Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The book was stolen from the Adams site in November 1996 and subsequently recovered by the FBI in a gym locker in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in January 1997. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick , the state's first African-American governor, took his oath of office on the Mendi Bible on January 4, 2007, [ 10 ] and took his ...
Four priceless books were stolen: a 1772 English Bible which belonged to Louisa Catherine Adams (John Quincy Adams's English-born wife), a 1611 King James Bible, an 18th-century copy of Marcus Elieser Bloch's Ichthyology (which contained hand-painted illustrations), and the 1838 Mendi Bible (which was presented to John Quincy Adams by the group ...
The Missing Books Register, established by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers in 2012 as the Stolen Books Database, is a registry of valuable and/or historically significant books that allows libraries and antiquarian book dealers to track purloined or missing materials. [1] It tracks works stolen or lost after 15 June 2010. [2]
John Adams' birthplace at 133 Franklin St. was built in 1681 and bought by Adams' father, Deacon John Adams, in 1720. The future second president was born in the small rural cottage on Oct. 30, 1735.
The park later acquired nearby sites including the John Adams Birthplace and John Quincy Adams Birthplace, which together with the visitor center constitute Adams National Historical Park. United First Parish Church , where both presidents and their wives are buried, is nearby but not part of the park.
The value of the stolen items was placed at $235,500. The items had been stored at a home located in the county, the sheriff's office said. They were kept at the same location for about four years.
Adams/National Park Service) The driver who struck and killed a famous grizzly bear south of Grand Teton National Park earlier this week was not speeding and the bear’s death was an accident ...
Superintendent of Peacefield and later the Adams National Historical Park, National Park Service Wilhelmina Sellers Harris (March 22, 1896 – May 20, 1991) was an American historian and writer. Harris’s connection to American history began in 1920 when she was hired as social secretary to Brooks Adams and his wife, Evelyn.