Fifth Avenue before 1891 (whenHolland Housewas erected), looking south from around 35th Street. TheMarble Collegiate Churchis seen in the distance. The site of the Old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was then occupied by the John Jacob Astor and William Astor houses(photo from Valentine's Manual). ...
1.The first one is an interview with Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, by the New Yorker magazine’s Isaac Chotiner (“The Historical Cherry-Picking at the Heart of the Supreme Court’s Gun-Rights Expansion: A century-old New York law ...
Ushers Ferry One-Room School Pre-Flood Start With Research I’ve been researching one-room school lunches for a long time. I’ve collected information from parent and teacher magazines. (I’m also very distraught that there is a thesis from the 1910s I can’t lay my hands on.) I’ve...
It ushers in a new era in the Shroud's history, the era of science. 1900: Canon Ulysse Chevalier's Etude critique sur l'origine du Saint Suaire de Lirey-Chambry-Turin is published in Paris, detailing the d' Arcis memorandum and other mediaeval documents indicating the Shroud's fraudul...
--Cristina Garcia, author of “Dreaming in Cuban” Three floors over Wilshire Boulevard’s late-afternoon traffic, a writer’s open deck door ushers in the pealing of church bells and the soft sound of a ball bouncing on the asphalt near a swimming pool. ...
in two versions – the ‘Vetus Latina’ and the ‘Vulgate’. ‘Vetus Latina’ refers to the original Latin text of scripture used by the Roman Church. However, it was replaced gradually by the ‘Vulgate’, the more coherent Latin translation commissioned in 382 by Pope Damasus from St ...
5/Sep/1945The Gouzenko Affair Ushers in the Cold War 6/Sep/1522Victoria Sails into Port in Spain, Arriving as the First Ship to Circumnavigate the World 7/Sep/1813United States nicknamed Uncle Sam 8/Sep/1962The Chinese make their First Incursion into Indian Territory in the Eastern Sector ...
Rogers gathering in the southwest corner of the building. “When all had assembled, Reverend Black Hickman, pastor of the First Methodist church of the city, stepped to the lectern and asked the invocation. His prayer followed: “‘Dear Lord and Father of all mankind; Thou who hast been ...
As a main celebration in the Christian liturgical calendar, it follows the season of Advent and ushers in Christmastide, or The Twelve Days of Christmas. The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, starts on the 25th of Kislev (December). Hanukkah celebrates when the Jewish people were able to ...
and Xbalanque, the hero twins described in the ancient Mayan text, thePopol Vuh. I could be with the sun and moon at the dawn of time, entering the hanging ferns of the “Bird House People” as the total darkness falls away and ushers in the human element. The birdsong brings ...