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David A. Plotz [2] (born January 31, 1970) [3] is an American journalist and former CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration. [4] A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014, [5] succeeding Jacob Weisberg. [6]
In 2015, Atlas Obscura raised its first round of major funding, securing $2 million from a range of investors and angels including The New York Times. [6] In September 2016, the company published its first book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders written by Foer, Thuras, and Ella Morton under Workman Publishing ...
Thomas Gilman (1830–1911), nicknamed Uncle Tom Gilman, [1] was an American freedman, miner, farmer, and businessperson. He was an enslaved African American who self–purchased his freedom from mining during the mid-19th-century, and notably contributed to African American history in California .
The Gilman Paper Company collection is an archive of original photographic prints and negatives, and it was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection was formed over the course of two decades (roughly 1977–1997) by Howard Gilman (1924–1998), chairman of the Gilman Paper Company .
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Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. [1] The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
She was educated at Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship. [1] Her stories are noted for their dense prose style, which is strongly focused on native English roots, sometimes reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins. [2]
James Franklin Gilman (c. 1850–1929) was an itinerant painter known for his New England landscapes. [1] Much of his life was spent living in and painting towns in Vermont and Massachusetts. [ 2 ] His work particularly focuses on farms and New England life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [ 3 ]