... the work from Greek genuses. One very noticeable translator was Hunayn Ibn Ishaq. He lived in the 9th C.E and many of his translations can be found in almost every public library around the world. He translated the writings of Galen, Dioscorides and Aristotle. One of his most impressive translations were the De Materia de Medica. The book was originally written by ... Carpets." One of these significant carpets can be seen today at the Victoria and Albert museum located in London, United Kingdom. The other carpet is located in Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This carpet influenced Euro...

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... to find any influential supporters for her cause. She began to research books and other areas for information on contraception available to the public. But, even after searching in the library of the New York Academy of Medicine, she was unable to find anything on the subject. (Sanger 1931) Knowing that something had to be done so women would no longer ... of this.(Chesler 1992) Margaret Sanger moved out of her parent's house after her mother's death. She enrolled in a two year nursing program at the White Plains Hospital in Westchester County. After graduation from the two-year program...

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... water quality of this reservoir is slightly above average. The water is threatened by sewage and storm water runoff. The Amawalk Reservoir is located in Westchester county, twenty-five miles away from New York City. It can hold 6.7 billion gallons. It has a 19.9 square mile reservoir. It has average ... has a 76 square mile watershed. The causes of its low quality water are sewage and poorly planned development. The Titicus Reservoir is located in Westchester County, thirty-six miles away from New York City. It has a 7.2 billion-gallon capacity. Its watershed is twenty-four square miles. ...

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... provide a helpful explanation to part of the social problem of poverty in society. Most of the differences that were found were between Nassau county, and the Bronx and Kings counties. The percentage of white residents in Nassau County is at least 40% more than the Bronx and Kings counties. The amount of blacks in the Bronx and Kings is at least 25 ... % more than Nassau County. Also the female population in Nassau is increasing while in the Bronx and Kings it is decreasing. There were also similarities between all of the counties. There are more women ... the amount of whites has decr...

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... are already a large number of lets say for example construction businesses established. A construction company would see and conclude that if the new potential relocation county is expanding and growing with more people moving in as well as other businesses then there will be a more abundant amount of construction job opportunities, ... and decide to move there. Versus moving into a small, slow pace growing county with not to many new businesses or people moving in then will result in little work available. In order to take a risk like that you ... at other quotients first. To see if m...

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... there that he first got in trouble, arrested for stealing butter and other items from a local store. He eventually became a "cowboy" in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, working for cattlemen J.H. Tunstall, who became the father figure Billy never had. Tunstall thought the Kid showed promise and was later ... was stopped on the road by a group of gunmen, that included many of Billy's former friends, before he had switched sides in the Lincoln County War. These so-called deputies informed Tunstall that they were going to take part of his herd, cattle that they claimed belonged to Mu...

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... for him and his family that he should give back to his community, so in the early 1900's when he gave a lot of his money to charity, many buildings, and library's named after him. But the most prestigious building that he has his name plastered on is Carnegie hall in New York City. Carnegie was a huge supporter of school and education ... . I feel that this is a part from the way he was brought up in Scotland and whom he studied under in college. He had a famous quote of his engraved in his library buildings around the world, it summed up in a few words what has taken me almost a full pa...

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... questions have been going through my head all day long. I started of thinking back to when I was a small boy growing up in Hyde Park, New York; this is in Dutchess County. I became extremely fascinated with birds. I loved to watch them and look at them in all their beautiful colors, and how each of their feathers where precisely placed perfectly on their ... fascinated with the creatures that I had asked for a gun for my eleventh birthday to begin a collection of birds native to Dutchess County. By the time I was in college I had collected and identified about 300 different species of b...

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... . Although he's not thought of as glamorous, George Washington is looked upon with the utmost respect and awe by all countries of the world. George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22, 1732. He was the oldest son of a Virginia farmer. Washington received most of his education at home. When he was 17 he was appointed surveyor of ... Culpeper County, Virginia. In 1752 Washington inherited Mount Vernon, in Fairfax County. The same year he was appointed adjutant of the southern district of Virginia, a full-time salaried appointment, carrying the rank of major....

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... a NYPD police officer Kenneth Eurell. On May 6, 1992, six New York City police officers and one retired NY police officer were arrested in a five-month undercover drug operation. The Suffolk county police dept. tapped the phone of a low level street dealer and soon found out that NYC police officers were involved in a multi-level drug operation. Suffolk ... County in cooperation with the NYPD internal affairs unit arrested all of the officers involved and 49 civilians. The probe that lasted five months included undercover drug buys and electronic surveillance. ... . Also seized was an ...

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... Day for Bananafish- introduced Seymour Glass and the Glass family, which come up frequently in Salinger's later writings such as "Franny and Zooey,"" written in 1961, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters,"" written in 1963, and "Seymour: An Introduction,"" also written in 1963. After publishing twenty stories in Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and New Yorker between 1941 ... ...

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... experiences, appeared increasingly in the New Yorker. His entire literary output comprises 13 stories and novellas collected in Nine Stories (1953), Franny and Zooey (1961), and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction (1963) and the Catcher In The Rye (1951), a novel of adolescents anguish that won great critical and popular admiration, especially among college students. He retreated ... ...

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... about the art work is the name of it because the name describes the art work to me. In addition the art work was put in a great place because the library is where you can discover truth and knowledge. The art is displayed in the second floor common area of the Andruss ... ...

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... (Hall 18). Shirley's first exposure to literature was with her grandmother who would read her Edgar Allan Poe stories. Shirley became interested in literature and started to go to the library quite often (Alessio 115). At the age of twelve, Shirley won a prize for her poem " The Pine Tree" which was entered into a contest for the "Junior Home Magazine". (Hall 18 ... unusual hobby: "she us perhaps the only contemporary writer who is a practicing amateur witch, specializing in small-scale black magic and fortune-telling with a tarot deck." She also owned a private library of books on the ...

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... banned book in the United States. It can be debated how much harm the novel does, but there are people who go to great lengths to see it taken off library shelves, and out of classrooms. The reasons why the book should be banned vary, but the goal of the people against the book remains the same. The number one reason ... Moses. People who ban the book feel that the religious views of Huck Finn are not suitable for children, especially when it was first published in 1885. The Concord, MA, library banned Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a month after its publication, calling it "trash and s...

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... mean pretensions, in short, a complete virtuoso". Irving spent the last years of his life in the town of Tarrytown. From 1848 to 1859 he was President of Astor Library, later New York Public Library. Irving's later publications include "Mahomet and His Successors," a careful presentation of the life, beliefs, and character of Mohammed (1850), and Wolfert's Roost (1855). According to a story, George Washington ... ...

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... their vicinity. In a bold move the town purchased the land out from under the developers and planned to build the first ever-public golf course in their county on the unused farmland. The county, for the most part made up of blue collar farmers fifty years ago is now on the up and up in socioeconomic terms because it is now easily ... ...

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... facilities under their jurisdiction. This included the New York City Penitentiary. New York's first inmate to be electrocuted was done in 1890 at the Auburn prison. Many more prisons and county jails were built in the upcoming years to house the overcrowding of inmates in Greenwich and Auburn. Virginia, from the time of the fist settlement at Jamestown had depended upon ... corporal and capital punishment for its penal measures. Gradually Virginia began to use small county jails for sentences of confinement. After the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson began to urge that Virginia const...

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... easily decide the outcome of a poll. Voting fraud is made easy thanks to bilingual ballots. A single precinct in San Diego County was found to have 30 verifiable legal aliens out of just 313 registered voters. Illegal immigrants voted in Fresno and Tulare County in November 1994; and a prominent legal alien - a Mexican businessman and a publisher of a Spanish language newspaper - cast a ballot in both ... ...

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... open to provide ventilation.(Salivary Cotinine...) Bloomberg wants to ban smoking in all public places. This has already been done in Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium and race tracks. Nassau County became the first county in New York to ban smoking in all bars, restaurants, bingo halls and bowling alleys. The statement in the article, is true. This study was really conducted. The ... ...

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... the devils" ("Malcolm X." UXL 1). "This religious group encouraged education" ( 'Malcolm X." 1). He begins to read all the books he can find in the prison library and copied the dictionary word for word. After malcolm's prison release, he refers to Malcolm X. He became a powerful individual for the Nation of Islam. "Malcolm eventually becomes a great speaker ... ...

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... concern to some, are the increased surveillance powers granted by the Act. Another example is, records at libraries. Authorities may now see what books you check out at your local library. This is a provision granted by the Act. Some feel that you should be able to read without the FBI seeing what you are reading. Yet another concern is the surveillance ... ...

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... a book report on, there is a lot of information to get good material, but as far as reading for fun you should set this book down and leave it in the library. I did enjoy writing the report and I learned a lot about Jacqueline and her stepping stones on becoming the first lady....

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... having raped 2 white girls in a railroad freight car. Medical reports showed no rape had occurred. 8 of the boys were convicted and sentenced too death. In 1969, the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center opened. It was the first public institution named after the Poet Laureate and it houses the largest circulating Black Heritage reading collection in New York City. James ... ...

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... , which was televised and watched by virtually the entire world. After JFK's death she moved to Manhattan to raise her children in a normal environment. She also organized the John F. Kennedy library, which overlooks the Boston Harbor. In 1968, she remarried to Aristotle Onassis on his private island, Skorpios. Unfortunately, he dies in 1975, leaving her widowed once again. After his death ... ...

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