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The Importance is not with the Coat but with the #People:

"Imagine the coldest day you can remember, the biting wind chilling you to your core...​  Now imagine spending each day wandering through the city, with no home, no bed, no place to get warm." This is reality for over 20,000 Detroiters. 1 in every 42 people in the city are homeless. Because of this, shelters are often too overwhelmed and under-supported to help every individual in need. Too often people in need of basic necessities have to fend for themselves on the streets, and in the harsh cold of Michigan winters the difficulty to survive is only exacerbated.   Homeless people become trapped in a cycle. Often it begins when a person loses his or her job, then their home, and eventually ends up on the streets for anywhere from a few months to upwards of 20 years. What started as a class project for a young student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, transpired into an agent for change and empowerment within her community. The class project was ...

"The Man Who Owned Broadway"

An American entertainer , playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer. He was considered the father of American musical comedy. A remarkable talent who displayed  theatrical longevity, appearing in films until the 1930s, and continuing to perform as a headline artist until 1940.   His name was George Michael Cohan , born in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Irish Catholic parents. A baptismal certificate (which gave the wrong first name for his mother) indicated that he was born on July 3, but Cohan and his family always insisted that George had been "born on the Fourth of July!" George's parents were traveling vaudeville performers, and he joined them on stage while still an infant, first as a prop, learning to dance and sing soon after he could walk and talk.   Cohan began his career as a child, performing with his parents and sister in a vaudeville act known as " The Four Cohans ." Beginning with Little Johnny Jone...

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The practice had evolved from commonplace books, a Renaissance tradition of compiling important and memorable information into bound sheets of paper. Students were encouraged to keep the books during class, and eventually they became a place to store anything and everything their owners found interesting-including the signatures of other classmates.