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  • The Acid Archive: Mark McCloud's Institute of Illegal Images

    McCloud recalls the earliest commercial batches appearing in 1968 from a New York chemist known only A Folk Art of the Subconscious New York art critic Carlo McCormick once described blotter as an "illicit Jurors accepted that his framed works were cultural and aesthetic objects, not narcotics intended for

  • Peter Freuchen: The Arctic Adventurer Who Dug Himself Out of an Ice Cave with a Frozen Dagger of His Own Making

    fellow explorer Knud Rasmussen In 1910, Freuchen and Rasmussen founded the Thule trading post at Cape York He worked against Nazi operations and helped hide those the regime targeted. They moved to New York City, where she worked for Vogue and he joined the New York Explorers Club. seems to be backed by diaries, eyewitness accounts, photographs, and a long bibliography of his own works

  • Nellie Bly, The Journalist That Beat Phileas Fogg's Journey Around The World

    Around the World in Eighty Days, a novel that captured the growing excitement of a world connected by new York World: she would attempt to beat Fogg’s fictional time — and do it alone. Packing Light, Thinking Fast On 14 November 1889, Bly departed New Jersey with just one small satchel On 25 January 1890, she arrived back in New Jersey. York World Archives) https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Smithsonian Magazine – “The Race Around the

  • Jimmy Page Describes the Creation of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”

    during their U.S. tour in May and June of 1969, adding overdubs in studios located in Los Angeles and New York. “For the song to work as this panoramic audio experience,” he says, “I needed Bonzo [drummer John Bonham He compares Robert Plant’s searing vocal to his guitar work: Robert's vocal was just as extreme.

  • The Bellhop Who Invented Luxury: The Curious Rise of Guccio Gucci

    Guccio Gucci’s journey began in the Savoy Hotel in London, where he worked as a bellhop and concierge Opening of the first Gucci store in New York, USA, 1953 The Final Chapter: From Legacy to Legend Guccio That same year, Gucci opened its first store in New York City, fulfilling the brand’s international ambitions legacy” – https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/20/house-of-gucci-the-truth-behind-the-film BBC News Archive – The murder of Maurizio Gucci (1998 coverage): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59239060

  • Frank Sheeran: The Irishman and His Secrets

    The small, working-class town on the outskirts of Philadelphia shaped him into a tough, hardened individual the Teamsters after his prison sentence put him at odds with powerful figures like Bufalino and the New York Mafia families. Sheeran’s I Heard You Paint Houses  confession was that he killed Crazy Joe  Gallo, the flamboyant New York gangster gunned down at Umberto’s Clam House in Little Italy in 1972.

  • Evelyn Nesbit: The Girl on the Velvet Swing and the Gilded Age Scandal That Shook America

    From Small-Town Pennsylvania to New York’s Art Circles Florence Evelyn Nesbit was born on Christmas Day The Rise of the “Gibson Girl” By 1900, Evelyn and her mother had moved to New York City. York architect behind Madison Square Garden, and 32 years her senior. On New Year's Eve 1925, after concluding a six-week engagement at Chicago's Moulin Rouge and before a For days, headlines across the country once again turned Nesbit's tragic life into front-page news.

  • Roger Stone: A Life of Scandals, Controversies and Crimes

    Trump Connection Stone first crossed paths with Donald Trump in the 1980s, when Trump was a flashy New York real estate mogul with political ambitions. and Style  (2018) “Roger Stone is Convicted in Trial That Revived Questions About Trump and Russia” – New York Times, 15 Nov 2019 – https://www.nytimes.com “Roger Stone, Trump Ally, Sentenced to 40 Months” The Atlantic, 2019 – https://www.theatlantic.com “Roger Stone and the Dark Arts of Politics” – BBC News

  • Isolating Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ramble On’ Track by Track: Guitars, Bass, Drums & Vocals

    The track was recorded in New York during the spring of 1969 while Led Zeppelin was on its second North , marked by Plant’s introspective vocals, and electric choruses that showcase Page's layered guitar work John Bonham's percussion work during the quieter sections has been a source of fascination for fans and Plant’s love for Tolkien’s works would later manifest in other Led Zeppelin songs, including "Misty Mountain balancing the raw energy of their live performances with the precision and experimentation of studio work

  • A Dark Chapter in American History: The Lynching of J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith

    In 1937, Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from New York City and later the adoptive father of the Meeropol later said it haunted him for days and inspired his poem Bitter Fruit, published in the New York Teacher in 1937 and later in New Masses under the pseudonym Lewis Allan. He founded four NAACP chapters across Indiana, moved to Detroit for a time to find work and pursue an

  • The Scottsboro Boys: The Case That Exposed American Injustice

    York criminal defence attorney with a genuinely staggering record: seventy seven acquittals and one York, a line aimed squarely at Leibowitz, who was Jewish. Attorney General Knight met Leibowitz secretly in New York and offered a deal: drop the charges against Leibowitz personally took all four back to New York with him. York, at the same Alan Lomax session that produced his Bourgeois Blues.

  • Rockwell Kent, Herman Melville and the Revival of Moby Dick

    By the early twentieth century, he was better known as a customs inspector in New York than as a novelist He worked as a painter, wood engraver and book illustrator. Melville lived in New York and in the mountainous regions to the north and west. Kent did too. It has been in print for more than seventy five years and continues to accompany new readers on their Sources https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/09/01/op-ed-why-herman-melville-is-200-years-old-and-still-relevant

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