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The Pleiades Club was an association of artists and those with artistic interests in the area of Greenwich Village in New York. It was founded in 1896, was incorporated in 1902, and continued until the 1930s. The Club held weekly dinners and performances, and granted scholarships to budding artists. It published a yearbook, The Pleiad.
The Pleiades (/ ˈ p l iː. ə d iː z, ˈ p l eɪ-, ˈ p l aɪ-/), [8] [9] also known as Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45), is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.
The Pleiades would "flee mighty Orion and plunge into the misty deep" as they set in the West, which they would begin to do just before dawn during October–November, a good time of the year to lay up your ship after the fine summer weather and "remember to work the land"; in Mediterranean agriculture autumn is the time to plough and sow.
Greenwich Village’s draw for artists like Swift is all about carrying on a storied tradition, as author David Browne dives into in his new book, Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and ...
The Palace of Placentia, also known as Greenwich Palace, [1] was an English royal residence that was initially built by prince Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Over the centuries it took several different forms, until turned into a hospital in the 1690s.
The J. Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork, which includes paintings by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet and Degas, once again found itself in the path of destruction as the Palisades ...
A transgender man was physically tortured for more than a month in an upstate New York motel until he died, with his alleged attackers ditching his corpse in an empty field in an attempt to cover ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Greenwich.The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.