Eric Spreng (Southampton) Why were you looking forward to this game and visiting the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium? I had never been to White Hart Lane nor the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium. With all the hype, the money spent, and the delays in opening the new ground, I was interested to see...
“Talk” also featured this sad account of a theatrical company setting sale for England and discovering that racial discrimination did not end at the docks of New York Harbor. It is also sad thatTheNew Yorkerdidn’t seem to have any problem with this injustice, and rather saw it as nothin...
A PROGRESSIVE THINKER for her time,Marie of Romaniawas immensely popular in America. Born into the British royal family, she was the last queen of Romania from 1914 to 1927. At left, portrait from 1920; at right, during her 1926 visit to the States, Marie received a headdress from two ...
So-called because of the honey-colored stone used to build its villages, the Cotswolds offers visitors the quintessential English experience. The area spans five counties and boasts some of England’s most impressive country houses, castles, and landscapes. Plus, plentiful pubs make it easy t...
Houses, warehouses, and industrial plants along the French Broad were almost underwater. North Dakota Canva North Dakota - All-time highest temperature: 121° F (Steele 4N on July 6, 1936) - All-time lowest temperature: -60° F (Parshall on Feb. 15, 1936) - All-time highest 24-h...
Perched on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, the residential Monte Sereno in California is a bedroom community that houses some of the brightest minds in the world. The entire community is residential, with no commercial activity. Residents use the retail facilities in nearby Saratoga and Los Gatos...
Parky was pleased to see that the Curzon cinema was still in business, although the art deco frontage suggested that it is now houses a Habitat department store too. Next door was a large blue-bricked boozer, and we dived into its dark and quiet interior. Yet another “Peroni” and it ...
In his “Notes and Comment,”E.B. Whitequestioned the need, and appropriateness, of a wood and plaster Federal Hall replica in Bryant Park, which at the time was a neglected patch of land behind the New York Public Library and a favorite spot for the city’s homeless, their numbers rapi...
were once occupants. When the house was slated for demolition in 1954, the Society appealed to New Yorkers to raise the $70,000 needed to move the building, but only a fraction of that amount was secured. No. 21 was demolished in 1954 along with the rest of the houses on that block....