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Townsend Harris
Townsend Harris American merchant and diplomat Townsend Harris (1804-1878), the first U.S. envoy to reside in Japan, opened commercial relations between Japan and the United States. Townsend Harris was born on Oct. 3, 1804, in Sandy Hill, N.Y., and educated at the local primary school. In... Read more |
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National Academy of Design
National Academy of Design, New York. A professional association of artists founded in New York in 1825 in opposition to the conservative American Academy of the Fine Arts (which ran from 1802 to 1841; see Trumbull). The National Academy was originally called the Society for the Improvement of... Read more |
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Moses Yale Beach
Moses Yale Beach 1800-1868, American journalist, b. Wallingford, Conn. As a young man he invented a rag-cutting machine and a gunpowder engine. In 1838 he bought the New York Sun from his brother-in-law, Benjamin Day, for whom he had been working as production manager. The Sun' s chief... Read more |
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New York Review of Books
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Starting Up First published in February 1963 during a New York newspaper strike, the New York Review of Bookswas intended to fill the void left by the absence of the reviews usually published by The New York Timesand the New York... Read more |
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New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life Insurance Company 51 Madison AvenueNew York, New York 10010U.S.A.Telephone: (212) 576-7000Toll Free: (800) 710-7945Fax: (212) 576-8145Web site: http://www.newyorklife.com Mutual CompanyIncorporated: 1841 as Nautilus Insurance CompanyEmployees: 11,800Total Assets: $97.1 billion... Read more |
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Elizabeth Hawes
HAWES, Elizabeth American designer Born: Ridgewood, New Jersey, 16 December 1903. Education: Studied at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1921-25. Family: Married Ralph Jester in 1930 (divorced, 1934); married Joseph Losey in 1937 (divorced, 1944), son: Gavrik Losey. Career: Worked in... Read more |
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kingdom of York
York, kingdom of. The Viking kingdom of York has attracted great attention since the Coppergate excavations revealed so much about Jorvik and its inhabitants. Post-Roman York was in the kingdom of Deira, taken over in 655 by its northern neighbour Bernicia to form the kingdom of Northumbria. In 867... Read more |
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Buck Henry
HENRY, Buck Writer and Actor. Nationality:American. Born:Buck Henry Zuckerman in New York City, 9 December 1930; son of the actress Ruth Taylor. Education:Attended Harvard Military Academy; Choate School; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,... Read more |
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New York Health Care Inc
New York Health Care, Inc. 1850 McDonald AvenueBrooklyn, New York 11223U.S.A.Telephone: (718) 375-6700Fax: (718) 375-1555Web site: http://www.nyhc.com Public Company Incorporated: 1983Employees: 1,929Sales: $48.9 million (2004)Stock Exchanges: Over the CounterTicker Symbol: BBALNAIC: 621610 Home... Read more |
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BRIEFCASE RECORD ACADEMY NAMED IN LAWSUIT.(Business)
...the recording academy over the show...ceremony. The new complaint is...loss PARIS - French media giant...an asset and its book value...shifting from French accounting...easier to build its empire in the...but Kmart may ... |
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BRIEFCASE; RECORD ACADEMY NAMED IN LAWSUIT
...the recording academy over the show...ceremony. The new complaint is...loss PARIS - French media giant...an asset and its book value...shifting from French accounting...easier to build its empire in the...but Kmart may ... |
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100 years of distinguished rivalry; The traditional competitiveness between...
...St. Paul Academy and Summit...nemesis," SPA French teacher Kris...St. Paul Academy and Summit...s partly due to some differences...Minneapolis its boisterous, new-money opposite...St. Paul Academy and ... |
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Academy coming to terms with their loss
...famous training academy and find everyone...altering activities to get his mind off covering...time, however, its young master didn...hope taking up a new career. Holy Roman...Longchamp for the French classic trials...in the Dante at ... |
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State Commerce commissioner Ronald J. Moss announces historic voyage by...
...will give New Yorkers from...by the New York State Department...Commerce and the French-American...which gets underway...beginning of New York State's...celebrating its tricentennial...the ... |
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George Plimpton, Writ Large; French Honor the Paris Review Editor
...the American Academy of Arts and...dinner at the French Embassy...in life has its own potential...feted by the French on the 50th...when someone gets murdered...appeared in its pages: Jack...always hoped to ... |
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UW FILM SERIES TO GIVE GODARD HIS DUE.(LIFESTYLE)
...of legendary French New Wave director...but to learn French so he didn...cinema with its use of intimate...struggle to get for the series...Institute and the French Ministry of...travel to New ... |
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St. Louis Symphony Taps David Robertson
...in April 2002 due to poor health...musicians and its board of directors...at the Royal Academy of Music in...where he studied French horn. From...orchestra and its legacy. This...equivalent of the New York ... |
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"FLASH GORDON" REMASTERED MOVIE ON DVD DUE OUT IN A AUGUST.
...Timothy Dalton, and Academy Award(R) nominees...adventure. An all-new digitally remastered...Croupier," "Get Carter") and...the moon out of its orbit and threatening...quarterback for the New York Jets, and beautiful...SDH, ... |
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A pinch of salsa: music from Cuba. (Caribbean music festival in Miami,...
...time that the French-based Reed...The Latin Academy of Recording...it will move its first Latin...year. And Cuba gets millions more from its share of the...from Cuba in its four Miami stores...reception at ... |
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