Archive for January, 2019
Whose Birthday Is It? January 29, 2019
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860) Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, dramatist, and physician who earned enduring international acclaim for his stories and plays. His early works were broad humorous sketches and tales published under a pseudonym, written to support himself […]
Quote of the Day: January 29, 2019
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
Word of the Day: January 29, 2019
epitomize Definition: (verb) Embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of. Synonyms: typify Usage: They are so perfect in their way that they seem to epitomize the very scent and charm of the forest, as if the […]
The AOC: Trump, Ocasio-Cortez, the Founding Fathers, Sundance and skin care
The Swamp fights back Writing in the New York Post on Saturday, Trump-whisperer Salena Zito applies her “special” understanding of the American electorate’s psyche to explain AOC’s populist rise. Simply put: Ocasio-Cortez and Trump are two sides of the same […]
Profile America: Prohibition
Tuesday, January 29th. There have been 27 ratified amendments to the U.S. Constitution over the past 225-plus years, but that total comes with an asterisk. Uniquely, the 21st Amendment repeals the 18th, which began its short career this month in1919. […]
MAYOR DE BLASIO ANNOUNCES LEADFREENYC, A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO END CHILDHOOD LEAD EXPOSURE
The theme of ‘The LeadFreeNYC plan’ will be to have a LEAD FREE NYC by screening not only large multiple dwelling buildings built before 1978, but to screen every apartment for any hazard of lead. This will be done by […]
Where The Pols Are, January 29
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany with no public appearances or interviews yet scheduled. At 9:30 a.m., the Assembly and Senate hold a joint legislative hearing on the public protection portion of the governor’s 2019-20 budget, Hearing Room B, LOB, […]
The Lou Gehrig Collection
Nearly 900-lot auction features the heaviest trading card offering in hobby’s premier event The Lou Gehrig Collection, Historic Bats, Iconic Ali Robes Lead Heritage Auctions Platinum Night Catalog Heritage Auctions’ Platinum Night sales have a long history as the most dangerous […]
Bronx Chronicle Photo of the Day: January 28, 2019
Photo by Mike Yagoda
The Bronx Chronicle Veteran of the Week
John Patrick Tipping Award: Veterans’ Hall of Fame Year: 2005 Inductee was nominated by Former Senator Michael A. L. Balboni John Patrick Tipping is deserving of a place among New York State’s most outstanding veterans for his more than three […]
Whose Birthday Is It? January 28, 2019
Robert Franklin Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz (1890) Stroud was a convicted murderer serving time in prison when he came across some injured sparrows in the Leavenworth prison yard. He kept the birds and soon began raising canaries, which he […]
Quote of the Day: January 28, 2019
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Word of the Day: January 28, 2019
inextirpable Definition: (adjective) Difficult or impossible to eradicate or destroy. Synonyms: inexterminable Usage: Some weeds seem inextirpable, but they all have at least one weakness that may be exploited. Discuss.
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