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...m an equal number for the same purpose. I directed the comman- dant at New York to purchase or charter and arm an equal number. I directed Commander G... ...ix’s pickets are at New Kent Court-House. A. LINCOLN. CALL FOR TROOPS. NEW YORK, June 30, 1862. TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES: The capture of... ... the State of Louisiana; and I do hereby appoint Charles A Peabody, of New York, to be a provisional judge to hold said court, with authority to hear,... ...ding before them for en- larging the capacities of the great canals in New York and Illinois, as being of vital and rapidly increasing importance to t... ...ion, its people now find, and may forever find, their way to Europe by New York, to South America and Africa by New Orleans, and to Asia by San Fran- ... ...OLN. 434 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six COMMENT ON A NOTE. NEW YORK, October 15, 1863. DEAR SIR : On the point of leaving I am told, by a ...

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...s, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives from nine colonies met in New York. Though New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia did not send delegates, the Assemblies of those missing colonies nonetheless agreed to suppo...

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...me for Michael to attend high school he was sent to live with his aunt in New York who had left Boston to work in the fashion industry. Michael never... ...ved his father; and that, above all, he remembered. He enjoyed living in New York, moving easily between the world of glamour and the world of the ... ...hen after the funeral, while his mother was packing to return with him to New York she said, "He died because he believed in his mission. I pray you... ... never lost a race. He also managed to find time to get married to one of New York's top fashion models; it was not so much that he loved her, which ... ...Gallucci was already seated. "We're making a stop on the way. We'll be in New York for a few days first. We have business to take care of." Antonio... ...ing. Antonio then fumbled for his rosary and prayed the rest of the way to New York. 145 J.Cross/Artemis PART II ... ... CHAPTER 14 146 J.Cross/Artemis NEW YORK, THE MEETING As the chartered plane made it's final descent... ...t, Antonio looked out. The Statue of Liberty came into view, and then the New York City skyline rising up like spires toward Heaven. America, he tho... ...m to go to America. "Marco, you will become part of my cousin's Family in New York,” he said. “No one will know. I will make amends here." Marco f...

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...ry concludes “It is not good to be a negro in the land of the free and the home of the brave.” G. A. England of Harvard University (letter to The New York Times 10/11/1902) wrote: “To the American temperament, the gentleman who throws stones while himself living in a glass house cannot fail to be amusing; the more so if, as in Mr Kipling’s case, he appears to be in a state...

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...n escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steam boatman and as a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York. In 1843, he became a lecturer for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass. Brown went to Europe in 1849 to encourage British support for the anti-slavery movement in the U...

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...The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child. One outcome of this important event was...

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...in the US. Inheritors was first performed at Provincetown Playhouse in 1922, the last of Glaspell's plays presented there. It has been revived in New York City by Mirror Repertory in 1983 and Metropolitan Playhouse in 2005....

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...rable attention to her cause. Fiske attended Ipswich Female Seminary and the Abbott Institute, a boarding school run by Reverend J.S.C. Abbott in New York City. She was a classmate of the poet Emily Dickinson, also from Amherst. The two corresponded for the rest of their lives, but few of their letters have survived. ( Summary by Wikipedia )...

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...As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books. It takes the form of imaginary conversations ...

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...ate in the first book of the series. Kenneth has become involved in politics: he is running as the Republican candidate for the local seat in the New York State legislature, but thinks he is going to lose to his opponent. The family decide to go all out to help Kenneth win the election......

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... in the 1870s, the age of Presidents Grant and Hayes. The young widow, Madeleine Lee, wealthy and independent, is the protagonist, who leaves her New York for Washington to turn her intelligence to politics and to see what makes her country tick. There she meets (among others) Senator Silas P. Ratcliffe of Illinois, one of the most powerful and influential (if somewhat unc...

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...rary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world h...

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...aissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever ... ...ient postal system.  The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York to Los Angeles.  The 1,103-mile Grand Canal ‗s locks could lift boa... ...heir conquests when a warrior-king in France hired a cleric educator from York, England, who would develop a significant information technology. Tog... ...few Catholic scholars who emphasized science and dialectical logic. In York, the monk Alcuin‘s liberal arts and sciences (LAS) school had become w... ...th this issue. As abbot of the St. Martin at Tours Abbey, the monk from York oversaw the creation of a most helpful information technology—the Car... ...fore Carolingian minuscule. Had not Charlemagne recruited that creative York monk into the court of his Holy Roman Empire, reading and writing ski... ...id-forties, he left the wool market to enter the household of Margaret of York, the king‘s sister and the duchess of Burgundy. With her as his patron... ... which … made Henry V the national hero and the struggle of Lancaster and York the theme of a national cycle of tragedies,‖ according to noted Britis... ...genthaler‘s need for funds to continue his experiments coincided with New York Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid‘s need to reduce his paper‘s high labor ...

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...ions by John Quincy Adams “The Jubilee of the Constitution, delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, before the New York Historical Society.” Fellow Cit... ...ork Historical Society.” Fellow Citizens and Brethren, Associates of the New York Historical Society: Would it be an unlicensed trespass of the imagin... ..., when from the balcony of your city hall the chancellor of the State of New York administered to George Washington the sol emn oath faithfully to ex...

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... on the point in difference between them. If the Whig abolitionists of New York had voted with us last fall, Mr. Clay would now be President, Whig pri... ...ment were for the most part issued upon the principal offices, such as New York, Philadel- phia, Boston, Baltimore, etc., where the large offices of p... .... Clay’s chance for an election is just no chance at all. He might get New York, and that would have elected in 1844, but it will not now, because he ... ... is of some peculiar advantage to Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, beyond what it is to the interior towns of Illinois. The ... ...gar had been carried from New Orleans through this canal to Buffalo in New York. This sugar took this route, doubt- less, because it was cheaper than ... ...m the canal, not to Illinois, where the canal is, but to Louisiana and New York, where it is not. In other transactions Illinois will, of course, have... ...ontempt of this, you rejected him; rejected him, as the gentleman from New York [Mr. Birdsall] the other day expressly admitted, for availabil- ity—th... ... of your candidates will get your party? I have heard some things from New York; and if they are true, one might well say of your party there, as a dr... ...is any other gang of hogs more equally divided than the Demo- crats of New York are about this time, I have not heard of it. 90 The Writings of Abrah...

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...erpool, whither he had telegraphed to secure a second-class passage to New York for G. F . Wood and Lydia Wood, the names which he meant to be called ... ...ou all the situation, and I will send a letter as soon as we arrive at New York. No time for more, except that I am as much as ever ... ...written at intervals throughout the voyage, and finished on landing at New York. Passing over the expressions of unabated affection, and ex- planation... ...et her stand on her own legs, or mine, and put her to a good school at New York. I have finished an article on ‘T ransatlantic T ravellers’ for the ‘C... ..., also some reviews, and another paper that may pave my way to work in New York or elsewhere. My craving is for the work of hard hands, but I look at ... ...ida, had taken up his quar- ters in an “inexpensive” boarding-house at New York, where he had sent Lida to a highly-recommended day-school, and he was... ...st Cherie, “I told you in my last that the chief boss in the office at New York had written to me that he had been asked to send an intelligent young ...

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...ered little, but would have been awkward had he come to be Arch- bishop of York; and that he did not, turned upon the acci- dent of a few weeks too so...

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... go to swell, needlessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston. On some such morning, when three or four vessels happen...

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... Life of Johnson cated some Musick for the German Flute to Edward, Duke of York. In writing Dedications for others, he considered himself as by no mea... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t... ...irst time, oat ale; and oat cakes not hard as in Scotland, but soft like a Yorkshire cake, were served at breakfast. It was pleasant to me to find, th... ...76;’ would have sounded as well as, ‘Prologue, spoken be- fore the Duke of York, at Oxford,’ in Charles the Second’s time. Much might have been said o...

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...and be firm against them, their abode is Hell-- an evil refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the streets of New York o... ...slam have caused most of the terror and war in recent years. I get confused. The Almighty tells Osama bin Ladin to attack the infidels in New York a... ...anley Milgram ―Behavioral Study of Obedience‖ J of Abnormal and Social Psychology 67:4 (1963) 371-7. 4. Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving New York: ... ... 39, pp 383-411 11. Bray, Paul. "What is love?" Time Magazine, February 15, 1993. p. 45. 12. Buscaglia, Leo. Love. Fawcett Crest. New York. ... ...chological Bulletin (1984) 95-410; See also Geen, R. G. and Donnerstein, E.I. (eds) Aggression: Theoretical and Empirical Reviews (Vol. 1) New York: ...

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...) away. Six time zones separate Hawai'i from the eastern United States. This means that 9:00 A.M. (eastern standard time) in Washington, D.C. and New York City is 6:00 a.m. in Los Angeles and 4:00 a.m. in Hawai'i....

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...s great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among... ...er side of it to the other extremity of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue, New York Avenue, Vermont Avenue, and Connecticut Avenue do the same at what is ... ...acquired that, draws men in thousands round her properties. Liverpool, New York, Lyons, Glasgow, Venice, Marseilles, Hamburg, Calcutta, Chicago, and L... ...the sun shines nowhere else; and Boston Common is very pleas- ant. The New Yorkers believe in Fifth Avenue with an un- swerving faith; and Fifth Avenu... ...them I have seen at other places in marble. The Historical Society, at New York, has one or two of them. In and about the front of the Capitol there a... ...shington, or of anything in it. If the Smithsonian Institution were at New York or at Bos- ton, one would have a different story to tell. There has be... ...ly comfortable way of looking at the matter had never been attained at New York or Philadelphia, at Boston or Chicago. The Northern provincial world o... ... members is 173, and there are 63 vacancies occa- sioned by secession. New York returns 33 members; Penn- sylvania, 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massac... ...1 each. When the Constitution was framed, Pennsylvania returned 8, and New York only 6; whereas Virginia re- turned 10, and South Carolina 5, From whi...

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...s on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, the death of his trusted adviser Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, the rise of the Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the War, the First Battle of St Albans. Henry VI may be viewed as a study in insurrection, which moves from the private and...

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...eface to “The Breath of Life” both by John Burroughs, “The Wentworth Letter” by Joseph Smith, and “The Rhythm of Life” by Alice Meynell. From the New York Times, April 10, 1817 is an account of the Canadian capture of Vimy Ridge, “Haig Strikes Near Arras” and from the September 1921 issue of Vanity Fair an article on “The Flapper - A New Type.” And for the those with more ...

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...st, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London. He predicted in America’s Economic Supremacy (1900) that New York would become the centre for world trade. The Theory of Social Revolutions was written in 1913. (Wikipedia)...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; co...

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...on For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the sub- sisting... ...fluence For the Independent Journal. JAY To the People of the State of New York: When the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to d... ...luence) For the Independent Journal. JAY To the People of the State of New York: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like ... ...luence) For the Independent Journal. JAY To the People of the State of New York: My last paper assigned several reasons why the safety of the people w... ...luence) For the Independent Journal. JAY To the People of the State of New York: Queen Anne, in her letter of the 1st July, 1706, to the Scotch Parlia... ...es For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: The three last numbers of this paper have been dedicated to an enumer... ...s) For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: It is sometimes asked, with an air of seeming triumph, what inducemen... ...iently submitted to by the tributary States. The relative situation of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey would afford an example of this kind. New... ...ork, Connecticut, and New Jersey would afford an example of this kind. New York, from the necessities of revenue, must lay duties on her importa- tion...

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...Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeton University and spent the first twenty years of his career in the editing and publishing business. In 1915, he was recruited by his friend Stephen Mather to help publicize the need for an in...

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..., visited Philadelphia, and had a comparatively loitering afternoon in New York. What had I to say about it? Firstly, that I wish this article could b... ...visitor to Ellis Island, the receiving station for the immigrants into New York Harbour. One goes to this place by tugs from the United States barge o... ...e go- ing on in a community that is still, for all the dense crowds of New York, the teeming congestion of East Side, extraor- dinarily scattered. Ame... ... tells how little naked boys, free Americans, work for Mr. Borden, the New York millionaire, packing cloth into bleaching vats, in a bath of chemicals... ... by an observant stroller, surveying the crowds of a Sunday evening in New York, or read in the sheets of such a mirror of popular taste as the Sunday... ... sheets of such a mirror of popular taste as the Sunday edition of the New York American or the New York Herald. In the former just what I mean by the... ...ement of knock-about fun, written chiefly in the quaint dialect of the New York slums. It is a language from which “th” has vanished, and it presents ... ...e—mere decoration. Excitement remains the residual object in life. The New York American represents a clientele to be counted by the hundred thousand,... ...inclair’s “Metropolis,” or the fashionable intelligence of the popular New York Sunday editions, and one finds a good deal of confirmatory evidence in...

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... light. He was the only son of Vice-Admiral Penn, favourite of the Duke of York, afterwards King James II. William Penn, at twenty years of age, happe... ...ous arts of the Lady Margaret, who raised up the ghost of Richard, Duke of York, second son to King Edward IV ., to walk and vex the King. 43 V oltai...

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...inciple of their political clas 107 J S Mill sification. The notion that Yorkshire and Middlesex have rights apart from those of their inhabitants, ... ...embers (two), whether it be little Dela ware or the “Empire State” of New York. These members are not chosen by the population, but by the State Legi... ...an others. There is a wide difference in wealth and population between New York and Rhode Island; between Berne, and Zug or Glaris. The essen tial is...

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...L WEDDING KNELL WEDDING KNELL THERE IS A CERTAIN CHURCH in the city of New York which I have always regarded with peculiar interest, on account of a m... ...in astonishment. 1 Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by ...

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... high- est posts in the kingdom, died in the year 1687, in a remote inn in Yorkshire, reduced to the utmost misery.—P . 42 ‘Shrewsbury:’ the Countess... ... Fox and Henley. 109 ‘H—n:’ Hinton. 110 ‘Ebor:’ Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester. 111 ‘O—w:’ Onslow, Speaker of the...

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... elaborate paper mosaics featuring homilies and bible sayings. Visitors started coming to see her decorations, which an 1879 correspondent to the New York Times said “produce an effect strange, curious, and wonderfully artistic and beautiful.” Lizzie began charging for home tours and selling picture postcards and pamphlets. The enterprising Mrs. Monmouth said of her new li...

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...nt Inquiry, whose fine work helped us get started.We thank the City of New York for assistance with documents and witnesses, and the Government Printi... ..., including Flight 93, warning of cockpit intrusion and telling of the New York attacks. But even without them, he would cer- tainly have understood t... ...nal1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 14 “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 15 BOSTON NEW YORK NEW YORK CLEVELAND INDIANAPOLIS Boston Center Otis Air Force Base Lan... ...four hijacked aircraft were monitored mainly by the centers in Boston, New York, Cleveland, and Indi- anapolis. Each center thus had part of the knowl... ...ss the system.What Boston knew was not necessarily known by centers in New York, Cleveland, or Indianapolis, or for that matter by the Command Center ... ...east Air Defense Sector (also known as NEADS), which is based in Rome, New York. That morning NEADS could call on two alert sites, each with one pair ... ...mand Center immediately established a teleconfer- ence between Boston, New York, and Cleveland Centers so that Boston Center could help the others und... ...formation on American 11.At approximately 8:42, shortly after entering New York Center’s airspace, the pilot of United 175 broke in with the following... ...econference about American 11: Manager, New Y ork Center: Okay.This is New York Center.We’re watching the airplane. I also had conversation with Ameri...