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Little Italy Dupes Another Tourist
Haha, OK, I’ll come clean: Little Italy duped me. All this time, I thought that this… …was this…
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Summer Reading List! Sailing Alone Around The World
In 1895, a man named Joshua Slocum decided to be the first man to ever sail around the world alone. Slocum was 51 years old. His formal education ended in 3rd grade, and he didn’t even know how to swim. His ship was a rotting shell of an oyster boat named The Spray. He left…
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Know Your Film Jargon: The (Questionable) True Story of the C-47
It’s your first time on a movie set. You’re nervous, excited. You watch impressed as more than a hundred crew members scurry to set up a shot that’ll probably last no more than 5 seconds in the final film. Then, someone turns and asks you for a C-47. Not wanting to reveal your inexperience, you…
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Remembering A Plane Crash In Brooklyn
Driving into work this morning, I heard on the news that today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the worst airline disasters in history: the mid-air collision of two planes over Staten Island. Of the 128 passengers and crew members aboard the two flights, all were killed save for a 10 year old boy…