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  2. Louvre - Wikipedia

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    [13]: 37 In the early 1800s, after the seven-day week had been reinstated, the general public had only four hours of museum access per weeks, between 2pm and 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays. [ 14 ] : 8 In 1824, a new regulation allowed public access only on Sundays and holidays; the other days the museum was open only to artists and foreigners ...

  3. San Diego State University - Wikipedia

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    The stadium hosted the San Diego State Aztecs football team, connected to the SDSU main campus by the San Diego State University Transit Center. The proposal, called SDSU West, was put to city voters in November 2017 where it won approval by 54%, beating out a competing commercial proposal called SoccerCity.

  4. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Prior to colonisation in the 19th century, most African societies chose to use oral tradition to record their history, including in cases where they had developed or had access to a writing script, meaning there was little written history, and the domination of European powers across the continent meant African history was written from an ...

  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. Grand Rapids, Michigan - Wikipedia

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    After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...

  7. Nantucket - Wikipedia

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    Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island about 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in the state of Massachusetts, USA.

  8. 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 ...