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In 2007, New York City shelved a proposal for a three-year pilot program for implementation in Manhattan, [18] [74] [75] [76] and a new proposition was denied in 2008, [77] with potential federal grants of US$354 million being reallocated to other American cities.
The Olympic Stadium project on the West Side was estimated to cost $2.2 billion, with $300 million provided by New York City and an additional $300 million from New York State. If New York had won the bid, Citi Field would have been expanded to Olympic events while the Mets would have played at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for the 2012 season. [20]
From 1956 to 2006, up to 1.5 million tons of oil were spilled in the Niger Delta, (50 times the volume spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster). [ 55 ] [ 56 ] Indigenous people in the region have suffered the loss of their livelihoods as a result of these environmental issues , and they have received no benefits in return for enormous oil revenues ...
Soviet POWs and forced labourers who survived German captivity were sent to special "transit" or "filtration" camps meant to determine which were potential traitors. [192] Of the approximately 4 million to be repatriated, 2,660,013 were civilians and 1,539,475 were former POWs. [ 192 ]
Markham (/ ˈ m ɑːr k ə m /) is a city in York Region, Ontario, Canada.It is approximately 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Downtown Toronto.In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, [2] which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and 16th largest in Canada.
Virtually all authors—for example, on the right, Robert Bork in Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline (New York: Regan Books,1996) and, on the left, Todd Gitlin in The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam Books, 1987)—characterize the counterculture as self-indulgent, childish, irrational ...
In October 2016, Miami New Drama took over operations of the Colony Theatre, [117] and since then, the 417-seat Art Deco venue hosts Miami New Drama's theatrical season as well as other live events. [118] The Miami City Ballet, a ballet company founded in 1985, is housed in a 63,000 sq ft (5,900 m 2) building near Miami Beach's Bass Museum of Art.