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Guardian: A Titanic feast
[The Guardian] - Guests in first class – among them John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, neither of whom survived – ate a menu that consisted of 11 rich courses. The book includes recipes for all of them, though the authors urge caution.
Titanic: Still making waves after 100 years
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[The Independent] - Then there was Madeleine Astor, the teenager for whom John Jacob Astor left his wife. She remarried twice, the second time to an Italian boxer nearly twice her age. It was a tempestuous carry-on, full of histrionic rows and makings-up, and
Guardian: Obituary: John Jacob | Education | The Guardian
As an art curator, he mixed passion with political nous.
John Jacob - Telegraph
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JOHN JACOB, who has died aged 72, was the curator of Kenwood House, Hampstead, when in February one of its finest masterpieces, Vermeer's The Guitar...
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