Ralph Blumenthal
New York
45 years at New York Times, Distinguished Lecturer Baruch College journalism & public administration
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Jamie Wyeth, Meet Uncle Winslow
Jamie Wyeth, Meet Uncle Winslow - The New York Times
A Reporter’s Accidental Encounter With Atomic History
The first law of journalism I learned: get lucky. At the recent International Antiquarian Book Fair inside the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, I was nosing around the booths for — what? I wasn’t sure, but maybe I’d know it when I saw it. This approach had served me well in my 45 years as a staff reporter at The New York Times, and now that I was a freelance writer, it remained instinctual.
A Reporter's Accidental Encounter With Atomic History
(Times Insider) The first law of journalism I learned: get lucky. At the recent International Antiquarian Book Fair inside the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, I was nosing around the booths for -- what? I wasn't sure, but maybe I'd know it when I saw it. This approach had served me well in my 45 years as a staff reporter at The New York Times, and now that I was a freelance writer, it remained instinctual.
La biblioteca fundada por Franklin agrega libros sobre sexualidad a su colección
Hay mucha historia que celebrar con motivo del 250.º aniversario de Estados Unidos en la Library Company of Philadelphia, la colección pública de libros raros más antigua de esa nación, fundada por Benjamin Franklin en 1731. Esta emblemática organización sin ánimo de lucro, 45 años más antigua que el país mismo, llegó a conceder privilegios de préstamo a los delegados del Primer y Segundo Congreso Continental y de la Convención Constitucional.
La biblioteca fundada por Franklin agrega libros sobre sexualidad a su colección
Hay mucha historia que celebrar con motivo del 250.º aniversario de Estados Unidos en la Library Company of Philadelphia, la colección pública de libros raros más antigua de esa nación, fundada por Benjamin Franklin en 1731. Esta emblemática organización sin ánimo de lucro, 45 años más antigua que el país mismo, llegó a conceder privilegios de préstamo a los delegados del Primer y Segundo Congreso Continental y de la Convención Constitucional.
La biblioteca fundada por Franklin agrega libros sobre sexualidad a su colección
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Hay mucha historia que celebrar con motivo del 250.º aniversario de Estados Unidos en la Library Company of Philadelphia, la colección pública de libros raros más antigua de esa nación, fundada por Benjamin Franklin en 1731.
Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded
PHILADELPHIA -- There is much history to celebrate on America's 250th birthday at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the oldest public rare book collection in the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. Forty-five years older than the country itself, the landmark nonprofit once extended borrowing privileges to delegates of the First and Second Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention.
Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded
There is much history to celebrate on America’s 250th birthday at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the oldest public rare book collection in the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. Forty-five years older than the country itself, the landmark nonprofit once extended borrowing privileges to delegates of the First and Second Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention.
Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded
There is much history to celebrate on America’s 250th birthday at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the oldest public rare book collection in the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. Forty-five years older than the country itself, the landmark nonprofit once extended borrowing privileges to delegates of the First and Second Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention.
Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded
Now A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units. China took back a coveted computing crown from the United States on Tuesday, ratcheting up a fierce technological competition that …
A Town With Wyeth Ties Plans a Comeback From Disaster
In the fishing village of Port Clyde, Maine, where tame chickens cross and recross the one road in and out, never saying why, life still unfolds at the Monhegan Boat Line, Off the Dock Lobsters, Squid Ink Coffee, the Barn Café, Village Ice Cream, the Black Harpoon restaurant, the art gallery, two old inns and a lighthouse. But just about everything else changed on the night of Sept.
A Town With Wyeth Ties Plans a Comeback From Disaster
(Square Feet) PORT CLYDE, Maine -- In the fishing village of Port Clyde, Maine, where tame chickens cross and recross the one road in and out, never saying why, life still unfolds at the Monhegan Boat Line, Off the Dock Lobsters, Squid Ink Coffee, the Barn Café, Village Ice Cream, the Black Harpoon restaurant, the art gallery, two old inns and a lighthouse. But just about everything else changed on the night of Sept.
Caso Histórico de OVNI no Brasil Chega ao Capitólio Enquanto o Incidente de Varginha Completa 30 Anos
Tradução literal do artigo original em inglês, assinado por Leslie Kean e Ralph Blumenthal. Sobre uma grande caixa de donuts intactos, no edifício Longworth da Câmara dos Deputados, em Washington, parlamentares ouviam atentos enquanto um neurocirurgião brasileiro descrevia como foi encarar, olho no olho, os grandes olhos lilases de um ser não humano altamente inteligente. Definitivamente, não era uma reunião comum no Capitólio.
Arthur Szyk: Spotlight Returns to a Forgotten ‘Soldier in Art’
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A Film About Unidentified Phenomena Gets a Congressional Audience
NEW YORK -- The scion of the Kennedy family has a skeleton. It lurks in the corner of the living room of his Chelsea apartment, wearing a brow…
A Film About Unidentified Phenomena Gets a Congressional Audience
The long government shutdown had left a secret screening in limbo.
A Film About Unidentified Phenomena Gets a Congressional Audience
Sometime in 1985 I had lunch with Sam Francis in the cafeteria of The Washington Times, where we both worked. You may never have heard of Sam …
A Film About Unidentified Phenomena Gets a Congressional Audience
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. The long government shutdown had left a secret screening in limbo.
A Giant Wyeth Mural Comes Out of the Vault, Bearing Family Stories
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. As the Great Depression savaged America, a bank in Wilmington, Del., commissioned the protean illustrator N.C. Wyeth to soothe anxious customers with an epic tribute to the bounteous land and its laboring families.
A Giant Wyeth Mural Comes Out of the Vault, Bearing Family Stories
WILMINGTON, Del. -- As the Great Depression savaged America, a bank in Wilmington, Delaware, commissioned protean illustrator N.C. Wyeth to soothe anxious customers with an epic tribute to the bounteous land and its laboring families.
A memoir offers an insider’s perspective into the Pentagon’s UFO hunt
By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean Luis Elizondo made headlines in 2017 when he resigned as a senior intelligence official running a shadowy Pentagon program investigating UFOs and publicly denounced the excessive secrecy, lack of resources and internal opposition that he said were thwarting the effort. Elizondo’s disclosures at the time created a sensation.
Un libro revela detalles de la caza de ovnis por parte del Pentágono
Luis Elizondo saltó a los titulares en 2017 cuando renunció como alto funcionario de inteligencia a cargo de un enigmático programa del Pentágono que investigaba los ovnis y denunció públicamente el excesivo secretismo, la falta de recursos y la oposición interna que, según dijo, estaban frustrando ese esfuerzo. Las revelaciones de Elizondo causaron sensación.
Unas memorias ofrecen un vistazo al interior de la caza de ovnis del Pentágono
En “Imminent”, un exfuncionario de inteligencia que dirigió un programa otrora secreto comparte algunas de las cosas que sabe. [Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora ] Luis Elizondo saltó a los titulares en 2017 cuando renunció como alto funcionario de inteligencia a cargo de un enigmático programa del Pentágono que investigaba los ovnis y denunció públicamente el excesivo secretismo, la falta de recursos y la oposición interna que, según dijo, estaban frustrando ese esfuerzo.
Unas memorias ofrecen un vistazo al interior de la caza de ovnis del Pentágono
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] Luis Elizondo saltó a los titulares en 2017 cuando renunció como alto funcionario de inteligencia a cargo de un enigmático programa del Pentágono que investigaba los ovnis y denunció públicamente el excesivo secretismo, la falta de recursos y la oposición interna que, según dijo, estaban frustrando ese esfuerzo. Ahora Elizondo, de 52 años, ha ido más lejos en unas nuevas memorias.
A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt (Published 2024) Original
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.
Tanzania prepara un espectáculo inmersivo sobre la primatóloga británica
Nueva York¿Está listo para la experiencia Jane Goodall? Se está preparando para ustedes. Dr. Jane's Dream [El sueño de la doctora Jane], un espectáculo inmersivo diseñado por creadores de Walt Disney y artesanos africanos que celebran la innovadora primatóloga y activista ambiental inglesa Jane Goodall está tomando forma en un complejo cultural de Tanzania.
What's Next for Jane Goodall? An Immersive Spectacle in Tanzania. Original
"Dr. Jane's Dream" is going up in East Africa, where visitors can experience the primatologist's scientific breakthroughs (complete with termite mound). Are you ready for the Jane Goodall Experience? It's getting ready for you. "Dr. Jane's Dream," an immersive spectacle by former Walt Disney Imagineers and African artisans celebrating the groundbreaking English primatologist and environmental activist, is taking form in a cultural complex in Tanzania.
One hope from changes at this Holocaust museum: Fewer Nazi selfies
Students on school trips to a Holocaust museum outside Detroit would stand riveted at one stark display: a Nazi officer’s black uniform with a red swastika armband, guns and a whip. Some couldn’t resist snapping selfies. Now, however, the exhibit, at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, has been redone as part of a major redesign.
Museu do Holocausto promove mudanças para reduzir selfies nos EUA
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Estudantes em excursões escolares a um museu do Holocausto nos arredores de Detroit ficaram fascinados por uma exibição chamativa: o uniforme preto de oficial nazista com uma braçadeira e uma suástica vermelha, armas e um chicote. Alguns não resistiram a tirar selfies. Agora, porém, a exposição, no Zekelman Holocaust Center, em Farmington Hills, Michigan, foi refeita como parte de uma grande reformulação.
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin. The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegalretaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time.
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin. The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegalretaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time.
Was This Washington Portrait Really by Charles Peale? Experts Took a Look.
Wendy Bellion, a professor of American artwork historical past on the College of Delaware and creator of “Iconoclasm in New York,” about assaults on British monuments through the American Revolution, stated it’s typically tough to say who vandalized artworks. For instance, she stated, little is thought concerning the id of the mob that tore down King George III’s statue on Bowling Inexperienced in 1776, an act that Washington distanced himself from.
Was This Washington Portrait Really by Charles Peale? Experts Took a Look.
The authenticity of the painting, which was seized by the British Navy during the Revolutionary War, had been questioned because of overpainting and gaps in its provenance. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. A portrait of George Washington that experts say has been confirmed as the work of Charles Willson Peale.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field
Arts|On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/arts/holocaust-remembrance-day-latvia.html At the United Nations’ annual ceremony to mark the Nazi horrors, Karen Frostig described her work to commemorate a concentration camp where thousands of Jews, including her grandparents, were murdered. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
One of Brooklyn’s oldest homes, asking $4M, faces a murky future
It’s been called the best preserved Dutch Colonial landmark in Brooklyn — a storied farmhouse predating the American Revolution. Over its more than two and a half centuries, the elegantly proportioned Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead — with its gently curved roof, dormer windows and columned porch perched incongruously amid the humming traffic and bustling apartment blocks of the borough’s Madison section — has housed only three families since 1766.
House panel to hold public hearing on unexplained aerial sightings
A House subcommittee is scheduled to hold next week the first open congressional hearing on unidentified aerial vehicles in more than half a century, with testimony from two top defense intelligence officials. The hearing comes after the release last June of a report requested by Congress on “unidentified aerial phenomena.” The nine-page “Preliminary Assessment” from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence focused on 144 incidents dating back to 2004 and was able to explain only one.
House Panel to Hold Public Hearing on Unexplained Aerial Sightings
A House subcommittee is scheduled to hold next week the first open congressional hearing on unidentified aerial vehicles in more than half a century, with testimony from two top defense intelligence officials. The hearing comes after the release last June of a report requested by Congress on “unidentified aerial phenomena.” The nine-page “Preliminary Assessment” from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence focused on 144 incidents dating back to 2004 and was able to explain only one.
The Experience: The Cultural Rise of Alien Abductions and Those Who Encounter Them
Don’t ask the Pentagon about aliens. Tracking UFOs flying hypersonic circles around F/A-18F Super Hornets is job enough without speculating on extraterrestrial origins or who (or what) could be behind the wheel.
A Time Capsule in Two Front Pages
Times Insider The newspaper of Sept. 11, 2001, is a document of America before the terror attacks and a memory of a vanished era. The New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001.Credit...Ralph Blumenthal Sept. 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.
Tantor Media - The Believer
Short Synopsis The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened. Full Synopsis The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack.
There’s Got to Be Something Out There: Seeking the Truth about UFOs
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! An electrifying image flashed around the world on April 10, 2019, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and other observatories. It showed a fuzzy orange doughnut with fiery-yellow highlights aglow in the inkiness of space.
#NYTReadalong
The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack
Can Robert Bigelow (and the Rest of Us) Survive Death?
What’s across the River Styx? Robert Thomas Bigelow would like to know. Wouldn’t anyone, especially now? But Mr. Bigelow is not just anyone, or any 75-year-old mourning a wife and confronting his own mortality. He’s a maverick Las Vegas real estate and aerospace mogul with billionaire allure and the resources to fund his restless curiosity embracing outer and inner space, U.F.O.s and the spirit realm.
13 Arrested In a Sting Pulled Off By the F.B.I. (Published 1993)
Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from May 26, 1993, Section B, Page 6Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Do We Believe in U.F.O.s? That’s the Wrong Question (Published 2020)
Times Insider|Do We Believe in U.F.O.s? That’s the Wrong Question https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/insider/UFO-reporting.html Times Insider Reporting on the Pentagon program that’s investigating unidentified flying objects is not about belief. It’s about a vigilant search for facts. Video transcript transcript U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects The U.S. Navy has officially published previously released videos showing unexplained objects.
No longer in shadows, Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public
Joe Buglewicz / The New York Times Former Sen. Harry Reid is shown at his office in Las Vegas on July 2, 2019. Reid pushed for funding a UFO program when he was the Senate majority leader.
La unidad de ovnis del Pentágono sale de las sombras y publicará algunos hallazgos
Durante más de una década, el programa, ahora dentro de la Oficina de Inteligencia Naval de Estados Unidos, ha discutido eventos misteriosos en sesiones informativas clasificadas. La Marina de Estados Unidos ha publicado oficialmente videos que muestran objetos inexplicables.Credit...Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos vía Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Por Ralph Blumenthal y Leslie Kean 24 de julio de 2020 Regístrate para recibir nuestro boletín con lo mejor de The New York Times.
No longer in shadows, Pentagon's UFO unit will make some findings public
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Joseph Esherick, 83, an Acclaimed Architect
See the article in its original context from December 25, 1998, Section B, Page 11Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Joseph Esherick, a self-effacing architect who won acclaim for his people-friendly designs and turned an old canning factory in San Francisco into a renowned shopping complex, died on Dec. 17 at a hospital in San Francisco. He was 83 and lived in San Francisco.
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