Today, the King Center unveiled the King Center Imaging Project , which offers thousands of documents from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other figures from the civil rights movement. According to the site, “There are nearly a million documents associated with the life of Martin Luther King Jr. These pages will present a more dynamic view than is often seen of Dr. King’s life and times. The documents reveal the scholar, the father, and the pastor. Through these papers we see the United States of America at one of its most vulnerable, most honest and perhaps most human moments in history.” [ more › ]
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Thousands Of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Documents Now Online
Last year unemployed Bronx doorman Alexis Rodriguez was hospitalized with pneumonia for three weeks at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. And last week he received the bill: $44,776,587 for outpatient services. But hey, they saved his life —can you really put a price on that? “I almost had an asthma attack,” Rodriguez, 28, tells the Daily News . Careful, man; Bronx-Lebanon charges $10 million for inhalers. [ more › ]
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Area Man Recovering From $44 Million Hospital Bill
The Bard family ran the Hotel Chelsea for many years, and specifically, Stanley Bard was a fixture there. Bard was ousted a few years ago, and now the legendary hotel is being gutted and stripped of any of its original character. Part of the hotel’s storied past includes other legends, like Patti Smith, who lived there during two tough times in her life, thanks in large part to Bard. But now, it seems she’s turned her back on the man that once helped her out. [ more › ]
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Patti Smith To Play Private Hotel Chelsea Show… In Support Of New Evil Management?
Hugh Jackman, hot on the heels of his smash one-man show, has tied himself to another Broadway production. Come the 2013-14 season he says he’ll be starring on Broadway in a musical about Harry Houdini —which really shouldn’t be a problem for The Prestige star. And if Wolverine in chains weren’t enough to get a theater geek’s panties in a twist, the fact that Aaron ” The West Wing ” Sorkin is going to write the “contemporary look at the life and death” of the illusionist should do the trick (oh, and Steven ” Wicked ” Schwartz will be doing the music and Jack ” Hairspray ” O’Brien will direct). [ more › ]
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Houdini! Wolverine And West Wing Scribe To Bring Magic Back To Bway
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Christmas Day underwear bomber , a man who helped stop the would-be bomber before he could blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit is suing for $10 million . Theophilus Maranga, a Dutchess County resident, has filed the lawsuit against thwarted terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Delta Air Lines, and Air France-KLM. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court yesterday, Maranga says he “risked his life” by jumping on Umar Faroul Abdulmutallab after the Nigerian student lit his shorts on fire. [ more › ]
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Man Who Thwarted Underwear Bomber Sues Bomber, Airlines For $10 Million
Before online shopping and Black Friday, New Yorkers flocked to department stores like Macy’s for their holiday shopping. These photos from the LIFE image archive show what December 1948 looked like at the department store—including the aftermath of a holiday shopping rush. [ more › ]
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Seven Photos Of The Holiday Shopping Rush, 1948-Style
The following post is from our advertiser, Bordeaux. Bordeaux is more than just wine – it’s about looking at the art of living and finding the special moments in everything that one does. The art of living can mean so many things – from eating and drinking, to appreciation for the finer things in life, and most importantly, great stories. Bordeaux wants to inspire and bring magic into your life. When there are good times to be had, making a fairy tale of any moment is the very essence of Bordeaux Wines. [ more › ]
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Russians—urbane, successful Russians—aren’t happy that Vladimir Putin will likely be their next president, again. Over 30,000 took to Red Square over the weekend to protest against ongoing election-tampering and the sense of inevitability that Putin’s party, United Russia, will rule in perpetuity. But billionaire oligarch and majority owner of the New Jersey Nets Mikhail D. Prokhorov, announced that he will collect the 2 million signatures needed to run as an independent in March. “I made a decision, probably the most serious decision in my life: I am going to the presidential election,” Prokhorov said at a press conference. [ more › ]
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Billionaire NJ Nets Owner Will Run For President Of Russia
A jury condemned Joshua Komisarjevsy , the second man who was found guilty of killing a Connecticut mother and her two daughters during a horrific 2007 home invasion, to death today . It took five days for the jury to decide that the 31-year-old Komisarjevsky would receive the death penalty, the same fate as his accomplice Steven Hayes, who was given the death penalty for the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. “I guess I will spend the rest of my life wondering what I could have done or said to persuade the jurors mercy should have seasoned justice in this case,” said Jeremiah Donovan , one of Komisarjevsky’s defense lawyers. [ more › ]
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Second CT Triple Murderer Sentenced To Death
Click here to view the full photogallery. Photos: Seth Wenig/ AP Prolific hunter and former president Teddy Roosevelt lived out the last years of his life in a sprawling mansion on 83 acres in Oyster Bay, N.Y., on Long Island’s Gold Coast. The 15-bedroom Queen Anne, now managed by the National Park Service, is jam-packed with memorabilia and hunting trophies. Or at least it was. Now the house is being emptied of its 8,000 books, countless hunting trophies, and more than four-dozen animal skin rugs. The Park Service is clearing the mansion to make way for a much-needed renovation aimed at upgrading “the electrical, heating, security and fire suppression systems,” with structural work to include “a new roof, gutter and drainage system, foundation waterproofing, and restoration of 78 historic windows, doors, porches and siding.” The cost to the American taxpayer? $6.2M. · Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island mansion to get $6.2M facelift [NYDN]
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Presidential Pads: Teddy Roosevelt’s Trophy-Stuffed Home to Get $6.2M Reno