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Ride or Dayenu

Coney Island Passover – April 1978, a Passover festival at Astroland, a space-themed amusement park that was a fixture on Coney Island’s boardwalk for years. During the 2-day celebration, about 10,000 Jewish park-goers “took over the park, rode the rides and ate at special Kosher concessions,” The New York Times reported

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The First Wives Cavern Club

September 1967 – This fashion study was taken to announce the opening of the Beatles’ Apple Boutique in Baker Street. Beatles’ wives Pattie Harrison, Cynthia Lennon and Maureen Starkey with Jenny Boyd posed for the stunning portrait taken by Ronald Traeger and commissioned by Brigid Keenan for the Sunday Times [more]

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How A Bill Becomes A Bill

preliminary design for the back of the 1935 dollar bill, the first to include the Great Seal of the United States, with Franklin Roosevelt’s note of approval and request for two changes. This initial version had the obverse of the seal on the left and the reverse on the right, but Roosevelt ordered them switched, and added the phrase “The Great Seal of the United States” underneath

and here she is as she is now

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