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  • Polish Posters Of Classic Films Are Next-Level Beautiful

    It’s marketing shorthand, and it works, so studios stick with it. Painters and writers found their work scrutinised, censored, or banned outright if it didn’t fit the were plastered with the same glossy headshots and Photoshop collages you’d find in London, Paris, or New York. Hedora (1972) by Zygmunt Bobrowski Escape From New York (1983) by Wiesław Wałkuski TERMINATOR (1984)

  • Richard ‘Two Gun’ Hart: The Capone Who Lived the Law While His Brother Broke It

    Like many Italian families of the period, the Capones emigrated to New York City in search of economic romantic mythology of the American West, reinforced by travelling Wild West shows that passed through New York. A sudden departure and a family left guessing According to McArthur, Vincenzo left New York abruptly, The Bureau of Indian Affairs and moral complexity Hart’s reputation eventually brought him work with

  • The Band Behind The Blues Brothers

    York-based horn section and its Memphis/Chicago-based guitarists and bassist. Lou “Blue Lou” Marini Lou “Blue Lou” Marini Like Malone and Jordan, Marini was a New York-based sideman York. The trumpet player certainly could back up the attitude, having been accepted to New York’s Juilliard And Hall wasn’t new to filling in.

  • Francis Day: The Starlet Time Forgot

    Born in East Orange, New Jersey, in 1908, Schenk’s story is one of reinvention, audacity, and ultimate By the age of 16, she was dancing in New York City’s speakeasies, venues synonymous with Prohibition-era He whisked her off to London, a city whose nightlife was hungry for daring new acts. York’s speakeasies. The post-war entertainment landscape shifted, and audiences moved on to new stars.

  • Thomas Edison’s Creepy Talking Doll: A Forgotten Flop from the Wizard of Menlo Park

    When the dolls hit shelves in New York on April 7, 1890, expectations were high. Few worked properly, many arrived damaged, and the crank mechanism was finicky at best.

  • Sarah Goodridge And One Of The Earliest Examples Of 'Sending Nudes'

    In May of 1829 he courted the wealthy Catherine Van Renssalaer, and when that didn’t work out turned to Caroline Le Roy, the daughter of a prominent New York merchant, whom he soon married.

  • Carl Størmer: The Young Pioneering Street Photographer of 1893

    Marketed by Stirn & Lyon in New York, the cameras sold by the tens of thousands (as the ad above informs The future scientist, soon to be known for his work on number theory and his status as an authority on

  • Picasso, Guernica, and the Women Who Made It Happen: Mougins 1936-37

    The news filtered south through the heat. mural he'd been commissioned to paint for the Paris World Exposition and begun sketching something new She'd been a Vogue model in New York, Man Ray's lover and collaborator in Paris (where they co-invented The New York Times ran an 'Overlooked' obituary eighteen years later, in 2022. Harper's Bazaar, September 15 1937, Ursus Books: https://www.ursusbooks.com/pages/books/172116/new-york-harpers-bazaar

  • The Roentgens' Berlin Secretary Cabinet - Watch How It Works

    One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this cabinet is the most important product from Abraham (1711--1793) and David Roentgen's (1743--1807) workshop. A writing cabinet crowned with a chiming clock, it features finely designed marquetry panels and elaborate mechanisms that allow for doors and drawers to be opened automatically at the touch of a button. Owned by King Frederick William II, the Berlin cabinet is uniquely remarkable for its ornate decoration, mechanical complexity, and sheer size. This cabinet is from Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine: The Science, the Sacrifice, and a Patent He Never Filed

    Kid From the Bronx Who Didn't Care Much for Biology Jonas Edward Salk was born on 28 October 1914 in New York City, the eldest son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland. pushed Jonas and his brothers relentlessly, and it paid off: Jonas enrolled at the City College of New York at just fifteen. He took the hint, switched to medicine, and enrolled at New York University School of Medicine, where

  • What Caused the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876?

    Newspapers picked up the story, including Scientific American and The New York Times, and suddenly a William Livingston Alden, writing in The New York Times, suggested that just as the Earth passes through writers, including Charles Fort, would point out that without rain, the Nostoc explanation simply did not work

  • Arthur Barry: The Gentleman Thief Who Dazzled the Jazz Age and Robbed Its Richest with a Smile

    York’s wealthiest quarter. After each job, he would separate the stones from their settings and discard the metal in New York Bay Among his many romantic liaisons was a New York showgirl, a performer on the fringe of Broadway’s busy A judge handed him 25 years in Auburn Prison, upstate New York. Empire of Deception  and biographical features New York Times  crime archives, 1920s FBI historical case

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