The NYPD beekeeper vacuums up a swarm of bees on a hot dog stand in Times Square.
The Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David, 1784. Louvre, Paris.
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As a London-based correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, Karl Marx wrote about Abraham Lincoln’s issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, “Up to now we have witnessed only the first act of the Civil War—the constitutional waging of war. The second act, the revolutionary waging of war, is at hand.”
Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Lapham’s
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