... and journalist. He received a fellowship for fiction from the New York Foundation for the arts, and has had much of his work published in a diverse range of publications such as Harper's Magazine, Columbia, Manoa, International Quarterly, as well as several anthologies, such as In My Life: encounters with the Beatles, Returning to a Borrowed Tongue, Brown River, White Ocean, and Flippin": Filipinos on America, ... which he co-edited. His latest novel, My Sad Republic, was recently awarded with the Philippine Centennial Prize for Fiction. A book of poems, Zero Gravity, was awarded the New...

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... Fort Edward. Burgoyne had no other option than to fight. Burgoyne sent a detachment to establish an outpost on an undefended height overlooking Gates' army. His plan was to use artillery to force the Continental Army back to the Hudson River. This engagement, known as the battle of Freeman's Farm, or the first battle of Saratoga, saw Burgoyne outnumbered. A favorite tactic for the British was the bayonet charge, especially against militia ... to distract a portion of Gates' troops. On the eve of the second battle of Saratoga, known as the battle of Bemis Heights, Gates thought Burgoyne,...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... into clear Zuccotti Park. National media had been cleared, pepper sprayed until they left or arrested if they wouldn't. Pool on the other hand, was embedded with the protestors out of police view. That day Pool streamed live for 21 hours, with gifts of food and new batteries to keep him and his Galaxy S2 live. On this day, his figures went from a couple hundred ... , 20,00 and then 30,00 unique viewers. On the 17th November 2013, across the whole day, Pool achieved, 750,000 individual viewers. All of a sudden, the news networks not covering the event, such as NBC, Reuters and Al Jazeera ...

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... where Annie and Alvy first declare their love for each other. They are walking alongside the Hudson River, underneath 59th street. The scene is lit in such a way that they are silhouetted against the inky blue of the river and the darker blue of the sky, blending harmoniously into the landscape. The only points of light are those of a bridge, and they hang suspended in the air, magically, like fairy lights, wreathed around Annie and ... as Allen did, so you probably found it difficult not to think of Woody Allen and what you know about his on love life, such as the scene where he argues...

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... expansion, 12 new wards were created. In the year 1865, a total of 726,386 people lived on Manhattan Island. In the year 1880, the city housed 1,206,000. Most of the population was immigrants from other countries. Near the end of the 1800s, the Irish were the biggest immigrant group to move to NYC. The Chinese also entered the U.S. as the California gold rush became popular. The Chinese occupied in area in Manhattan that ... was developed much later because it was more west in the territory in the United States. Chicago developed much more fully from the railroads which brought people in...

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... years in school. However, it also reflects deeper feelings of being "cast aside," an unintended consequence of her family's circumstances. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, Dorothea was the first child of Joan and Henry Nutzhorn, were children of German immigrants who made their home in the Hoboken shipping port situated across the Hudson River from New York City. Her father ran a thriving ... She enrolled Dorothea in a school that was dominated by Jews, as was the neighborhood. Dorothea had never been to the Lower East Side before, and the crowded noisy streets, sweatshops, and mis...

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... years in school. However, it also reflects deeper feelings of being "cast aside," an unintended consequence of her family's circumstances. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1895, Dorothea was the first child of Joan and Henry Nutzhorn, were children of German immigrants who made their home in the Hoboken shipping port situated across the Hudson River from New York City. Her father ran a thriving ... She enrolled Dorothea in a school that was dominated by Jews, as was the neighborhood. Dorothea had never been to the Lower East Side before, and the crowded noisy streets, sweatshops, and mis...

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... he lighted lamps without wires by allowing electricity to flow through his body." Since childhood Tesla had dreamed of harnessing Niagara Falls in late 1893. His dream became real, when Westinghouse was awarded the contract to create the powerhouse. The Falls Commission did not like what other people wanted to do so they gave it to them. Their failed plans were to use springs, hydraulics ... . After 5 nervous years it was almost done and very expensive. When the switch was thrown, the power reached buffalo at midnight November 16, 1896. The Niagara Falls newspaper reported "the turning o...

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... up beginning in 1992 when five officers were arrested on drug-trafficking charges. Michael Dowd, the suspected 'ring leader', was the kind of cop who gave new meaning to the word moonlighting. It wasn't just any job that the 10-year veteran of the New York City force was working on the side. Dowd was a drug dealer. From scoring free pizza as a rookie he graduated to ... or disciplined in connection with a scheme in which officers robbed and sometimes killed cocaine smugglers on the Miami River, then resold the drugs. Many of those involved had been hired when the department had beefed up...

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