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Crumbling $30m 'Great Gatsby' mansion faces demolition
By Fiona Roberts Updated: 11:05 GMT, 9 March 2011 In its Gilded Age heyday, it was the scene of lavish parties attended by the likes of Winston Churchill, the Marx Brothers and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But now Lands End, the grand colonial mansion said to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's house in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, is set to be torn down - because no one will buy it. The 1902 property, set in 13 acres on the tip of Sands Point, Long Island, is slowly crumbling and costs $4,500 each day to maintain. Condemned: Lands End, the $18 million mansion said to be the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home Sad end: The dramatic but dilapidated mansion that was costing $4,500 a day to maintain Past its glory days: Broken and boarded-up windows of the once-opulent mansion Golden age: Robert Redford and Mia Farrow played Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan in the 1974 film adaptation of the book The faded mansion will become one of hundreds lost along the Gold Coast in the last 50 years.
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Tony Tahhan » Blog Archive » don’t make lemonade
What’s with all the lies? No, it’s more than just a lie, it’s a conspiracy. Parents pass it on to their kids, who in turn pass it on to their little ones, who just don’t know any better. The lies stop here my friends. I am nipping this one in the bud: when life supposedly hands you your lemons, don’t make lemonade. life’s lemons Keep reading; it’s a lot easier than it sounds (if you could sound that out). mise en place The classic fable tells the story of a lazy grasshopper who spends his summer singing away while a dedicated little ant works hard to gather food for the upcoming brutal winter. lemon blossoms See, in Morocco, it’s traditional to preserve lemons in order to use them later in tagines, soups, stews… pretty much anything that you want to give flavor to. hamod m’rakad (حامض مرقد) When you’re ready to use the lemons; take out a piece, rinse off the excess salt, and finely chop it into whatever you’re cooking up that evening. yields approx. 4 lemons Components Print
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Little Known Facts About Slavery
Who Sold Whom? To quote once again the words of freed slave Ottobah Cugoano, who was writing in the late 18th century, we find the answer: "But I my own, to the shame of my own countrymen, that I was first kidnapped and betrayed by my own complexion, who were the first cause of my exile and slavery ; but if there were no buyers there would be no sellers." Sins of The Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Traders 1441-1807", by James Pope-Hennessey, p. 174-5. The Other reasons for African slavery were, as we know, a certain number of anti-social crimes, such as adultery or theft. The Confusing Origin of Lynch Laws Further, it will appear later, the death penalty was not at first infliced under lynch-law; originally, lynching was synonymous with whipping. A general idea of the history of lynch-law in the United States is obtained by noting the definition of the term have appeared form time to time in the dictionaries. Ibid., p.40. Dehumanization of Women and the Life of the Enslaved Child p.59.
