![]() ![]() The Museum of the City of New York's annual Robert A. Lauded as an “essential book for our times” and named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2021, the memoir intimately retraces Qian Julie’s childhood footsteps where at age seven, she moved from China to Brooklyn with her parents, and overnight went from being the daughter of professors to being deemed “illegal.” With an open heart and a strong passion for advocacy and bringing awareness to marginalized communities, she uses her unique gift for storytelling to transcend the business, legal, political, and literary worlds and focus on the humanity at the heart of these issues. This program is part of the Museum's celebration of AAPI Heritage Month!īeautiful Country was released in 2021 and became an instant New York Times bestseller. Light reception and book signing to follow books available for purchase. Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban HistoryĪuthor and litigator Qian Julie Wang reflects on her searing literary memoir, Beautiful Country, and considers her own childhood journey from China to Brooklyn in the wider context of New York City immigrant narratives, past and present. Following her talk, she will be joined for a conversation with poet and cultural critic Ken Chen. This program was recorded on May 9, 2022. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There is a ton of action in here, some great fight scenes, humor, shocking revelations and a little bit of steam! It started a little slow for me but as soon as Trinity met Zayne, I was hooked. I really enjoyed this one and am totally kicking myself for putting it off for so long. Spying on the superiors chatting, Trin gets caught by a member of the outside clan, Zayne, the most beautiful gargoyle to ever live…Įvents occur that force Trinity and Zayne to leave the compound together and we all know where that’s going, it’s Jennifer L. When a group of Wardens from another clan arrives with news of vicious attacks going on outside the compound, attacks killing demons and Wardens alike, Trinity finally has something interesting to focus on. He is so funny, stuck in the 80s, his pop culture references brought me back. I must confess, Peanut was probably my favorite character. She also spends a lot of time with her chatty, ghost sidekick, Peanut. Trinity spends her days wandering around the compound and training with her Warden protector, Misha. What are Wardens, you may ask? They are gargoyle shape-shifters protecting mankind from demons, of course. ![]() ![]() This isn’t her only gift though, there is a lot about Trinity that is special.īecause of her unique nature she has been hidden away at an isolated compound for years with the Wardens protecting her. She can see and commune with ghosts and spirits. 18-year-old Trinity Marrow has a special gift. ![]() ![]() The JavaScript interpreter will encounter the fetch command and dispatch the request. This is because fetching data from an API is an asynchronous operation in JavaScript. If you run this code, it will output “Hello!” to the screen, then the number of public repos attributed to my GitHub account. Execution goes from top to bottom.Ĭontrast that with the equivalent JavaScript version: fetch ( '' ). It then parses the response, outputs the number of public repos attributed to my GitHub account and finally prints “Hello!” to the screen. get (uri ) )Īs one might expect, this code makes a request to the GitHub API to fetch my user data. Understanding JavaScript’s Execution Modelīefore we get going, it’s important to make sure we understand JavaScript’s execution model correctly.Ĭonsider the following Ruby code: require 'net/http' require 'json' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the medium of the Arthurian story he found his own voice, his unique contribution to keeping alive the flame of civilisation. White was writing in wartime England, a country increasingly absorbed by a need to find an antidote to war. White's story of Arthur begins with his `enfances', set in an imaginary medieval England, but it is far removed from the conventional historical novel. White's `footnote to Malory' (his own phrase) resulted in the last major retelling of the story based on Malory's Morte Darthur, and Elisabeth Brewer explores the literary context of White's finest work as wellas considering his aims and achievement in writing it. Is it for children, or for adults? Is it fantasy or a psychological novel? In its great range, it encompasses poetry and farce, comedy and tragedy -and sudden flights of schoolboy humour. The Once and Future King defies classification. ![]() ![]() My picture book, Is It a Mermaid, lushly illustrated by Francesca Chessa, was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. My novel Bone Talk was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Prize in 2019 – it is set in the moment when headhunting tribes in the Philippines come face to face with American invaders. My latest book is a comics biography (with illustrator Tom Knight) of the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who happens to be credited with “discovering” the Philippines. It took me years to learn that Filipino stories too, belong in the pages of books. Growing up, I had wondered why books only featured pink-skinned children who lived in worlds that didn’t resemble my tropical home in Manila. I was born in the Philippines, grew up under a dictatorship and met my husband during a revolution. My books explore identity, family and colonialism – all themes that underly my own life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hello! Welcome to my bookshop! I'm Candy Gourlay and I am the author of several novels and books for young people and children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrew and Eleanor Wallace were the parents of seven children. She is said to have known President George Washington as a girl. Eleanor Jones Wallace was the daughter of Captain John Paul and a niece of Revolutionary War hero Admiral John Paul Jones. There are a couple of things that should be noted about the Wallace family. (Some sources indicate the family lived in Cincinnati before coming to Troy other records say they moved there after leaving Troy and before moving to their final home in Brookville, Indiana.)Īndrew Wallace was both a surveyor and school teacher. ![]() At some time, the Wallace family lived in Cincinnati where Wallace published the Liberty Hall Gazette. prior to coming to Ohio and that his son, David, was born at Lewistown, Pa. Historical records say that Andrew Wallace had been a storekeeper in Carlisle, Pa. ![]() The Wallace family came to Ohio from Pennsylvania sometime around 1800. In fact, Andrew Wallace played an important role in creating the town of Troy. The Wallace family also happens to have a connection to Troy, Ohio.īoth General Wallace’s father, David Wallace, and his grandparents, Andrew and Eleanor (Jones) Wallace, once lived in Troy. The screen play for the 2016 version, starring Jack Huston and Morgan Freeman, was written by Carol Wallace Hamlin - the great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace. 19, 2016 Para mount Pictures released the remake of the classic 1959 movie, "Ben Hur." The original film, starring Charleton Heston, was based on the 1880 best-selling novel, "Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ," written by General Lew Wallace. ![]() ![]() And anybody with the raw theatrical ability to end a sentence with “I will not be shackled to the failures of your god!” simply cannot be cis. His relationship with Dan Cain and his utter disregard for women beyond the parts of their sum makes him very easy to read as gay-coded. Overall, he has this very black and white, mechanical mindset and his lack of social skills and difficulty with empathy lends easily to a potential autism-coding. I can’t exactly explain why beyond the fact that he’s this tiny man willing to fight god himself (what a mood) and the projection that I reflect onto many of my other favorite characters through the virtue of how I engage with films. But more specifically for the character of Herbert West. Its audacious score and campy spirit, for one. ![]() For the past year or so, the 1986 version of Re-Animator has been my favorite horror movie-if not my outright favorite movie-for a lot of reasons. ![]() ![]() Aizong of Jin (1234), Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty, hanging.Ahn Jae-hwan (2008), South Korean actor, carbon monoxide poisoning.Vibulenus Agrippa (36 AD), Roman equestrian, poison.550s BC), exiled son of Gordias, king of Phrygia Stuart Adamson (2001), Scottish guitarist and singer for Big Country and Skids, hanging after alcohol ingestion. ![]() Stephanie Adams (2018), American former glamour model, known as the November 1992 Playboy Playmate, jump from a 25th floor window after having murdered her 7-year-old son Vincent by pushing him out first.Stanley Adams (1977), American actor and screenwriter, gunshot wound.(1906), Congressman from Pennsylvania, gunshot Phillip Adams (2021), American football player, gunshot.Marian Hooper Adams (1885), American socialite and photographer, potassium cyanide.George Washington Adams (1829), American politician, lawyer, and eldest son of John Quincy Adams, drowning in Long Island Sound. ![]() ![]() This prayer should have been directed against this subordinate's principals, the N. Granted, as follows: diphtheria, 2, 1 fatal scarlet fever, 1, to result in deafness and imbecility, Note. For a visitation upon the man, or upon the family of the man, who has set up a competing retail coal-yard in Rochester. For influx of laborers to reduce wages 10 percent. For weather to advance hard coal 15 cents a ton. ![]() ![]() I have the honor, as per command, to inform you that your recent act of benevolence and self-sacrifice has been recorded upon a page of the Book called Golden Deeds of Men a distinction, I am permitted to remark, which is not merely extraordinary, it is unique.Īs regards your prayers, for the week ending the 19th, I have the honor to report as follows:ġ. In order to demonstrate that the uniquely American practice of Christianity hasn't really changed in the last 100+ years, we cheerfully reproduce this story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Participants engaged in a far-ranging conversation that interweaves histories of sexuality, race, gender, medicine, social activism, and media, and explores how HIV/ AIDS has been addressed, and ignored, in historical scholarship of the late twentieth century. Working with Jennifer Brier, the JAH brought together nine scholars to discuss how the history of HIV/ AIDS intersects with the history of the United States. ![]() But despite those radical changes, HIV/ AIDS has rarely been included in the history of the post-1960s era. ![]() The epidemic, and those affected by it, transformed public discussion of sexuality and race, poverty, and public health. In this “Interchange,” the writers focus primarily on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ) communities and communities of color, groups that make up the majority of people living with human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) in the United States, as a way to explore social, cultural, and political battles over recognizing the significance of AIDS and for access to treatment and prevention. Emerging in the 1980s, acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS) ravaged minoritized communities across the country and in the process transformed the United States. ![]() |