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2 unusual facts about Rodinsky's Room


Claybury Hospital

In Rodinsky's Room, a book by Iain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein about David Rodinsky, they mark the tower at L. C. C. Claybury Mental Hospital, as the "fixed compass-point from which Rodinsky drew his circuits of London. All his maps were based on that sightline" (Dark Lanthorns 32).

Rachel Lichtenstein

In 1999 she wrote Rodinsky's Room with Iain Sinclair, and since then she has published Rodinsky's Whitechapel (1999) and On Brick Lane (2007).


Ann Oakley

Ann Oakley has written numerous academic works, many focusing on the lives and roles of women in society as well as several best-selling novels, of which the best-known is probably The Men's Room, which was adapted by Laura Lamson for BBC television in 1991, and which starred Harriet Walter and Bill Nighy.

Dave's Room

Many popular engineers and producers frequently use Dave's Room, including Jack Joseph Puig, T Bone Burnett, Alan Parsons (who recorded the very first Alan Parsons Project sessions at the studio), Brown Bannister, Burt Bacharach, Larry Norman and many others.

Edward Atienza

Edward Atienza made his professional stage debut in the role of the Butler in a 1949 production of Up in Mabel's Room.

Giovanni's Room

She is from Minneapolis and moved to Paris to study painting, until she threw in the towel and met David by serendipity.

David, a young American man whose girlfriend has gone off to Spain to contemplate marriage, is left alone in Paris and begins an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni.

David remembers his first experience with a boy, Joey, who lived in Brooklyn.

Hydraulic press

The room featured in Fermat's Room has a design similar to that of a hydraulic press.

In Vanda's Room

No Quarto da Vanda is a kind of sequel to the drama film Ossos (1997) in which Vanda Duarte plays as an actress.

Jacob's Room

The work is seen as an important modernist text; its experimental form is viewed as a progression of the innovative writing style Woolf presented in her earlier collection of short fiction titled Monday or Tuesday (1919).

Out of the Blue Enterprises

The company serves as the producers (with DHX Media's Decode Entertainment unit) of the CGI-animated children's television show Super Why! that airs on most PBS stations and on Kids' CBC in Canada and Blue's Room which formerly aired on Nick Jr..

The Return of the Soldier

This distance is very similar to the distance from war and its trauma in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room.

Vice President's Room

In 1919 Vice President Thomas Marshall signed the constitutional amendment bill that would grant nationwide suffrage to women once ratified by the states.

Six years later, following President James Garfield’s assassination, Vice President Chester Arthur took the presidential oath of office here with two former presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, among those attending the ceremony.

In 1885, the Senate voted to place a marble bust of Henry Wilson in the Vice President’s Room, to honor one of the Senate’s most popular presiding officers.

In 1875 Henry Wilson, Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president, died in the room after suffering a stroke.

John Breckinridge of Kentucky was the first to occupy the new Vice President’s Room (S–214), after he gavelled the Senate into session in its

On April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman was on the House side of the Capitol when he received a telephone call informing him to come immediately to the White House.


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