History of New York City - History of New York City This article documents the history of New York City part of present day New York State. For the history of the State of New York, see the article History of New York. First settlements Before the arrival of Europeans the Canarsie people fished the rich estuaries and wetlands from permanent settlements around New York harbor. Although the first European to see the harbor was Giovanni da Verrazano, during his expedition of 1524, and Henry Hudson explored the area in 1609, the written history of New York City properly begins with the Dutch settlement of Walloon families in 1624. That town, at the southern tip of Manhattan, was called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam), and was the main city of the Dutch colony of.
Julie Newmar - national tour of "Stop the World I Want to Get Off". Quotation "Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me." -- Julie Newmar, New York Times interview External Link The Julie Newmar web site.
Vermont - of the Iroquois, Algonquian and Abenaki nations. In 1609, French explorer Samuel de Champlain claimed the area of what is now Lake Champlain, giving to the mountains the appelation that would eventually name the state: Les Verts Monts (The Green Mountains.) In 1763, The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, giving the area to the British. Parts of the region were at different times controlled by the colonies (later states) of New York and New Hampshire. Ethan Allen and his "Green Mountain Boys" fought against the British (resulting in the famous capture of Fort Ticonderoga), then later against these states, and in 1777 Vermont was declared an independent republic (called "New Connecticut" in its first six months, then Vermont from July). This status held until 1791, when Vermont.
Karl Guthe Jansky - and studied at the University of Wisconsin where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1927. In 1928 he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Bell Labs wanted to investigate using "short waves" (wavelengths of about 10-20 meters) for transatlantic radio telephone service. Jansky was assigned the job of investigating the sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions. He built an antenna designed to receive radio waves at a frequency of 20.5 MHz (wavelength about 14.5 meters). It was mounted on a turntable that allowed it to rotate in any direction, earning it the name "Jansky's merry-go-round". By rotating the antenna, one could find what the direction was to any radio signal. After recording signals from all directions for several months, Jansky.
Katherine Heigl - of November 1978 to parents Nancy and Paul. A short time afterwards, the Heigl family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Katherine was to spend the majority of her childhood. The youngest member of her family, Katherine, or “Katie” as she is known affectionately, has two elder siblings, John and Meg. Tragically, her older brother Jason died in 1986 of brain injuries suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a pickup truck. When doctors determined Jason was brain-dead, the family made the difficult decision to donate his organs. Not only did this painful chapter give Katherine a greater perspective and appreciation for life, but it has motivated her to use her celebrity status to promote the importance of organ donation. Katherine was first thrust into the.
Kenneth Lay - G-7 summit 1992 Co-chairman, President Bush Re-election Committee chairman, Republican National Convention, Houston 1992 Assists with campaign of Sheila Jackson-Lee to defeat Congressman Craig Washington 1994 Lay becomes CEO of Enron and is involved with the creation of various techniques for manipulating the energy system 2001 Jeffrey Skilling becomes CEO of Enron for a few months 2002 Amid extreme pressure, Lay resigns as Enron CEO, leaves board See also: Timeline of the Enron scandal. External Link Calling Inquiries a Distraction, Enron Chief Quits Under Pressure, The New York Times, January 24, 2002.
Kenyan hotel bombing - of whom were later released. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for this attack on the Jehad.net website, which since had been taken down. Links and references Kenyan May Have Talked to Bombers, Washington Post, December 2, 2002 After Blast, Kenya Reviews Qaeda's Trail in East Africa, The New York Times, December 1, 2002 ATTACKS IN MOMBASA: Kenyans Hunting for Clues; Bombing Toll Rises to 13, The New York Times, November 30, 2002 THE GRIEVERS: Israelis Return in Trauma From Supposed Haven, The New York Times, November 30, 2002 INVESTIGATION: U.S. Suspects Qaeda Link to Bombing in Mombasa, The New York Times, November 30, 2002 Source of Bombs? Kenyans Look North, The New York Times, November 30, 2002 AT THE SITE: Survivor Saw Bombers' Race to Death, The New York Times, November 30,.
Ken Buchanan - a 15 round decision to become world's Lightweight champion. At that time, the WBA and the British Boxing Board of Commisioners (BBBC), were in the middle of a feud, and Buchanan was not allowed to fight in the United Kingdom. He had to resort to fighting overseas for a short period of time. He finished 1970 beating Donato Panuato by a 10 round decision in a non-title bout, and then he began 1971 by going to Los Angeles, where he retained his title with a 15 round decision over Ruben Navarro. After that, he was allowed to fight in the United Kingdom again, and he returned there to beat former world champion Carlos Morocho Hernandez by a knockout in eight. Then, he flew to New York to meet Laguna again, this.
Keith Green - an American gospel singer from Sheepshead Bay, New York. Green is perhaps best known for his slogan "No Compromise" and the song "Your Love Broke Through", written with Todd Fishkind and Randy Stonehill. That song has been covered numerous times by artists including Stonehill, Phil Keaggy, and Debby Boone. Green took to music at a young age, and his talents were noted by major newspapers by the time he was only eight years old. Following a performance of Arthur Laurent's The Time of the Cuckoo, the Los Angeles Times wrote that "roguish-looking, eight-year-old Keith Green gave a winning performance," one that "stole the show". Green went on to play "Kurt Von Trapp" in a major production of The Sound of Music. At the age of eleven, Green became the youngest person.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - a few years (beginning in 1983) before transferring to the North Carolina Agriculture and Technology University and completing a degree in engineering in 1986. Subsequently he went to Afghanistan and joined the fight against the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (Some sources believe he was fighting in Afghanistan before he came to the United States.) While he was in the Philippines in late 1994 and early 1995, he said that he was a Saudi or a Qatari plywood exporter named Abdul Majid. He had parties with alcohol and spent lavish times with Manila women. He often went to go-go bars and karaoke clubs and held meetings at expensive hotels. He made large tips. He is widely reported to have buzzed a tower with a rented helicopter to impress.
Kim Stanley - an American actress. Born Patricia Beth Reid in Tularosa, New Mexico, she was a successful Broadway actress with only a few movie roles. She was singled out by New York Times critic Books Atkinson for her early work, and she eventually attended the Actors Studio, studying under Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg. Stanley starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic and Bus Stop. A savaging by London critics of a performance she did in The Three Sisters made her vow never to perform on the stage again, and she kept that vow for the rest of her life. Her first film was The Goddess in 1958. In 1964 she starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Other films include.
Kol Nidre - 9 Jewish Opposition Form of Prayer Before sunset on the eve of the Day of Atonement, when the congregation has gathered in the synagogue, the Ark is opened and two people take from it two Torah scrolls. Then they take their places, one on each side of the cantor, and the three recite in concert the following: "In the tribunal of Heaven and the tribunal of earth, by the permission of God — praised be He — and by the permission of this holy congregation, we hold it lawful to pray with transgressors." Thereupon the cantor chants the prayer beginning with the words Kol Nidre with its touching melody, and, gradually increasing in volume from pianissimo (quiet) to fortissimo (loud), repeats three times the following words: "All personal vows we arelikely.
Kunisada - by some sources to be more than 20,000). He outlasted his contemporaries (one of his best prints is a memorial print of his friend Hiroshige), and his last years were marked by something of a resurgence in quality, as he did series with more inspiration than some of his seemingly mass-produced work of his middle years. He died in Edo (having made only one documented trip out of it in his whole life!) in 1865. Print Series During his lifetime, he produced a staggering number of prints, so that even a partial list of his print series numbers more than 600. Here are some of his most important, with dates: Beauties of the Pleasure Quarter (1809) Great Hits of the Stage (1815-1816) A Collection of Famous Restaurants of Modern Times (circa.
Kuru epidemic - External Links 8 Acknowledgements Introduction Kuru (also known as "Laughing Sickness"), an elusive and hitherto unknown disease first appeared in New Guinea in the early 1900’s. By the 1950’s anthropologists and government officials reported that this disease termed Kuru (The word means "trembling" in the language of the Fore) was rampant among the South Fore. The South Fore were identified by Australian government officials in the 1950’s as a single census division consisting of approximately 8,000 individuals within the Okapa subdistrict. This particular group was partaking in ritual acts of mortuary cannibalism, and this conduct was later held to be responsible for the transmission of the fatal Kuru epidemic. This distinctive aspect of the illness made it even more fascinating to the various Western scholars who devoted their time to conquering.
J. Jonah Jameson - a fictional character by Marvel Comics who is the publisher of The Daily Bugle, a major New York City newspaper, and Now Magazine. He first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963), and has been a prominent member of Spider-Man's supporting cast ever since. His first name has never been revealed, but is presumably "John", as in the name of his son John Jameson. Spider-Man's Tangled Web #20, with a publishing date of January, 2003, featured the story "Behind the Mustache" which focused on his childhood and years as a teenager. According to it he was born to David and Betty Jameson. His father was an officer of the United States Army, a war veteran decorated as a hero but an abusive husband and father. As a result he grew.
J. M. Coetzee - degrees in mathematics and English. In the early 1960s he relocated to England, where he worked for a time with computers; his experiences there were later chronicled in Youth (2002). He then moved on to postgraduate studies in literature in the USA at the University of Texas, following which he taught English and literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo until 1983. In 1984 he returned to South Africa to a professorship in English Literature at the University of Cape Town. Upon retirement in 2002, he relocated to Adelaide, Australia, where he was made an honorary research fellow at the English department of the University of Adelaide. He was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize on two occasions: for The Life and Times of Michael.
January 1 - leap years). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 153 BC - New Year's Day first celebrated 45 BC - Julian calendar goes into effect 404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome 1438 - Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Hungary 1502 - Rio de Janeiro discovered 1622 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of for example March 25 in England 1651 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland 1700 - Russia accepts Julian calendar 1707 - John V becomes King of Portugal 1738 - Bouvet Island was discovered 1788 - First edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, was published. 1801 - Legislative union of Kingdom of Great.
January 3 - Herald-Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh. 1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States 1868 - The Japanese Meiji dynasty is restored and the Shogunate is abolished. 1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. 1899 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times 1920 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan. The loan was to finance Frazee's Broadway production of the musical No, No, Nanette. 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking.
James Thurber - humorist and cartoonist. Thurber was best known for his contributions (both cartoons and short stories) to The New Yorker. Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio. He joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1927 and continued to contribute to the magazine through the 1950s. Due to a childhood injury, Thurber suffered from very poor eyesight and his eyes grew weaker as he grew older. He drew his cartoons on very large sheets of paper using a thick black crayon, giving them an eerie, wobbly feel that seems to mirror Thurber's idiosyncratic view on life. Many of his short stories are humorous fictional memoirs from his life, but he also wrote darker material. "The Dog Who Bit People" and "The Night the Bed Fell on My Father" are among his best.
James Clerk Maxwell - a better way. Maxwell's work on thermodynamics led him to develop the thought experiment, Maxwell's demon. Electromagnetism The great work of Maxwell's life was devoted to electricity. Maxwell's most important contribution was the extension and mathematical formulation of earlier work on electricity and magnetism by Michael Faraday, André-Marie Ampère, and others into a linked set of twenty differential equations in quaternions. Between 1864 and 1873, Maxwell conducted research and demonstrated that the equations could express the behavior of electromagnetic fields and their interrelated nature. Maxwell began by reading, with the most profound admiration and attention, the whole of Faraday’s extraordinary self-revelations, and proceeded to translate the ideas of that master into the succinct and expressive notation of the mathematician. The equations allow for the existence of a self-propagating electromagnetic wave which.
