AmericanCarrington Event, 1859 and Its Effect on American...
AAD REPORTS 20/09/2019
From August 29th until September 2, 1859 British astronomer Richard Carrington made scientific history as he documented the first observed sun spots, solar flares and an associated Aura Borealis that reached the Earth a day and a half later when that...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanThe photographer shooting a 30-year timelapse of New...
AAD REPORTS 12/09/2019When Joseph DiGiovanna was looking for an apartment to buy in Weehawken, New Jersey, the most important thing for him was the view.
Perched on the Palisades, the steep cliffs overlooking the Hudson River, Weehawken is known for its striking views of New...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanLoud 'boom' reported across Central New York was...
AAD REPORTS 05/09/2019While all eyes were on Hurricane Dorian spinning through the Bahamas, last night saw a meteorite explode over NY State.
People living in Central New York who reported hearing a loud, fearful boom on Monday night can rest relatively easily -- it...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanNew York in Motion Pictures, 1890-1920
AAD REPORTS 01/09/2019
Leviathan of the western hemisphere, New York City is constantly knocking itself over and rebuilding itself with even taller buildings, sometimes we forget how old the place really happens to be. The video at the below shows long lost footage of...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanArkansas in NY Times -1964
AAD REPORTS 22/08/2019This from the NY Times - March 8, 1964
The gamblers of Hot Springs are locked in a struggle with the Federal Government to maintain their control of the biggest illegal gambling operation in the United States. The enterprises flourish with the support...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanGhislain Maxwell spotted in LA
AAD REPORTS 16/08/2019Prosecutors in New York and lawyers for the accusers are said to be keen to speak with Ghislain Maxwell for questioning as the conspiracy case into the Epstein network continues. She is a person of interest.
JEFFREY Epstein’s British ‘madam’ has been...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanFinney Farm Croton-on-Hudson, home of Mabel Dodge,...
AAD REPORTS 15/08/2019How a corner of Croton was Taos before Taos.
Fifty years after Gifford painted Hook Mountain from Croton Point, artists returned to the sleepy hamlet on the Hudson River. Drawn by patron Mabel Dodge whose seasonal home on Finney Farm was painted by...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanUS Navy captain fled Iran as a child. Now he returns...
AAD REPORTS 15/08/2019Only in America will a kid named Kavon Hakimzadeh (pronounced Ha-KEEM-za-day) grow up to win a Bronze star and become captain of a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier, in this case the USS Harry Truman (CVN-75). How ironic is it when the mad mullahs of Iran...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Audubon Ballroom
AAD REPORTS 14/08/2019Where Malcom X got whacked by Louis Farrakhan's shotgun wielding henchmen.
Follow Gildedage.nyc on Instagram, here
Follow Gildedage.nyc on Instagram, here
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American"Fredo" lives!
AAD REPORTS 13/08/2019Video shows Chris Cuomo fly into rage after man calls him 'Fredo'.
If he calls Chris Cuomo that again, he could be sleeping with the fishes.
The CNN anchor was caught on video flying into an abject rage at a man for calling him “Fredo” — an...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanEpstein Documents Released, Revealing Depths of...
AAD REPORTS 11/08/2019Strap on Sally
Thousands of pages of documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of young girls were released Friday, opening the floodgates on one of the biggest scandals of...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanJeffrey Epstein killed himself in prison, report...
AAD REPORTS 10/08/2019Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has killed himself in prison, according to a media report by ABC News.
Epstein, 66, had been accused of sex trafficking and was being held without bail in jail after being arrested on 6 July. He pleaded not guilty to...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - New York
AAD REPORTS 09/08/2019January 15, 2018, The city that never sleeps New York Instagram by @ Calder
1870, The City of New York, published by Currier and Ives
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AmericanGame of Thrones creators sign $200 million Netflix...
AAD REPORTS 08/08/2019The bean counters at AT&T screw the pooch, lose brilliant show runners of HBO to Netflix.
The idea when AT&T bought Time Warner was that HBO could compete as a streaming platform against tech upstart Netflix. Instead, after John Stankey...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanThe facts behind Gabbard and Biden's attack on Kamala...
AAD REPORTS 03/08/2019Kamala the hypocrite.
Tulsi Gabbard was right, Kamela Harris smoked weed while sending 1,500 to the state penitentiary for getting caught for what Kamela continued to do behind closed doors.
Joe Biden took the brunt of the attacks during...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanUnited States Senate panel backs Nord Stream 2...
AAD REPORTS 01/08/2019Putin better find more Picassos to bribe people with because sanctions on Nord Stream 2 just cleared an important committee vote (20-2) in the United States Senate.
A similar bill already cleared the United States House of Representatives. After a full...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanTop Individual Contributors: All Federal...
AAD REPORTS 30/07/2019If you threw a contested 8 million pounds into the US election in 2016, you might not crack the top 20.
Here are the individuals who have dipped deepest into their own pockets for campaign contributions to federal candidates, parties, political...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanEpstein: 2000 pages relating to case to be...
AAD REPORTS 27/07/2019The judicial panel agreed. As soon as next week, 2,000 pages of documents relating to that case, which was settled in 2017, will be made public.
In its ruling, the panel said the documents included descriptions of alleged abuse by Epstein and other...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanABCs of Epstein's Black book
AAD REPORTS 23/07/2019ABCs of Epstein's Black book
Althorp, Charles: Princess Diana’s brother
Prince Andrew, The Duke of York
Band, Doug: Influence peddler, Clinton bag man
Berger, Sandy: National-security adviser for Bill Clinton
Blair, Tony: Former British prime...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanJeffrey Epstein's Black Book: Trump, Clintons, Prince...
AAD REPORTS 23/07/2019Check out these names.
The “black book” of Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier and now-accused child sex trafficker, is a smorgasbord of high-profile, powerful people, including Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew and...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanImages Echo Luncheons Past - The Google Split Roast...
AAD REPORTS 20/07/2019When you pose like a sandwich, it means you want to be eaten. The only question is, price for the meal.
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AmericanMarylou Whitney, Queen of Saratoga, Dies at 93
AAD REPORTS 20/07/2019Widow of art collector Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Mary Lou was a patron on her own right. Many claim she spearheaded the salvation of Saratoga Springs when alternative venues loomed large on the turbulent 1970s and a race track dating to the Civil War...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanWhy you shouldn't expect Gov. Andrew Cuomo to break...
AAD REPORTS 18/07/2019Darktown fires burn unchecked.
In a scene remimiscnet of Currier and Ives, Mount Vernon reinforces stereotypes long thought forgotten.
With an election year coming, no white politician wants to step in and play referee.
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AmericanFISA court judge at epicenter of Epstein discovery...
AAD REPORTS 16/07/2019José Alberto Cabranes is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a member of the three-judge United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, designated in May 2018 as Presiding Judge...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanPrince Andrew sex allegations: 'Slave girl' Virginia...
AAD REPORTS 16/07/2019Documents pertaining to this earlier case which were ordered sealed are now about to be unsealed as a federal judge says the public has a right to know.
Prince Andrew’s “sex slave” vows to bring him to justice in a criminal court alleging he was...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanNASA Apollo 11 Video Recordings Could Sell for...
AAD REPORTS 15/07/2019Three reels of videotape from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission described as “the only surviving first-generation recordings of the historic moon walk” will be auctioned at Sotheby’s on Saturday, the day of the moon landing’s 50th anniversary.
The footage offers...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanToes up for Tony Cigars, Last Possible Link To Hoffa...
AAD REPORTS 07/07/2019Toes up (Tony Cigars) Ruggirello checked out this week of natural causes ending quite possibly the last chance at solving the Jimmy Hoffa murder mystery, a story that has been the subject of numerous books and movies.
Word on the street was Hoffa had a...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanMarijuana dispensaries near Capital Region on the rise...
AAD REPORTS 07/07/2019Two more recreational marijuana dispensaries opened in western Massachusetts on Friday, bringing the total number of pot shops near the Capital Region to 10.
Canna Provisions, a company founded by cannabis industry veterans, opened Friday morning in the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanRalph Blakelock (1847-1919), Indian Ghosts and Other...
AAD REPORTS 07/07/2019Middletown Homeopathic Hospital, Blakelock's Home from the 1890's to 1915
Ralph Albert Blakelock was born in New York City in 1847 the son of a physician. He graduated from the College of the City of New York, studied briefly at Cooper Union, and at the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanHow art saved Yellowstone—and the landscape still...
AAD REPORTS 03/07/2019Yellowstone - Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
How art saved Yellowstone—and the landscape still inspires.
Yellowstone - Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Yellowstone - Thomas Moran (1837-1926)
Castle Geyser
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AmericanIsland 4 sale
AAD REPORTS 03/07/2019He’s Spent Just One Night on His Private Island. He’s Had Enough.
Albert Sutton paid just over $1 million for something that many rich people dream of — a private island. Then he bought a second island, 400 yards away, for $450,000.
The purchases...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanTommy O'Sullivan Found
AAD REPORTS 02/07/2019A state Parole Board member appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is married to a convicted killer whose three-decade prison stint included a daring escape and biting off part of an inmate’s nose, The Post has learned.
Tana Agostini, 51, fell in love with and...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanThe Yanks are coming. London to get an up-close look...
AAD REPORTS 27/06/2019London's Olympic Stadium gets a temporary redesign from soccer to baseball. British public to get first in season display of the throwing skills that made Yanks trading grenades with Nazis in WW2 a huge mismatch in favor for the Americans. Something the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanTommy O'Sullivan escapes queens house of detention
AAD REPORTS 20/06/2019Interesting story on the archives of the New York Times from 1987 on how three men used a fire hose to escape down the side of queens house detention center in queens, NY.
Two men convicted of murder and a third inmate pried open a steel hatch,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanRumblings of Yellowstone
Robert Alexander Boyle 17/06/2019Could rumblings of Yellowstone cause animals to flee from the caldera?
Yellowstone elk in their thousands leave the supervolcano each year to find higher grounds around the Yellowstone National Park. The annual mass migration gives the wild Yellowstone...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanSize is not enough, Van Jones finalizes divorce from...
AAD REPORTS 14/06/2019Cafe con leche no more.
They’re legally free to move on.
CNN host Van Jones has finalized his divorce from estranged wife, Jana Carter, according to court documents obtained by The Blast on Friday.
Carter filed for divorce from the “Van Jones...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Bash Bish Falls,...
AAD REPORTS 14/06/2019Bash Bish Falls in Autumn - Follow Julian.cd on Instagram
John Frederick Kensett, Bash Bish Falls, National Academy of Design
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AmericanJoe Biden says 'we're gonna cure cancer' if he's...
AAD REPORTS 14/06/2019Great news! If Biden gets in, he's going to cure cancer.
Sounds almost as crazy as comrade Corbyn.
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden says that he'll cure cancer if he's elected president.
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AmericanBob Hope house in Palm Springs, long an architectural...
AAD REPORTS 10/06/2019PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — For decades, this city has been known for its high-low mix of desert culture, exemplified by the offerings on East Palm Canyon Drive, a well-traveled road with views of the craggy brown hills to the south.
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - New York
AAD REPORTS 30/05/2019January 15, 2018, The city that never sleeps New York Instagram by @ Calder
1870, The City of New York, published by Currier and Ives
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Portland Head
AAD REPORTS 25/05/2019Portland Head Light House - follow Ms. Nina Taggart on instagram, @picturecraziee
Lighthouse and Buildings, Portland Head, Cape Elizabeth, Maine by Edward Hopper c1927 - follow the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on Instagram, here, and learn more about the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanMGM pulls out of talks with Wynn over sale of Everett...
AAD REPORTS 22/05/2019Oooops, no deal.
Las Vegas casino giant MGM Resorts is pulling out of talks with Wynn Resorts over the possible sale of Wynn’s Everett property, Encore Boston Harbor, MGM said Tuesday night. The company, which operates the MGM...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanWhy would Wynn sell its Everett casino so close to...
AAD REPORTS 21/05/2019The chief executives of casino giants Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts are discussing a possible sale of Wynn’s nearly finished Encore Boston Harbor casino complex in Everett, a potentially colossal deal that would dramatically change the gambling landscape...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanHudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
AAD REPORTS 19/05/2019
Situated along the river in north Yonkers is the appropriately named Hudson River Museum. Easily overlooked by the colossus to the south, it is a charming place to visit, especially when the weather is nice, which would make it as these photos show, a...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Diana atop the old...
AAD REPORTS 14/05/2019Diana atop the old Madison Square Garden, 1920 - Follow old_ny_photos on Instagram
Augustus St. Gaudens, Diana, collection Metropolitan Museum of Art
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AmericanWhat Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur?
AAD REPORTS 13/05/2019What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur? The question may sound like a “duh,” but it gets to the heart of how we categorize and define nature.
Ask any 8-year-old what a dinosaur is, and she’ll eagerly rattle off her favorite of the prehistoric celebrities....[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanOrigin of the term Fugazy
AAD REPORTS 10/05/2019Long before Donnie Brasco introduced the term ‘Fugazy’ as meaning a fake, there was a certain writer from Sports Illustrated who labeled a would be boxing promoter named William Fugazy a fraud.
HAIL, HAIL, THE GANG'S ALL HERE
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AmericanA forbidding island off Martha’s Vineyard, once a...
AAD REPORTS 10/05/2019Painted by Sanford Gifford in 1877 while on a bass fishing expedition. Later used as a bombing range by the Navy for decades. Now the Guns are silent, the only sound now is the hippety hop of bunnies.
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Statue of Liberty
AAD REPORTS 06/05/2019Statue of Liberty - Follow hudsonvalleyhappenings on instagram
Edward Moran (1829 -1901) Unveiling The Statue of Liberty 1886
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AmericanTruth is stranger than fiction regarding mobster...
AAD REPORTS 29/04/2019Great movie gets a plot correction. Pesci character whacked by the Dapper Don.
In 1986 when Henry Hill coauthored the book, which became the basis of the legendary film Goodfellas with former Sports Illustrated scribe Nicholas Pileggi, Henry...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanThis Georgian-Style Mansion In New York Will Be Sold...
AAD REPORTS 24/04/2019A spectacular Georgian-style mansion in Westchester County, New York, will be sold at auction on May 18th. The expansive home is more than 19,000-square-feet in size and is situated on 86 wooded acres with its own lake. The home is located in Chappaqua,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanLegends of the Past, When Led Zeppelin Met Elvis
AAD REPORTS 14/04/2019
The passing of music legend Chuck Berry at the age of ninety this past week has prompted much music nostalgia. Berry, who was wild in his ways, at least lived to a ripe old age. Not so was the case of his contemporary Elvis Presley who died some forty...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanHow the Woodstock stage was found after a...
AAD REPORTS 24/03/2019Wade Lawrence was skeptical when he heard about Steve Gold’s discovery.
The stage on which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held had been missing since it was dismantled in 1969. But last year, Lawrence, the museum director and senior curator at The...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanA look back at the history of hits on NYC mob...
AAD REPORTS 15/03/2019In the early 1930s, the notorious Charles “Lucky” Luciano established the modern American Mafia by creating “The Commission.”
It was a governing body through which the Five Families — the Luccheses, the Gambinos, the Genoveses, the Colombos and the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanBank Robbery in Queens
AAD REPORTS 15/03/2019There is a lot of hard work into planning a professional bank robbery.
The Bank Robbery In Queens
by Bobby Batsallota
The year was 1983 and a new dimension was about to be added to my criminal resume. I truly believe that every person who has walked...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanA Mob hit right out of the Sopranos
AAD REPORTS 15/03/2019Staten Island Italian mobster Franky Cali likely got clipped by one of his zip pals.
In mob speak, Zips are imported wiseguys from Italy. They are called that either because they don't have zip codes where these guys come from, or they talk so...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanA Letter and a Lost Ship Found
AAD REPORTS 13/03/2019On July 1, 1942, the U.S.S. Wasp, an aircraft carrier holding 71 planes, 2,247 sailors and a journalist, sailed from San Diego to the western Pacific to join the battle against the Japanese. On board was a naval officer named Lt. Cmdr. John Joseph Shea....[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists past: Lake George New...
AAD REPORTS 13/03/2019
Ms. Rachel Barnes at Lake George, New York - Follow Ms. Barnes on Instagram @rocky_barnes
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AmericanMount St Helens: Watch volcano dome SWELL and RISE by...
AAD REPORTS 04/03/2019A shattered mountain painted by Bierstadt and the largest eruption in the last century in the continental United States shows signs of growth 500 meters taller.
Mount St Helens last showed a period of intense activity between the years 2004 and 2008,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanRarest, most valuable US paper bills in existence set...
AAD REPORTS 20/02/2019Three exceedingly rare 19th century U.S. currency notes are expected to sell for a combined $7 million when they are auctioned off next week.
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AmericanStanding In Awe Of Yellowstone's Grand Canyon—And...
AAD REPORTS 12/02/2019Okay, so I realize it’s an audacious thing to even dare to paint a landmark. I get it.
In his first outing, Thomas Moran painted the view from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Many mistakenly believe the perspective came from Artist...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanNew Exhibition Will Explore Thomas Cole Paintings of...
AAD REPORTS 11/02/2019For almost twenty years Thomas Cole laid the foundation of American landscape painting in Catskill, N.Y.
THOMAS COLE, View Near Catskill, 1828-29. Oil on wood panel, 24 1/4 x 33 3/4 in. Framed: 31 1/2 x 41 x 2 3/8 in. Private...[Read More]0 Comments
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American1930's Postcards from Florida
AAD REPORTS 02/02/2019
Bayfront Park, Miami, FL circa 1935
Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, FL
Blimp over Miami, FL
Washington Palms, Miami, FL
Flame Vines, Miami, FL
Plane to Havana, Pan Am Clipper, Miami, FL
Seminole Village, Miami, FL
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AmericanA secret tunnel leads toward a bank. Who put it...
AAD REPORTS 02/02/2019While a certain score in British history remains sealed courtesy daffy duck laws and bewigged judges more akin to morons than sages, somebody in the USA clearly took notes on the 2008 Jason Steatham film, The Bank Job.
The certain score all of these...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanDIANA KING - Obituary
AAD REPORTS 15/01/2019Diana King
KING--Diana. Diana King, an outstanding philanthropist recognized for her commitment to educational opportunities in television, film and other media, died on Saturday, January 5, 2019 at age 69. A New Jersey native and lifelong resident, she...[Read More]0 Comments
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American‘Back houses’ are NYC’s best-kept secrets
AAD REPORTS 10/01/2019Ashcan school painter Everett Shinn's studio is on the market
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AmericanDavid Chase on ‘The Sopranos,’ 'The Many Saints of...
AAD REPORTS 09/01/2019“‘Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation,” Tony Soprano once told his mob cohorts in “The Sopranos.”
If David Chase, Tony’s creator, doesn’t totally agree with that assessment — “It was a friend of mine in high school who said that,” he said...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanYou tube vs. AAD - A Christmas Tribute to Ms. Mariah...
AAD REPORTS 25/12/2018In light of the huge success that Ms. Mariah Carey is currently enjoying across every platform on the web and every music chart in the world with the re-release of 'All I want for Christmas is you', we thought it appropriate to publish a tribute piece as...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanA Florida Keys Road Trip: 44 Islands and 42...
AAD REPORTS 18/12/2018It’s only 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West, but take it slow and savor the subtropical, sometimes kitschy, flavor, of these fragile isles.
Seagulls and squadrons of brown pelicans flew alongside my rented Hyundai as I drove across the astonishing...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanLife Along the Hudson, Book Review: New York's Last...
AAD REPORTS 18/12/2018In a rapidly changing world, one area still feels like yesteryear.
Given the news that New York’s housing slump has extended to the suburbs, it might behoove jittery homeowners to take the long view. As inspiration, they can look to a recent...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanThanksgiving 2018
AAD REPORTS 19/11/2018On arrival to the shores of Cape Cod, members of the native American Wampanoag Nation taught the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony how to cultivate crops, such as corn. So successful was the first harvest of 1621, that Governor William Bradford ordered a...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanA Down Year for Art Basel in Miami?
AAD REPORTS 19/11/2018 Coast Guard seizes $500M worth of cocaine
U.S. authorities seized about 18.5 tons of cocaine with a street value of $500 million in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Friday.
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - West Point
AAD REPORTS 12/11/2018Looking north towards West Point and Mount Taurus - Follow tone.vision on Instagram
William Heine (active 1850-1859), West Point from Garrison Landing
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AmericanFlames Of Autumn
AAD REPORTS 30/10/2018Kaaterskill Falls
Flames Of Autumn, Thomas Cole And The Birth Of The Hudson River School
In October of 1825 a young British immigrant to the United States named Thomas Cole caught a steamboat ride from lower Manhattan and took a trip up the Hudson...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanMitchell Report on Dr. Ford
AAD REPORTS 01/10/2018This is extraordinarily well researched. The conclusions?
The changing story evidenced by timelines and congressional democrat pressures make this a potential case for witness tampering.
Read more on The Washington...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanThe new Mafia is wising up and keeping quiet
AAD REPORTS 01/10/2018Fughedaboutit.
Meet the new mob — same as the old mob.
Thirty-three years after John Gotti carried out his audacious hit on crime boss Paul Castellano, which flouted Mafia rules and brought a wave of devastating prosecutions under the Dapper Don’s...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanMichael Ovitz, the Former Hollywood Super Agent, Looks...
AAD REPORTS 24/09/2018Few careers in the entertainment business have been as tumultuous as that of former Hollywood super agent Michael Ovitz. After co-founding Creative Artists Agency in 1975, a powerhouse that represented the likes of Robert De Niro, Bill Murray and Paul...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanRapper Rides the Rap as former music mogul Suge Knight...
AAD REPORTS 24/09/2018This is a surprise. Suge Knight Gets 28 Years in Prison in Hit-and-Run Plea Deal.
Marion Knight, the one-time rap mogul better known as Suge, will be sentenced to 28 years in prison after pleading no contest Thursday to reduced charges in connection...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanNew York, as it was in 1911
AAD REPORTS 24/08/2018Watch "1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound)" on YouTube.
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American1930's Postcards from Florida
AAD REPORTS 20/08/2018
Bayfront Park, Miami, FL circa 1935
Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, FL
Blimp over Miami, FL
Washington Palms, Miami, FL
Flame Vines, Miami, FL
Plane to Havana, Pan Am Clipper, Miami, FL
Seminole Village, Miami, FL
Osceola Indian Village,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanLost Indian City found in southern Kansas
AAD REPORTS 20/08/2018There are no vine-covered temples or impenetrable jungles here — just an old-fashioned downtown, a drug store that serves up root beer floats and rambling houses along shady brick lanes.
Yet there’s always been something — something just below the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanFrank Tenney Johnson: Federal Judge Throws out the...
AAD REPORTS 16/08/2018Reno, Nevada: A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit that Gerald Peters of Santa Fe, NM filed against Coeur D'Alene auction house and Pete Stremmel, owner of a Reno gallery who claimed an early 20th century cowboy painting Peters sold for...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanA collection of Picasso lithographs disappeared
AAD REPORTS 23/07/2018A collection of Picasso lithographs disappeared from the former Times Mirror Company in Los Angeles. Where did they go?
To read more on the L.A. Times (or not as the case is if you are located within the EU) click on the link...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - The Grand Canyon
AAD REPORTS 22/07/2018Th Grand Canyon, Arizona - Follow Anna Shoot on Instagram here
Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926) The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
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AmericanHypoallergic riding the poop train
AAD REPORTS 16/06/2018The backdoor ride to Alabama. Small town never smelled this way before.
It's not often a town of roughly 1,000 makes national news. But then, it's not often a town faces a plight so ripefor media attention as Parrish, Ala.
For upwards of two months,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanBaseball fit for a King
AAD REPORTS 11/05/2018There's a long history of America and England sharing baseball. Major League teams toured the country in 1874, 1888-89 and 1912-13. Red Sox and Mets Minor Leaguers played at the Oval cricket ground in 1993, and next season, the Red Sox and...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Grand Central...
AAD REPORTS 08/05/2018Grand Central Terminal - follow Alex Boyle on Instagram @ralexanderboyle
Howard Thain (1891-1959), Grand Central, New York Historical society
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AmericanBaltimore Museum purges works by whites for $$$...
AAD REPORTS 02/05/2018A museum has the delusion that an artists skin color should be the basis of what they hang on the walls.
Lots of museum leaders talk about wanting to diversify their collections. Christopher Bedford, the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, is...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanInstagram Echoes Artists Past - Flatiron, New...
AAD REPORTS 17/04/2018Flatiron Building under construction, 1902 - Follow old_ny_photos on Instagram
Edward Steichen (1879-1973), Flatiron, 1904-1905
Flatiron Building , 2016 - Follow Ms. DiDonato on Instagram @emilydidonato
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AmericanMiami, the Seminole Photographs of Eugene F....
AAD REPORTS 11/04/2018Miami Lost, the Seminole Photographs of Eugene F. Savage
In 1935 buoyed by the success of the sale of his Hall of State Centennial Murals to the state of Texas, deep in the Great Depression the artist Eugene Francis Savage drove from his home in...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanYou Can Livestream Coachella on YouTube
AAD REPORTS 11/04/2018Those of us who didn't spend hundreds of dollars to go to Coachella this year aren't entirely out of luck; YouTube will be exclusively livestreaming the festival so fans can tune in from the comfort of their own homes. (That sounds a lot more comfortable...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanDeadly auction
AAD REPORTS 09/04/2018Lead Image - The scene inside the Lynnway Auto Auction faciility in Billerica on May 3 2017 after a driver lost control of the Jeep, center, which plowed through a group of bystanders. Five people were killed.
BILLERICA -- Lynnway Auto Auction, where...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanFrick Collection, With Fourth Expansion Plan, Crosses...
AAD REPORTS 06/04/2018The irony is not lost on Ian Wardropper, the director of the Frick Collection: The very gated garden that upended the museum’s previous attempt to renovate its 1914 Gilded Age mansion is now the centerpiece of its revised design.
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AmericanSword belonging to commander of black Civil War unit...
AAD REPORTS 01/04/2018Foreword by Alex Boyle
Robert Gould Shaw was a young Bostonian with impeccable family connections, strongly abolitionist parents, and battle experience. Born 10 October 1837, he was the only son of Francis Gould and Sarah Sturgis Shaw. Socially...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanHypollergic, at it again: "How to draw a black...
AAD REPORTS 14/03/2018Is this really for real?
When one wants to get past the insane ramblings of hyperhomo, aka the decline and fall of the west, perhaps look at the images from this Bowdoin college art...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanNYC’s most expensive townhouse sets new record
AAD REPORTS 15/02/2018Art collector Len Blavatnik buys former Wildenstein Gallery building on East 64th Street.
Ukrainian-born, Moscow-raised billionaire Len Blavatnik has paid a record $90 million for an Upper East Side mansion, sources told the Post.
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AmericanSacha Baron Cohen pays OJ Simpson £15,000 for film...
AAD REPORTS 12/02/2018The Juice is loose, and he don't come for free. Sacha Cohen hires former felon O.J. Simpson as he seeks box office gold.
Ali G star Sacha Baron Cohen paid disgraced actor OJ Simpson £15,000 to appear in a prank for the comedian’s next film,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanJackie O and Marilyn, more in common than Warhol...
AAD REPORTS 02/02/2018America remembers Andy Warhol generating the first associations of Marilyn Monroe and the tragic widow of John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. It seems they had more in common than artistic renderings.
Jackie and Marilyn Monroe didn’t just...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanA 75-Ton Chain Once Stretched Across the Hudson River...
AAD REPORTS 25/01/2018From the earliest moments of the War for Independence, each side knew that the key to victory was the Hudson River. The hotbed of the revolution was in Boston and most of Gen. George Washington’s nascent Continental Army were from the northeast. The...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanFollowing Thomas Cole
Robert Alexander Boyle 18/01/2018The absolute joy in appreciating the works of Thomas Cole is that so many of the places he painted in and around the northeast United States, are intact and more often than not still bear an astonishing resemblance to how they looked when Cole painted...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanThe First Review of Thomas Cole, November 22, 1825
Robert Alexander Boyle 18/01/2018
On November 22, 1825, The New York Evening Post published a review of a young artist named Thomas Cole. Given the major show on the artist about to open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this month, we thought it an appropriate moment to look...[Read More]0 Comments
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