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On April 23, 2012, New York's Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York University's President John Sexton announced an agreement between New York City, New York's MTA, and a consortium of academic institutions, and private technology companies that led to the creation in New York of a Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP).
(BA), novelist and detective for the New York City Transit Police Department: Bill Baird: 1955: Brooklyn: reproductive rights activist and co-director of the Pro Choice League Barbara Aronstein Black: 1953: Brooklyn: Dean of Columbia Law School: Barbara Levy Boxer: 1962: Brooklyn: anti-war activist, environmentalist, U.S. representative, 1982 ...
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
Side view of cast of "Lucy" in the Naturmuseum SenckenbergThe first known hominids evolved in Africa. According to paleontology, the early hominids' skull anatomy was similar to that of the gorilla and the chimpanzee, great apes that also evolved in Africa, but the hominids had adopted a bipedal locomotion which freed their hands.
The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), i.e., "the Mainland", became a British colony in 1858. [27] It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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 STM won the award of Outstanding Public Transit System in North America by the APTA in 2010. It was the first time a Canadian company won this prize. The Metro was inaugurated in 1966 and has 68 stations on four lines. [236] Total daily passengers is 1,050,800 passengers on an average weekday (as of Q1 2010). [234]