Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Patti Smith across 5 places, from 1946 to 2017.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, and author.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Patti Smith is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Patti Smith was documented, and when
30 December 1946exact date
Lincoln Park, Chicagoattested“Smith was born on December 30, 1946, at Grant Hospital in the Lincoln Park section of Chicago, to Beverly Smith, a jazz singer turned waitress, and Grant Smith, a Honeywell machinist.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
25 June 2005exact date
Londonattested“Smith curated the Meltdown festival in London on June 25, 2005, in which she performed Horses live in its entirety for the first time.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
15 October 2006exact date
CBGBattested“On October 15, 2006, Smith performed a 3½-hour tour de force show to close out at CBGB, which was an immensely influential New York City live music venue for much of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
10 December 2016exact date
Stockholmattested“On December 10, 2016, Smith attended the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm on behalf of Bob Dylan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, who could not be present due to prior commitments.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
2017year
Detroitattested“She later made an appearance at the Detroit show of U2's The Joshua Tree 2017 tour and performed "Mothers of the Disappeared" with the band.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
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In each of these, a source puts Patti Smith and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Patti Smith was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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1964year
Deptford Township High Schoolmentioned“In 1964, Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School, and began working in a factory.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
1964year
Deptford Townshipmentioned“In 1964, Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School, and began working in a factory.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
1969year
Parismentioned“In 1969, Smith went to Paris with her sister, and started busking and doing performance art.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
March 1975month
CBGBmentioned“In March 1975, the Patti Smith Group began a two-month weekend set of shows at CBGB in New York City with the band Television.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
March 1975month
New York Citymentioned“In March 1975, the Patti Smith Group began a two-month weekend set of shows at CBGB in New York City with the band Television.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
March 1975month
New Yorkmentioned“In March 1975, the Patti Smith Group began a two-month weekend set of shows at CBGB in New York City with the band Television.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
23 January 1977exact date
Tampa, Floridamentioned“On January 23, 1977, while touring in support of Radio Ethiopia, Smith accidentally danced off a high stage in Tampa, Florida, and fell 15-feet onto a concrete orchestra pit, breaking several cervical vertebrae.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
28 September 2002exact date
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburghmentioned“Smith's solo art exhibition Strange Messenger was hosted at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on September 28, 2002.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
28 September 2002exact date
Pittsburghmentioned“Smith's solo art exhibition Strange Messenger was hosted at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on September 28, 2002.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
September 2006month
Londonmentioned“In September 2006, Smith premiered two new protest songs in London.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
22 June 2008exact date
Parismentioned“From March 28 to June 22, 2008, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris hosted a major exhibition of visual artwork titled Land 250, drawn from pieces created by Smith between 1967 and 2007.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
10 September 2009exact date
Florencementioned“On September 10, 2009, after a week of smaller events and exhibitions in Florence, Smith played an open-air concert at Piazza Santa Croce, commemorating her performance in the same city 30 years earlier.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
10 September 2009exact date
Piazza Santa Crocementioned“On September 10, 2009, after a week of smaller events and exhibitions in Florence, Smith played an open-air concert at Piazza Santa Croce, commemorating her performance in the same city 30 years earlier.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
2010year
Manhattanmentioned“In 2010, Smith's book Just Kids was published, a memoir of her time in Manhattan during the 1970s and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.”source: Wikipedia: Patti Smith
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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