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3 CONTEMPLATE as you gaze at a tumor removed from the jaw of President Grover Cleveland, and the thorax of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, at the Mutter Museum
This tale is greatly exaggerated. In fact, the greatest number of defections from the Somerset occured, not in 1863, but in 1865, following the death of Lincoln. Throughout the Civil War, a faction of the club was upset by the unpatriotic sentiment of their fellow clubbies who attacked Lincoln for...
Rich kid from the Chicago suburbs. Six feet tall, 135 pounds, chip on his shoulder. Played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid and scrawled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" ?- the stale John Wilkes Booth motto ?- in his high school yearbook. Insisted on going by "August" because Benjamin sounded too Jewish, and told...
Ever since the Columbine High School killings, the copycat syndrome has been working overtime. In recent weeks hundreds of schools have been hit with threats of Columbine-like violence. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., junior and senior high school classes were canceled after a bomb threat was reported in an Internet...
Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Houston MFA photography curator who organized the show, calls the Paris of the 1930s a city on the cusp "between the era of the Belle Epoque and that of the Modern Age." The gas lamps of Europe were giving way to electric streetlights. That meant a...