According to Faber’s court testimony in 1823, after the death of her husband, Enriqueta Faber disguised herself as a man and enrolled in medical school in post-revolutionary France. After receiving a degree in modern surgery, Enrique Faber was drafted into the Napoleonic army to serve in the medical corps in Eastern Europe and Spain. After Napoleon’s defeat, Faber immigrated to the French colony of Guadalupe and, later under the name of Enrique, sought his fortune on the island of Cuba. Shortly after his arrival on the island, Faber was not only baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, but he also married a Cuban woman named Juana de León.
CHICAGO – One of the funniest things I’ve heard in many years was said to me by a co-worker, a lifelong Chicagoan. “There’s no such thing as a Chicago accent,” he said. I laugh every time I think of it. Of course, like everyone else…
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We were supposed to have a garage sale on Sunday, August 28, 2005. We had recently moved into a house we bought in Central City and had cleaned out our old Broadmoor apartment and planned to sell the odds and ends that didn’t make it to our new home. It was to be the final hurrah of our move. Suffice to say we evacuated the night before and the garage sale never happened. I didn’t get back into town for another three weeks, but there on the second floor of our old apartment’s stoop was our last Times-Picayune, still in the plastic and dry. I tossed the paper in the car and drove back to Houston. I finally pulled that newspaper out of its plastic bag this weekend.
Colorado Rockies catcher Miguel Olivo: With his team trailing 5-1 in the 8th inning, the Colorado backstop slipped into the team’s bathroom and passed a kidney stone. Astonishingly, as soon as he got the stone out of his system, Olivo quickly jumped into his catching…
Over at Back of Town.
By “you” I mean the “United States Justice Department“: “Criminal prosecutions alone, I have learned, are not enough to change the culture of a police department,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez told TPMmuckraker in an interview Monday. Perez repeatedly emphasized that the…
The Yankees have a guy in the minors who can pitch righty and lefty. SI.com: Making his first appearance for the Yankees, Venditte took over for CC Sabathia with two outs in the fifth inning and tossed four warmup pitches with each hand. Venditte switched…
My 5-year-old pen pal says (via her mother): Derek’s a nice person. He doesn’t care how I spell. He did at first but then I had to teach him how not to care.
If I were to sell any prints or images of costumed Mardi Gras Indians, I’d certainly split any profit with the Indians. However, I don’t get the impression most photographers work that way. Generally, though, everything I shoot is available through a Creative Commons license,…
My new pen pal (via email) is a 5 year old girl living in Richmond, VA named Sophia. She is the daughter of a couple friends of ours. G recently visited them when she picked up our new puppy, Cairo, and Sophia was smitten by…
They come from the other side of St. Charles Avenue.
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