We are partial to grocery lists on the day they were born, and hotel bills from vacations.
The prosecutors said Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean-born hotel maid who had made the charges, lacked sufficient credibility.
His political ambitions were shattered when he was arrested in New York on charges – later dropped – of sexually assaulting Guinean-born hotel chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo.
Raymond Orteig, a French-born hotel owner in New York, had offered a $25,000 prize to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in an airplane from Paris to New York or vice versa.
Eugene, who was born in a hotel, spent his early childhood in hotel rooms, on trains, and backstage.
Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room".
I wrestled through a line outside the set of "Good Morning America" to find my first clue, a plaque that helped me answer the question of which famous playwright was born in a hotel room in the square, and ended up at Times Scare, the year-round haunted house on Eighth Avenue.
Downstairs, the legendary, revolving Carousel Bar served up glasses of Ramos gin fizz to the likes of Truman Capote, who joked to enamored guests that he was born in the hotel.
And so the new breed of country house hotel was born - city living brought to the hills, designer furniture and raspberry martinis included.
In fact, his 2-year-old daughter, Marina Cherry, was born at the Cherry Grove Beach Hotel and was named for the town.
O'Neill, who was born in a Broadway hotel room in what later became known as Times Square, lived a brief part of his peripatetic life at the Lincoln Square Arcade, a barnlike theater-studio-loft space at Broadway and West 65th Street.
