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Rita Hall

Rita Hall started her career as an artist in Israel 35 years ago. After working in Scotland and finally the U.S. where she got her BFA from Parsons School of Design, she switched careers. For 4 years she was an engineer, producer and on-air host for listener-sponsored radio station WBAI where she created cultural and political programming. Following a maternity hiatus, she began designing food, home, science and entertainment sections for Newsday, where she worked for more than 20 years.

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Muckety this! Napoleon Bonaparte to Martha Graham

By Rita Hall | June 24, 2008

How is the charismatic 19th-century general and French emperor connected to the American dance impresario?

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Muckety this! George Patton’s North African campaign to Israel’s Entebbe Raid

By Rita Hall | June 3, 2008

How is Major General George Patton’s African mission connected to Israel’s rescue of several dozen hostages in Uganda more than 30 years later?

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Muckety this! Charles Lindbergh to Mortimer Zuckerman

By Rita Hall | April 30, 2008

How is the aviation pioneer, accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, connected to the Jewish newspaper mogul?

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Muckety this! Pete Seeger to the late Meir Kahane

By Rita Hall | April 29, 2008

On June 21-22, Pete Seeger will perform at the Clearwater Festival, an annual environmental fund-raiser in Croton, New York, which he began more than 30 years ago to help clean up the Hudson River. That is the sort of activism that has defined Seeger’s life. So how could he be connected to Kahane, the right-wing rabbi and agitator?

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Bard’s Botstein joins Streisand to perform for Israel’s 60th

By Rita Hall | April 20, 2008

Once again, Bard President Leon Botstein is stepping into the breach.

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Muckety this! Jonas Salk to Andy Warhol

By Rita Hall | April 18, 2008

How is the inventor of the polio vaccine connected to the famed artist?

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Muckety this! Sarah Hughes to Leonard Bernstein

By Rita Hall | April 14, 2008

Olympic Gold Medal Ice skater Sarah Hughes was a family friend and neighbor of the late borscht belt jokester Alan King. His estate in King’s Point was previously owned by iconic American lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, longtime collaborator of composer Richard Rodgers.

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Muckety this! Salman Rushdie to Larry David

By Rita Hall | April 12, 2008

Novelist Salman Rushdie was married to Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. Season 2 winner Ilan Hall’s bar mitzvah coach was Cantor Frieder who appeared in the Ben Stiller film Keeping the Faith.

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