All posts tagged "Columbia University"
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5.1KArts and LeisureMelvil Dewey, the Womanizing OCD Librarian who Organized the Olympics
Melvil Dewey had an obsession with the number 10. He slept 10 hours, wrote 10-page letters and created the Dewey Decimal System...
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4.4KbostonMary Antin, Poster Child for Letting Immigrants Into America
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
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4.7KArts and LeisureDiscovery in the Attic: The Lost Work of Provincetown Artist Edith Lake Wilkinson
In 1924, someone packed a truck with the life work of Edith Lake Wilkinson – her woodblocks, prints, sketches and paintings. And...
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11.6KArts and LeisureJacques Pepin, French From Connecticut
Jacques Pepin and Julia Child were serving up mashed sweet potatoes during a televised cooking show just before Thanksgiving in 2000. Julia...
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9.0KArts and LeisureThe Jack Kerouac Fantasy Baseball Game (Yes, That Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac invented a fantasy baseball game with homemade cards that he played well into adulthood. After he played the games, he...
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18.2K6Arts and LeisureBeatrix Farrand Breaks the (Green) Glass Ceiling
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
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