The NYPD beekeeper vacuums up a swarm of bees on a hot dog stand in Times Square.
Arcadia, by Thomas Eakins, c. 1883. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, once said of Lord Byron, “I was fourteen when I heard of his death. It seemed an awful calamity; I remember I rushed out of doors, sat down by myself, shouted aloud, and wrote on the sandstone: BYRON IS DEAD!”
Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Lapham’s
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