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  2. History of the New York City Subway - Wikipedia

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    Its operator is the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), which is controlled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York. In 2016, an average of 5.66 million passengers used the system daily, making it the busiest rapid transit system in the United States and the seventh busiest in the world. [9] [10]

  3. B (New York City Subway service) - Wikipedia

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    The NYCTA approved four changes in subway service on April 27, 1981, including an increase in B service. The changes were made as part of the $1 million, two-year Rapid Transit Sufficiency Study, and were expected to take place as early as 1982, following public hearings and approval by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) board.

  4. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  5. Hertha BSC - Wikipedia

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    Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., [1] commonly known as Hertha BSC (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁtaː beː ʔɛs t͡seː]) [6] or Hertha Berlin, [7] is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin.

  6. USS Texas (BB-35) - Wikipedia

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    Designated NHL. 8 December 1976 [3] USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York -class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. [4][5] Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North ...

  7. Golan Heights - Wikipedia

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    Golan Heights. The Golan Heights (Arabic: هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, romanized:Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or مُرْتَفَعَاتُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Murtafaʻātu l-Jawlān; Hebrew: רמת הגולן, Ramat HaGolan, pronunciation ⓘ), or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau, at the southwest corner of Syria.

  8. Ridley Scott - Wikipedia

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    — A supporter of strong female characters in his work, Scott credits his mother Elizabeth as his first female role model Scott was born on 30 November 1937 in South Shields, to Francis ("Frank") Percy Scott, a partner in a commercial shipping business based in Newcastle who served as a Colonel in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, and Elizabeth, née Williams, a miner's ...

  9. Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈlɪŋkən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.