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February 17, 2022, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – TAG – Forever Provenance and Protection in Collecting

Austin Tang — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:57:41 +0000

Kleckt (4 C Collectors, Inc.) announces the launch of its beta program for the first ever biometric “owner to asset” association technology, called ‘TAG’. TAG will generate ‘biographic keys’ (bio keys) imbuing owner data directly into a collectible asset at creation to combat fraud and add pedigree. Kleckt, through its counsel Offit Kurman filed a first of its kind patent application for its novel Tag technology.

“Kleckt TAG introduces an innovative technology as a tool which combats fraud by forever memorializing title by associating ownership to the asset using blockchain technology. TAG enhances the value of any item, resulting in an appreciation of value in ‘Goodwill Intangibles’ of any asset, both digital and physical, at inception. By creating an immutable record of title to a collectible, TAG legitimizes this emotional asset class, whether through legacy, title and by telling the underlying story in-between,” said Scott Einiger, Founder of Kleckt.

Today is an important date in collectible history as the first superhero was created by visionary Lee Falk on February 17, 1936. According to historian Kevin Patrick author of The Phantom Unmasked America’s First Superhero, the Phantom captivated an international audience of one hundred million readers worldwide and is the true “grandaddy” and “template” of today’s modern day costumed superhero.

Kleckt TAG technology begins testing today on this important day in collecting history with the first of its kind owner imbued provenance technology for the collectible market. Our company origin story is tied to the first superhero ever as it inspired our corporate mission and there can be only one first enhanced NFT and ultimately a “smart security”.

We selected the visionary artist, a legend who modernized the first superhero character to TAG first. “The Phantom has been part of my artistic legacy, so it was natural for my first NFT to not merely create a collectible. I am excited to explore TAGs ability to capture provenance and the story surrounding collecting” said Sy Barry, artist of The Phantom. www.Kleckthlx.com

We are excited to begin testing TAG using BCHLX irrevocable blockchain. Once our testing is complete you can own a part of history and be a part of the story with the world’s first tagged NFT with superpowers. Turning physical and digital artwork into enhanced NFTS using TAG, powered by BCHLX. “We are pleased to be selected as the blockchain testing this novel technology,” said Co-Founder Dan Schwartz.

(Scan QR CODE or link on the top of the Press Release for more information).
Contact Kleckt for more information:
Preview our first commercial: https://youtu.be/WBbrPsn1vG8
Connect to our visionary staff: www.Kleckthlx.com
Investor relations: Peter Signorelli: pete@kleckt.com
Media relations: Eugene Rosenthal: scott@kleckt.com
Production: Paul Sladkus, Dave Chislett: scott@kleckt.com
Counsel: Mark Zafrin of Offit Kurman: mark.zafrin@offitkurman.com
To learn more about Kleckt testing and strategic partners: Contact BCHLX Co-Founder Dan Schwartz: dan@bchlx.com
Contact: Divvy technology; Dean Stamos Founder: dean@divvytech.com
Sy Barry, artist of the Phantom: https://sybarry.com
Contact: Kevin Patrick, author, and historian: kevin.patrick@outlook.com.au

“The Phantom Unmasked; America’s First Superhero” is available online at Amazon

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Distinguished Historian Reveals Truths About A Forgotten America In New Critically-Acclaimed Novel

Austin Tang — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:12:17 +0000

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Gilbert’s prose style is detailed, voice-driven, and refined. The author quickly establishes a sense of place that becomes increasingly vivid as Gilbert introduces its many distinctive residents. [He] excels in creating memorable characters whose individual stories coalesce to tell a broader literary and historical narrative. In the tradition of Winesburg, Ohio, Gilbert’s Tales of Little Egypt brings small-town America to full life.
–Publishers Weekly Book Life Review
“From the very beginning TALES OF LITTLE EGYPT prepares us for an emotional journey. From a battle-side death bed to the truths of small-town America, this collection of historical short fiction weaves between tales that are at times endearing, at times tragic, but always insightful… A rich collection of short stories offering insight into the collective American past and present.”
— Independent Book Review
A Fulbright Scholar and historian-turned-master-storyteller is at it again in his 15th book, Tales From Little Egypt, a fictional account of life that spans from the Civil War of the 1860s to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and World War I. Once a distinguished professor and Fulbright Scholar, James, who also had one of his history books make a New York Times Notable List, takes a historical approach to examining 13 imaginary lives that touched some of the most significant eras of American history.
“Little Egypt was the destination of my childhood summer,” reveals Gilbert. “Those gatherings where family stories were shared would serve as inspiration for the colorful tales I have penned.” Indeed, three generations of his family lived there, and some family members fought on opposite sides of the Civil War.
More About The Book:
Tales of Little Egypt is a fictional account of small-town America and the peculiar, ordinary, eccentric, sturdy, cunning, and contented characters who created it. Set in the years between the Civil War and the great Influenza Plague of 1918, this is a pageant of imaginary people–the narratives of a score of men, women, and children whose lives illustrate the immense changes and challenges of that turbulent era. This was a period of great events and outsized personalities: splendid World’s Fairs attended by millions, radical new inventions, devastating wars and violent revolutions; leaders like Theodore Roosevelt. But underneath were the people whose stories are as fascinating, troubled, compelling and triumphant as anything that has occupied the attention of historians. There was the town doctor, the local sheriff, the jeweler, the self-appointed matron of morality, a young black girl and her mother, a boy who ran off to the circus and many others: lovers, criminals, teachers, ministers, and odd characters. As a community, their lives and ambitions, their failures and tragedies–sometimes at their own making–and their small successes intersected and become a part of each other.
Marion, Illinois is both a real place and the imaginary location for these stories. Set in the center of Little Egypt, Marion is a county seat in the middle of this unique area, a river delta wedged between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. These two great highways of American immigration and trade sent millions of settlers North and South, East and West and back. The few who stopped off to make it their home created something distinctive. Theirs was a society that reflected the crossroads it occupied and the mix of cultures and sections that it represented. It was both nowhere and everywhere. Therefore, their struggles to make sense of this world exemplify the tale and the memory of modern America in the making.
For Zona Romantica:
“An entertaining mystery with a vibrant setting.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“The dash of romance added to the intrigue and historical references keeps Zona Romantica a thoroughly inviting read, juxtaposing personal and political observations right up to an unexpected conclusion.
Midwest Book Reviews

About The Author: Over the course of his career as a historian, he published 11 history texts, one of which (Perfect Cities) was named a New York Times notable book of the year in 1986. Throughout his career, he has often succumbed to a love of travel made possible by teaching at the University of Paris and Warwick University in England, and with Fulbright Awards, at the University of Sydney, the University of Amsterdam, Erfurt and Tubingen Universities in Germany, and Uppsala University in Sweden, where he was given an honorary Doctoral Degree. Until 2020, he was the Faculty Fulbright Adviser at the University of Maryland. Born in Chicago, Gilbert attended Carleton College and then the University of Wisconsin, earning a doctoral degree in American Intellectual and Cultural History. In 1966, he was hired by the University of Maryland. He was appointed Distinguished University Professor in 1999. While American history has been his profession, literature has been his passion, and since retirement, he has written three novels and a book of short stories. He is also a (very) amateur cellist. For more information, please consult: www.JamesBGilbertAuthor.com

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Headless Horseman Stories, Sleepy Hollow’s Village Historian Henry Steiner Shares his Blog

Alexandra — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:29:48 +0000

Henry John Steiner is the village historian of Sleepy Hollow, NY and my wonderful hometown as well ..Paul.

https://headlesshorsemanblog.wordpress.com/

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was first published in 1820. Along with Irving’s companion piece “Rip Van Winkle“, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity.

From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow … A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere.

—Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The story is set in 1790 in the countryside around the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (historical Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen known as Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow is renowned for its ghosts and the haunting atmosphere that pervades the imaginations of its inhabitants and visitors. Some residents say this town was bewitched during the early days of the Dutch settlement, while others claim that the mysterious atmosphere was caused by an old Native American chief, the “wizard of his tribe … before the country was discovered by Master Hendrik Hudson.” The most infamous spectre in the Hollow is the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper whose head had been shot off by a stray cannonball during “some nameless battle” of the Revolution, and who “rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head”.

The “Legend” relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of wealthy farmer Baltus Van Tassel. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina as a means of procuring Van Tassel’s extravagant wealth. Bones, the local hero, unable to force Ichabod into a physical showdown to settle things, plays a series of pranks on the superstitious schoolmaster. The tension among the three continues for some time, and is soon brought to a head. On a placid autumn night, the ambitious Crane attends a harvest party at the Van Tassels’ homestead. He dances, partakes in the feast, and listens to ghostly legends told by Brom and the locals, but his true aim is to propose to Katrina after the guests leave. His intentions, however, are ill-fated.

After having failed to secure Katrina’s hand, Ichabod rides home on his temperamental horse (named Gunpowder) “heavy-hearted and crestfallen” through the woods between Van Tassel’s farmstead and the farmhouse in Sleepy Hollow where he is quartered at the time. As he passes several purportedly haunted spots, his active imagination is engorged by the ghost stories told at Baltus’ harvest party. After nervously passing a lightning-stricken tulip tree purportedly haunted by the ghost of British spy Major André, Ichabod encounters a cloaked rider at an intersection in a menacing swamp. Unsettled by his fellow traveler’s eerie size and silence, the teacher is horrified to discover that his companion’s head is not on his shoulders, but on his saddle. In a frenzied race to the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground, where the Hessian is said to “vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone” before crossing it, Ichabod rides for his life, desperately goading Gunpowder down the Hollow. However, while Crane and Gunpowder are able to cross the bridge ahead of the ghoul, to Crane’s horror it rears its horse and hurls its severed head directly at Ichabod. The schoolmaster attempts to dodge, but is too late; the missile strikes his head and sends him tumbling headlong into the dust.

The next morning, Ichabod has mysteriously disappeared from the area, leaving Katrina to later marry Brom Bones, who was said “to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related”. Indeed, the only relics of the schoolmaster’s flight are his discarded hat, Gunpowder’s trampled saddle, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. Although the true nature of both the Headless Horseman and Ichabod’s disappearance that night are left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom (an extremely agile rider) in disguise, and suggests that Crane survived the fall from Gunpowder and immediately fled Sleepy Hollow in horror, never to return but to prosper elsewhere, or perhaps was killed by Brom himself. Irving’s narrator concludes the story, however, by stating that the old Dutch wives continue to promote the belief that Ichabod was “spirited away by supernatural means”, and a legend develops around his disappearance and sightings of his melancholy spirit.

In a Postscript (sometimes unused in certain editions), the narrator states the circumstances in which he heard the story from an old gentleman “at a Corporation meeting at the ancient city of Manhattoes“, who didn’t “believe one-half of it [himself].”

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