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Moses built one pool in Harlem, in Colonial Park, at 146th Street, and he was determined that that was going to be the only pool that Negroes—or Puerto Ricans, whom he classed with Negroes as “colored people”—were going to use. He didn’t want them “mixing” with white people in other pools, in part because he was afraid, probably with cause, that
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
ROBERT MOSES was born on December 18, 1888. He was not given a middle name—because his mother saw no reason for one. Bella Moses was a strong-willed woman, so strong-willed, in fact, that some of her relatives said she was too much like her mother—and not enough like her father. Bella’s parents, Robert’s grandparents, were first cousins.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
The first settler to own land in Waltham was a violent sea captain named John Oldham, also known as Mad Jack. Oldham was murdered off the coast of Block Island in 1636. Winthrop would use the mystery surrounding Oldham’s death to justify a brutal war against the Pequot nation. Prior to the war (which the Pequot people tried to avert) the Pequot
... See moreSusan Clare Zalkind • The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
Late in the month Mugs Stump crossed paths with Waterman on the upper Ruth Glacier. Stump, an alpinist of world renown who died on Denali in 1992, had just completed a difficult new route on a nearby peak, the Mooses Tooth.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
If you met Lewis in the street, you might guess that he was a lawyer or a kindly geography teacher. In fact, he was one of the most efficiently deadly men in the British services.
Ant Middleton • First Man In: Leading from the Front
THEO METCALFE SOON proved himself one of the most enthusiastic bounty hunters and hangmen. His desire for revenge seems to have continually grown ever since he reached the British camp at the end of his wanderings; and by October he even went so far as to erect a gallows in Metcalfe House.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Geographical curiosity and his abiding love for wilderness travel seem to have been the main reasons for these journeys, but he usually managed to find some practical, economic rationale: a railroad survey, a party of miners that wanted to be guided to some remote mountain range, a potential livestock market that called for investigation. In 1858
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