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Historical marker Savannah's Waving Girl statue, inscribed with Martus' incorrect year of birth. Florence Margaret Martus (August 7, 1868 – February 8, 1943), [1] also known as "the Waving Girl", took it upon herself to be the unofficial greeter of all ships entering and leaving the Port of Savannah, Georgia, via the Savannah River, between 1887 and 1931. [1]
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The Savannah Belles Ferry is a series of four passenger ferries in Savannah, Georgia, United States, which run between Savannah's River Street (from City Hall or from Waving Girl Landing) and Hutchinson Island in the Savannah River. Established in 2000, [1] they are owned and operated by Chatham Area Transit (CAT), and run at no cost to the ...
The Black Book is a collage-like book compiled by Toni Morrison and published by Random House in 1974, [1] which explores the history and experience of African Americans in the United States [2] [3] through various historic documents, facsimiles, artwork, obituaries, advertisements, patent applications, photographs, sheet music, and more. [4]
Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 war drama thriller film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn. The film, credited as based on several true events and characters, is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for the resistance during ...
[4] Reviewers from Publishers Weekly wrote, "Many readers will agree with Patterson that this is the 'best book [he’s] written in 25 years.'” [5] Joe Hartlaub of bookreporter said this, "While it ends on an upbeat yet bittersweet note, the characters --- those who make it through to its conclusion, anyway --- seem too good to be consigned ...
Cintrón, waving from the impact site of the North Tower. She is directly in the center of the image, with white pants and a black shirt. At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11, a hijacked domestic passenger flight, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The impact occurred between the 93rd and 99th ...