“when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however...
source Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) was a millionaire heiress and Chicago society dame with a very unusual hobby for a woman raised according to the strictest standards of nineteenth century...
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William Frederick Pinchbeck was a forerunner of Ricky Jay and the Masked Magician. His 1805 book, The Expositor, was a demystification of the tricks and illusions of the day… … taking place via the...
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In 1798 John Neagle, an honest Philadelphia blacksmith, was falsely convicted and incarcerated for America’s first major bank robbery; exonerated six months later, he then became America’s first...
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On the heels of last Sunday’s look at the NYPL Labs’ extraordinary interactive version of the Green Books, another visit to the Library, which has taken advantage of it’s enormous public domain...
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