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The Bronx Chronicle Veteran of the Week

The Bronx Chronicle Veteran of the Week

Frank X. Allkofer HONOREE PROFILE November 11, 2020 ISSUE: VETERANS’ HALL OF FAME Frank X. Allkofer Bio US Army Frank X. Allkofer is a proud veteran having served with the United States Army in Vietnam and is a member of […]

by · June 28, 2021 · Bulletin Board, Veterans
Quote of the Day: June 28, 2021

Quote of the Day: June 28, 2021

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. Homer (900 BC-800 BC)

by · June 28, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: June 28, 2021

Word of the Day: June 28, 2021

munificent Definition: (adjective) Very liberal in giving; generous. Synonyms: lavish, unsparing, unstinting Usage: In recognition of this munificent patronage of the State’s languishing industries, the Governor commissioned him a colonel. Discuss.

by · June 28, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? June 22, 2021

Whose Birthday Is It? June 22, 2021

Erich Maria Remarque (1898) Drafted into the German army at age 18, Remarque served in World War I and was wounded several times. From his experience of trench warfare, he drew a grimly realistic picture of the horror of battle in his first novel and masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front. It was an immediate international success, and Remarque went on to write several other novels. All Quiet on the Western Front was later burned by the Nazis, who guillotined which of his family members in 1943? More…

by · June 22, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: June 22, 2021

Quote of the Day: June 22, 2021

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are! H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

by · June 22, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: June 22, 2021

Word of the Day: June 22, 2021

freebooter Definition: (noun) Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war). Synonyms: looter, pillager, plunderer, raider Usage: He was a genial freebooter, living off the enemy, without fear or shame. Discuss.

by · June 22, 2021 · Bulletin Board
The Home Room

The Home Room

The Home Room by Melissa Melkonian   American Dream Students are College Bound   Recently my school, the American Dream Charter School in the South Bronx, held a “college reveal” celebration for our graduating class.   American Dream’s nearly 60 […]

by · June 21, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? June 21, 2021

Whose Birthday Is It? June 21, 2021

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905) Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, and novelist who became the foremost exponent of existentialism in the 20th century. His first novel, Nausea, was one of many works depicting man as a lonely being burdened with a terrifying freedom. He served in World War II, was taken prisoner, escaped, and was involved in the French resistance, during which he wrote multiple works. In 1964, he became the first person to voluntarily decline the Nobel Prize in Literature. Why did he refuse it? More…

by · June 21, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: June 21, 2021

Quote of the Day: June 21, 2021

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. George Eliot (1819-1880)

by · June 21, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: June 21, 2021

Word of the Day: June 21, 2021

mawkish Definition: (adjective) Excessively and objectionably sentimental. Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, maudlin, schmaltzy, sentimental, mushy, drippy Usage: His pathos is often exaggerated until it passes into mawkish sentimentality. Discuss.

by · June 21, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? June 19, 2021

Whose Birthday Is It? June 19, 2021

Wallis Simpson (1896) Simpson was an American socialite for whom English King Edward VIII voluntarily abdicated the throne. Their relationship caused a furor in England because the Church of England at the time did not allow people with living ex-spouses to marry, and, as king, Edward was also head of the church. Simpson’s two ex-husbands were still alive when she married Edward on June 3, 1937, just six months after he relinquished his title. How did Wallis and Edward spend the rest of their lives together? More…

by · June 19, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: June 19, 2021

Quote of the Day: June 19, 2021

What one man can invent another can discover. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

by · June 19, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Word of the Day: June 19, 2021

Word of the Day: June 19, 2021

cajolery Definition: (noun) Flattery intended to persuade. Synonyms: blandishment, palaver Usage: She used every possible means of cajolery to persuade her father to take her to the circus. Discuss.

by · June 19, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Whose Birthday Is It? June 18, 2021

Whose Birthday Is It? June 18, 2021

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901) The youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Anastasia was allegedly murdered at age 17 along with her parents and siblings during the Russian Revolution. After the family’s execution, rumors swirled that Anastasia had managed to survive. The appearance of several imposters further fueled these rumors, as did the discovery of her family’s burial site in 1991 with two bodies missing. Has anyone been able to conclusively prove that Anastasia was indeed killed with the rest of her family? More…

by · June 18, 2021 · Bulletin Board
Quote of the Day: June 18, 2021

Quote of the Day: June 18, 2021

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

by · June 18, 2021 · Bulletin Board