All posts tagged "Paris"
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2.8KBusiness and LaborIda Tarbell, Investigative Journalist, Takes Down John D. Rockefeller
In the 1930s, Ida Tarbell sat down at her mahogany desk in the sunny library of her Easton, Conn., farmhouse. She wrote...
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4.7KArts and LeisureEdith Wharton in Paris During World War I
Life for Edith Wharton in Paris was lived in stimulating freedom and aristocratic luxury until World War I broke out. Shocked by...
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17.7K1Arts and LeisureMay Alcott, The Real Amy, Always in the Real Jo’s Shadow
May Alcott, the real Amy March in Louisa May Alcott’s semi-autobiographical novel Little Women, struggled all her life to win success as...
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8.4K6Politics and MilitaryDaylight Saving Time – The Massachusetts Mayor Who Brought it to Light
Daylight Saving Time probably began with the cavemen. And the controversy over daylight saving time probably started soon thereafter. Throughout history, cultures...
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5.9K2Arts and LeisureWhistler’s Mother Poses for Her Bad Boy
When bad boy artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s mother first came to live with him in London in 1864, he had to...
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15.3K2Arts and LeisureS.J. Perelman, the Rhode Island Wit Who Wrote Groucho’s Jokes
S.J. Perelman, arguably the funniest writer of the 20th century, was already pretty funny as a commuter student at Brown University. In 1925...
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