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He also founded multiple companies under parent company, Laitram, LLC, including Laitram Machinery, Intralox, Lapeyre Stair, and Laitram Machine Shop — all based on his inventions. [ 8 ] Intralox registered the first patent for modular plastic belting in 1970 and has been the first company to introduce many of the conveying concepts in the ...
The Iron Rail Book Collective ran a volunteer-run radical library and anarchist bookstore in New Orleans, Louisiana. The infoshop's main focus was a lending library featuring a wide selection of books on topics including anarchism and socialism, fiction, gardening and philosophy. The Iron Rail also sold records, zines, local CDs and some ...
Everette "Rhett" Maddox (1944–1989) [1] was an American poet who in 1979 co-founded (with Robert Stock and sculptor Franz Heldner) the longest-running poetry-reading series in the South at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Benjamin January mysteries is a series of historical murder mystery novels by Barbara Hambly.The series is named after the main character of the books. The Benjamin January mysteries are set in and around New Orleans during the 1830s and 1840s, and focus primarily on the free black community which existed at that time and place.
Ernest Joseph Bellocq (19 August 1873 – 3 October 1949) [2] was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century. Bellocq is remembered for his haunting photographs of the prostitutes of Storyville, New Orleans' legalized red-light district. [3] These have inspired novels, poems and films.
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Ann Arbor author Janie Paul will visit the Stair District Library in downtown Morenci, 228 W. Main St., at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 2, as part of the 2024 Michigan Notable Books (MNB) Program and ...
The Feast of All Saints was made into a television miniseries in 2001, directed by Peter Medak and starring James Earl Jones, Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Ben Vereen, Jasmine Guy, Jennifer Beals, Robert Ri'chard, Gloria Reuben, Peter Gallagher, Daniel Sunjata, Jenny Levine, Rachel Luttrell, and Bianca Lawson.