you have the guts to get out during the biggest rally of the century? You've got to have the stomach to be contrarian and see it through. Robert Allen said. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. That's the end of what Robert G. Allen said. Yeah, though inflation could cut out the millionaires part. Yeah I mean point well taken. No one builds wealth through a savings account. Now a savings account might be the right place for your emergency fund. It has a role, but it's not a wealth builder.   Keith Weinhold (00:21:10) - I mean, since we left the gold standard back in 1971, so many dollars get printed most years that savers become losers. Which, hey, that does bring us to Robert Kiyosaki. He's been a guest on the show here with us for times now, one of our most frequent guests ever. Here he is. The risks at Port Arthur. And you probably know what I'm going to say. He is, he said. Savers or losers? Debtors or winners of something that your parents probably would never want to know that you subscribed to your grandparents, especially. Yes, he is one of the kings of iconoclastic finance quotes. And as you know, I've got some contributions to that realm myself. But what Kiyosaki is saying is if you save 100 K under a mattress and inflation is 5%, well, now after a year you've only got 95 K in purchasing power. So therefore get out of dollars and get them invested. Even better than if you can get debt tied to a cash flowing leveraged asset. In fact, episode 212 of this very show is named Savers are Losers.   Keith Weinhold (00:22:18) - Debtors are winners. So I go deep on that theme there. We've got more as we look at it and break down some of the great real estate investing quotes, maxims and aphorisms. They generally get more real estate ish as we go here, including ones that you haven't heard before and dropping, quote, bombs here that absolutely have to be enunciated and brought to light ahead. A group of Real Estate quotes episode. Hey, learn more about what we do here to get rich education comm get rich education.com. And do you have friends or family that are into investing or real estate? I love it when you hit the share button on your pod catching device or whatever platform you're listening on. Everything that we do here is free and the share button really helps the show. 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We're having some fun today, looking at and breaking down some of the great investing quotes, maxims, and aphorisms. Andrew Carnegie said, the wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. Another one for Mark Twain here by land. They're not making it any more. You probably heard one or both of those. And yeah, Twain's time predated that of those islands that are built in Dubai. But Twain's point is still well taken. There is an inherent scarcity in land. Louis Glickman drove the point home about real estate investing when he simply said, the best investment on Earth is Earth. A Hebrew proverb goes as far as saying he is not a fool man who does not own a piece of land.   Keith Weinhold (00:26:18) - Wow, that's pretty profound right there. And if you're a female listener, yes, many of these timeless quotes from yesteryear harken back to a period when all of the landowners were men. President Franklin D Roosevelt, he has a real estate quote that you probably heard, but let's see what I think about it. Let's talk about it. Here it is. Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away, purchased with common sense, paid for in full and managed with reasonable care. It is about the safest investment in the world. That's from FDR. That's pretty good. I just don't know about the paid in full part because you lost your leverage. FDR, Johnny Isakson, a US senator, said, in the real estate business, you learn more about people and you learn more about community issues. You learn more about life. You learn more about the impact of government, probably more than any other profession that I know of. And that's good, really on point stuff there.   Keith Weinhold (00:27:23) - If you're a direct real estate investor like we are here, you really learn those things. If you're in, say, a REIT, well, you're not going to be exposed to that type of knowledge in experiences. Hazrat Ali Khan is a spiritualist and he said, some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful. Yeah, that's some mystical motivation for the house flipper or the value add real estate syndicator right there, Political economist John Stuart Mill, he said something you've probably heard before. Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. Oh, yes, you can have a real estate quotes episode without that classic one. Although rather than landlords growing rich in their sleep, the phrase real estate investors is likely more accurate. Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait. You've surely heard that one. You might not know that it was actor Will Rogers with that particular attribution, entrepreneur Marshall Field said buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy, billionaire John Paulson said.   Keith Weinhold (00:28:45) - I think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make. That's what Paulson said. let's give Paulson the benefit of the doubt here. Although Robert Kiyosaki famously said that a house is not an asset because an asset puts money in your pocket and your home takes money out of your pocket, well, a home is something that you get to live in, build family memories in, and you do get some leverage if you keep debt on your own home. So maybe that's more of what's behind John Paulson's maxim there. Notable entrepreneur Jesse Jones. He said I have always liked real estate, farmland, pasture land, timberland and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like the good Earth, which is the foundation of all our wealth. Business mogul Tamir Sapir said if you're not going to put your money in real estate, where else? Yeah, I guess that's a good question. Anthony hit real estate professional. He said to be successful in real estate, you must always inconsistently put your client's best interests first.   Keith Weinhold (00:30:00) - When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations. Yeah, I think he's talking about being a team player there. And if you're a real estate agent, it's about putting your client's needs over yours. If it's a landlord, perhaps then you're thinking about putting your tenants first and meeting their needs so that they stay in your property longer. Here's a quote that I've got to say I don't understand. It's from real estate mogul and shark tank shark Barbara Corcoran. She says a funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back like gangbusters. I don't really know what that means, and I don't know what a gangbuster is yet. I see that quote all over the place. I can't explain why that would be popular. I don't get it at all now, novelist Anthony Trollope said it is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. Entrepreneur Armstrong Williams is here with this gem. Now one thing I tell everyone is to learn about real estate.   Keith Weinhold (00:31:12) - Repeat after me. Real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values in the least risk. Yeah, that's a real motivator of a quote. As long as one knows what they're doing and buys, right? All of that could very well be true from Armstrong Williams. It was none other than John de Rockefeller that said the major fortunes in America have been made in land. Yeah, it's just really plain and simple there. John Jacob Astor, he got specific and more strategic here. This is Astor. He said, buy on the fringe and wait by land near a growing city. Buy real estate when other people want to sell and hold what you buy. I mean, yeah, that's pretty much an all timer right there from Astor. Winston Churchill said land monopoly is not only monopoly, it is by far the greatest of monopolies. It is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. Yeah, interesting from Churchill. And there's a good chance that you haven't heard that one before.   Keith Weinhold (00:32:26) - Perhaps. So say, for example, if one owns real estate on all four corners of a busy street intersection, then that quote applies. It's like you've got a monopoly on a popular intersection. Russell Sage said. This real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security. That's from Russell Sage. And, you know, you know, something here is we've got lots of real estate specific quotes in this segment is that it is rare to nonexistent to see any negative quotes about real estate, about anyone saying anything bad about it. It's all positive stuff. Waxing eloquent about real estate. And there are a lot of reasons to do that. But not every real estate moment is great. Maybe this is all because nothing quotable is said when you find out that one of your tenants is a drug dealer. Well. Finance expert Susie Orman says this owning a home is a keystone of wealth, both financial affluence and emotional security.   Keith Weinhold (00:33:46) - Yeah, a lot like an earlier quote. A home is the only investment that you get the benefit of living in. Peter Lynch said. No, what you own and why you own it. I mean, that is short, sweet and it's just a really good reminder to you. Do you now own any properties that you would not buy again? And if you wouldn't buy it again, then should you consider selling it now? Not FDR, but Theodore Roosevelt. He said every person who invests. In well selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community, adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent for real estate is the basis of wealth. That's Theodore Roosevelt. Yeah. He reiterates that you want to own most of your property in growing places, something that really hasn't changed over all this time. Coke Odyssey contributes to this. The house he looked at today and wanted to think about until tomorrow, maybe the same house someone looked at yesterday and will buy today. Oh, gosh, that's true.   Keith Weinhold (00:34:58) - I think that everyone has the story of the one that got away. Margaret Mitchell said the land is the only thing worth working for. Worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it's the only thing that lasts. Yeah. Wow. Some real passion there from Margaret. Sir John Templeton said the four most dangerous words in investing are. It's different this time. Yeah. I think what Templeton is advising is to follow market trends in history. Don't speculate that this particular time will be any different. Warren Buffett said wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. Yeah, that insight from Buffett. That's pretty applicable when you understand that you've got to get good in a niche and then get rich in that niche, meaning being narrow. Why diversification? That's likely better when you're just beginning and you don't know much, but then you want to get niche in your big earning years. And then perhaps when you're older, you get diversified once again because you're more interested in just protecting what you have.   Keith Weinhold (00:36:15) - Robert Kiyosaki said it's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. Now there's something with tax efficiencies and more in that Kiyosaki quote. My friend Dave Zook, billionaire dollar syndicator and frequent guest on this show, he said, you can be conventional or you can be wealthy. Pick one. Oh yeah, I love that from Dave. Because if you do what everyone else does, you'll only get what everyone else got. And I've contributed some material here over 508 episodes of this show. Although I won't claim the eminence of some of the other luminaries of the past few centuries discussed today. I've been known to say these. You do care about what others think. That's your reputation. I've been known to say the scarcity mentality is abundant and the abundance mentality is scarce. And some say that in real estate, I was the first one to point out back in 2015 that real estate pays five ways. Another that I have is a critique of delayed gratification.   Keith Weinhold (00:37:31) - Now, some delayed gratification is okay early on in your life, but I've said too much delayed gratification becomes denied gratification. Here on Earth, you live just one life. Hey. And the other day, an entrepreneurial friend. I don't know. He seemed to think that I have the right life balance. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but here's what I told him. And I think he said this because he often sees me out to exercising and things. I told him I give my best to exercise. Business only gets left over time. That's because exercise is hard and making money is easy. Yeah, there it is. That's my take on that. And that's it for today. I hope that you got some learning, some perspective, a few laughs and that some thought was spurred inside your mind in order to give you at least one big, rich novel takeaway here. And it's probably best for you to refer back to this episode of quotes, maxims, and aphorisms. At times when you're feeling shaky about your investment decision making, or just other times of uncertainty.   Keith Weinhold (00:38:49) - Until next week, I'm your host, Keith Reinhold, and there's something else that I've been known to say. Don't quit your day. Drink.   Speaker 6 (00:39:00) - Nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. All investment strategies have the potential for profit or loss. 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Get to know Henry Schoolcraft including titles he held beginning around 1822. Find out if Schoolcraft himself wanted to rename Lake Superior. Learn what item had become a vital commodity in Europe with North America being the primary supplier during 18th Century. Get to know John Jacob Astor including what he established in the year 1808. Understand what makes Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan so unique. Determine which village in Minnesota got incorporated come 1857 including a timeline of how it evolved during Post Civil War Era. Discover what a Minnesota State Geologist came upon near Lake Vermilion come 1865. Get introduced to Charlemagne Tower & George Stone including what their party came upon natural resource wise in 1874. Get a timeline analysis of what takes place between 1878-1890 along Northeast Minnesota via transportation and population standpoint. Learn about the Merritt Family and the firsts they achieved from a business perspective. Get an in depth analysis behind what took place on March 2, 1901. Understand why Hulett's became important along Great Lakes Waters come turn of 20th Century. Agree if it's safe to say that by 1905 there still remained a presence of Wooden Steamship Vessels sailing Lake Superior's Waters. Discover when exactly the 1905 Shipping Season began turning deadly on Lake Superior. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirk-monroe/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirk-monroe/support

Inició una dinastía legendaria gracias al comercio de pieles y, sobre todo, a sus inversiones inmobiliarias. El patriarca de una de las sagas más legendarias de la historia de Estados Unidos, sin la cual no se entenderían las raíces de la inimitable sociedad neoyorquina, comenzó a trabajar en el cuidado y limpieza de pieles en una tienda de Nueva York hasta que inició el negocio por su cuenta. Así nació la compañía American Fur, que acabó convertida en la mayor organización comercial de Estados Unidos. Clara Ruiz de Gauna, redactora jefe del periódico y autora de la saga sobre los personajes que han hecho historia en el mundo financiero que se publica todas las semanas en EXPANSIÓN, y los redactores del periódico Amaia Ormaetxea y Nicolás Menéndez Sarriés analizan el legado del primera multimillonario de América.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Another set of divorce rumors and scandal abound as another lover has been found.Late February to early March, John Jacob Astor VI, aka “Jakey,” and his mother Madeleine Talmage Force Astor Dick are forever covered in the press due to their surviving the Titanic. Their love lives become a fascination for the public as rumors abound surrounding pending marriages and divorces. Jakey is rumored to be engaged to Italian Princess Donna Cristina Torlonia, but both. But there is another hidden scandal about to surface with his mother Madeleine Talmage Force Astor Dick.Other people and subjects include: Vincent Astor, Prince Serge Obolensky, Ava Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky Hofmannsthal, Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton, E.T. Stotesbury, Enzo Fiermonte, Princess Donna Cristina Torlonia (Christina, Cristiana, Christiana), Prince Don Marino Torlonia of Italy, Elsie Moore, William Dick, William Force Dick, John Henry Dick, William Force, Katherine Force, Katherine Talmage, Cholly Knickerbocker, John Jacob Astor IV aka Colonel Jack, Caroline Astor, Ava Lowle Willing Astor Ribblesdale, Charlotte Astor Drayton, Prince David – King Edward VIII – Duke of Windsor, Gloria Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Viscountess Thelma Morgan Furness, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Countess Grace Vanderbilt Szechenyi, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Harold “Mike” Vanderbilt, Joshua Cosden, Margaret “Unsinkable Molly” Brown, Chicago mayor William “Big Bill” Hale Thompson, actress Billie Burke Ziegfeld, President Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Social Register, debutante, childhood sweethearts, widowhood, will stipulations, social climbing, rumors, scandal, counter rumor, antiquated rumor, social approval, social rejection, disaster magnet, marriage, divorce, remarriage, young lovers, old lovers, illegitimate, age difference, typhoid, the grip illness, issues with spellings and alternate spellings, Nourmahal yacht, ocean liners, Aquitania, Olympic, Titanic, Vulcania, Breakers Hotel – Breakers fire, referred but not mentioned El Mirasol and Playa Riente, Harvard, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Murray Hill, Fifth Avenue, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Millionaires Row, Paris, Rome, Italian Alps, Galapagos Islands, Egypt, Mediterranean Sea, Europe, fashionable resorts, Hulu FX's Feud Season 2: Truman Capote vs. The Swans, Truman Capote, William “Bill” Paley, Barbara “Babe” Cushing Paley, sexual scandal, DA Fani Williams, Nathan Wade, former President Donald Trump, secrets, sexual promiscuousness, sexual scandal, hot messiness--Extra Notes / Call to Action:Ti's Hot Mess History, YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@TisHotMessHistoryRiches to Ruin – Titanic Widow of John Jacob Astor & Her Troubled 3rd Marriage by Ti's Hot Mess History July 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODY-qiEn3ak The Scandalous True Story of Titanic's Wealthiest Passenger – JJ Astor & His Teen Wife by Ti's Hot Mess History May 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF89xKNWbow&t=25s The Rich Boy Nobody Wanted: Titanic Baby John Jacob Astor VI by Ti's Hot Mess History December 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlV8oT6lxsShare, like, subscribe --Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: It's the Talk of the Town by Ambrose, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sSection 2 Music: Lullaby by Coleman Hawkins, Album Nightfall – Sophisticated Jazz ClassicsSection 3 Music: Skirts by Billy Cotton, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

Tredje avsnittet av fyra i en miniserie om USA:s expansion från kust till kust och från 13 delstater till 50 plus. Det kommer handla om gemensam vårdnad av Oregon, pälshandel, Fort Vancouver, John Jacob Astor, Griskriget, massakern vid Alamo, republiken Texas, mexikansk-amerikanska kriget, Guadalupe Hidalgofördraget, Filibusters, William Walker, mormonerna, Utah och Kompromissen 1850.Prenumerera: Glöm inte att prenumerera på podcasten!Betyg: Ge gärna podden betyg på iTunes!Följ podden: Facebook (facebook.com/stjarnbaneret), twitter (@stjarnbaneret), Instagram (@stjarnbaneret)Kontakt: stjarnbaneret@gmail.comBild: General Stephen Kearny proklamerar att New Mexico annekteras av USA 15 augusti 1846. Källa: WikipediaLitteratur:- Habits of empire: a history of American expansionism, Walter Nugent- Dreams of El Dorado, H.W. Brands- Lone star nation, H.W. Brands- So far from God, John Eisenhower- The American west, Robert Hine, John Mack Faragher- The Glorious Cause, Robert Middlekauf- Empire of Liberty, Gordon Wood- What hath God wrought, Daniel Walker Howe- Battle cry of Freedom, James McPherson- The republic for which it stands, Richard White- From Colony to superpower, George Herring Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of "Our 2 Cents," Steve and Gabriel discuss the concept of delayed gratification and its impact on building wealth. But first, they're sharing quotes of the month, their thoughts on the current national debt, and some tax-friendly states for retirees.Gabriel's Quotes of the Month:"Wealth is largely the result of habit." — John Jacob Astor"The goal isn't more money, the goal is living life on your terms." — Chris BroganAmerica's National Debt - Is it Really a Problem?:How government deficits don't exactly work like household debt.The notion of "servicing" debt as opposed to paying it off in full.States That Don't Tax Your Nest Egg:Where you live and retire can have a pretty big impact on your retirement income.The states that don't tax any income, the ones that don't tax retirement income specifically, those who don't tax Social Security, and the states with no tax on pensions.The Benefits of Delaying Gratification:Not pausing your retirement savings to pay for more things today.Not saving in only tax-deferred accounts.Waiting for interest rates to go down before making big purchases.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 993, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 5 Random Things 1: A 2014 headline: "Florida family butt-dials" this no. "while planning their next meth cook"; a dispatcher listened for 30 min.. 911. 2: Holy biloba! Here's a beautiful example of this tree at a Buddhist temple said to be planted by a Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty. a ginkgo. 3: Astronauts Scott, Worden and Irwin established a U. of Michigan alumni club on the Moon during this, the 4th mission to land. Apollo 15. 4: This book after Exodus: "All that have not fins and scales in the seas... be an abomination unto you", so eating lobster? A no-go. Leviticus. 5: Viewable from the U.N. in the East River, one of New York City's smallest islands is named for this secretary-general from Myanmar. U Thant. Round 2. Category: The Canary 1: The 50-story Canary Wharf Tower on the Thames River is this capital city's tallest building. London. 2: The world's largest canary diamond, a vivid yellow gem from South Africa, bears the name of this NYC jeweler. Tiffany. 3: Harz Mountain and St. Andreasberg are 2 regions in this European country famous as canary breeding centers. Germany. 4: Better-known nickname of Wild West woman Martha Jane Canary. Calamity Jane. 5: Canaries take their name from the Canary Islands, which belong to this country. Spain. Round 3. Category: Presidential This And That 1: Presidential brother Edgar Eisenhower was called "Big" this; Dwight was the "Little" version. Ike. 2: A long-shot compromise candidate in 1844, James Polk is considered the first of these "equine" winners. a dark horse. 3: He was a brigadier general when he demanded the "Unconditional Surrender" of Fort Donelson in February 1862. Grant. 4: 3 recent presidents--Bush I, Clinton and Obama--shared this trait common to only about 10% of Americans. left-handedness. 5: Before becoming president, he helped his wife Lou translate "De re metallica", a 1556 text that detailed copper mining. Hoover. Round 4. Category: Drop Out 1: Known as "The Body", this pro wrestler-turned-governor dropped out of a Minnesota community college. Jesse Ventura. 2: Both named Steve, these 2 now fabulously wealthy college dropouts founded Apple Computer. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. 3: After dropping out of high school, he ran McDonald's and became a McMillionaire. Kroc. 4: This fur mogul and high school dropout has been called America's first multimillionaire. (John Jacob) Astor. 5: Arriving from Scotland in 1848 as an elementary school dropout, he sold his company in 1901 for $480 million. Carnegie. Round 5. Category: Social Studies 1: This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them. peers. 2: It's South America's most populous country. Brazil. 3: Also called citizenship education, it's the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizens. civics. 4: One of America's early social workers, her Hull House spearheaded the U.S. settlement house movement. Jane Addams. 5: In January 2019 this South American country's national assembly declared its president a "usurper" and named its own replacement. Venezuela. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

This is a story about a beautiful, powerful woman who captured the imagination of historical fiction author Shana Abè. We're talking about Arabella Huntington, the intriguing woman at the heart of An American Beauty: A Novel of the Gilded Age Inspired by the True Story of Arabella Huntington Who Became the Richest Woman in the Country. This week we return to a favorite author of mine. Shana Abè first wowed me with her story about the 2nd Mrs Astor who was widowed by John Jacob Astor as she survived their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. In Shana's new novel An American Beauty, she introduces us to another remarkable woman from history. The way she brings Arabella Huntington's life into focus got me thinking about how we can all invent and reinvent ourselves. I hope spending time with Shana Abe made you as happy as it did me. A big thanks to Shana, her publisher Kensington Press, her incredibly talented narrator Gail Shalan, Gail's director Hilary Eurich and all the fine folks at Tantor Audio for bringing An American Beauty's audiobook to life.   https://www.gailshalan.com/ https://www.shanaabe.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theresa-bakken/support

John Jacob Astor is considered to have been New York's first great real estate mogul, and indeed the Astor family has been said to have been "New York's landlords" for much of the 19th century.  But other developers and builders were responsible for establishing desirable areas in which to build as well.  In this episode guest historian Keith Taillon takes a look at five particular properties and mansions  - all except for one can still be found today.  With locations as diverse as today's midtown Manhattan to the Upper West Side and up into Harlem, Keith weaves the tales of how each area became fashionable, how desirability rose and fell,  what styles of architecture prevailed, and just who some of the owners were.  Our journey will include the homes of JP Morgan Jr and Andrew Carnegie as well as other lesser well-known Gilded Age luminaries such as Robert Davis and James Bailey, all with equally intriguing and drama filled stories to tell. If you liked this show, listen to Carl and Keith's last podcast together -- Chasing the Gold: A Gilded Age Tour Up Manhattan

Original Air Date: 06/21/2021 Dimitri and Khalid explore Gustavus Myers' seminal 1910 work “History of the Great American Fortunes” and the political economy of the early American colonies, the Dutch patroon system, the symbiotic development of chattel slavery and WASP supremacy, legalized piracy, New England privateers turned shipping magnates, the betrayal of the Revolution and debasement of the workers, Silk Toppers criminalizing vagrancy and pauperism, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company cheating and swindling its way to the top, the importance of elite intermarriage, and the inextricability of Northern merchant and Southern slaveowner wealth. For access to full-length Patreon episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

The history of New York City isn't only found in its museums—it's in the names you find all over the city. This week, we talk to Rebecca Bratspies, author of Naming Gotham, about some of the remarkable people who leant their names to New York's infrastructure: Anne Hutchinson, Adriaen van der Donck, Casimir Pulaski, Tadeusz Kościuszko, William Cullen Bryant, John Jacob Astor, and more. [minor correction: Rebecca mentions Mrs. Astor's “top 200,” but meant to say “400”]

peace offering for Andrew Carnegie Ep. #2 . Sucks . your the producers of the show https://www.patreon.com/Firecrotch Original Whiggaz Live w/ Cliff Focus & Uncle Dust every Wednesday at 9:40PM EST . https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyqy9ykfINO3VHD4TVbbHqw All Uncle Dust's links https://linktr.ee/uncledustcomedy Cool articles of J.J. Astor John Jacob Astor & the American Fur Company https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-johnjacobastor/ John Jacob Astor: America's First Multi-Millionaire's fortune was built on Chinese opium trade https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/12/john-jacob-astor/ 11 Facts About the Astor Family https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/astor-family-facts Opium Hall Of Fame https://hongkongsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/10/opium-hall-of-fame.html THE FIRST DRUG WARS: OPIUM and BRITAIN https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-drug-wars-opium-britain-including-timeline-more-kevin-jaffray Stories from The Titanic - John Jacob Astor IV death on ship https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/titanic/stories/john-jacob-astor.htm Titanic's Richest Passenger: John Jacob Astor IV https://www.historyhit.com/titanics-richest-passenger-john-jacob-astor-iv/ The Towers of Waldorf - Astoria https://www.waldorftowers.nyc/en/history The Complete History of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Mergers, Feuds, Rumors and More https://www.citysignal.com/waldorf-astoria-hotel-history/

Join this month's book club to talk about "The Second Mrs. Astor" by Shana Abe, a historical fiction detailing John Jacob Astor's second wife and their experience on the Titanic. Join Kara and Katera as they review the book and their love for James Cameron's famous movie, Titanic, for which it is the 25th anniversary of the release this year! The snack for today is baked apples! Visit us at http://www.booksandbrunchpodcast.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/booksandbrunch/support

Please take my listener survey to help improve the podcast: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave  The RMS Titanic is probably the most famous ships ever to set sail on the seven seas. She voyaged during the Edwardian Era, a time in which lavish food in bountiful quantities was the hallmark of wealth and a cornerstone of high society. So put on your best white tie and tails or your most elegant beading evening gown, saunter down the grand staircase and take your seat next to John Jacob Astor or the unsinkable Molly Brown as we enjoy the lavish meal served to First class diners on the Titanic's final night above the waves. https://www.rayannehouse.com/titanic-menu https://downtonabbeycooks.com/ https://www.thespruceeats.com/food-and-menus-on-the-rms-titanic-1912-435459 Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating videos! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Dream of the Ancestor by Asher Fulero #womenshistory #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hour 1 * Guest: Chris Carlson – Without God, we can never win, With God, we can never lose, The Battle for Freedom is the Lord's, but we need to be engaged in the fight! * On February 14th, 1776 Thomas Payne, the English immigrant penned the following words: “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one” – “we furnish the means by which we suffer.” – Common Sense. * What we suffer from today is complexity, the likes of which not only have we, as Americans never seen in the history of our nation, but the world has never seen in the history of the world. * Utah County, Utah passes $112.4 million budget for 2022. * Downsize DC Now! * Much of Thomas Payne's famous pamphlet is devoted to dethroning kings in the minds of the people. * Our founding fathers rallied around the battle cry “No King but King Jesus.” God is a jealous God and does not tolerate rejection of his sovereign supremacy in the universe. * Even good men and women, when placed in power for long periods of time lose touch with reality. Hour 2 * Thomas Payne: “Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.” * From Lottery to Robbery – How to Lose $13 Million and Your Freedom. * According to lovemoney.com, 70% of all lottery winners lose it all in five years. * James Allen Hayes grew up 20 minutes from the beach in the middle-class city of Camarillo, California…At age 13, his mentally-ill mom physically abused him and child protective services sent him to live with his grandma…He never knew his dad. * What is True Wealth? – “An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.” – Benjamin Franklin. * “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” – Zig Ziglar. * “Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.” – Christopher Rice, success.com * “Wealth is largely the result of habit.” —John Jacob Astor. * Whatever principle of aintelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the bresurrection. * “What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” –Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. 1, 1776. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

* Thomas Payne: “Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.” * From Lottery to Robbery - How to Lose $13 Million and Your Freedom. * According to lovemoney.com, 70% of all lottery winners lose it all in five years. * James Allen Hayes grew up 20 minutes from the beach in the middle-class city of Camarillo, California…At age 13, his mentally-ill mom physically abused him and child protective services sent him to live with his grandma…He never knew his dad. * What is True Wealth? - “An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends.” - Benjamin Franklin. * “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” - Zig Ziglar. * “Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.” - Christopher Rice, success.com * “Wealth is largely the result of habit.” —John Jacob Astor. * Whatever principle of aintelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the bresurrection. * “What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” –Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. 1, 1776.

Tracy and Holly talk about the artwork of Zinaida Serebriakova and the personal style of Ella Williams. They then discuss the ruthless business practices of John Jacob Astor and his son William. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Jacob Astor came to the U.S. from Germany not long after the colonies gained their independence as a nation. He made his first fortune in the fur trade, and then diversified his income and built a legendary fortune. Research: Irving, Washington. “Astoria, Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains.” G.P. Putnams Sons. 1861. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Astoria/DAzBRmfcZloC?hl=en&gbpv=0 “ROMANCE OF THE HISTORIC EDEN FARM OWNED BY ASTOR FAMILY SINCE 1803.” New York Times. Feb. 29, 1920. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/02/29/118265256.html?pageNumber=80 Shachtman, Tom. “The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution.” St. Martin's Press. 2020. “John Jay's Treaty, 1794–95.” U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/jay-treaty Youngman, Anna. “The Fortune of John Jacob Astor.” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 16, no. 6, 1908, pp. 345–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1820664 Youngman, Anna. “The Fortune of John Jacob Astor: II.” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 16, no. 7, 1908, pp. 436–41. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1820843 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "John Jacob Astor". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Jul. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Jacob-Astor-American-businessman-1763-1848 Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "American Fur Company". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Dec. 2018, https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Fur-Company Ziak, Rex. “The Astor Dynasty.” The Astorian. Dec. 7, 2018. https://www.dailyastorian.com/news/the-astor-dynasty/article_d9163297-dfb7-5c77-83d8-3db1340017f7.html Madsen, Axel. “John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire.” Wiley. 2001. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BURNING GOTHAM 001: MOVING DAY May 1st, 1835 — It's a cold and rainy Moving Day. Every renter in New York is out on the street looking for lodging. Most of the city's quarter-million live below Houston Street in buildings four stories or smaller, but construction is booming. New people are pouring onto New York's dangerously overcrowded streets by the thousands. Rich and poor, many come to earn an honest living. Others for more nefarious reasons. It's the perfect place to begin. Aaron Columbus is an illegitimate son, desperate to make his fortune. Together with Aaron's brother Wyndham Bowen—an African man born in Europe—they involve themselves in backroom deals, Abolitionism, potential war with France, and City politics. Aaron has struck an illegal import deal with John Jacob Astor, America's richest man. The import? Two exiled Russian Countesses; Sorina and Raisa Zubov, and their inheritance—eleven pounds of diamonds. The two women have just arrived in New York. ___________ Download Episode Transcript ___________ Written By: Olga Lysenko & James Scully ___________ Cast: Eirik Gislason Kacie Laforest Roland Lane Mary Murphy Anna Pirogov Nancy Pop Matt Roper James Scully ___________ Music: The Hesperus Early Music Ensemble The Itinerant Band ___________ Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio ___________ Director & Post-Producer: James Scully ___________ Support Burning Gotham on Patreon

Broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, Cavalcade of America was an anthology drama series that documented historical events, often through dramatization. In addition, it occasionally presented musicals, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was later on television from 1952 to 1957. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is the embodiment of the best of the golden age of radio. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through the classic age of radio, with this compiled collection of episodes from a wide variety of old programs. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Golden State Media Concepts or the GSMC Podcast Network. Our goal is to entertain, educate give you a glimpse into the past.

Year(s) Discussed: 1808-1810 Despite achieving a victory in the War of the Fifth Coalition, French Emperor Napoleon's hold on control over the European continent was looking increasingly shaky. This would make the reception received by the new US Minister to Russia John Quincy Adams a warm one as Russia was on the hunt for new allies. Meanwhile, wealthy American businessman and merchant John Jacob Astor set in motion plans to create a trading network across the globe that would also include trading posts across the North American continent including a key new settlement on the west coast. Sources used for this episode can be found at https://www.presidenciespodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Eric Braeden, Legendary Star of “The Young and the Restless”, Author, “I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led me to America's #1 Daytime Drama” About Harvey's guest: Today's special guest, Eric Braeden, is a legendary actor, athlete and humanitarian who's best known for playing the invincible Victor Newman for 42 years on the #1 daytime drama series of all time, “The Young & The Restless”.   He first came to our attention as Captain Hans Dietrich in “The Rat Patrol”, and as Dr. Charles Forbin in “Colossus: The Forbin Project”.  And who can ever forget him as John Jacob Astor in “Titanic”, or my favourite, Reese Paxton in “The Man Who Came Back”.    In 2017 he published a highly compelling book entitled, “I'll Be Damned:  How My Young and Restless Life Led me to America's #1 Daytime Drama.”   The book chronicles his amazing journey as a youngster in postwar Germany, to his struggles as a young actor in Hollywood, constantly being typecast in one-dimensional roles playing Nazi officers and bad guys and coming to terms with the realization of the devastating crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi regime.   This inspirational man has dedicated himself to atoning on behalf of Germany, and to finding meaningful ways to advance the relationship between Americans, Germans and the Jewish Community.   He's won 3 Soap Opera Digest Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, a People's Choice Award, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  He's been honoured in Monte Carlo, Italy, France, Germany, and he received a humanitarian award by the government of Israel. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ https://www.ericbraeden.com/https://www.facebook.com/officialericbraedenhttps://www.instagram.com/ericbraedengudegast/https://www.tiktok.com/@ericbraedenhttps://mobile.twitter.com/ebraeden #EricBraeden  #Y&R  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

There is a book called A journey in other worlds written by John Jacob Astor IV. the very same who was killed on the titanic! In this book before going into the characters or even the plot he discloses a utopian view of what the year 2000 AD would be like (no question he had knowledge of suppressed tech etc). Strangely enough IMO he is disclosing the previous truths of how the old world operated before the "great war" or as i am beginning to call it world war 0 Take a listen or go read this and see what you think! He breaks down politics, technology, warfare, and even gives the basis for what would be later understood as modern astronomy! books like these are telling us all of the things that are being suppressed in our times and all of the ways the old understandings were superior to our current paradigm. go and read the whole book here! or listen to the highlights regarding the "old world" of 2000AD On spotify video and most pod players & Odysee.com/@redthreadpodcast https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1607/1607-h/1607-h.htm --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/red-thread-podcast/message

American History Stories brings our early history alive and gives modern listeners an idea of what it was like to be glued to our radios before we got our news from the internet and 24 hour news cycles. Including dramatizations of events before radio and live radio broadcasts from pivotal points in American history. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is the embodiment of the best of the golden age of radio. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through the classic age of radio, with this compiled collection of episodes from a wide variety of old programs. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Golden State Media Concepts or the GSMC Podcast Network. Our goal is to entertain, educate give you a glimpse into the past.

Financial success and frontier exploration, but at what cost?  In this episode, Cole is joined by Peter Stark, author of the book Astoria, to discuss America's first millionaire, John Jacob Astor, and his public-private partnership strategy with Thomas Jefferson to open the North American west coast to global trade.

Dimitri and Khalid explore Gustavus Myers' seminal 1910 work “History of the Great American Fortunes” and the political economy of the early American colonies, the Dutch patroon system, the symbiotic development of chattel slavery and WASP supremacy, legalized piracy, New England privateers turned shipping magnates, the betrayal of the Revolution and debasement of the workers, Silk Toppers criminalizing vagrancy and pauperism, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company cheating and swindling its way to the top, the importance of elite intermarriage, and the inextricability of Northern merchant and Southern slaveowner wealth. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

Barry and Connie Strohm channel 5 spirits that were involved in the sinking of the Titanic. They interview Captain Smith, Wallace Hartley the bandmaster, Molly Brown, John Jacob Astor who died on the ship and Frederick Fleet, the lookout that spotted the iceberg.

The RMS Titanic I perhaps the most famous shipwreck in history, we all know what happened the night it sank... but what happened after? How were the remains of victims salvaged? Were they salvaged at all? Where we those recovered buried? And most importantly... are there any bodies still down there? I also discuss some of the most impressive Titanic memorials and the lasting impact of the sinking. 

AMERICA'S FIRST MILLIONAIRE It's a little known fact that America's first millionaire was a real estate investor. A German immigrant and the son of a butcher, he was named John Jacob Astor in the early eighteen-hundreds Astor got rich trading in FURS, TEA, AND Fine China but that was not WHERE his Fortune was made. Eventually he invested his trading profits and something that would prove to be even better: Real Estate... His most profitable Investments were in New York City and before long The Man known as Manhattan's landlord was widely acknowledged as the wealthiest person of his time. He had not only become America's first millionaire, he was now its first multi-millionaire. shortly before his death as two reportedly said, could I begin life again knowing what I know now and had the money to invest I would buy every foot of land on the island of Manhattan after passed away in 1848 leaving over 20 million to his heirs #BUY --- https://www.dna-realty.com/buy/ #SELL --- https://www.dna-realty.com/sell/ #dnarealtygroup #massachusetts #massachusettsrealestate #marealestate #nhrealestate #newhampshire #newhampshirerealestate #buy #sell #invest #home #REALESTATE https://www.dna-realty.com/ QUADRUPLE GOLD PRODUCER DNA REALTY GROUP 617-340-9135 info@dna-realty.com https://www.dna-realty.comOver $118,100,033.00 in REAL ESTATE SOLD --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dnarealtygroup/support

Discover the incredible story of Marie Dorion, one of the most resilient and courageous women in American history. Uncover her journey as a seasoned survivalist and the only female member of John Jacob Astor's Astoria expedition. Delve into her inspiring life as the daughter of a French Canadian father and a Native American mother, and learn how she played a pivotal role in establishing the first trading post at the mouth of the Columbia. #MarieDorion #NativeAmerican #WeirdHistory #Americanhistory #femalepioneers #JohnJacobAstor #Astoriaexpedition #womeninhistory #Columbiatradingpost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

¿Cómo inició el comercio de pieles? ¿Qué es el castóreo? ¿Quién fue John Jacob Astor? ¿Quiénes son los inuit? ¿De dónde viene el pergamino? ¿Qué es el ámbar gris? ¿Cuáles son las pieles más caras en la industria de la moda? ¿Quién venció al león de Nemea?

Consider the aurumvorax. It used to be, in D&D, that you could make some use out of the various parts of some of the monsters you defeated. But you had to be careful with this one. Really though, we wanted to talk about fur trapping and trading as it developed throughout history. In doing so, we pay particular attention to Russians, beavers, John Jacob Astor, and the political turmoil of the 19th century. All of which are interesting and exploitable dynamics for your own D&D game. Assuming they still do that sort of thing. You can get Robert Silbernagle’s book The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior by clicking the amazon affiliate link located in the episode description here or on our website. You can support the show directly by following the yellow banner at the top of our home page at GMWordoftheWeek.com.

History Riders Radio Podcast HRR 1420 for Week 14 of 2020 – Saturday 03/28/2020 to Friday 04/03/2020. History Riders, ride this Week’s Memory Trail with Doc Boyle to discover an event from Western History for each day of the week; all rounded up from the pages of Old West Daily Reader. Subjects Include: Shattered Dreams of Profit: String ’em up; John Jacob Astor; Dale L. Morgan; Gunsmoke; Regulators; Spring Creek Raid; Chief Joseph Medicine Crow. (00:06:40)Please leave a FaceBook “Like” and share our link with a friend. Thanks for the visit! - oldwestdailyreader.comSupport the show (http://oldwestdailyreader.com)

German immigrant John Jacob Astor was the first multimillionaire in the United States, and his descendants would go on to play prominent roles in the country's history -- but how exactly did he get this enormous fortune? According to the official story, he started off in the fur trade and later expanded into real estate. Yet for more than a century people rumors about the real origin of Astor's wealth have been floating around the fringes of conversation -- what if he wasn't a legitimate businessman in the beginning, but instead engaged in less savory endeavors? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Aaron is getting older all the time. Despite popular opinion, getting old can actually be a good thing. What knowledge have you gained over the span of your lifetime thus far?  topics include: iTunes going away, podcasts, Pennsylvania, getting older can be better, quality of life, knowledge, Kaballah, occult science, chat room interaction, camping in the desert, Twitter, John in Astoria Oregon, Dave McGowan interview, Meria Heller, Ryan Dawson, the Goonies, John Jacob Astor, pirates, Alan Parsons Project, number 23, Sirius Satellite Radio, Martine Rothblatt, transhumanism, IEET, United Nations, international space treaties, occult symbolism, Howard Stern interview, Woodstock Film Festival, 2B film, James Hughes, journalism, robotics competitions, China, government and private sector symbiosis, Ai, industry

In 1804-1806, Lewis and Clark made their storied journey to the Pacific. A few scant years later, millionaire John Jacob Astor hatched a plan to set up a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia. The results of that plan did not match the good fortune of the Corps of Discovery. Largely forgotten now, the story of the Astorians is a lesson in failed diplomacy and bad luck. Learn about America's first west coast settlement and how it was f**ked. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/htwwf/support

We only roast the ones we love. This episode of STAB! is proof positive of just how much we love and cherish Emma Haney. All of the terrible things said here in this show were said in the goodest of fun. In this celebration of all things Emma Haney, host John Morris Ross IV welcomes … Continue reading »

This is a bonus episode which goes outside the parameters of the main Second Decade show. Astoria, Oregon was founded in 1811 as an outpost for fur trapping and trading on the Northwest coast, and was intended to be a crucial part of a global empire of commerce envisioned by German-born New York City millionaire John Jacob Astor. It didn’t quite work out that way, but the long history of Astoria has involved a number of fascinating people, encounters and accidents that have shaped this small Oregon city throughout the two centuries of its existence. There’s no way the entire history of Astoria can be crammed into a single podcast episode, but a few colorful anecdotes from its past will give you a sense of what this place is like and how it came to be what it is. In this Off Topic episode, recorded partially on location in Astoria and neighboring areas, Dr. Munger will give a brief history of the town as a whole, focusing on its establishment in the Second Decade, and then you’ll journey through three stories of Astoria’s past. You’ll learn about the famous winter camp of Lewis and Clark, and why it was a particularly itchy place; you’ll travel with a famous Astorian named Ranald MacDonald, who deliberately marooned himself in Japan in 1848; and you’ll learn the history of the Oregon coast’s most famous shipwreck, which has been sitting there on the beach just south of the town since 1906. This is just a peek at the long tapestry of Astoria’s history. Additional Materials About This Episode Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fort Astoria was founded as the first permanent US settlement this side of the Rocky Mountains in 1811 by the American Fur Company, which was owned by famous New York millionaire John Jacob Astor. However, the British took control from 1813-1818 and Fort Astoria was renamed Fort George. It came back into American hands during the “Oregon Country” period, when the Brits and US shared joint occupation of the Pacific Northwest until 1846, when President James K Polk managed to secure everything between the 49th parallel and California.

Join host Greg Carlwood of The Higherside Chats podcast as he talks esoteric Hollywood and movie magic with returning guest Jay Dyer. We know mediums of mass communication have regularly been used throughout the course of history by the elite as a means of culture creation, propaganda, and predictive programming, so it should come as no surprise that movies and films are simply the most recent weapon to be wielded in the arsenal. Today's returning guest, Jay Dyer, joins us to offer up his recent analysis and help us wade our way through Hollywood weird. 2:00 Greg and Jay begin by discussing his new book including a provocative portion addressing "film as ritual". Although our understanding of ritual has taken root in religious ceremonies, in ancient Greek times, plays and theatre performances from the greats such as Sophocles and Homer were intimately connected to "the Gods". Dyer explains how this has evolved into what is known today as the Stanislavski method, an immersive method of acting practiced by numerous A-list actors. 6:15 Jay elaborates on whether there are any clear examples in today's film industry that indicate actors attempting to channel and invoke entities through their performances by using acting as a ritual. 13:15 While film can act as a useful mechanism of invocation, it also serves as an effective vehicle for delivering occult and esoteric themes. Greg and Jay discuss the idea that the aim of Hollywood is to strip us of our imagination and handicap our ability to visualize, ultimately furthering the divide between consciousness and matter. They also examine Disney's role in the destruction of the imagination. 17:42 Jay elaborates on the role and works of Steven Spielberg, and breaks down the three major themes he deals with: the Holocaust, familial relations, and aliens. He also details how his book focuses primarily on Spielberg's work involving aliens and transhumanism and how tech integration can lead to dystopia. Dyer also discusses films such as "Minority Report", "War of the Worlds", and "E.T." and their connection to the deep state, military industrial complex, and international corporations. 27:20 Greg and Jay continue discussing the similarities between "E.T." and the Kubrick-Spielberg collaboration "A.I.", and the connection between the origins of advanced technology and inter-dimensional beings. 38:20 While a majority of our understanding about our planet and solar system are typically derived from the predictive programming in movies and TV, Jay addresses whether there are other aspects of our reality being manipulated. Dyer also discusses N.A.S.A.'s extensive role in Hollywood, and elites such as James Cameron and Ridley Scott. 44:30 Greg and Jay tackle cult classic and Spielberg film, "The Goonies". Dyer details the specifics of mason and drug trader John Jacob Astor, the use of the Jolly Roger flag by trans-nationalists, and how they relate to "The Goonies". Subscribe to the plus show to hear the extended episode, including: - predictive programming in both "Back to the Future" and "Gremlins 2" regarding the Trump presidency - the conspiratorial smorgasbord that is, "G.I. Joe" and how it touches on almost all the major themes of the alternative realm - the military recruitment campaign found in films you'd least expect - Dr. Strangelove as an allusion to the RAND corporation - esoteric Hollywood films shot on location at Rothschild mansions - why the Tavistock Institute would be studying Hitchcock films - the role of 70's and 80's dystopia films like Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal -the films of David Lynch - Jays thoughts on more recent films like Split and Arrival - Chuck Palahniuk's work A few valuable resources from the interview: Plato's Ion Dialogue: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/ion.html Martin Sheen tripping in "Apocalypse Now": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwlpKNLS3X8

There’s been a huge transition on the national stage. The curtain has closed on one act and opened on another. There’s a whole new cast of players, and no one’s sure where this plotline is headed. Not to say that the audience is always sitting still to find out. This hour, we’re going to talk to artists who’re standing up with their art.Trump Inspires a New Era of Protest Music - 1:53Donald Trump's inauguration party featured musicians like Toby Keith playing the Lincoln Memorial. But alongside the celebrations and demonstrations across the country, there’s also signs that a new era of protest music is brewing in the Northwest, from Portland's Kyle Craft (who's usually more Bowie than Guthrie) to Seattle's Death Cab for Cutie, Wimps, and Tacocat.Margaret Jacobsen - On The Front Line - 5:43The Portland branch of the Womens’ March on Washington had a rocky start, with some group members feeling like the original organizers weren’t doing enough to make everyone feel welcome. Many group members perceived Margaret Jacobsen, who is African American and identifies as genderqueer, as a unifying figure, and Jacobsen stepped up. The Slants Meet the Supremes - 9:00This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s dispute with Portland dance-rock band The Slants. It's a legal fight that's taken eight years to play out, as the band has tried to trademark its name and the PTO has pushed back, saying it's a racial slur. The Many Voices of Eliza Jane Schneider - 13:47For five years, Eliza Jane Schneider voiced most of the female characters on South Park: Wendy, Shelly, Principal Victoria, Mrs. Cartman, the Mayor. She’s created characters for A-list feature films and video games, and to top it all off, she writes and performs award-winning plays and one-woman shows. For the Fertile Ground Festival, she’s premiering a one-woman show called “Displaced,” where she channels dozens of displaced individuals she's met around the world.All the World's a Clown - 23:52Michael O’Neill is a clown, big shoes and all. In his newest one-man show, “Shakespeare’s Fools,” he links together 12 characters from eight of the Bard’s plays in a single hour. O'Neill also told us about his journeys around the world bringing laughter to disaster-ravaged places with Clowns Without Borders, and then talked with us about the legacy of Portland's most famous borderless clown: Ben Linder, who was killed by Nicaraguan Contras in 1987.The Making of a Harrowing Expedition, On Stage - 33:05Everyone knows the story of Lewis and Clark’s expedition, but did you know that shortly after the Corps of Discovery returned, Thomas Jefferson and the millionaire John Jacob Astor organized a second expedition — this one by land and by sea — to create America’s first settlement on the Pacific Ocean? The writer Peter Stark recounted both harrowing journeys in his book “Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival.” It's the subject of the new play "Astoria" at Portland Center Stage through Feb. 12, and interview the only woman in the cast, Delanna Studi.Literary Powerhouse Roxane Gay - 39:49Roxane Gay is one of those writers who seems comfortable in every genre. She’s a novelist, a short story writer, an essayist, a pop culture critic, and a comic book writer. Despite the medium, though, she often returns to certain through-lines: the horror and pervasiveness of sexual violence against women, the challenge and necessity of feminism, the power of resilience, and the leavening agent of humor. Gay made a big splash in 2014 with her essay collection “Bad Feminist,” and she spoke with Think Out Loud about her new short story collection, “Difficult Women."

Some of our favorite celebrities are more than just pretty faces. They are people who are displaying their sense of humanity and building legacies of positive footprints that go beyond the big and small screens. Don Diamont is an extraordinary actor who has been seen on both the big and small screens. Most recognized for his role as “Dollar Bill Spencer, Jr.,” on the CBS Daytime Drama, The Bold and the Beautiful, Don was also seen in the film Anger Management with Jack Nicolson and Adam Sandler and Marco Polo opposite Jack Palance. Don made history when he was named in People’s Magazine “50 Most Beautiful” issue and more recently in the 2009 “Sexiest Man Alive” issue. Don’s resume and his titles are very impressive but the one title he treasures the most is when he was named Ambassador of the Year by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in recognition of his work and efforts to find a cure for this crippling disease. Heather Tom is a two-time Emmy Award winning actress is recognized for her role as “Katie Logan-Spencer” on the CBS Daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful. Heather began acting at the tender ago of two and she’s been seen in many roles on television, on the big screen and on the stage. However, Heather embraces an even larger role on the world stage as an activist and humanitarian. Eric Braeden has captivated audiences for many years. From his role as John Jacob Astor in James Cameron’s Titanic to his most famous role as the dashing Victor Newman in the #1 daytime drama, The Young & The Restless—a role that garnered an Emmy Award, several Emmy nominations and a People’s Choice Award. Eric has held many screen roles over the last 50 years, but he has also been honored for his real-life role as a humanitarian and for his work to bridge cultural gaps.

Tesla: un nom qui en dehors de la marque de véhicules électriques et de l'unité de mesure du champ magnétique, n'est que rarement associé à l'inventeur américain d'origine serbe né au XIXème siècle et qui participa à l'essor du courant alternatif qui est aujourd'hui indispensable à notre monde.Après avoir découvert son ascension jusqu’à la gloire dans l’épisode précédent sur Nikola Tesla, nous allons découvrir dans celui-ci la deuxième partie plus sombre de sa vie et nous débunkerons aussi un certain nombre de fausses idées à son propos.Ce dossier a été réalisé pour Podcastscience et a été présenté en premier lors du live du 21 juin 2016. Vous pourrez aussi le retrouver sur le site de podcastscience. La suite du succès Dans l’épisode précédent nous avons découvert Tesla, son enfance, son éducation, la création du moteur AC polyphasé et son apothéose avec l’utilisation de ses concepts pour dompter les chûtes du Niagara. Nous avons déjà eu l’occasion d’explorer certains mythes autour de Tesla, notamment concernant l’invention du courant alternatif (non il ne l’a pas inventé) et ce qu’il a pu faire autour du moteur à courant alternatif (il a mis au point un moteur et déposé un brevet en premier, mais dans un contexte où l’idée était dans l’air).Après ce succès, Tesla est retourné à son laboratoire pour reprendre ses recherches et notamment sur la transmission d’énergie sans fil, mais pas uniquement. En effet, avec ses conférences en Europe, il a pu intégrer le fait qu’il pouvait aussi transmettre des messages sans fil. Et tout ceci à travers la Terre.Tesla continua des faire des conférences entre fin 1892 et 1893 pour mettre en avant ses recherches et émerveiller le public. A Philadelphie et à Saint Louis aux Etats-Unis il exploitait l’effet de peau pour passer pour un magicien et illuminer des ampoules et des tubes fluorescents ou provoquer la création d’arc électriques …Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor coated wireless light bulb which he developed in the 1890's, half a century before fluorescent lamps come into use. Published on the cover of the Electrical Experimenter in 1919.Dans la foulée de ces conférences, Tesla repris son système de plaques avec sa bobine de Tesla et fut capable de recevoir de manière intermittente des signaux jusqu’à une distance de 2 kilomètres. En fait il ne comprenait pas pourquoi des fois il captait des signaux et des fois il n’en captait pas. Il semble que comme son générateur électrique n’avait pas forcément toujours la même vitesse de rotation, la fréquence des ondes qu’il générait n’était pas fixe, mais variait. Et comme il avait mis au point son système pour répondre à une fréquence en particulier et bien des fois, il perdait le signal (un peu comme quand sur votre radio vous vous éloignez un peu de la fréquence de la chaîne que vous écoutez).En perfectionnant ses systèmes électriques pour rendre les fréquences plus stables, Tesla aboutit à un système générant des vibrations mécaniques qui pouvait être agréable pour les humains. La sérendipité dont Alan avait déjà eu l’occasion de parler dans des évènements précédents.. Mark Twain que Tesla comptait depuis quelques temps parmi ses amis vint d’ailleurs la tester. L’histoire retient qu’après en avoir reconnu les effets bénéfiques il dût se précipiter aux toilettes pour accomplir ses besoins, la machine ayant provoqué quelques mouvements intestinaux imprévus[1] …La légende voudrait que Tesla ait accroché un oscillateur mécanique équivalent à la structure de son laboratoire des années plus tard et cela aurait provoqué un mini tremblement de terre, même si de forts doutes existent[2]. En fait l’idée derrière ce genre de chose c’est que son oscillateur vibrait en résonance avec la structure du bâtiment et faisait un peu comme pour les soldats marchant au pas à la fréquence de résonance d’un pont jusqu’à ce qu’il s’écroule.A cette époque-là Tesla répétait que les ondes EM n’étaient pas capables de transporter de l’information[3] et pour lui, ces expériences qu’il réalisait démontraient plutôt ses idées de courant à la Terre … Il alla ainsi dans une direction opposée aux autres personnes travaillant sur la radio en tentant de maximiser le courant passant par la Terre et diminuant au maximum les ondes EM pouvant être générées.C’est d’ailleurs à cette époque que Tesla développe son idée de pouvoir pomper un peu d’énergie dans la Terre et en récupérer énormément via la résonance. Conviction provenant de quelques expériences mal interprétées qu’il cherchera à valider expérimentalement les années suivantes. En effet, il avait deux analogies en tête : d’une part il pensait que comme pour un orage, un éclair déclenchant une grande chute de pluie, une petite impulsion pouvait selon lui déclencher un gros résultat. D’autre part, il pensait aussi que la résonance pouvait impliquer des résultats beaucoup plus important que si on ne prenait pas en compte la fréquence propre du système que l’on étudiait. Son idée importante qu’il va ainsi tenter de développer pendant le reste de sa vie est donc la suivante : si l’on envoyait une impulsion à la fréquence de résonance de la Terre, on pouvait arriver à renforcer les impulsions et obtenir à la sortie (un autre point sur la Terre) une quantité importante d’énergie.N. Tesla, Famous Scientific Illusions, “Electrical Experimenter”, Février 1919, p 692-694Mais revenons aux travaux de Tesla. Après avoir breveté ses inventions (ces oscillateurs), il tenta la même approche que celle qu’il avait entrepris avec Peck et Brown pour le moteur AC. Il chercha à se rapprocher du gratin New Yorkais pour entrer en contact avec des investisseurs et la presse et il y réussit[4]. Ceci lui permettrait de faire parler de ses inventions et trouver des fonds pour les développer[5] …Tesla s’associa ainsi de nouveau à Brown (mais pas à Peck mort en 1890) et à Adams (celui des chutes du niagara). Adams finança la société et tenta de trouver d’autres investisseurs. Mais en 1893 les états-unis était dans une crise financière. Malgré les efforts de Brown et Adams pour trouver des investisseurs et de Tesla pour arriver à en faire parler dans la presse et faire des conférences toutes plus magiques et extravagantes, ce fut un échec[6] cuisant du point de vue business même si Tesla continuait ses recherches. Nouveau labo, Rayons X et bateau commandé à distance Malheureusement tout ce que Tesla avait pu entreprendre dans son laboratoire pris fin prématurément quand un feu se déclara le 13 mars 1895. Il n’avait pas pris d’assurance pour son laboratoire et perdit donc tout l’argent qui avait pu être investi dans son matériel et tout le travail qu’il avait pu réalisé …Suite à cet évènement il emménagea dans un nouveau laboratoire sur Houston Street à New York. En novembre 1895 il entendit parler de la découvert de Roentgen à propos des rayons X. En découvrant ces travaux Tesla fit ce qu’il avait pu faire avec d’autres découvertes dont il avait parlé : il chercha à mieux les comprendre pour tenter de les reproduire et voire l’exploitation commerciale possible.Sauf qu’il comprit rapidement que ce qu’il avait pris pour une erreur dans une photo prise de Mark Twain avec des tubes Geissler était en fait lié aux rayons X. En effet, sur la plaque photographique se trouvait “imprimé” une partie du mécanisme de l’appareil photo et pas Mark Twain….Certains estiment, comme Margaret Cheney par exemple que c’est la preuve que Tesla aurait ainsi découvert les rayons X en premier. Je ne pense clairement pas que l’on puisse dit que Tesla en fut le découvreur, sinon il en aurait parlé, il aurait publié des choses dans les journaux comme il pouvait le faire sur d’autres sujets, etc. Et selon moi c’est d’autant plus vrai qu’il n’a d’ailleurs jamais réclamé la paternité des rayons X. Par la suite il réalisa d’autres expériences mais les brûlures resenties par les sujets et le fait que peu d’entreprises étaient susceptibles de pouvoir écouler ce type de matériel[7] lui firent arrêter son travail sur les rayons X.A la suite de ces recherches il entreprit de développer ce qu’il appelait la téléautomatique. Il avait depuis longtemps en tête le fait que les humains étaient des automates réagissant à des stimulis externes. Depuis les quelques cours qu’il eut l’occasion de suivre à Prague lors de sa jeunesse en Europe notamment. C’est une idée dont j’ai déjà eu l’occasion de parler dans l’épisode précédent.. Dans la suite d’un cours de Carl Stumpf, qu’il eut lors de son passage à prague, celui-ci enseigna en effet à Tesla le principe de l’esprit en tant que table rase où rien n’est inné et tout n’est que réponse aux stimuli des sens. Ce concept accompagna Tesla tout au long de sa vie et forma son point de vue sur l’Homme en tant qu’automate et ces idées de téléautomatique.Basé sur ces idées et les analogies qu’il avait en tête, il pensait qu’il était possible de développer des robots qui puissent être aussi réalistes que les humains dans leurs réactions. Entre 1897 et 1899 Tesla décida de mettre en place un robot sous forme de bateau sans humain à bord qui pourrait être utilisé comme une torpille dans les guerres. Notamment comme celle qui opposait les états-unis à l’Espagne depuis avril 1898.http://nikolatesla12germain.weebly.com/blog/nikola-tes-whoIl en fit diverses démonstrations, notamment à JP Morgan, le fameux homme d’affaires dont la banque est liée aux problèmes des subprimes il y a quelques années, et Hammond un homme d’affaires impliquée dans la marine. Ce dernier souhaita investir dans le développement de cette technologie. Tesla continua ses travaux, en construit un exemple plus grand, et déposa un brevet fin 1898. Il envisagea aussi pour des aspects sécurité de diffuser deux signaux qui, uniquement si ils étaient présents, pouvaient activer le système (une porte logique en somme, même si il ne l’appelle pas comme ça).Il en fit la démonstration en Mai 1898 et la foule fut conquise. Malheureusement, cette invention ne fut jamais développée commercialement. Il semble qu’un certain nombre d’inventeurs aient proposé à l’époque des inventions à la marine américaine (Edison le fit aussi d’ailleurs), mais peu d’entre elles, voire quasiment aucune ne furent retenue.Ce travail sur la téléautomatique ne l’empêchait pas de continuer ses recherches sur la transmission d’énergie sans fil. Dans la foulée de ses travaux sur le courant à travers la Terre, il cherchait à voir de quelle manière il pouvait fermer, de la manière la plus efficace le circuit électrique qu’il pensait former avec son courant à la terre. Je rappelle qu’il avait vraiment une vision électricienne des choses.Ses travaux sur les tubes fluorescents où il les illuminait en faisant un vide poussé le firent arriver à la conclusion qu’il pouvait utiliser l’air raréfié de la haute atmosphère pour conduire de l’électricité.Afin de poursuivre ses recherches (et oui, tout cela coûtait de l’argent, d’autant plus qu’il avait toujours beaucoup d’idées en même temps) il s’associa au riche homme d’affaires John Jacob Astor (qui possédait notamment l’un des hôtels les plus luxueux de New York le Waldorf Astoria) qui accepta d’investir 100000 dollars dans sa société.By Published on LIFE [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsTesla devait en effet avancer et mettre en application les recherches qu’ils menaient sur ces différentes sujets. En effet, pendant que Tesla développait ces idées, Marconi en Europe, dans la suite de Hertz, tentait d’utiliser les ondes EM pour envoyer des messages. Et avec succès. Entre 1898 et 1899, Marconi étendit la portée de ses instruments, notamment jusqu’à ce qu’en mars 1899 il arrive à transmettre un message à travers la Manche. Tesla commençait à sentir le vent tourner et entre le dénigrement des travaux de Marconi et des prétentions surréalistes de transmission de message de par le monde, il se lança dans la mise au point d’un système de communication sans fil à l’échelle mondiale. Et ceci se ferait au Colorado. Tesla et Colorado Springs Building at Tesla's Colorado Springs Laboratory, National Museum of American HistorySon objectif, avec l’installation qu’il fit en mai 1899 à Colorado Springs, était de s’assurer de sa capacité de transmettre des courants à travers la terre et les faire revenir dans l’atmosphère vers n’importe quel point. La construit qu’il fit réaliser fut d’ailleurs la plus grande bobine Tesla construite avec près de 15m de haut[8].Durant sa présence à Colorado Springs, Tesla semble avoir découvert pendant un orage des ondes électriques stationnaires dans la croûte terrestre. Ces ondes stationnaires[9] apparaîssent quand deux ondes de même fréquence et même amplitude en sens opposé forment des points fixes dans le temps[10].By No machine-readable author provided. LucasVB assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsTesla pensait que cela pouvait dire que la Terre était un conducteur de taille limitée et qu’avec ce principe il pouvait avoir un rayon d’impact bien plus grand que ce que faisait Marconi.Au cours de ces travaux Tesla pense recevoir en juillet 1899 un signal provenant de l’espace. Histoire de ne pas se ridiculiser, il tente de disqualifier toutes les hypothèses terrestres qu’il peut imaginer, mais au final, il en arrive à la conclusion que ce signale ne peut être terrestre et doit provenir de Mars, présente dans le ciel ce jour-là.Giovanni Schiaparelli [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsA l’époque Mars était la vedette des planètes. Entre Schiaparelli et ses canaux et Lowell qui avait annoncé qu’il y avait de la vie intelligente sur Mars, cela pouvait faire sens pour Tesla.Vous devez tous vous demander : mais qu’en était-il réellement? Des analyses ultérieures semblent plutôt aller vers l’émission de signaux par Io lors d’un passage dans un anneau de particules chargées autour de Jupiter qui se trouvait à l’époque dans la même zone du ciel que Mars. Tesla a peut-être reçu un signal n’étant en effet pas terrestre, mais il n’avait rien à voir avec Mars …Mais revenons à la tour de Tesla.. Une fois finit d’être construite, il entreprit divers tests de ses concepts. Le problème avec les expériences qu’il réalisé à Colorado Springs, c’est qu’elles se firent majoritairement sans témoin sans témoin direct autre que lui-même[11] et ceci à la différence de Marconi qui faisait toujours des démonstrations en public! En effet, les témoignages de ses assistants semblent pointer vers le fait que Tesla voulait être seul afin de réaliser les observations de sa transmission sans fil en dehors de sa tour et eux devaient opérer les machines dans la tour.Dans le film le prestige il y a d’ailleurs une scène où l’on voit les acteurs devant un terrain où il y a des ampoules qui seraient soi-disant illuminées par le système de Tesla. Malheureusement, comme dit précédemment, les prétentions de Tesla n’ont jamais eu de témoin à part lui-même...http://peswiki.com/images/am1m1mafp3u2sgf9s2kejxjkwop224k3.jpg Christopher Nolan, Le prestigePour Tesla, à partir du moment où il avait pu tester son principe a courte distance, cela devait forcément fonctionner à longue distance … En passant c’est à cette installation de Colorado Springs qu’il fit en double exposition une des photos les plus célèbres le concernant.See page for author [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsTesla aurait témoigné avoir su produire de la foudre en boule au sein de ses notes le 3 janvier 1900[12]. Malheureusement, d'après Carlson[13], il n’y a pas vraiment consensus, ne serait-ce que sur la possibilité physique qu’il soit possible d’en produire. Point que Steven Novella semble aussi avancer lors de l’épisode de son podcast sur le culte voué à Tesla dans les milieux new age[14].Toujours est-il que Tesla pensait être arrivé à l’aboutissement de ses recherches, tout du moins de l’obtention de suffisamment de preuves allant dans le sens de ses hypothèses. Pour lui la transmission d’énergie sans fil était possible, vers n’importe quel point du globe, à une vitesse quasi instantanée et sans diminution notable de puissance… On est loin de ce que la science basée sur des faits et reproduite pourrait dire aujourd’hui... Wardenclyffe Comme en 1887 avec son moteur, Tesla voulait trouver des investisseurs pour financer le développement des idées prototypées à Colorado Springs et une entreprise pour acheter son idée.Tesla continuait d’abreuver les journaux de déclarations de plus en plus fantaisistes, que ce soit dans son article plus philosophique, pour ne pas dire autre chose, sur la façon d’augmenter l’énergie de l’Humanité qu’il pu publier dans le magazine Century dont il connaissait l’un des membres influents. Où que ce soit ceux où il expliquait que la glace pouvait permettre de mieux transmettre jusqu’à Londres l’électricité produite aux Chutes du Niagara… Il expliquait aussi pouvoir transmettre des messages à l’autre bout du monde (afin d’attirer des investisseurs) et Marconi réfutait ces affirmations.C’est sur fin 1900 que Tesla pu rencontrer JP Morgan afin de lui parler de ses plans. Entre le potentiel usage que ce dernier pourrait en faire et les arguments de Tesla en terme de brevets, il semble qu’il arriva à le convaincre d’investir. Morgan conclu donc de fournir 150000 dollars à Tesla en échange de 51% des parts dans l’entreprise[15].Tesla se mis donc à travailler à partir de Novembre 1901 à la construction de sa tour qu’il érigea à LongIsland sur un site qu’il nomma Wardenclyffe.https://thevelvetrocket.com/2010/03/17/nikola-teslas-wardenclyffe-tower-and-laboratory/Mais la construction ne se passa pas comme prévu. Tesla avait vu trop grand.En effet, pour calculer la puissance de sa tour, il se basa sur les expériences qu’il avait réalisé à Colorado Springs. Et d’après celles-ci il se dit qu’il devait exploiter des ondes stationnaires autour de la Terre à une fréquence proche de 6Hz. Pourquoi est-ce que je vous parle de cela vous allez me dire ?En fait en 1950 un certain Schumann théorisa l’existence d’une fréquence de résonance pour des ondes qui se propageraient entre la haute atmosphère et le sol. En 1960 ces ondes furent observées expérimentalement[16] et on se mit donc à parler de résonance de Schumann. Comme ces ondes ont une fréquence autour de 7-8 Hz certains n’hésitent pas à dire que Tesla avait découvert se phénomène bien avant Schumann...Mais Tesla n’avait pas estimé correctement les coûts induits par une tour à la taille qu’il avait estimé. Ainsi, entre les problèmes d’argent générés par la construction, les équipements nécessaires, les dizaines voire centaines de salariés, où ses relations très compliquées avec Morgan (il y a des lettres que présente Seifer qui sont assez hallucinantes de la part de Tesla), il eu du mal à avancer.Marconi, de son côté, développait son idée de pouvoir transmettre des signaux par delà l’Atlantique. Entre le dépôt de brevets et la construction d’antennes géantes, il arriva à le faire effectivement en décembre 1901 entre le Newfoundland au Canada et l’Angleterre.L’histoire semble avoir cependant effacé une partie du scepticisme de l’époque sur la réalité du message que seul Marconi et son assistant auraient entendu. En effet, peu de personne pensait que les ondes pouvait effectivement voyager entre les deux points à cause de la rotondité de la Terre[17]. Mais la presse et les experts voulaient y croire. D’autant plus que Tesla expliquait à tout va que cela était possible. C’est une seconde démonstration, publique celle-ci, et réalisée sur un bateau qui voyageait d’Angleterre jusqu’en Amérique, qui finit de convaincre de la réalisation de Marconi. On peut dire que d’une certaine manière, toutes les déclarations fantasques de Tesla ont peut être diminué le scepticisme de rigueur qui aurait pu prévaloir lors de la première annonce de son rival Marconi.Tesla, de son côté, était cruellement à court d’argent et il ne cessait d’envoyer des lettres toujours plus pressantes à Morgan pour qu’il continue d’investir. Mais celui-ci décida de mettre un terme à ses échanges avec Tesla en 1893[18]. Malheureusement pour Tesla, ses déclarations toujours plus fracassantes dans la presse ainsi que le fait qu’il ait donné 51% de son entreprise à Morgan ont fait fuir tout les potentiels investisseurs et le plongèrent dans une crise financière profonde. Ces échecs le firent tomber en dépression en 1906 et il dut abandonner ses travaux à Wardenclyffe. En fait il abandonna même à ce moment-là, et pour le reste de sa vie, ses travaux sur la transmission d’énergie sans fil. Les turbines Tesla En récupérant de son nervous breakdown, il chercha à se tourner vers le développement de composants mécaniques et afin de pouvoir satisfaire sa volonté de voler qu’il avait depuis enfant, il voulu développer un nouveau type de turbine. L’idée principe de sa turbine était que la viscosité de l’air (la résistance au déplacement d’un fluide grosso modo) pouvait être utilisée pour faire tourner des disques attaché à l’axe[19]. Par comparaison, dans une turbine classique, ce sont les pales qui sont mises en mouvement par le passage du fluide qui vient les pousser.http://fr.slideshare.net/sougandhs02/a-seminar-on-tesla-turbinesUne fois un prototype mis au moins à travers une nouvelles société, il en fit démonstration en 1911-1912, mais ce fut, encore, un échec cuisant. Malgré un faible investissement du fils de JP Morgan en 1913, personne ne vit d’intérêt dans un système qui était de plus incapable de supporter de fortes charges. Alors c’est vrai qu’il y a une ou deux sociétés qui les ont commercialiser, mais cela reste très loin d’une usage à l’échelle industriel ... Nobel, déchéance et la fin de Tesla En dehors du fait que Marconi reçu en 1909 le prix nobel en reconnaissance de ses travaux en lien avec la télégraphie sans fil, c’est une autre affaire étrange qui impliqua Tesla, Edison, et le comité Nobel.Le New York Times prétendit en effet que Tesla et Edison devaient recevoir le prix Nobel en 1909. Mais il s’avéra que ce ne fut pas le cas et il fut décerné aux père et fils Bragg pour l’analyse de la structure des cristaux grâce aux rayons X[20]. Des histoires courent selon lesquelles Tesla et Edison l’auraient refusé car ils ne voulaient pas le recevoir avec l’autre … Mais rien ne semble appuyer cette thèse.En 1916 Tesla reçu la Médaille d’honneur de l’AIEE. Au départ il ne souhaitait pas la recevoir car cette médaille est aussi appelée Médaille Edison, mais le lobbying du président de l’AIEE fit son effet et Tesla accepta de la recevoir. L’histoire notera que peu de temps avant de faire son discours, il disparût de la salle de réception et du bâtiment au grand desarroi des organisateurs. Après quelques recherches aux alentours il ne fut retrouvé que plusieurs minutes plus tard dans un parc non loin de là, entouré de pigeons ….A la même époque Tesla se montrât très suspicieux, pour ne pas dire plus, concernant la théorie de la RG qu’Einstein avait théorisé. Il alla même, quelques années plus tard expliquer qu’Einstein se trompait avec sa notion de courbure de l’espace-temps et que selon lui c’était complètement impossible ...Dans les années qui suivirent, un certain nombre de procès ont été intentés contre Marconi, ou par celui-ci dans le cadre des brevets sur les bases de la radio. Ce n’est pas avant 1935 que la paternité de Tesla fut reconnue par les tribunaux américains. Ne vous méprenez pas. Marconi avait quand même reconnu qu’il utilisait des inventions de Tesla et certes, les brevets de base étaient au nom de ce dernier, mais c’est surtout Marconi et des hommes comme Fessenden et DeForest qui en firent la promotion et le développement économique. Il faut savoir que la société créée par Marconi pour vendre des radios aux U.S.A est devenu RCA par la suite. Société que vous connaissez peut-être de nom..L’histoire de Wardenclyffe se finit effectivement en 1917 quand la tour fut détruite et en 1921 quand la propriété du terrain fut transmise au propriétaire du Waldorf-Astoria en paiement des notes d’hôtel jamais réglées par Tesla.Toutes ces déconvenues et ses déboires firent de Tesla un reclus. Il ne s’arrêta jamais vraiment de travailler et en 1931, pour son 75eme anniversaire, une fête se tint à laquelle des témoignages de grands noms de la science furent lus(on peut noter Einstein, Lodge, Millikan et d’autres). Chacune des années suivantes, Tesla organisa un évènement du même type. Il s’agissait pour lui à chaque fois d’une occasion pour annoncer de nouvelles découvertes … En 1931 un moteur fonctionnant aux rayons cosmique. En 1934 son fameux rayon de la mort … Il prétendait détruire 10000 avions en vol à plus de 250 miles de distance … Un document semble validé qu’il ait réfléchi à la question, mais toutes les analyses suivantes et notamment celle d’un certain Trumpp (c’est pas le même cherchez pas!) en 1943, tendent à dire que ce système n’était pas à la hauteur des prétentions de Tesla.Tesla semble même avoir donné, en compensation d’une note de 400 dollars, une boîte contenant soi-disant un modèle de son arme (il estimait sa valeur à 10000 dollars), au gérant de l’hôtel où il résidait. Tout en précisant bien qu’il ne devait pas ouvrir la boîte sous peine d’explosion. A postériori il s’avéra que Tesla s’était moqué d’eux et que la boîte ne contenait rien d’autres que des pièces détachées utilisées pour la radio.Certaines déclarations de Tesla tendent à corroborer le fait qu’il fut en contact avec divers gouvernements concernant cette arme jusqu’en 1940 : soviétiques, américains ou anglais notamment, mais rien n’atteste qu’un tel rayon ait été mis au point par quiconque.Nikola Tesla with King Peter of Yugoslavia in Hotel New Yorker on July 15, 1942. Tesla's nephew, Sava Kosanovic, is third from the left. Crédit : http://www.teslasociety.com/tesla_reception.htmA partir de 1942 Tesla passait beaucoup de son temps dans son lit. Entre une diète quasi exclusivement à base de lait et un accident en 1943, sa mémoire semblait flancher complètement. Il voulut même faire envoyer de l’argent à Marc Twain, mort 25 ans plus tôt…Il mourut finalement le 7 janvier 1943 d’une attaque cardiaque. Des témoignages parvinrent de tout les coins du monde pour acclamer son inventivité et le rôle qu’il joua dans l’établissement du courant alternatif dans le monde.Après sa mort ses papiers et une bonne partie de ses notes furent prises par le gouvernement américain (pour les étudier afin de voir si ses prétentions d’arme de fin du monde ou autre étaient vraies) avant d’être restitués à sa famille et de se retrouver dans un musée établi en son honneur dans la ville de Belgrade. Tesla et les mythes Avant de conclure, je voudrais prendre un peu de temps pour parler des mythes qui peuvent exister autour du personnages. Il existe un grand nombre d’histoires étranges ou d’inventions qui sont associées à Tesla. Afin d’essayer d’en débunker quelques unes, j’ai demandé aux membres des groupes facebook “Station des sciences” et “Zététique” les mythes dont ils avaient pu entendre parler à son propos?”En voici quelques uns. Tesla fut un anarchiste à un moment de sa vie. Seifer rapporte dans sa biographie qu’il fut en contact avec des personnes peu recommandables proches du régime nazi après que sa tour de Wardenclyffe fut tombée.Une autre chose qui pourrait tendre à penser qu’il était anarchiste était le fait qu’il voulait fournir gratuitement de l’énergie à tout le monde durant la deuxième partie de sa vie. Ce genre d’annonce pouvait être plutôt mal vues par les magnats de l’industrie du cuivre (utilisé pour la transmission d’électricité) ou de l’énergie.Mais à priori Tesla n’était pas un anarchiste dans le sens classique du terme. Au contraire, il semble qu’il chercha à s’introduire dans le milieu de la haute société New-Yorkaise et sur la fin de sa vie il tentât de travailler avec divers gouvernements ... L’énergie libre Il y a énormément de choses racontées autour de Tesla et l’énergie libre. Qu’il pourrait extraire de l’énergie de l’ionosphère. On retrouve dans l’auto-biographie de Tesla et dans la bio écrite par Carlson, et dans diverses illustrations qu’il a pu publier dans des journaux, l’idée que Tesla voyait plutôt la Terre comme un conducteur chargé dont il était possible d’extraire de l’énergie. Et non pas de l’atmosphère. Il semble que Tesla voyait la haute atmosphère comme un conducteur à travers lequel il pouvait “fermer un circuit qui serait formé aussi de la terre, d’un dispositif d’émission et d’un dispositif de réception. Il avait une vision très “électricienne” de la transmission d’énergie. Une voiture qui aurait fonctionné à l’énergie libre. Apparemment l’histoire serait plutôt celle d’une voiture de chez Pierce/Arrow qui aurait fonctionné à l’énergie des rayons cosmiques et qu’aurait raconté un faux neveu de Tesla[21]. Toutjours est-il que le vrai neveu de Tesla se serait exprimé à propos de cette histoire de voiture et aurait expliqué que c’était totalement faux[22]. Et si vous souhaitez en savoir un peu plus sur cette histoire, Dr Goulu en parle dans un billet : http://www.drgoulu.com/2012/08/19/nikola-tesla-genie-mais-connu/ [23] Une chose qui peut aussi être noté c’est que Tesla parlait effectivement d’énergie gratuite. Il semble que tout les conspirationnistes aient surtout fait l’amalgame classique du terme free en anglais. Pour Tesla il s’agissait à priori de free comme “gratuit”. Selon Seifer c’est d’ailleurs une des raisons pour lesquelles les investisseurs de Tesla ne le suivirent pas sur la voie de la Transmission sans fil[24].La soucoupe volante de Tesla Certains sites conspirationnistes expliquent qu’il aurait déposé un brevet pour une soucoupe volante et que la NSA l’aurait volé : http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyournewswire.com%2Funcovered-teslas-patent-for-worlds-1st-flying-saucer%2F&h=dAQFc_WLeSauf que comme dit en commentaires de ce fameux billet, entre les anacronismes sur l’utilisation du mot flying saucer, l’usage du symbole copyright ou juste qu’aucune source n’existe pour justifier de l’éventuel dépôt d’un brevet, c’est du délire[25]. Le film le prestige Le film “Le Prestige” de Christopher Nolan sorti en 2006 avec Christian Bale et Hugh Jackman fut aussi l’occasion de découvrir une histoire à propos de Tesla : l’invention de la téléportation. Bon on est ok, c’est du délire. Aucun des livres que j’ai pu lire n’ont avancé une quelconque idée de ce genre… Tesla et les pigeons Un certain nombre de personnes s’interroge sur cette histoire de pigeon et Tesla. Et bien il semble que ce soit relativement vrai. Tout du moins suffisamment établi pour que ce soit une constante dans toutes les bibliographies que j’ai lu le concernant.A la fin de sa vie il était reclus et il devait trouver de la compagnie auprès des pigeons. Il semblait maintenir chez lui une quantité importante de graines pour les pigeons et il raconte lui-même qu’il aurait tissé une relation plus forte notamment avec l’un d’entre eux. Il dit d’ailleurs que cette relation aurait été aussi forte que celle entre un homme et une femme[26]… Il raconte même que le jour où le pigeon allait mourir il serait venu voir Tesla et deux rayons lumineux seraient sorti de ses yeux[27] … Tesla et le radar Plusieurs ouvrage comme ceux de Cheney ou de Cawthorne tendent à colporter l’idée que Tesla aurait inventé le radar parce qu’en 1917 il aurait décrit un système basé sur des ondes radios qui se réfléchiraient sur des sous-marins et qu’il pourrait, une fois revenues, les afficher sur un écran fluo. Outre que le radar ne fonctionne pas vraiment comme ça et que pour les sous-marins on utilisera plutôt un sonar, il semble que les principes de bases du radar et les premières mises en oeuvre sont au moins plus anciennes de 10 ans. Pour affirmer sa paternité sur le radar, ils mentionnent aussi le fait que Girardeau, un français, se serait inspiré des dires de Tesla pour mettre au point le radar en 1935. Mais des recherches sur le sujet ont été entreprises entre les années 20 et 40 en Angleterre, aux Etats-Unis ou en France. Tesla n’est donc selon moi pas l’inventeur du radar. D’autant plus qu’il n’a pas déposé de brevet sur la question ni construit de système qui aurait peut-être pu justifier cette affirmation... L’invention du courant alternatif Dans le précédent épisode j’ai pu expliqué ce qu’il en était. Le fameux rayon de la mort de Tesla Le sujet a été abordé pendant le dossier. Les communications interplanétaires et Mars Le sujet a été abordé pendant le dossier. Prédiction des ondes de schumann Le sujet a été abordé pendant le dossier. La fameuse page de The Oatmeal sur Tesla La personne derrière The Oatmeal publia il y a quelque temps une illustration dans un ton certes humoristique, mais très “Tesla” groupie. Je ne suis pas forcément en accord avec tout ce qui est dit, d’autant plus que cela semble principalement basé sur la bio de Cheney (qui est moins bien que celle de Calrson selon moi). Il y eu une affaire autour de cette page. En effet, un journaliste de Forbes, fit un article à propos de cette page pour, d’une certaine manière contrebalancer la vision donnée de Tesla par the Oatmeal. Mais cela ne s’arrêta pas là. L’auteur de la page fit une réponse à Forbes en argumentant certaines de ses affirmations avec le même ton humoristique …De mon point de vue, chacun possède une partie de la vérité, mais chacun souhaite pousser les choses dans un sens ou dans l’autre … Ce qui amène en fait à la problématique des bio et autobio ... La problématique des biographies et autobiographies Vous allez me dire pourquoi lire autant de bouquins sur Tesla quand une seule bio suffirait ? Le truc c’est que concernant Tesla, il y a trop de disparité entre les auteurs pour ne se limiter qu’à un seul. Sans parler des histoires les plus délirantes que l’on retrouve un peu partout sur internet et qui sont trop souvent reprises sans réelle vérification.John O’Neill fut la seconde personne a rédiger une biographie de Tesla en 1943 mais le premier après sa mort. Il était un grand admirateur et le connu de son vivant. On pourrait penser qu’il serait possible pour lui d’avoir des informations de première main pour son livre. Mais se basant principalement sur ce que Tesla pouvait lui raconter, le livre est extrêmement partial et l’auteur cherche plus à glorifier l’inventeur (il parle quand même de Superman à son propos tout au long de son livre) qu’à chercher à établir la vérité.Avant la sortie de la bio de Carlson, la biola plus en vogue était celle de Margaret Cheney. Il me semble qu’elle était plus dans l’esprit groupie de Tesla et donc un tantinet impartiale. Ce qui m’a mis mal à l’aise c’est sa propention à vouloir voir dans certaines des inventions de Tesla les prémices d’inventions intervenues plus tard et le créditer de leurs inventions. Parfois même à tort comme pour le radar ou les rayons X.Celle qui faisait référence avance celle de Cheney était celle de Seifer. Celle-ci avait l’avantage d’être riche de témoignages issus de sa correspondance avec ses contemporains comme J.P. Morgan, les Johnson ou d’autres. Mais sur les aspects techniques elle est plutôt approximative et l’auteur raconte même des choses carrément fausses sur son site concernant l’opposition Einstein/Tesla.Et c’est vraiment là où celle de Carlson est très intéressante car elle est techniquement précise et historiquement très sourcée. L’auteur étant un académique de l’histoire des sciences et de l’innovation technique, il dispose des connaissances nécessaires à la compréhension du contexte et à l’analyse des prétentions techniques des inventions et expériences de Tesla.Tout cela pour dire, si vous voulez vous renseigner sur une sujet, lisez plusieurs sources différentes ! Et même si possibles des sources contradictoires ! Pour avoir lu deux livres sur Edison, dont un n’est pas non plus pro Edison, on découvre le peu d’importance de Tesla pour celui-ci. Il doit être cité une seule fois en tout ! Conclusion NIkola Tesla est un homme dont la vie fut inscrite dans une histoire de l’industrie de l’électricité au tournant du XIX et du XX siècle. Il participa à sa construction, mais finalement l’histoire retient relativement peu de son passage et de ses inventions. Cela n’enlève pourtant rien à sa découverte du champ magnétique tournant et la conséquence que fut le principe du moteur AC. Nikola était un showman, et un inventeur qui poursuivit peut-être trop des idées non établiées en se basant sur des analogies comme pour la transmission sans fil.J’espère qu’à travers ce dossier, vous aurez découvert une version moins romantique et fantasmée de Nikola Tesla et que cela vous aura donné des informations pour réfuter certain des mythes qui existent à son propos. Quote We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.Nikola Tesla, My Inventions Références Livres Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius de Marc J. Seifer ISBN : 0806519606 (ISBN13 : 978-0806519609) Auteur : Marc J. Seifer Nombre de pages : 542 pages Date de parution : 01/05/1998 chez Citadel Edition Prix : 19,44€ chez Amazon Inventor of the electric age de Bernard Carlson (meilleure biographie selon moi sur laquelle est basée ce dossier) ISBN : 0691165610 (ISBN13 : 978-0691165615) Auteur : W. Bernard Carlson Nombre de pages : 520 pages Date de parution : 15/05/2015 chez Princeton University Press Prix : 19,26€ chez Amazon Man out of time de Margaret Cheney ISBN : 0743215362 (ISBN13 : 978-0743215367) Auteur : Margaret Cheney Nombre de pages : 400 pages Date de parution : 09/10/2001 chez Touchstone Prix : 10,43€ chez Amazon Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah de Nigel Cawthorne ISBN : 078582944X (ISBN13 : 978-0785829447) Auteur : Nigel Cawthorne Nombre de pages : 192 pages Date de parution : 05/04/2014 chez Chartwell Books Prix : 14,46€ chez Amazon Prodigual genius de John J O’Neill ISBN : 1596057130 (ISBN13 : 978-1596057135) Auteur : John J O’Neill Nombre de pages : 336 pages Date de parution : 01/11/2006 chez Cosimo Classics Prix : 11,96€ chez Amazon My inventions de Nikola Tesla ISBN : 1519534477 (ISBN13 : 978-1519534477) Auteur : Nikola Tesla Nombre de pages : 50 pages Date de parution : 26/11/2015 chez Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Prix : 5,65€ chez Amazon Edison: A life of invention de Paul Israel ISBN : 0471362700 (ISBN13 : 978-0471362708) Auteur : Paul Israel Nombre de pages : 560 pages Date de parution : 16/02/2000 aux Editions Belin Prix : 21,59€ chez Amazon et 32,90€ à la Fnac The Wizard of Menlo Park de Randall E. Stross ISBN : 1400047633 (ISBN13 : 978-1400047635) Auteur : Randall E. Stross Nombre de pages : 125 pages Date de parution : 25/03/2008 chez Broadway Books Prix : 13€ chez Amazon et à 12,85€ à la Fnac Nikola Tesla: prophet of the modern technological age de Michael W. Simmons ISBN : 1532867735 (ISBN13 : 978-1532867736) Auteur : Michael W. Simmons Nombre de pages : 242 pages Date de parution : 21/04/2016 aux chez Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Prix : 16,81€ chez Amazon Thomas Edison & Nikola Tesla: The pioneers of electricity de Charles River Editors ISBN : 149234219X (ISBN13 : 978-1492342199) Auteur : Charles River Editors Nombre de pages : 80 pages Date de parution : 05/09/2013 chez CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Prix : 10,34€ chez Amazon Altersciences d’Alexandre Moatti ISBN : 2738128874 (ISBN13 : 9782738128874) Auteur : Alexandre Moatti Nombre de pages : 336 pages Date de parution : 17/01/2013 chez Odile Jacob Prix : 23,90 € chez Amazon ou la FnacWeb La page wikipédia à propos de Nikola Tesla (attention quand même) : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Sur Tesla chez Oatmeal : La page qui avait été faite originellement par the Oatmeal sur Tesla : http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla Un article de Forbes sur la question et qui est pas d’accord : http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/#147cb87c1dbd La réponse de the Oatmeal : http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response Mon point de vue ? Ben The Oatmeal défend son bout de gras et parfois est un peu trop en mode groupie (et tord un chouilla les choses) et Alex Knapp de Forbes est un peu trop “c’est pareil Edison et Tesla”. La vidéo de Richard Taillet à propos de Tesla : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDn6rlPXb7g Une suite de trois très bons billets de Richard Taillet sur Scilogs.fr : http://www.scilogs.fr/signal-sur-bruit/nikola-tesla-la-promesse-the-pledge-13/ http://www.scilogs.fr/signal-sur-bruit/nikola-tesla-le-tour-the-turn-23/ http://www.scilogs.fr/signal-sur-bruit/nikola-tesla-le-prestige-the-prestige-33/ Une description intéressante du brevet de Tesla sur le moteur synchrone (avec des affirmations plus difficiles à confirmer/informer concernant les résonances de Schumann ou le Radar, etc) https://www.bibnum.education.fr/sciencesdelingenieur/electrotechnique/l-invention-du-moteur-synchrone-par-nikola-tesla Une page sur l’Edison Tech Center (ils sont potentiellement partisans) qui, selon eux, débunke des mythes autour de Tesla : http://www.edisontechcenter.org/tesladebunked.html Mon point de vue ? Ok, ils en débunkent certains (l’invention de l’AC par Tesla, par exemple), mais un certain nombre de choses est avancé sans citer de source spécifiquement par information, et vu la passion de certains sur la question on est en droit de se poser la question de la partialité d’un debunkage de soi-disant mythes à propos de Tesla sur une page créée par un centre au nom d’Edison) http://www.lesnumeriques.com/vie-du-net/brevet-google-veut-pouvoir-dechirer-ecrans-n51949.html Les brevets qui seraient censés démontrer que Tesla avait inventé les portes logiques ET et OU : Method of Signaling : http://www.rastko.rs/cms/files/books/46c5e785e19f9.pdf System of Signaling : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/0725605.pdf La page wikipedia sur les ondes stationnaires : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onde_stationnaire La page du podcast de Steven Novella en lien avec l’épisode qu’il a fait sur Tesla : https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4345 Le billet du Dr Goulu à propos de Tesla : http://www.drgoulu.com/2012/08/19/nikola-tesla-genie-mais-connu/ La page wikipédia sur son rayon de la mort ou Teleforce : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce La page wikipédia sur les résonnances de Schumann : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances La page wikipédia à propos de Marconi : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi La page wikipédia sur William Lawrence Bragg : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lawrence_Bragg [1] Par la suite Tesla ne chercha pas vraiment à développer cette invention (comme pour beaucoup d’autres d’ailleurs) qui semblait pourtant demandé par la médecine de l’époque. [2] Il existe cependant des raisons de douter de l’ampleur des vibrations car d’autres expériences du même type ont été réalisées depuis sans des phénomènes approchant ce que Tesla décrit.[3] Pour lui, le fait qu’elles se propagent dans toutes les directions les rendait vraiment inutilisable et cela le renforça dans l’idée de se concentrer sur la transmission d’énergie via la terre. Il ne savait pas qu’elle pouvaient se réfléchir sur l’ionosphère comme ce fut découvert en 1924 sur une couche de particules chargées nommée couche de Kennelly-Heaviside.[4] Il se rapproche de TC Martin qui l’aida à mettre en place certaines conférences et lui permis de publier un livre sur ses inventions. Martin le mis ensuite en relation avec les Johnsons.[5] Après sa participation au succès des chutes du niagara et sa présence massive dans les jounaux, Tesla reçu de nombreux prix et titres honorifiques en 1893 et 1894 : Médaille Cresson, doctorat honorifique de Colombia ou de Yale, entre autres …[6] De plus, Tesla n’ayant plus la clairvoyance de Peck avec lui, passait trop de temps à peaufiner ses inventions et à faire de la publicité et un peu moins à chercher effectivement à trouver preneur …[7] Cette dernière partie est supputée par Carlson dans son livre.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Experimental_Station[9] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onde_stationnaire[10] Cette notion existe en physique et c’est notamment parce qu’elles peuvent avoir un fort taux de pénétration dans l’océan qu’elles sont utilisées entre la terre, l’ionosphère et les sous-marins pour communiquer.[11] C’est d’ailleurs l’un de leurs points marquants: il semble que les prétentions faites par O’Neill dans sa biographie de Tesla à propos de 200 lampes allumées à plus de 26 miles, n’aient en fait aucune base car aucun témoin, ni aucune note ne sont là pour supporter cette affirmation[12] http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/tesla-colorado-JAN.pdf[13] Carlson, p 299 et Dunning : https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4345[14] https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4345[15] Selon Carlson l’implication de Morgan était plus d’ordre philantropique dans la mesure où celui-ci investissait clairement plus dans des industries pour les consolider que dans des start-ups.[16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances[17] même si la couche de Kennelly-Heaviside pouvait effectivement réfléchir les ondes[18] Pour certains les plan farfelus de Tesla de transmettre de messages et de l’énergie gratuitement étaient clairement contre les intérêt économiques de Morgan. Pour d’autres Morgan ne voyait pas de business plan viable dans la volonté de Tesla de fournir de l’énergie gratuitement. Carlson de son côté explique que Morgan ne souhaitait pas investir dans une industrie encore très instable où une bulle spéculative semblait se développer.[19] Pas comme celles que l’on utilise aujourd’hui encore avec des pales.[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lawrence_Bragg[21] On peut retrouver des infos sur la page wikipédia associée. Nikola Tesla avait en effet des idées sur les rayons cosmiques et même si Margaret Cheney essaye de réhabiliter ce que disait Tesla à leur propos, il semblait être à côté de ses pompes…[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla_electric_car_hoax#cite_ref-3[23] Par contre, je ne suis pas forcément d’accord avec deux trois trucs dont parle Goulu, mais ça nous en avons discuté ensemble déjà :)[24] Si il y arrivait réellement, ils auraient investi dans quelque chose qui aurait arrêté certains de leurs autres investissement, notamment dans les mines de Cuivre... Comme dit avant, il avait en tête de pouvoir distribuer gratuitement de l’énergie de part le monde ...[25] Si l’on cherche des informations sur cette histoire de soucoupe volante de Tesla, on tombe sur tout une liste de sites avec du charabia qui vont jusqu’à citer des sites comme Occult Ether Physics(et un certain Willian R. Lyne http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bibliotecapleyades.net%2Ftesla%2Foccultether%2Foccultether03.htm%23CHAPTER%2520V&h=MAQEyRcv9) ou qui font références aux théories de Tesla sur la gravité qui n’étaient absolument pas fondées et en total désaccord avec les expériences ou avec ce qu’Einstein avait pu expliquer. Pour du bon gros délire, vous pouvez aller voir ici : http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/lostjournals/lostjournals06.htm[26] Simmons p 227[27] Simmons p 228-229

Emmy Award-winning and internationally acclaimed film and television actor ERIC BRAEDEN is a television icon and arguably the most popular character in daytime history.  For over 36 plus years, he has portrayed “Victor Newman” on the #1 rated daytime drama series The Young and the Restless, which has over 120,000,000 daily viewers around the world.  The show is syndicated in over 30 foreign countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, the Middle East, New Zealand, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey.Additionally, Braeden has one of the highest TVQ's on television, according to A.C. Nielsen, and is one of the most recognized actors in the world.  On July 20 2007, Braeden was the recipient of a Star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and become the first German born actor since Marlene Dietrich to receive such an honor.In 2008, Braeden executive produced and starred in the Lionsgate feature film The Man Who Came Back, a western set in the 1870's against one of the worst labor strikes in American History and starred opposite Billy Zane, Armand Assante, George Kennedy, Sean Young, Carol Alt, Jennifer O'Dell, Peter Jason and James Patrick Stuart.This year marks Braeden's 51st  year in film and television, where he has starred with such luminaries as Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Geraldine Page, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, James Earl Jones, Curt Jurgens, Raquel Welch, Tyne Daly, James Arness, Mary Tyler Moore, Dennis Weaver and Jack Lord among others.. Braeden has also appeared in over 120 television series and feature films.  He starred as Captain Hans Dietrich in the classic ABC primetime series, The Rat Patrol.Braeden also starred as Charles Forbin in the science fiction classic, Colossus: The Forbin Project, directed by Joe Sargent; and he portrayed John Jacob Astor in James Cameron's epic Academy Award winner, Titanic.Braeden's other credits include starring in 100 Rifles, Morituri, Escape From the Planet Of The Apes, Operation Eichmann, The Ultimate Chase, The Ultimate Thrill, Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo, Meet The Deedles Dayton's Devils and many others.Braeden's numerous primetime series credits include guest-starring on the CBS series How I Met Your Mother as the father of actress Cobie Smulders as well as the telefilms Jackie Collins' Lady Ice, Lucky Chances, The Judge And Jake Wyler, How The West Was Won and Perry Mason: The Case Of The Wicked Wives.In addition, he has guest-starred on such shows as Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Combat, Diagnosis Murder, The Nanny, Mission Impossible, McCloud, The Night Stalker, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Vegas,, The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii 5-0,  Perry Mason, Mannix, Murder She Wrote, Matt Helm and The Gallant Men.Braeden was born Hans Gudegast in Kiel, Germany, a port city near the Baltic Sea.  In 1958, he won the German Youth Team Championship in Discus, Javelin and Shot put. In 1959, Braeden immigrated to the United States, working in the University of Texas medical school lab before moving to Missoula, Montana where he received a track and field scholarship at The University of Montana. He went on to conquer the River of No Return (aka The Salmon River) in Idaho and made a documentary of his journey prior to moving to Los Angeles.In 1972-73 he won the U.S. National Soccer Championship for the Los Angeles Maccabees and, in 1989, Braeden was chosen as the only actor on the newly formed German American Advisory Board. The illustrious group has included Dr. Henry Kissinger, Katherine Graham, Alexander Haig, Steffi Graff and Paul Volcker. In 1995, Braeden received the highest honor in Italian Television from Prime Minister Berlusconi and in 1998 was honored at the 38th Annual Monte Carlo TV Festival.In 1998, Braeden received The People's Choice Award as Favorite Actor in a Daytime Drama Series and in 1998 was the recipient of an Emmy Award as Outstanding Actor In A Daytime Drama Series.In 2004, Braeden joined Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Annual Tourism Conference in Israel and the following year he joined Ariel Sharon, Elie Weisel and the Prime Ministers of Poland and Hungary at Auschwitz for “The March Of The Living” along with 20,0000 Christian and Jews.Braeden has twice received the Federal Medal Of Honor by the President of Germany for his contributions to German American Relations.In May 2007, Braeden was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the nationally renowned organization The Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters Association in Los Angeles. Braeden was also the recipient of The 2007 Ellis Island Federal Medal Of Honor.In September 2008, Braeden was honored by the City Of Hamburg and the Senate of Germany for his humanitarian contributions.During Braeden's free time, he is an avid sportsman and plays in celebrity tennis tournaments around the world, while continuing to play soccer.  He also does Olympic weight lifting.He resides in Los Angeles, and has been married for over 40 years to Dale Gudegast and has a son, Christian Gudegast, who is a screenwriter and director.

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In 1828, John Jacob Astor built a trading post on the Missouri River. Business was so profitable that it only took four decades for Astor to become America's first multimillionaire. The latest in science, culture, and history from Smithsonian Channel.

Some of our favorite celebrities are more than just pretty faces.  They are people who are displaying their sense of humanity and building legacies of positive footprints that go beyond the big and small screens. Don Diamont is an extraordinary actor who has been seen on both the big and small screens.  Most recognized for his role as “Dollar Bill Spencer, Jr.,” on the CBS Daytime Drama, The Bold and the Beautiful, Don was also seen in the film Anger Management with Jack Nicolson and Adam Sandler and Marco Polo opposite Jack Palance.     Don’s resume is very impressive but the one title he treasures the most is when he was named  Ambassador of the Year by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in recognition of his work and efforts to find a cure for this crippling disease.  Heather Tom is a two-time Emmy Award winning actress is recognized for her role as “Katie Logan-Spencer” on the CBS Daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful.  Heather began acting at the tender ago of two and she’s been seen in many roles on television, on the big screen and on the stage.  However, Heather embraces an even larger role on the world stage as an activist and humanitarian. Eric Braeden has captivated audiences for many years.  From his role as John Jacob Astor in James Cameron’s Titanic to his most famous role as the dashing Victor Newman in the #1 daytime drama, The Young & The Restless—a role that garnered an Emmy Award, several Emmy nominations and a People’s Choice Award.  Eric has held many screen roles over the last 50 years, but he has also been honored for his real-life role as a humanitarian and for his work to bridge cultural gaps.

In 1828, John Jacob Astor built a trading post on the Missouri River. Business was so profitable that it only took four decades for Astor to become America's first multimillionaire.

Some of our favorite celebrities are people who are displaying their sense of humanity and building legacies of positive footprints that go beyond the big and small screens. Don Diamont is an extraordinary actor who has been seen on both the big and small screens.  Most recognized for his role as “Dollar Bill Spencer, Jr.,” on the CBS Daytime Drama, The Bold and the Beautiful, Don was also seen in the film Anger Management with Jack Nicolson and Adam Sandler and Marco Polo opposite Jack Palance.   Don made history when he was named in People’s Magazine “50 Most Beautiful” issue and more recently in the 2009 “Sexiest Man Alive” issue.  Don’s resume includes his role as Ambassador of the Year by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in recognition of his work and efforts to find a cure for this crippling disease.  Heather Tom is a two-time Emmy Award winning actress is recognized for her role as “Katie Logan-Spencer” on the CBS Daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful.  Heather began acting at the tender ago of two and she’s been seen in many roles on television, on the big screen and on the stage.  However, Heather embraces an even larger role on the world stage as an activist and humanitarian. Eric Braeden has captivated audiences for many years.  From his role as John Jacob Astor in James Cameron’s Titanic to his most famous role as the dashing Victor Newman in the #1 daytime drama, The Young & The Restless—a role that garnered an Emmy Award, several Emmy nominations and a People’s Choice Award.  Eric has held many screen roles over the last 50 years, but he has also been honored for his real-life role as a humanitarian and for his work to bridge cultural gaps.

  Some of our favorite celebrities are more than just pretty faces.  They are people who are displaying their sense of humanity and building legacies of positive footprints that go beyond the big and small screens. Don Diamont has been seen on both the big and small screens.  Most recognized for his role as “Dollar Bill Spencer, Jr.,” on the CBS Daytime Drama, The Bold and the Beautiful. Don was honored as Ambassador of the Year by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in recognition of his work and efforts to find a cure for this crippling disease.  Heather Tom is a two-time Emmy Award winning actress who is recognized for her role as “Katie Logan-Spencer” on the CBS Daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful.  Heather began acting at the tender ago of two but she embraces an even larger role on the world stage as an activist and humanitarian. Eric Braeden has captivated audiences for many years.  From his role as John Jacob Astor in James Cameron’s Titanic to his most famous role as Victor Newman on The Young & The Restless—a role that garnered an Emmy Award, several Emmy nominati

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