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The New York Post ( NY Post) is an American conservative [ 3] daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The Post also operates three online sites: NYPost.com; [ 4] PageSix.com, a gossip site; and Decider.com, an entertainment site. The newspaper was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist and Founding Father who was ...
Stonewall riots. Part of events leading to gay liberation. The only known photograph taken during the first night of the riots, by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows gay youth scuffling with police. [ 1 ] Date. June 28 – July 3, 1969 (1969-06-28– 1969-07-03)[ 2 ] Location. Stonewall Inn, New York City.
The Yellow Kid, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, appeared first in Pulitzer's New York World and then moved to Hearst's New York Journal. Coinage and early usage An English magazine in 1898 noted, "All American journalism is not 'yellow', though all strictly 'up-to-date' yellow journalism is American!"
March 2020. NYPD taping off One Grand Central Place during the early afternoon of March 3, 2020, in response to New York's first confirmed case of COVID-19 person-to-person spread. New York City Subway passengers on March 9, when there were 16 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City, with NYC Transit Interim President Sarah Feinberg on the ...
The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of ...
Only the New York Post and NBC News letters were actually identified; [18] the existence of the other three letters is inferred because individuals at ABC, CBS and AMI became infected with anthrax. Scientists examining the anthrax from the New York Post letter said it was a clumped coarse brown granular material which looked similar to dog food ...
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger [ 1] —a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") [ 2] in New York City 's Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of ...
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, Crash of '29, or Black Tuesday, [ 1] was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. The pivotal role of the 1920s' high-flying bull ...