In 1841 this British travel agent arranged his first excursion, a trip to a temperance meeting
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Travel History: The Tale of Thomas Cook, Father of Modern Tourism  Nov 5, 2013 ... In 1841, he would arrange for a special train to take over 500 people from Leicester to Loughborough to attend a temperance meeting. ... Then in 1845, he would organize his first railway excursion for profit, and the following ... His trips kept getting bigger and in 1851, Thomas got the chance to organize...
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Thomas Cook - Wikipedia  Nationality, British. Organization, Thomas Cook & Son. Religion, Baptist. Thomas Cook (22 November 1808  18 July 1892) of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England founded the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son (popularly nicknamed Cook's Tours) ... John Cook died when Thomas was three years old, and his mother...
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Thomas Cook and the First Rail Excursion - TimeTravel-Britain.com  He was on his way to a temperance meeting in Leicester when he thought about the ... Other supporters at the meeting were very enthusiastic, so Cook arranged ... When running on time, the trip takes only around 13 minutes. ... So, it was on a summer's evening in July 1841 that the first ever rail excursion finally took place.
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Thomas Cook History  Thomas Cook began his international travel company in 1841, with a ... to carry the temperance supporters of Leicester to a meeting in Loughborough about four ... During the next three summers Thomas arranged a succession of trips ... By this route, during the summer of 1855, Thomas escorted his first tourists to Europe.
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Management Giants - Thomas Cook | Profit  In 1856, he introduced a railway tour of Europe and in the early 1860's he began the travel ... As a part of the temperance movement, he organized meetings and held ... On July 5, 1841, Thomas Cook arranged for the rail company to charge one ... travel, whereby the travelers went independently but his agency charged for...
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Benjamin Disraeli - New World Encyclopedia  Aug 20, 2013 ... He was a friend of the first Jewish member if the House of Lords, Baron ... Disraeli did much to promote a fuller democracy in Britain (the Reform Act, 1867), ... during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig ... The Earl of Derby Prime Minister 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868.
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First Fleet - Wikipedia  The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships that left England on 13 May 1787 to found the ... Convicts were originally transported to the Thirteen Colonies in North ... on land claimed for Britain by explorer James Cook in his first voyage to the ... The six convict transports each had a detachment of marines on board.
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Entering the Forbidden City of Mecca, 1853 - EyeWitness to History  In 1853 intrepid British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton disguised himself as an Islamic pilgrim ... and declared the Kaaba as the center of Islam, requiring that the faithful make a pilgrimage (the Hajj) to the site at least once in their lifetime.
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The Origin and Early Development of the Salvation Army in Victorian ...  Apr 11, 2013 ... The Salvation Army, founded by William and Catherine Booth, aimed to ... The East London Christian Mission, which operated as a charitable religious .... Street preaching, home meetings, prayer groups and Bible study were ... Almost immediately Booth received sympathetic responses not only from...
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Full text of "Oregon Trail histories" - Internet Archive  This compilation of histories concerning the Oregon Trail has the same result. ..... which had been originally purchased in Independence for 25 cents but which now ...... Those members were: T.L Farnham Sidney Smith William Blair Robert .... The meeting held February 2, 1843 became known as the First Wolf Meeting (to...
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Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807 - EyeWitness to History  Eyewitness account of Fulton's first voyage from New York to Albany. ... with Robert Livingstone to build a steamboat that would ply the Hudson River. ... By August 1807, Fulton's boat was ready for a trial run from New York City to Albany and back. ... to go to his country residence which was upon the left bank of the river.
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Around the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia  In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (equal to about 2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
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account of the life of mungo park. - eBooks@Adelaide  The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, by Mungo Park .... became eminent among the English Botanists; and is now known in Europe among .... factory about 200 miles up the same river, where he arrived on the 5th of July, ... He was gratified at the same time by the first sight of the Niger, the great...
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First Fleet - Wikipedia  The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships that left England on 13 May 1787 to found the penal colony that ... Convict transports (depart England 13 May 1787) .... This was one of the world's greatest sea voyages  eleven vessels carrying ... Although his initial instructions were to establish the colony at Botany Bay, he...
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Richard Francis Burton - Wikipedia  Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (19 March 1821  20 October 1890) was an English ... According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African ... Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source .... It was this journey, undertaken in 1853, which first made Burton famous.
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Nov. 14, 1889 | Nellie Bly Begins Trip Around the World - The New ...  Nov 14, 2011 ... Nov. 14, 1889 | Nellie Bly Begins Trip Around the World ... what would become a 72-day journey around the world on Nov. ... while Bisland set off in the opposite direction, heading to San Francisco, where she would board a ship for Japan. ... Before her journey, Bly had worked as investigative journalist for...
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Darwin & the Geological Society | Darwin Correspondence Project  When Darwin arrived in London in 1836 after the Beagle voyage, he found a thriving ... and March 1838, Darwin became a central figure in the Geological Society, ... his Beagle findings and becoming its secretary (a position he held until 1841). ... President of the Geological Society of London, 18357 and 184951; of the...
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10 Things You May Not Know About Captain James Cook - History ...  Apr 29, 2015 ... On April 29, 1770, the British HM Bark Endeavor became the first European ... He was being groomed to become a captain, but in 1755, he shocked his ... tantalizingly close to sighting Antarctica before pack ice forced him to turn back. ... by a lack of vitamin Cloomed over every long distance sea voyage.
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One-day conference Public Drinking in the Nineteenth Century ...  Feb 22, 2014 ... police in Cumbria managed drunkenness from 1850 to 1900. ... However, in George Eliot and Intoxication Dangerous Drugs for the ... This paper considers the impact that debates over public control of the liquor traffic had on the .... republican painter Edouard Manet also favoured beer as an indicator of the...
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Jeopary Questions page 1716 - MUSICIANS - TriviaBistro.com  THEY WERE FREEMASONS: He regularly attended Masonic lodge meetings until 1911 when he became England's first Lord of the Admiralty.
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Fulton's First Steamboat Voyage, 1807 - EyeWitness to History  Eyewitness account of Fulton's first voyage from New York to Albany. ... By August 1807, Fulton's boat was ready for a trial run from New York City to ... Aboard were Fulton, Livingston and numerous adventurous friends eager to make the historic ... Trouble reared its head almost immediately as the ship's engine stopped...