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The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
Francois Goelet, a widower with a ten-year-old son, Jacobus, arrived in New York in 1676. Returning to Amsterdam on business, he left the boy in the care of Frederick Philipse, but was apparently lost at sea. His son, John G. Goelet, married Jannetie Cannon, daughter of merchant Jan Cannon. [2]
This list of people executed in New York gives the names of some of the people executed in New York, both before and after statehood in the United States (including as New Amsterdam), as well as the person's date of execution, method of execution, and the name of the Governor of New York at the date of execution. 1963 marked the last execution ...
The woman shot at a Henrietta restaurant over the weekend has died, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.. Sheriff's spokesman Brendan Hurley said on Monday that the 28-year-old woman ...
In 1987 Today in New York returned to a news update format, and aired at 6:45 a.m. following the network business news show Before Hours. When Before Hours was canceled by NBC in 1988, Today in New York was expanded to 30 minutes. Gradual expansions of the show's runtime followed: to one hour (6 to 7 a.m.) in 1990; to 90 minutes (starting at 5: ...
Henrietta Joan Tiarks was born in London, on 5 March 1940, [1] daughter of Henry Frederick Tiarks III (Woodheath, Chislehurst, London, 8 September 1900 – Marbella, 2 July 1995), a wealthy merchant banker with Schroders, and wife (3 October 1936) Ina Florence Marshman Bell (Carlisle, Cumbria, 5 November 1903 – Marbella, 10 April 1989), an actress known as Joan Barry.
Henrietta Mays Smith was born on May 2, 1922, in Harlem, New York City. She is the daughter of Nettie Johnson and Henry Lucas Mays. She is the daughter of Nettie Johnson and Henry Lucas Mays. Smith originally wanted to be a Latin instructor, but eventually studied English and history at Hunter College , and received her B.A. in 1943.
Rodman taught English and was a vocational counselor at Wadleigh High School for Girls in New York City. [5] [6] Opposed to the school board's restrictive policies on married women teachers, she married a psychologist friend, Herman de Fremery (a.k.a. Herman Defrem), in February 1913, and announced it to the press, saying, "If the married state affects a woman's work, the authorities can mark ...