“Operation Michaelberg” (or Operation “Wing”) is how Mossad representatives called a daring action in 1947, in which about 46 Jewish repatriates were secretly transported from Iraq to Palestine on American Curtiss C-100 Commando aircraft. British authorities fiercely resisted repatriation. Despite…

  Mrs. Cobbs's Nail Salon (engraved on the right), which opened in New York, became the first not only in the city, but also in the country. Since then, the art of nail care has come a long way: from luxury to accessibility to almost everyone and from painstaking ...