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I didn’t know the Medici jewels were located at the Morgan Library and possibly DaVinci’s notebook as well.

"While segregation is the law of the South, the tentacles of Jim Crow have stretched into New York, too".

Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes enacted in the American South from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.

“And we were quite a bit fairer than the newly arrived immigrants I’d seen in lower Manhattan, those of Italian and Mediterranean descent who were presumed to be white, although a low sort of white”.