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3 unusual facts about St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery


Doorika

They performed at PS 122, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Chopin Theater, CBGB's Gallery, Chicago Filmmakers, Ohio Theater's Ice Factory Series, Vineyard Theater, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, Downtown Theater Festival among other venues in New York and Chicago.

Ron Padgett

Padgett was a poetry workshop instructor at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, NY, from 1968–69 and a poet in various New York City Poets in the Schools programs from 1969-76.

Solon Borglum

Two of Borglum's sculptures, Inspiration and Aspiration, which depict Native American men, stand in the front courtyard of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, flanking the front gate.


Adam Setliff

He currently lives in Dallas with his wife and 3 children and is an assistant coach at St. Mark's School of Texas as well as a practicing attorney.

Alan Bernheimer

He continued his association with the New York School poets and the St. Mark's Poetry Project for several years, and moved to San Francisco in 1976, where through Benson and Robinson he met other writers—such as Rae Armantrout, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten -- who would soon become known as the San Francisco Language poets.

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr.

He was educated at two prep schools: St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.

Avraam Benaroya

Mazower, Mark, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, 2004, ISBN 978-0-375-41298-1.

Bartolomeo Gradenigo

The most important event was the tempest that struck against Venice on 15 February 1340 and which, according to legend, was pushed back only through the supernatural intercession of St. Mark, St. George and St. Nicholas, brought to the lagoon by a humble fisherman.

Bowery Mission

When that building was scheduled to be demolished to make way for the approaches to the Manhattan Bridge, the mission moved to its current location at 227 Bowery.

Bowery Mural

Real estate developer Tony Goldman started the Bowery Mural with Jeffery Deitch and Deitch Projects.

In November 2010 for the fourth project Goldman presented on this historic wall a recreation of Keith Haring’s famous 1982 Bowery mural.

Bowery Savings Bank

From 1972 to 1992, baseball Hall-of-Famer Joe DiMaggio was spokesman for the Bowery Savings Bank.

Brotherhood of St. Mark

This title was relevant for the Landsknechts, because a certified "master of the long sword" wielding the Zweihänder was entitled to twice the pay of a normal soldier (Doppelsöldner).

Cecil Howard Green

With his wife Ida Green, he was a philanthropist who helped found the University of Texas at Dallas, Green College at the University of British Columbia, St. Mark's School of Texas, and Green College at the University of Oxford.

Civil service reform in developing countries

Abdollahian, Mark, Michael Baranick, Brian Efird, and Jacek Kugler, 2006.

Coptic history

St. Jerome records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by St. Mark himself.

David E. Mark

In the early 1960s, Mark served in various capacities in INR at the U.S. State Department until his appointment as United States Ambassador to Burundi from 1974 to 1977.

Dead Rabbits

Lyrics detailing the Dead Rabbits' battle with the Bowery Boys on July 4, 1857, were written by Henry Sherman Backus ("The Saugerties Bard") in Hoboken, NJ.

Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale

As a result of significant population growth in Parkdale in the 1880s, the church grew from 40 families in 1880 to 320 in 1887 and the need for another parish was recognized.

The cornerstone of the current building was laid by the Bishop of Toronto on October 11, 1880.

The Church of the Epiphany had a close association with Wycliffe College.

Ernest Amory Codman

He attended the Fay School in Southborough, and prepped at St. Mark's School, matriculating at Harvard College.

Firth Brown Steels

Two of the sons, Mark and Thomas junior followed in fathers footsteps and started work at Sanderson Brothers but in 1842 left to set up their own business in Charlotte Street, Sheffield, their father joining them shortly afterwards.

Fuggerei

The Fuggerei was first built between 1514 and 1523 under the supervision of the architect Thomas Krebs, and in 1582 Hans Holl added the church to the settlement: St. Mark's.

Giuseppe Toaldo

His treatise "Della maniera di difendere gli edificii dal fulmine" (1772) and his pamphlet "Dei conduttori metallici a preservazione degli edifici dal fulmine" (1774) contributed largely to remove the popular prejudices of the time against the use of the "Franklinian rod"; and through his exertions lightning-conductors were placed on Siena Cathedral, on the tower of St. Mark's, Venice, on powder magazines, and ships of the Venetian navy.

Grand Rapids Medical Mile

The Butterworth Hospital was founded by St. Mark's Church in 1873.

Henry Diltz

Diltz is co-founder of the "Morrison Hotel" Galleries along with Peter Blachley and Rich Horowitz in SoHo and the Bowery in New York City and in La Jolla, California.

International Workingmen's Association in America

In December 1867 a first step towards formal organization on behalf of the International took place in New York City when a call was issued for a meeting to be held the next month at the Germania Assembly Rooms, located in the city's Bowery district.

John K. Downes

Born in Platt Bridge, Lancashire, England, he was educated at St. Mark’s College in London.

July victims

When it was announced that the Hungarian-allied candidate won, members of the People's Party took to St. Mark's Square to protest the result.

Juvencus

Lastly, eight preliminary verses, Juvencus's authorship of which is disputed, characterize the Evangelists and assign emblems to them; but they assign the eagle to St. Mark and the lion to St. John.

Kęstutis Nakas

Kęstutis Nakas is an American playwright, author, performer, director, and teacher whose work has been presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, 8 BC, The Kitchen, Highways, and numerous other national venues.

Lamian

Most are located in the Fuzhounese area of Chinatown east of Bowery.

Mana Bar

The Mana Bar is a collaboration between Guy "Yug" Blomberg, co-creator of Australian Gamer; Pras Moorthy, senior designer at The Creative Assembly; video game critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw; and Shay Leighton, creative director of local cocktail bar The Bowery.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

The "White Paternoster" was used by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) as a mockery of the mass by Lucifer, described as the "Black Paternoster" in his narrative poem The Golden Legend (1851).

PAS/CAL

After an exhaustive two years spent writing & recording their debut LP, I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura, which was released on July 22, 2008 via Le Grand Magistery, PAS/CAL disbanded.

Patrick Bohan

Patrick "Burly" Bohan (1860-?) was an American saloonkeeper and owner of The Doctor's, a popular Park Row dive bar and hangout for panhandlers and professional beggars known as the "Bowery Bums".

Philip Salyer

He currently lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and coaches 8th grade soccer at St. Mark's School of Texas.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

The ceremony to choose the pope from the three consensus candidates was held at Cairo's St. Mark's Cathedral at about noon and featured a marked police presence.

Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School

Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster.

St. Mark's Church, Belgrade

As one enters the church on the right side along the south wall of the church is the marble tomb of Emperor Stefan Dušan († 1354) designed by Dr. Dragomir Tadić where his holy relics rest after being transferred from his endowment, Saint Archangels Monastery near Prizren, a monastery that has lain in ruins for centuries.

St. Mark's Church, Dublin

Perhaps the most celebrated person associated with St. Marks is Oscar Wilde, who was baptised in the church.

St. Mark's Church, Vrba

An image of St Christopher and one of the Crucifixion date to the early 15th century and are in the style of the Gorizia school.

St. Mark's Church, Zagreb

The Gothic composition of the portal consists of fifteen effigies placed in eleven shallow niches.

Tarah Donoghue

She graduated from Fay School and St. Mark's School, both of Southborough, Massachusetts in 2001, and also served as the 2009 Prize Day speaker there.

The Strong Box

The exterior of the apartment of Elaine's secretive new boyfriend is actually located in Manhattan's East Village at 4 St. Mark's Place.

Ustaše Militia

Aarons, Mark and Loftus, John: Unholy Trinity: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets.

William H. Boole

William H. Boole (1827 - February 24, 1896) was a pastor of the Willet Street Methodist Church in the Bowery in New York City.


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