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Gertrude Vanderbilt was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was "understood to have been distantly related to the socially prominent Vanderbilt family." [7] She recorded her birthday as July 25, but her year of birth varies: 1890 on her official U.S. Passport application, and 1895, 1896, 1900, and 1901 on border crossings. [8]
1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions; 1949 Calvary Cemetery strike; 1949 New York City taxicab strike; 1982 garment workers' strike; 2005 Country Music Association Awards; 2014 UN Climate Summit; 2019 UN Climate Action Summit
Pages in category "Annual events in New York City" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
October Ferry to Gabriola is a novel by Malcolm Lowry.Edited by his widow Margerie Bonner, it was posthumously published in 1970.. It is an existential love story featuring a Lowry-like character, Ethan Llewelyn, and his wife, in their never-fully-consummated journey to Gabriola, one of the Gulf Islands off the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Nanaimo Harbour, often associated with and referred to as the "Gabriola Island Ferry", is a ferry terminal owned and operated by BC Ferries in British Columbia that goes from downtown Nanaimo across the Northumberland Channel to Descanso Bay on Gabriola Island.
Gertie LaRue (Francine Everett) is a nightclub entertainer from the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. She arrives on the Caribbean island of "Rinidad" to perform as the headliner in a revue at the Paradise Hotel. Gertie has earned the nickname "Dirty Gertie" for the casual nature in which she entices and then humiliates men.
Gertrude, who always went by the nickname Gertie, was reared in Amsterdam, New York and in a Manhattan townhouse on East 72nd Street, half a block from Central Park. She was educated at Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia and made her society debut after graduating in 1920.
Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown, two members of The Rag-Time Four group Old Jasper's Cake Walk, song written by Saint Suttle, a member of The Rag-Time Four. The Rag-Time Four was an American Quartet performance group circa 1898 to 1899, they were known for popularizing a version of the cakewalk dance.