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Le 8 juillet 1846, un train de la ligne du Nord, dont les frères de Rothschild étaient les plus gros investisseurs, déraille en traversant un marais près du village de Fampoux, faisant 57 morts et plus de 100 blessés. Profitant de l’indignation générale suscitée par le déraillement, Mathieu Georges Dairnvaell rédigea un premier pamphlet intitulé “Histoire édifiante et curieuse de Rothschild Ier, roi des Juifs, par Satan", lançant le canard selon lequel la fabuleuse richesse de la dynastie bancaire Rothschild a été amassée par Nathan Rothschild en obtenant une connaissance préalable de l’issue de la bataille de Waterloo (1815) grâce à un vaste système de messagerie et en utilisant cette i ...

What was it like growing up, in the 50's, 60's and 70's, on a small farm in Indiana? In this collection of memories Chuck Huseman describes the joys and difficulties that he encountered. The Huseman family began raising Angus cattle in 1910 on a small farm in Northwest Indiana. The generations that followed were all tied to the farm, and to the cattle, in ways that some family members found hard to realize. As time went on, the family grew and many moved away from the farm. One descendant stayed put to continue the tradition of Homestead Farm and the great Angus cattle. The story of his family, through the years, is one of facing many changes in agriculture, the economy, the populati ...