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When he was thirty-two years old, Thomy Lafon was listed in the 1842 city directory as a merchant. His mother was born a free woman in Haiti and had arrived with other migrants post-revolution. Lafon grew wealthy through real estate. The Holy Family nursing home was the result of one of many of his charitable donations made in service of Black peop
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All Hail Cardiel: The John Cardiel Story | Epicly Later'd
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Shortly before the Hammonds’ arrival the building’s East Portico had been the scene of an assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson. The assailant was named Richard Lawrence, who believed himself to be England’s long-dead King Richard III and claimed that Jackson had interfered with the delivery of payments long owed to him by the colo
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Aristotle Detective: An Aristotle Detective Novel (The Aristotle Detective Novels Book 1)
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3 Turning to the door, “Who’s that?” I asked. “He’s decrepit! You were right to station him by the door—he’s on his way out! Where did you get him? Is it some whim of yours to take a corpse off someone’s hands?” But the man said, “Don’t you recognize me? I’m Felicio! You used to bring your trinkets to show me.* I’m the property manager Philostitus’
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It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and a
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