... useful pieces of information on a single computer. By doing this, the terrorist groups are more organized making them more deadly. One example of this method involves Ramsey Youssef. After the first World Trade Center bombing, Ramsey Youssef's computer was seized upon becoming a suspect in the case. On this computer, plans were found outlining the bombing of 11 different planes over the Pacific ... ...

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... 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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... teacher and other students will allow the teacher to address misconceptions that students might have received from other students and mass media. In the book Sex Education as Human Relationships Ramsey points out, "Approximately 90 percent of the first information that boys receive is acquired from male companions (peers) or their own experience"" (5). The whole idea of providing information on sex ... ...

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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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... , Massachusetts were getting angered and complaining about gay men allegedly soliciting sexual acts and favors in the bathroom of the Boston Public Library. In response to citizen outcry, the Boston Police Department began to aggressively target gay men in the library, utilizing a plainclothes undercover officer to tempt and entice the men into performing sexual acts, which is clearly entrapment. Over the next ... 1978, he founded GLAD – the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. The first case GLAD filed was Doe v. McNiff in 1979. In this case, Ward accused the Boston Public Library...

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... Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Proposition", a satirical review. It was also the launch pad for bands like the "New York Dolls," "Ruby and the Rednecks," "Teenage Lust," and Wayne County's "Queen Elizabeth and the Harlots of 42nd Street." On many nights painted glitter dolls thronged the bar, decked in drag and finery. The lounge, called Obie Alley, was the scene ... of Punk rock were planted and germinating. The streets and suburbs or early 80's Los Angeles were crawling with teen rebels. We were sick of hippies and we hated disco. L.A. County was a breeding ground for frustrated, bo...

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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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... conditions had a profound impact on her. It opened her eyes to the tragic reality of life for many Americans. Daily walks through New York City and visits to her mother's library further enhanced Dorothea's role as an outside observer. She and her mother took the ferry from New Jersey to New York every day, and when Mrs. Nutzhorn worked nights, Dorothea ... harm to herself. This ability, as well as her lack of fear, would later enable Dorothea to become one of the world's finest documentary photographers. During visits to her mother's library, Dorothea realized her love of pictures. She...

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... conditions had a profound impact on her. It opened her eyes to the tragic reality of life for many Americans. Daily walks through New York City and visits to her mother's library further enhanced Dorothea's role as an outside observer. She and her mother took the ferry from New Jersey to New York every day, and when Mrs. Nutzhorn worked nights, Dorothea ... harm to herself. This ability, as well as her lack of fear, would later enable Dorothea to become one of the world's finest documentary photographers. During visits to her mother's library, Dorothea realized her love of pictures. She...

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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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... history. George was commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution and first president of the United States of America (1789-1797). He was born in Westmoreland County, Va., on February 22, 1732, George Washington was the oldest son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington, who were Prosperous Virginia gentry of English descent. George ... an appointment to survey Lord Fairfax's lands in the Shenandoah Valley. He helped lay out the Virginia town of Belhaven (now Alexandria) in 1749 and was appointed surveyor for Culpeper County. George ...

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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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... which occurs to me almost every day of my life" (Andrew Carnegie Film). Colonel James Anderson, who Carnegie believes to be his childhood benefactor, established a public library in his hometown of Allegheny City. This library was the first opportunity for Carnegie to take advantage of free information, and he developed a vast interest for knowledge, checking out at least one book a week, and ... ...

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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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... New York, he conferred a military oversight by setting himself in an untenable position in Brooklyn, despite the fact that he spared his armed force by withdrawing from Manhattan into Westchester County and through New Jersey into Pennsylvania. In the most recent months of 1776, frantically short of men and supplies, Washington practically lost the fight. He had lost New York City ... , and others were leaving their positions. Non military personnel will was falling quickly; and Congress, confronted with the likelihood of a British assault on Philadelphia2. George Washington was conceive...

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