BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR FATAL 2012 SHOOTING Jury Found Defendant Guilty of Second-Degree Murder Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to 25 years to […]
Al Hirschfeld (1903) Hirschfeld was an American graphic artist and caricaturist who was famous for his witty, perceptive, and joyful caricatures of theater celebrities and other public personalities. After becoming a theater correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, he […]
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
ascription Definition: (noun) Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing. Synonyms: attribution Usage: The ascription to me of honors I had not earned left me feeling guilty and ashamed. Discuss.
Lillian Hellman (1905) After working as a book reviewer, press agent, and play reader, Hellman began writing plays in the 1930s. Her first major success, The Children’s Hour, concerned two schoolteachers falsely accused of lesbianism. She examined family infighting in […]
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
insouciance Definition: (noun) Blithe lack of concern; nonchalance. Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness Usage: He replied with characteristic insouciance, “So what?”
FIVE MEN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER IN STABBING OF LESANDRO “JUNIOR” GUZMAN-FELIZ Today a jury has found five defendants, Jonaiki Martinez Estrella, Antonio Rodriguez Hernandez Santiago, Manuel Rivera, Jose Muniz and Elvin Garcia, guilty of first-degree Murder, second-degree Murder, second-degree […]
Cases of Interest for the Week of June 17, 2019 Monday, June 17, 2019 ADAJudgePart #Status Defendant Name Case Details Dolan, M.Neary70Set Trial Date Frederick ThenRonald UrenaJose TavarezDanel FernandezGabriel Ramirez ConcepcionDiego SueroDanilo Payamps PachecoLuis Cabera Santos Charged with Murder, Manslaughter and […]
We are Pleased to Invite You to The Morris Park Community Association Meeting This Wednesday, June 19th, 7:30 PM at Community Center 1824 Bronxdale Avenue, Bronx, NY FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL TINA: (718) 823-0596
Blaise Pascal (1623) Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist,and religious philosopher. A child prodigy, heearned the envy of René Descartes with anessay he wrote on conic sections when he wasstill a teen. Credited with founding the moderntheory of probability and advancing differentialcalculus, he also made important contributions to physics, notablyin the study of atmospheric pressure. Why did he later abandonhis scientific work to focus on theology and philosophy? More…
Kings are not born: they are made by artificialhallucination. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
claptrap Definition: (noun) Pompous or pretentious talk or writing. Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant Usage: He talks a lot of pretentious claptrap and rarely getsdown to brass tacks. Discuss.
Karl Landsteiner (1868) Landsteiner was an Austrian-born American medical researcher who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the four basic human blood groups—A, B, O, and AB—which enabled the first successful blood […]
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