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“Letters to the Editor — Jan. 1, 2023” Killer’s freedomGov. Hochul has shown her contempt and disregard for murder victims and their families by granting clemency to Bruce Bryant, convicted killer of 11-year-old Travis Lilley (“Kat gives a break to boy’s killer,” Dec. 24). Travis was a child who was robbed of his life by…
“Why Jay Gould was among the most hated men in Gilded Age America” Born in poverty in 1836, Jay Gould became one of the richest men in Gilded Age America but had few admirers. This was mostly because the Wall Street financier would do anything to make a buck: flouting laws, manipulating stocks, bribing officials, backstabbing…
“Meet the rich gentlemen who gave up good life to become pirates” In 1679, William Dampier had a bright future ahead of him. The 28-year-old from a small village in Somerset, England, had a young wife—Judith, a relative of the Duchess of Grafton—and a small estate of his own in Dorsetshire. He seemed destined to…
“3,400-year-old ‘lost’ city re-emerges from Tigris River” The “Lost City of Atlantis” isn’t real, but this one was. An international group of archaeologists has unearthed a 3,400-year-old city under the Tigris River in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, they shared this week. The Bronze Age village — erected sometime between 1475 BC and 1275 BC…
“$1.25M Brontë book among rarities for sale at NYC fair” How much would you pay to own a piece of history? Starting today at the Park Avenue Armory, the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is once again in person after a two-year pandemic pause. Now in its 62nd year, the fair will present a…
“NYC Gilded Age mansion lists for the first time in 40 years, asking $33M” If you’re harboring fantasies of living in a Gilded Age New York, here’s your chance: The James F.D. Lanier House, an opulent Beaux-Arts early 20th-century home, has hit the market for $33 million. The home. located at 123 E. 35th St….
“Unlikely suffragette Miriam Leslie helped get the vote for women” In 1917, the fight for women’s suffrage had stalled. Warring factions had splintered and weakened the movement, and New York State rejected women’s right to vote in 1915. But then the National Woman Suffrage Association received a windfall. A woman named Mrs. Frank Leslie had…
“Putin’s also destroying Ukraine’s history” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was one of Russia’s most renowned composers, the first to win international fame. Vladimir Putin’s war has destroyed his former house in Ukraine, just one of countless cultural deprivations to go along with his slaughter of innocents. This is the “special military operation” that Putin insists is…
“Inside US’s oldest skull surgery 3,000 years ago” The oldest skull surgery in North America dates back a staggering 3,000 years, new research has found. Analysis of a prehistoric man’s skull found a hole in his forehead, according to bioarchaeologist Diana Simpson from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Data suggests that someone scraped the…
“Mysterious message carved by ancient ‘lost people of Scotland’ found” Experts have uncovered a rare stone in Scotland with baffling symbols carved into it. Indigenous people who lived there around 1,500 years ago are thought to have left the markings. Three oval shapes, a comb and mirror, a crescent, and double discs can be made out…