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The Moon Under Water, Watford.One of many pubs named after Orwell's description. "The Moon Under Water" is a 1946 essay by George Orwell, originally published as the Saturday Essay in the Evening Standard on 9 February 1946, [1] in which he provided a detailed description of his ideal public house, the fictitious "Moon Under Water".
Wall Street is a platinum palladium print photograph by the American photographer Paul Strand taken in 1915. There are currently only two vintage prints of this photograph with one at the Whitney Museum of American Art (printed posthumously) and the other, along with negatives, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art .
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.
On July 11, 2014 in an essay published in the Wall Street Journal [4] [5] and slightly later in his blog, Bill Gates proclaimed Business Adventures, recommended to him by Warren Buffett, as "the best business book I've ever read." [6] The prose is superb: reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure.
The surrounding neighborhood had become a fashionable residential area. An analysis from The Wall Street Journal found that, if the building were still functioning as a residence, it could be sold for $6 million in 2018. [20] In 2012, Kalodop II Park Corporation proposed an eight-story hotel immediately west of the Seabury Tredwell House. [91]
Today the building is home to an English-style pub, The Olde English Pub and Pantry. [10] The current mailing address for the restaurant is 25 Quackenbush Square. [11] Also at Quackenbush Square is the Albany Heritage Area Visitors Center with a gift shop, the Henry Hudson Planetarium, and the Albany County Convention and Visitors Bureau. [12]
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (1873) is a book by Walter Bagehot. [1] [2] [3] Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was initially printed in Great Britain by Henry S. King & Co. in 1873.
The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argue ...