1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. The court declared her innocent on this date in 1456. 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada. 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with...
On her maiden voyage to the UK, the SS United States broke the transatlantic speed record with an average speed of 35.59 knots (40.96 mph). She also broke the westbound crossing record with an average speed of 34.51 knots (39.71 mph)
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage. Day 53, evening. 6.30 pm and writing earlier than usual. I only rowed for 1/2 hour this morning but had to give up. Not only breeze...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.
To the editor: As someone who can’t even float, much less swim, I am fascinated by Stein Hoff’s amazingly brave endeavor.In each issue of The Broadsheet, I look first for the updates from this intrepid adventurer in his wee vessel as he hurtles through heaving seas, rows all day only to be pushed back by the...
A quiet insurgency is taking place all across the Lower Manhattan political landscape, as a new generation of activists bids for positions of leadership. Among them is 25-year-old Dodge Landesman, who is running for a seat on the Democratic State Committee, representing the 65th Assembly District, which stretches from the Battery to Vesey Street on...
Dodge Landesman at the June campaign kickoff for his candidacy for the State Democratic Committee. Mr. Landesman, one of a new generation of Lower Manhattan residents seeking positions of political leadership, is flanked by Yuh-Line Niou, whose recent campaign for a seat in the State Assembly (which she is now reprising) he helped to manage.
640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under ‘Amr ibn al-‘As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt). 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason...
Dear editor, I read with interest Tammy Meltzer’s comments in the July 1 Broadsheet. I must respectfully disagree. In her letter she states that Liberty Park is not “the Memorial” but an urban pedestrian boulevard. Why can’t it be both? The sphere is not so large that it will impede the physical flow of people...
