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  2. City University of New York - Wikipedia

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    (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 ...

  3. 1982 Lebanon War - Wikipedia

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    The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, [12] [13] [14] began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon.The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon and the Israeli military that had caused civilian casualties on both sides of the border.

  4. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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    With these parallel developments in the 1960s, it was realized that a superior system could be developed by synthesizing the best technologies from 621B, Transit, Timation, and SECOR in a multi-service program. Satellite orbital position errors, induced by variations in the gravity field and radar refraction among others, had to be resolved. A ...

  5. British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. New Brunswick - Wikipedia

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    The government has historically run at a large deficit. With about half of the population being rural, it is expensive for the government to provide education and health services, which account for 60 per cent of government expenditure. Thirty-six per cent of the provincial budget is covered by federal cash transfers. [97]

  7. Culver City, California - Wikipedia

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    Culver CityBus was founded on March 4, 1928, making it the second oldest municipal bus line in California [55] and the oldest public transit bus system still operating in Los Angeles County. [56] Big Blue Bus was founded on April 14, 1928. [56] [57] Culver CityBus operates seven regular bus lines as well as a short-term downtown circulator shuttle.

  8. Hollywood Walk of Fame - Wikipedia

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    The Walk of Fame runs 1.3 miles (2.1 km) from east to west on Hollywood Boulevard, from Gower Street to the Hollywood and La Brea Gateway at La Brea Avenue in addition to a short segment on Marshfield Way that runs diagonally between Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea; and 0.4 miles (0.64 km) north to south on Vine Street between Yucca Street and Sunset Boulevard.