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Tudor and ice
New Englander Frederic Tudor, who became known as the " Ice King ", worked on developing better insulation products to ship ice long distances, especially to the tropics.
Frederic Tudor of Boston turned ice harvesting and shipping into a big business, cutting ice in New England and shipping it around the world.
The nineteenth century ice industry began in Saugus when in 1804 Frederic Tudor cut ice from a pond on the family farm and shipped it to Martinique.
In 1814 Frederic Tudor began to establish markets in the West Indies and the southern United States for ice.
In 1826 Rufus Page built the first large ice house near Gardiner to supply Tudor.
The first ice shipments to the tropics were made by Frederic Tudor in 1805 from Charlestown, Massachusetts to Martinique.
Prior to the Pond's use exclusively as a reservoir, its ice had been harvested by Boston's " Ice King ", Frederic Tudor, and others, for shipment to North American cities and to tropical areas around the world.
Another son, Frederic Tudor, founded the Tudor Ice Company and became Boston's " Ice King ", shipping ice to the tropics from many local sources of fresh water including Walden Pond, Fresh Pond, and Spy Pond in Arlington, Massachusetts.
His brother Frederic Tudor founded the Tudor Ice Company and became Boston's " Ice King ", shipping ice to the tropics from many local sources of fresh water including Walden Pond, Fresh Pond, and Spy Pond in Arlington, Massachusetts.
The Tudor Ice Company harvested ice in a number of New England ponds for export and distribution throughout the Caribbean, Europe, and India from 1826 to 1892.
In 1806 ( age 23 ), Tudor bought his first brig Favorite to carry ice cut from his father's farm in Saugus from Charlestown to Martinique.
By 1816, Tudor was shipping ice from Massachusetts to Cuba with ever-increasing efficiency and decided to try his hand at importing Cuban fruit to New York.
By 1825, Tudor was doing well with ice sales, but the difficulty of hand-cutting large blocks limited his company's growth.
Wyeth's ice plow made mass production a reality and allowed Tudor to more than triple his production.
However, in the early 1830s Tudor had also begun to speculate in coffee futures with his ice business as collateral.
Initially, coffee prices did rise and Tudor made millions of dollars, but in 1834, Tudor fell more than a quarter-million dollars in debt, forcing him to re-focus on the ice trade.
By the 1840s, ice was being shipped all over the world, and although Tudor was now just a small part of the trade, his profits allowed him to pay off his debts and resume living a comfortable existence.
He began his working career in the 1820s by acting as foreman for a company that harvested ice from Fresh Pond in Cambridge, and thus helping Boston's " Ice King " Frederic Tudor to establish New England's ice trade with the Caribbean, Europe, and India.

Tudor and was
The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.
Because of Henry's descent through illegitimate children barred from succession to the English throne, the Tudor monarchy was not accepted by all European kingdoms.
At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.
Sometimes called " The Virgin Queen ", " Gloriana ", or " Good Queen Bess ", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir so as to continue the Tudor line.
Elizabeth was the first Tudor to recognise that a monarch ruled by popular consent.
Between 1903 and 1953, the Tudor Crown was used on the State Flag and Governor's Standard, and this was changed to the present crown in 1954.
Prior to 1953, a Tudor Crown was used
His plot failed in a matter of days, Jane Grey was beheaded, and Mary I ( 1516 – 1558 ) took the throne amidst popular demonstration in her favour in London, which contemporaries described as the largest show of affection for a Tudor monarch.
Other historians say the " Tudor Revolution " really extended to the end of Elizabeth's reign, when the work was all consolidated.
Elizabeth Tudor was confined there for three years in what is now known as " The Old Palace " in Hatfield Park.
Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart ( July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City ) and Maud Humphrey ( 1868 – 1940 ).
Following the resurgence in the 14th and 15th centuries of the Gaelic nobility, the project was suspended, not to be resumed until the mid 16th century by the House of Tudor.
It is possible that it was a Viennese-born friend of Friedmann's in London, Edith Tudor Hart – herself, at this time, a Soviet agent – who first approached Philby about the possibility of working for Soviet intelligence.
Leicester's building was four floors high and built in a fashionable contemporary Tudor style with " brittle, thin walls and grids of windows ".
The Mock Tudor architectural style was introduced in the Karachi Gymkhana and the Boat Club.
Lindisfarne also has the small Lindisfarne Castle, based on a Tudor fort, which was refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the editor of Country Life, Edward Hudson.
After Owain's death, there was little resistance to English rule until, in the 16th century, the Tudor dynasty, whilst allowing Welshmen to become more prominent in English society, saw Owain's revolt as a catastrophe for Wales.
This secret drama, which has become known as the Prince Tudor theory, was covertly represented in Oxford's plays and poems and remained hidden until Allen and Ward's discoveries.
However, the theory was revived and expanded by Elisabeth Sears in Shakespeare and the Tudor Rose ( 2002 ), and Hank Whittemore in The Monument ( 2005 ), an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnets which interprets the poems as a poetic history of Queen Elizabeth, Oxford, and Southampton.
Oxfordians, such as Dorothy and Charlton Ogburn, believe Shakespeare created such a role for the 13th Earl because it was the easiest way Edward de Vere could have " advertised his loyalty to the Tudor Queen " and remind her of " the historic part borne by the Earls of Oxford in defeating the usurpers and restoring the Lancastrians to power ".
Pugin was displeased with the result of the work, especially with the symmetrical layout designed by Barry ; he famously remarked, " All Grecian, sir ; Tudor details on a classic body ".
A Tudor fortress guarded the neck of water between the eastern Hoe and Mount Batten and some sheer granite and limestone cannon points remain, however in the late 1660s, following The Restoration, a massive star-shaped stone fortress known as the Royal Citadel, was constructed to replace it.

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