During the same year in which Citi (www.citigroup.com), the leading global bank, celebrates its 200th business anniversary, the oldest village volunteer fire company in the United States celebrates its own bicentennial. The Knickerbocker Steamer Company...
To honor the 60th anniversary of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the experts at Steinmetz Diamonds crafted the Jubilee Pink Diamond: a fancy pink-brown, 35.60-carat cushion-cut Forevermark diamond. Forevermark (www.forevermarkdiamond.co) is a diamond...
So captivated was I with the pomp and pageantry of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee Weekend that I missed National Doughnut Day, celebrated annually on the first Friday of June. The Chicago Salvation Army created this event in 1938 as a fundraiser during the...
The year 2012 marks the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She acceded to the throne following the death of her father, King George VI, on February 6, 1952. Her coronation took place in Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953. In the speech that followed,...
In 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, the camera establishes the locale as San Francisco by slowly panning iconic landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge. At the film’s end, hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade reflects that the titular black bird is...
