The Hero’s Journey: A Model for Great Storytelling with Maryrose Wood — September 17 From the poets of ancient Greece to The Hobbit and Harry Potter, great storytellers have used the hero’s journey to create compelling narratives. This introduction to the […]
American women exercised their new right to vote for the first time in the 1920 presidential election.
Today, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit denied disgraced former Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson’s appeal of his federal trial judge’s order seizing his pension contributions assets that can be used to pay his $22,000 restitution penalty. Second Circuit […]
Pierre de Fermant (1601) A founder of modern probability theory and number theory, Fermat was a French jurist and amateur mathematician. A contemporary of Descartes, he independently discovered the basic principles of analytic geometry. Yet he is best remembered for […]
The scene, as beheld through the hazy atmosphere of this climate, is one of great interest; if, indeed, a person, fresh from sea, and who has just walked, for the first time, in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, can be […]
magnanimous Definition: (adjective) Courageously noble in mind and heart. Synonyms: greathearted Usage: Then he imagined how, after the attack, Bogdanich would come up to him as he lay wounded and would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation.
Bronx Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking and Assault Charges A Bronx man pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and assault charges yesterday in connection with a prostitution ring he helped run with his cousin and a separate slashing executed while […]
Wear pink to show your solidarity with breast cancer patients and survivors on August 18.
If I were to throw a big time party, I would have to ask Debbie Tymon to plan it.
On this date in 1835, the adjustable or screw wrench was patented by Solymon Merrick of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Americans are focused on the Olympics in Brazil, but it is the South American nation of Venezuela that deserves the most attention. Venezuela is a poster child for the shortcomings of socialist economics. The Washington Post recently noted, “Venezuela is…well […]
In a blistering editorial on Tuesday, the NY Daily News called on Bronx Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson to step aside as chair of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee for quashing a ticket given her for dangerous driving. The DN […]
HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO SPRAY PESTICIDE FROM TRUCKS FOR FIFTH TIME IN 2016 TO REDUCE RISK OF ZIKA AND WEST NILE VIRUSES No Zika virus found, no Zika transmission from local mosquitoes in NYC As a precaution, Department will target […]
By Martin Kelly American History Expert Updated August 15, 2016. Reprinted from About.com/Education “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union . . .” was written by Gouverneur Morris. Morris was a Founding Father of the United […]
Christian Mortensen (1882) When Mortensen died at the age of 115 years and 252 days, he was the oldest man who had ever lived whose age is undisputed. Mortensen was born in Denmark in 1882 and immigrated to the US […]
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