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  • ...rogressive causes.<ref>Egmont, Arens (1918). The Little Book of Greenwich Village. ...ad officers raided the clinic, confiscated an assortment of contraceptives from [[Pessary|pessaries]] to [[condoms]], along with 20 'books on young women', ...
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  • ...s undergraduate colleges. Sexton served as the fifteenth president of NYU, from 2002 to 2015. During his time as president, NYU's stature rose dramatically From 1988 to 2002, he served as dean of the NYU School of Law, during which time ...
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  • Greenberg was born into a Jewish family in Greenwich Village, New York City. His father, Jacob Greenberg, died when Hank was six and his ...e New York Bar in 1953 but did not practice law. He holds honorary degrees from [[Brown University]], Middlebury College, New York Law School, and The Rock ...
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  • ...d}} his great-grandfather Johann Adam Remarque, who was born in 1789, came from a French family in Aachen. This is contrary to the falsehood{{snd}} perpetu ...field was repatriated to an army hospital in Duisburg, where he recovered from his wounds. In October 1918, he was recalled to military service, but the w ...
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  • | organization = President of the History of Science Society from 1945–46 ...moved to Dakota Territory in 1880 and homesteaded a mile southwest of the village of Mountain in Thingvalla Township of Pembina County. ...
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  • ...944 to 1945, and received promotion to temporary captain in February 1945. From 1945 to 1947 he served as aide to the High Commissioner to Austria and comm ...50 from 1951, being promoted to temporary major in July 1951. He graduated from the Infantry School advanced course in 1952. ...
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  • {{Short description|Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989}} | office1 = Member of the<br/>U.S. House of Representatives<br/>from New York ...
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  • {{About|the American politician|other people of this name|John Lindsay (disambiguation)}} ...epresentatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York from January 1966 to December 1973. ...
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  • The Greenwich Meridian, which passes through London, also traverses the eastern part of G ...na's cocoa, minerals, and timber. North of this belt, the elevation varies from {{convert|91|to|396|m|ft|0|sp=us}} above sea level and is covered by low bu ...
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  • ...ty Hall, the seat of the city's government. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, part of the Stonewall National Monument, is considered the birthplace of t ...United States. Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. ...
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  • ...tablished with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the city's merchants, bankers, and traders. In 1832, NYU held its first cla ...sities, an international organization consisting of rectors and presidents from urban universities across six continents. The league and its 47 representat ...
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  • ...s Deputy Attorney General from 1965 to 1967 and Assistant Attorney General from 1961 to 1965. ...Jane (née Ramsey). Clark's father served as United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 under President Harry S. Truman and then became a Supreme Cour ...
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  • * United States (from 1963) ...[[History of Argentina|Argentina]]'s Desaparecidos or Nicaragua's Miskito people. ...
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  • ...ds LLC, a privately held company that was formed in 2019 to acquire assets from Sears Holdings. ...9 of Woolworth's stores at the time. In 1897, Kresge invested $6,700 saved from his job into a five-and-dime store in Memphis, Tennessee. He jointly owned ...
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  • * Mountbatten (from 1947) ...of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he was the consort of the British monarch from his wife's accession on 6&nbsp;February 1952 until his death in 2021, makin ...
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  • | party = Independent Labour (from 1938) ...hough he knew nothing of the reduced fees, he "soon recognised that he was from a poorer home". Blair hated the school and many years later wrote an essay ...
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  • | footer = Earlier variants of the Kroger logo, including one used from 1939 to 1961 (''top''), and the previous variant, 1961 to 2019, still extan ...cant headway, only managing a 5 percent market share. By 1982, it withdrew from the California market. ...
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  • ...ail Disney, and other prominent women peace activists, undertook a journey from the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang to South Korea, crossing the most hea The Steinems lived and traveled about in a trailer, from which Leo carried out his trade as a roaming antiques dealer. Before Gloria ...
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  • ...served as a United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining int ...lt was ranked ninth in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century, and was found to rank as the most admired woman in thi ...
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  • ...r South East Asia Command and oversaw the recapture of Burma and Singapore from the Japanese by the end of 1945. For his service during the war, Mountbatte ...ritish Mediterranean Fleet and NATO Commander Allied Forces Mediterranean. From 1955 to 1959, he was First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his f ...
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