Council Member Fernando Cabrera Will Join Police Precincts, Community Residents For National Night Out Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM Council Member Fernando Cabrera will join the 44th, 46th, 50th and 52nd precincts and local residents […]
New York, New York—August 3, 2018—The New York City Uniformed EMT’s Paramedics & Fire Inspectors FDNY, AFSCME Local 2507 today endorsed State Senator Jeff Klein for reelection to the New York State Senate, representing the 34th Senate District. Local 2507represents […]
Susie Baker King Taylor (1848) Born into slavery, Taylor was secretly—and illegally—educated during her childhood. As a young woman, she served as a Union army nurse during the American Civil War. She became the first African American to openly teach […]
When I talk of eyes, the stars come out! Whose eyes are they? If they are angels’ eyes, why do they look down here and see good men hurt, and only wink and sparkle all the night? Charles Dickens (1812-1870) […]
snobbish Definition: (adjective) Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior. Synonyms: cliquish, snobby, clannish, clubby Usage: I expected Susan, the daughter of a multimillionaire, to be snobbish, but […]
SEVEN PEOPLE INDICTED FOR FENTANYL DEALING IN AND AROUND HUNTS POINT PRODUCE MARKET 13 Arrested in Takedown on June 20; Supplier Has Pleaded Guilty and Was Sentenced to Six Years Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, New York City Police […]
Regina Jonas (1902) After being denied ordination at least once, German Jewess Regina Jonas finally found a rabbi willing to defy convention and make her, in 1935, the first ordained woman rabbi. A victim of the Holocaust, Jonas’s story went […]
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
unfeigned Definition: (adjective) Not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed. Synonyms: genuine, true Usage: I could tell from his unfeigned astonishment that he truly knew nothing about the robbery plans.
SALISBURY, MD—Megi Rrugeja of Bronx, NY, was named to the Dean’s List at Salisbury University for the spring 2018 semester. At Salisbury University, some 8,700 students in 43 undergraduate, 15 graduate and two doctoral programs pursue liberal […]
Constantine I of Greece (1868) The reign of Constantine I was a trying one. He succeeded his father as king of Greece in 1913 and was almost immediately faced with World War I. His neutralist, yet essentially pro-German, attitude caused […]
It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
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