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Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), [7] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
The then independent city of Brooklyn, New York then Superintendent of Schools, William Henry Maxwell, (1852-1920, Brooklyn superintendent 1882-1898, then first superintendent of Greater New York City, 1898-1917), had first written in a report about the need to construct manual trade schools or technical / scientific oriented secondary schools in Brooklyn and throughout New York state in 1887 ...
The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York is a 1902 book by Hutchins Hapgood; Novels. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan. The film Hester Street is based on the book. [124] Salome of the Tenements by Anzia Yezierska, published in 1923 [125] Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska [126] Jews without Money by ...
Gregory Rabassa, literary translator and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Queens College, City University of New York and in the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures of the Graduate School and University Center of the CUNY Graduate Center
Ninfa Segarra, New York City Council member; president of the New York City Board of Education, 2000–02 [343] Victoria Leigh Soto , educator who emerged as a hero in the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut , when she hid students and died trying to protect them from alleged shooter Adam Lanza ; her father ...