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Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn)

Abraham Lincoln High School is a public high school located at 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Education.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Al Seiden

Alan Seiden (May 1, 1937 – May 3, 2008) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player.

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Alan Dugan

Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003) was an American poet.

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Alfred F. Young

Alfred Fabian "Al" Young (1925–2012) was an American historian.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.

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The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is an international organization of academic, church, and concert organists in the US, headquartered in New York City with its administrative offices in the Interchurch Center.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science.

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Anna Blackburne-Rigsby

Anna Elizabeth Blackburne-Rigsby (born May 6, 1961) is the chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia.

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AP Newsfeatures

AP Newsfeatures, also AP Features, was the cartoon and comic strip division of Associated Press, which syndicated strips from 1930 to the early 1960s.

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Arcadia Publishing

Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.

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Art Buchwald

Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his column in The Washington Post.

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Artificial turf

Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass, used in sports arenas, residential lawns and commercial applications that traditionally use grass.

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Ashrita Furman

Ashrita Furman (born Keith Furman, September 16, 1954) is a Guinness World Records record-breaker.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Ato Boldon

Ato Jabari Boldon (born 30 December 1973) is a Trinidadian former track and field athlete, politician, and four-time Olympic medal winner.

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Bell tower

A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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Bill Chadwick

William Leroy "The Big Whistle" Chadwick (October 10, 1915 – October 24, 2009) was the first US-born referee to serve in the National Hockey League (NHL).

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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (Bioguide) is a biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress and its predecessor, the Continental Congress.

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Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York

The Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York is responsible for the general supervision of all educational activities within New York State, presiding over University of the State of New York and the New York State Education Department.

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Bob Beamon

Robert Beamon (born August 29, 1946) is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968.

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Bobby Susser

Robert Howard Susser (July 18, 1942 – September 15, 2020) was an American songwriter, record producer, and performer, best known for his young children's music.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn Eagle

The Brooklyn Eagle (originally joint name The Brooklyn Eagle and Kings County Democrat, later The Brooklyn Daily Eagle before shortening title further to Brooklyn Eagle) was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955.

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Captain Tilly Park

Captain Tilly Park is a park in Jamaica Hills, Queens, New York, north of downtown Jamaica.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a philanthropic fund established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to support education programs across the United States, and later the world.

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Charles Ruas

Charles Ruas is an American teacher, writer, translator, literary and art critic, and interviewer for print and broadcast.

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Colonial architecture

Colonial architecture is a hybrid architectural style that arose as colonists combined architectural styles from their country of origin with design characteristics of the settled country.

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Corky Lee

Young Corky Lee (September 5, 1947 – January 27, 2021) was a Chinese-American activist, community organizer, photographer, journalist, and the self-proclaimed unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate.

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Cornerstone

A cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation.

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Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall.

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Cryptography

Cryptography, or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.

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Danny Garcia (outfielder)

Daniel R. Garcia (born April 29, 1954) is a former professional baseball player, coach, scout, and executive.

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Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran for six seasons from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003.

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Daylighting (architecture)

Daylighting is the practice of placing windows, skylights, other openings, and reflective surfaces so that direct or indirect sunlight can provide effective internal lighting.

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Delaware languages

The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages (Lënapei èlixsuwakàn), are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family.

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District of Columbia Court of Appeals

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals is the highest court of the District of Columbia, the capital city of the United States.

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DNAinfo

DNAinfo was an online newspaper that focused on neighborhood news in New York City and Chicago.

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Dolores Wilson

Dolores Mae Wilson (August 9, 1928 – September 28, 2010) was an American coloratura soprano who had an active international opera career from the late 1940s through the early 1960s.

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Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen.

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Dutch Colonial Revival architecture

Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house.

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East River

The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City.

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Ed Lover

James Roberts (born February 12, 1963), better known as Ed Lover, is an American deejay, radio personality, actor, musician, and former MTV VJ.

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Emblem

An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept, like a moral truth, or an allegory, or a person, like a monarch or saint.

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Estey Organ

The Estey Organ Company was an organ manufacturer based in Brattleboro, Vermont, founded in 1852 by Jacob Estey.

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Field hockey

Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper.

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Field house

Field house or fieldhouse is an American English term for an indoor sports arena or stadium, mostly used for college basketball, volleyball, or ice hockey, or a support building for various adjacent sports fields, e.g. locker room, team room, coaches' offices, etc.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Frank Eck

Frank Eck (born Francis Henry Eck;. Brooklyn Times Union. September 3, 1933. p. 8."New York State Census, 1915",, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9GK-SC9: 3 June 2022), Francis H Eck in entry for Jacob F Eck, 1915. July 15, 1911 – October 16, 1987. The Sacramento Bee.

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Frank Macchiarola

Frank J. Macchiarola (April 7, 1941 – December 18, 2012), was an American academic.

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Fred Neulander

Fred J. Neulander (August 14, 1941 – April 17, 2024) was an American Reform rabbi from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, who was convicted of hiring two men to murder his wife, Carol Neulander, in 1994.

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Fultonhistory.com

Fultonhistory.com (also known as Old Fulton New York Postcards) is an archival historic newspaper website of over 1,000 New York newspapers, along with collections from other states and Canada.

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Gateway to Higher Education (program)

The "Gateway Institute for Pre-College Education", begun as the Gateway to Higher Education program was started in New York City in September 1986.

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George U. Harvey

George U. Harvey (August 15, 1881 – April 6, 1946) was a Republican politician from Queens, New York City and served as its borough president for twelve years.

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George Vecsey

George Spencer Vecsey (born July 4, 1939) is an American non-fiction author and sports columnist for The New York Times. Vecsey is best known for his work in sports, but has co-written several autobiographies with non-sports figures.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Gerald S. Lesser

Gerald Samuel Lesser (August 22, 1926 – September 23, 2010) was an American psychologist who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1963 until his retirement in 1998.

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Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs.

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Glacial period

A glacial period (alternatively glacial or glaciation) is an interval of time (thousands of years) within an ice age that is marked by colder temperatures and glacier advances.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school.

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Grand Central Parkway

The Grand Central Parkway (GCP) is a 14.61-mile (23.51 km) controlled-access parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County on Long Island.

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Grandstand

A grandstand is a normally permanent structure for seating spectators.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.

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Herbert London

Herbert Ira London (March 6, 1939 – November 10, 2018) was an American conservative activist, commentator, author, and academic.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Hip roof

A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others.

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IND Queens Boulevard Line

The IND Queens Boulevard Line, sometimes abbreviated as QBL, is a line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Manhattan and Queens, New York City, United States.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Irving Malin

Irving Malin (March 18, 1934 – December 3, 2014) was an American literary critic.

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Jamaica Estates, Queens

Jamaica Estates is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Jamaica Hills, Queens

Jamaica Hills is a small middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Jamaica station

The Jamaica station is a major train station of the Long Island Rail Road located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.

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Jamaica, Queens

Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Jelani Cobb

William Jelani Cobb (born August 21, 1969).

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Jimmy Walker

James John Walker (June 19, 1881November 18, 1946), known colloquially as Beau James, was mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932.

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John Adams High School (Queens)

John Adams High School (H.S. 480; often referred to locally as John Adams) is a public high school in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York, United States.

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John Carisi

John E. Carisi (February 23, 1922 – October 3, 1992) was an American trumpeter and composer.

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John N. Mitchell

John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 – November 9, 1988) was the 67th Attorney General of the United States, serving under President Richard Nixon and was chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

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Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg (born Jonas Sternberg; May 29, 1894 – December 22, 1969) was an Austrian-born filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.

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Julie Dash

Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer.

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Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball.

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Laura Z. Hobson

Laura Zametkin Hobson (June 19, 1900 – February 28, 1986) was an American writer, best known for her novels Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Consenting Adult (1975).

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Laurie Bird

Laurie Bird (September 26, 1953 – June 15, 1979) was an American film actress and photographer.

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Legacy.com

Legacy.com is a United States-based website founded in 1998, the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials.

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Lester Wilson

Lester Wilson (April 13, 1942 – February 14, 1993) was an African-American dancer, choreographer, and actor.

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (born June 9, 1939) is an American author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist.

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Lintel

A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces.

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Lists of New York City landmarks

These are lists of New York City landmarks designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road, often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.

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Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point.

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Marcie Blane

Marcia Blank (born May 21, 1944) known as Marcie Blane, is a former American pop singer from 1962 to 1965.

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Marilyn Aschner

Marilyn Jane Aschner (born March 8, 1948) is an American former professional tennis player.

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Melvyn Weiss

Melvyn I. Weiss (August 1, 1935 – February 2, 2018) was an American attorney who co-founded plaintiff class action law firm Milberg Weiss.

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A metal detector is an instrument that detects the nearby presence of metal.

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Michael Savage

Michael Alan Weiner (born March 31, 1942), known by his professional name Michael Savage, is an American right-wing author, political commentator, activist, and former radio host.

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Milberg

Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC (formerly known as Milberg LLP, Milberg Weiss LLP and Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP) is a US plaintiffs' law firm, established in 1965 and based in New York City.

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan (in his director debut) adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir of the same name by Christy Brown.

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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New Netherland

New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America.

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New York City Board of Estimate

The New York City Board of Estimate was a governmental body in New York City responsible for numerous areas of municipal policy and decisions, including the city budget, land-use, contracts, franchises, and water rates.

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New York City Department of Education

The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system.

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New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the New York City agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law.

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New York City Panel for Educational Policy

The Panel for Educational Policy of the Department of Education of the City School District of the City of New York, abbreviated as the Panel for Educational Policy and also known as the New York City Board of Education, is the governing body of the New York City Department of Education.

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New York City Police Department

The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City.

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New York City Schools Chancellor

The New York City Schools Chancellor (formally "Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education") is the head of the New York City Department of Education.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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New York Civil Liberties Union

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is a civil rights organization in the United States.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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New York State Education Department

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) is the department of the New York state government responsible for the supervision for all public schools in New York and all standardized testing, as well as the production and administration of state tests and Regents Examinations.

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New York State Legislature

The New York State Legislature consists of the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York: the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly.

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New York State Route 25B

New York State Route 25B (NY 25B) is a east–west state highway located on Long Island in New York, United States.

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No Child Left Behind Act

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress promoted by the Presidency of George W. Bush.

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Obba Babatundé

Obba Babatundé (born Donald Cohen; December 1, 1951) is an American actor.

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Opera News

Opera News was an American classical music magazine.

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Organ (music)

Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones.

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Parsons Boulevard station

The Parsons Boulevard station is an express station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway.

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Patina

Patina is a thin layer that variously forms on the surface of copper, brass, bronze, and similar metals and metal alloys (tarnish produced by oxidation or other chemical processes), or certain stones and wooden furniture (sheen produced by age, wear, and polishing), or any similar acquired change of a surface through age and exposure.

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Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.

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Paul Fjelde

Paul Fjelde (August 12, 1892 – May 3, 1984) was a noted American sculptor and educator.

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Pediment

Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape.

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Phyllis Graber

Phyllis Graber, also known as Phyllis Graber Jensen, is a former American tennis player.

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Polo

Polo is a ball game that is played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports.

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Public Schools Athletic League

The Public Schools Athletic League, known by the abbreviation PSAL, is an organization that promotes student athletics in the public schools of New York City.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.

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Richmond Hill High School (Queens)

Richmond Hill High School is a four-year public high school in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City, part of the New York City Department of Education.

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Sabor Latino

Robert Torres, also known as Sabor Latino (born June 21, 1972) is an American hip hop artist and author.

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Sam Roberts (journalist)

Sam Roberts (born June 20, 1947) is an American journalist who has written for The New York Times since 1983, serving as Urban Affairs Correspondent from 2005 to 2015.

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Samuel J. Tilden High School

Samuel J. Tilden High School is a New York City public high school in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York City.

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Samuel Leibowitz

Samuel Simon Leibowitz (August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978) was a Romanian-born American criminal defense attorney.

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Scottsboro Boys

The Scottsboro Boys were nine African-American male teenagers accused of raping two white women in 1931.

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Secondary school

A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Sheila Jackson Lee

Sheila Jackson Lee (Jackson; January 12, 1950 – July 19, 2024) was an American lawyer and politician who was the U.S. representative for, from 1995 until her death in 2024.

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State school

A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

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Stepped gable

A stepped gable, crow-stepped gable, or corbie step is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building.

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Steve Harvey

Broderick Stephen "Steve" Harvey Sr. Also aired August 16, 2015.

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Stuart Newman

Stuart Alan Newman (born April 4, 1945 in New York City) is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, United States.

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Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station

The Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station is a two-level station on the IND and BMT Archer Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway.

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Terminal moraine

A terminal moraine, also called an end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance.

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Terracotta

Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta, is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramicOED, "Terracotta";, MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures.

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The Cleftones

The Cleftones were an American vocal group formed in 1955, who were then called The Silvertones at Junior High School 40 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Sun (New York City)

The Sun was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_High_School

Also known as Jamaica High School (New York City), Jamaica High School(New York City), Old Jamaica High School.

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