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  2. Randalls and Wards Islands - Wikipedia

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    Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Island, in New York City. [1] [2] [3] Part of the borough of Manhattan, it is separated from Manhattan Island by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the Bronx by the Bronx Kill.

  3. Chicago Union Station - Wikipedia

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    The station is the fourth-busiest rail station in the United States, after Pennsylvania Station, Grand Central Terminal, and Jamaica station in New York City, [3] and the busiest outside of the Northeast Corridor. It handles about 140,000 passengers on an average weekday (including 10,000 Amtrak passengers). [4]

  4. The current U.S. housing system creates tremendous profits, but it doesn’t work for everyone.. Half of the nation’s 45 million renters pay more than a third of their paychecks to landlords ...

  5. Stuyvesant High School - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. 1986 New Year Honours - Wikipedia

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    They were announced on 30 December 1985 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1986 in the United Kingdom, [1] New Zealand, [2] Mauritius, [3] Fiji, [4] the Bahamas, [5] Grenada, [6] Papua New Guinea, [7] the Solomon Islands, [8] Saint Lucia, [9] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, [10] Belize, [11] Antigua and Barbuda, [12] and ...

  7. 1988 New Year Honours - Wikipedia

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    James Stanley Hawken. For services to British commercial interests in the Federal Republic of Germany. Anthony John Hawkes, lately First Secretary, HM Embassy, Islamabad. Kenneth Kwok Wai Kai, JP, Director, Territory Development, Hong Kong. Anthony Mango, lately Executive Secretary, Joint Staff Pensions Board, UN, New York.

  8. Daejeon - Wikipedia

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    Daejeon (Korean: ⓘ) is South Korea's fifth-largest metropolis, with a population of 1.5 million as of 2019. [2] Located in a central lowland valley between the Sobaek Mountains and the Geum River, the city is known both as a technology and research center, and for its close relationship with the natural environment.

  9. Sean Combs - Wikipedia

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    Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, [20] his mother Janice Combs (née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant, [21] and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas.