State Street and National Union merged in 1925. The merged bank took the State Street name, but National Union was the nominal survivor, and it operated under National Union's charter, thus giving the current entity its rank among the oldest banks in the United States. ...
The Simpson family's street, Evergreen Terrace, is a notoriously poor section of Springfield, Illinois. The Powers of 10 couch gag again left the location of Springfield something of a mystery. While the camera zooms out into the universe, it is seen that Springfield is placed somewhere in...
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Third was Crypto Trading Takes a ‘Few Steps Back’ After Jane Street, Jump Retreat, also from Bloomberg. ++++ MarketsWiki Stats 27,325 pages; 244,854 edits MarketsWiki Statistics ++++ Lead Stories Rigging of Libor was ‘state-led’; Global push in 2008 saw benchmark lowered Andy Verity...
Appendix. Case Study in Networked Resistance: From Wikileaks to Occupy Wall Street–and Beyond Filed under Uncategorized About this Book March 30, 2011 6 Comments The subject of my previous book — The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto— was the way in which falling capi...
By 1931, however, fireworks had been banned across the greater New York City area, so customers visiting Firecracker Lane—a short row of sellers on Park Place between Broadway and Church Street—had to find a friendly burg beyond the metropolis to shoot off their Independence Day arsenals. ...
While Assange stands chatting calmly about the future of his anti-secrecy enterprise, Wikileaks, few people in the room know that he is worried. Sarah Harrison, his principal researcher and confidant, is only hours away from slipping out of Hong Kong with Edward Snowden, who, at that moment...
While tourists are slinging hurricanes on Bourbon Street, locals from Louisiana are sipping on Sazeracs.Invented in the 19th century at a New Orleans coffeehouse, the modern iteration includes rye whiskey, absinthe, and bitters. Maine: Moxie ...
How It Started:Bloomberg got his start on Wall Street in the 1970s. After being laid off in the '80s, Bloomberg launched his own business, Innovative Market Systems. How It’s Going:He won the NYC Mayor’s only three weeks after 9/11 and became the 108th mayor of New York City in...
IRVING’S PLACE…The Music Box Theatre at 239 West 45th Street was constructed in 1921 by composerIrving Berlinand producerSam H. Harristo house Berlin’s Music Box Revues. It was later co-owned by Berlin’s estate and the Shubert Organization until Shubert assumed full ownership in 2007. ...