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The Tanglewood Boys was an Italian-American recruitment gang or "farm team" for the American Mafia, specifically the Lucchese crime family. [1] The gang frequently operated from the Tanglewood Shopping Center in Yonkers, New York. [2]
Ridolfo Capo Ferro da Cagli (Ridolfo Capoferro, Rodulphus Capoferrus) was an Italian fencing master in the city of Siena, best known for his rapier fencing treatise published in 1610. He seems to have been born in the town of Cagli in the Duchy of Urbino (nowadays Province of Pesaro e Urbino ), but was active as a fencing master in Siena ...
Frenchmen adopted the Italian duelling sword and mastered it, and it is believed that between 1600 AD and 1700 AD well over 70,000 Frenchmen died in duels, many of them mortally wounded by a Rapier. From the late 16th century, Italian rapier fencing attained considerable popularity all over Europe, notably with the treatise by Salvator Fabris ...
A farmers market takes place on Saturdays, offering a variety of fresh organic products from the Hudson Valley area. The market is conducted outdoors in the warm season and indoor in the wintertime. Olde York Farm is a woman-owned and family-operated distillery sourcing Hudson Valley foraged and farmed ingredients to make seasonal batch spirits ...
With the 17th century came the popularity of the rapier and a new century of masters, including Salvator Fabris, Ridolfo Capoferro, and Francesco Antonio Marcelli. Unlike the manuals of the previous century, those written in the 17th century were generally restricted to covering only the rapier being used alone or with a companion arm (such as ...
The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915 (1977), on getting better jobs; Haiier, Hermann W. "Italian in New York" in The multilingual apple: languages in New York City (2011): 119+. Mangano, Antonio. "The associated life of the Italians in New York City." International Migration Review 6.1_suppl (1972 ...
@curbalertnyc is New York’s second-largest stooping account, and it came to be via its anonymous founder’s passion for sustainability. “I used to see 'curb alert listings on Craigslist, but ...
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