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	New York City - LoveToKnow 1911
		The city's sky-line is broken by the tall business buildings, known as " sky-scrapers," 3 the construction of which was made necessary by the narrowness of the down-town portion of the island in which the increasing business population had to be accommodated.
		From 60,515 in 1800 the population increased to 123,706 in 1820; to 312,710 in 1840; to 813,669 in 1860 and to 1,206,299 in 1880.
		The city is comparatively healthy; for the five years1901-1905the average death rate was 18.99 per thousand for the entire city, 20.96 for the Borough of the Bronx, 18.64 for the Borough of Brooklyn, 19.49 for the Borough of Manhattan, 16.12 for the Borough of Queens and 18.98 for the Borough of Richmond.
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		The city is comparatively healthy; for the five years 1901-1905 the average death rate was 18.99 per thousand for the entire city, 2o•96 for the Borough of the Bronx, 18.64 for the Borough of Brooklyn, 19.49 for the Borough of Manhattan, 16.12 for the Borough of Queens and 18.98 for the Borough of Richmond.
		Special city legislation passed by the state legislature is referred to the mayor for his acceptance; if he does not accept it, it may be repassed by both branches of the legislature but must then be marked, when referred to the governor, be removed only for cause.
		The city court is a civil court, having jurisdiction over cases in which the amount involved does not exceed $2000, and is composed of seven justices elected for a term of ten years.
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	New York City secession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The war, and especially conscription, was nevertheless often unpopular in the city, sparking the deadly New York Draft Riots.
		When questioned as to the name of the new state, they said the city deserved to keep "New York" and that upstate should be renamed "Buffalo", after its largest city.
		On February 26, 2003, a bill was introduced by Astoria, Queens Councilman Peter Vallone, and sponsored by 20 of 51 City Council members, reviving the idea of a secession referendum in the context of the red state vs. blue state divide and opposition to the policies of Governor George Pataki.
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	XIV. Recent History. 1860-1890.. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1906. New York
		The city, from the beginning to the end of the war, sent her sons to the front by scores of thousands.
		The Democratic party had absolute control of the municipal government; and this meant that the city was at the mercy of the ring of utterly unscrupulous and brutal politicians who then controlled that party, and who in time of need had friends among some of their so-called Republican opponents on whom they could always rely.
		In all the poorer quarters of the city, where the population was overwhelmingly of foreign birth or origin, the national flag, the stars and stripes, hung from every window, and the picture of Washington was displayed wherever there was room.
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	Free
		Free Pascal Free Pascal (or FPK Pascal) is a Amiga).
		Free Speech Movement The Free Speech Movement was a radical student movement began on the campus of the free speech.
		Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) is a Germany.
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	The History Box \|New York City History Pre-1900
		During the British occupation the city was the refuge of Loyalists, who came from all quarters to take advantage of British protection, many of the more wealthy and influencial residents joining their ranks.
		On the approach of the Civil War many in the city seemed to favor the South, and in January, 1861, The Mayor, Fernando Wood (q.v.), proclaimed secession to be "a fixed fact," and proposed that an independent commonwealth, to be called "Tri-Insula," be formed out of Manhattan, Long, and Staten Islands.
		The city suffered for several years from frauds, perpetrated by the "Tweed Ring", which controlled municipal affairs, but in 1871 the "Ring" was convicted of having robbed the city of more than $20,000,000, and was effectually broken up.
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	XIV. Recent History. 1860-1890.. Roosevelt, Theodore. 1906. New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The city, from the beginning to the end of the war, sent her sons to the front by scores of thousands.
		The Democratic party had absolute control of the municipal government; and this meant that the city was at the mercy of the ring of utterly unscrupulous and brutal politicians who then controlled that party, and who in time of need had friends among some of their so-called Republican opponents on whom they could always rely.
		In all the poorer quarters of the city, where the population was overwhelmingly of foreign birth or origin, the national flag, the stars and stripes, hung from every window, and the picture of Washington was displayed wherever there was room.
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	The History Box \| New York City Tid-Bits: Events
		The growth of the city in area and population has caused the route of the great processions to be changed to the upper part of the city from One Hundred and Tenth Street by way of Central Park West, and Fifth Avenue to the Washington Arch at Fourth Street.
		In colonial days, the British soldiers in the city looked with considerable contempt upon the provincials, and their officers often had trouble in keeping them within bounds, as they were habitual breakers of the public peace.
		The country people flocked to the city to enjoy the parade of the militia and the fireworks and delights of the Park, while the city boys flocked to the country to enjoy the green apples and have a good time generally.
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	Fernando Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was chairman of the chief young men's political organization in 1839 and was a member of the Tammany Society, which he used as a vehicle for his political rise.
		He was re-elected in 1857, when the New York gang the Dead Rabbits combed the city's cemeteries for names to add to the voter rolls.
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		We have therefore tried to steer clear of interpretations of history which are biased by political, economic or ethnic positions.
		Free rights of navi- gation on the Danube and Black Sea were granted as for the other powers, especially Britain and France.
		Even these did not circulate freely, but were subject to a kind of censorship in that they could be sent through the mails only from the office of the Austrian agent in their respective city.
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	Footnotes to History- T
		Thessalonica- Thessalonica is a city in northern Greece, a port which was formerly the second city of the Byzantine Empire.
		Tiraspol- Tiraspol is a city of 200,000 on the eastern bank of the Dniestr River in Moldova.
		Tri-Insula, Free City of- As the American secession crisis of 1860 moved slowly towards the specter of civil war, many Northerners declared their support for peace, no matter the cost.
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	Encyclopedia: New York City secession
		Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
		When questioned as to the name of the new state, they said the city deserved to keep "New York" and, rather ludicrously, that upstate should be renamed "Buffalo", after its largest city.
		Urban secession is a citys secession from its surrounding region, to form a new political unit (usually a state or district or province of the same country as its surroundings, but not always).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-York-City-secession (2152 words)

	NYNY 1857 - 1860
		New York City's 's Century Association, founded in 1846 by painters Asher B. Durand and John F. Kenesett, poet William Cullen Bryant, and others, is incorporated by a special act of the state legislature.
		The New York City Police Department is placed under the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police District.
		A riot breaks out in New York City when police captain Walling and his Strong Arm Squad, en route to arrest mayor Fernando Wood for refusing the state legislature's demand to disband the corrupt Municipal Police, run into Wood's defenders.
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	World eBook LIbrary PGCC Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They are adapted to this use not merely by reason of their simplicity and interest, but more particularly by the graduating of difficulties and the large use of Caesarian words and phrases to which Mr.
		Some time after, Dejanira wishing to try the charm soaked one of her husband's garments in the blood, not knowing that it was poisoned.
		Postquam in his rebus tris dies consumpserat, quarto die profectus est, et contra omnium opinionem boves incolumis in Italiam traduxit.
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	History News Network
		In January 1861, as Southern states were in the process of seceding from the union, Fernando Wood, the mayor of New York, made a modest proposal to his city council.
		Under his plan, the city would refashion itself into "a free city" called Tri-Insula - comprising Manhattan, Staten Island and Long Island - which would do business with both the North and South as they fought each other, thus sidestepping carnage and substituting business sense for patriotic fervor.
		Granted, such polls taken three years out are lousy predictors (in 2001, one poll had John Kerry, the Democratic nominee in 2004, ranked fifth among would-be Democratic candidates, with around 3 percent support); but they are barometers of the moment in which they are taken.
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	Gangs of New York: Movie and Truth - Global Black News (African American News) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From its colonial origins New York City was a slave center, and by the Civil War its leading politicians were in the pocket of the slaveholder elite that ruled the country.
		In 1861 eleven southern states ambled toward secession but Mayor Fernando Wood was in a rush: he proposed to the City Council that he lead New York City out of the Union into the Confederacy and picked the name Tri-Insula for his flamboyant act of treason.
		After Governor Seymore arrived in the city and warned that revolution "can be proclaimed by a mob as well as by a government," his call for insurrection produced mob rule.
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	New York Press - WILLIAM BRYK -
		On June 16, 1857, when the state tried taking over the Street Cleaning Dept., Wood ordered the Municipal Police to physically remove the state appointees from their offices, and this was done.
		In the fall, the courts determined that the City’s ancient royal charters were meaningless and the City was no more than a creature of the State.
		By 1860, according to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the city’s largest industry was producing garments, with 398 factories employing 26,857 workers to create clothing worth $22,420,769, largely from Southern cotton.
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	Spotlight on Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Free City of Tri-insula is a massive, safe nation, notable for its absence of drug laws.
		Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 1.034 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.
		Tri-insula's national animal is the Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the Dollar.
	www.nationstates.net /cgi-bin/index.cgi/-1/page=display_nation/nation=tri-insula (195 words)

	Blue Skies Falling
		Fortunately, for both the city and the United States, the idea never gained any traction, even among the City Council, and Fernando Wood is chiefly known today as New Yorkâs most corrupt mayor.
		Finally, the city itself was dealing with congestion, and streets that had been built for a lesser volume of traffic.
		Other cities, such as St. Louis and Chicago, were growing faster than New York after the Civil War, but the supremacy of the city in size, as well as its economic, commercial and cultural predominance was unchallenged.
	www.hereisnowhy.com /blog/2005/10/nyc-post-6-new-york-will-be-alive-1860.html (2474 words)

	CORK Bibliography: Craving and Alcohol
		A preferential utilization of lipids as an energy substrate with a reduction of the fat mass (p=0.01) and an increase of the free fat mass (p=0.0091) was found in alcoholic patients.
		This study validated the TRI in two samples of college drinkers, designated as "hazardous" (n = 480) and "harmful" (n = 231) drinkers.
		In addition, multiple regression analyses using derived component scores demonstrated that TRI performance was associated with degree of alcohol dependence in both samples.
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	All Political Ideas Are Local
		But the conundrum is that New York is also, historically, the fertile soil from which some of the richest ideas and policies have been harvested, ideas and policies that have defined the relationship between the American people and their government.
		Upstate residents look at the city from more or less the same distance as people from other states, and the schism has only grown in recent years, as the city has become richer and parts of the state have languished.
		As a result, when the Dutch founded their New World colony centered on Manhattan Island, it, too, was a mixed society, and it, too, had as its social glue this notion of tolerance.
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	Fernando Wood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fernando Wood (June 14, 1812–February 14, 1881) is famous for being the most corrupt mayor in the history of (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City.
		He was chairman of the chief young men's political organization in 1839 and was a member of the (A political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism) Tammany Society, which he used as a vehicle for his political rise.
		He was re-elected in 1857, when the New York gang the (Click link for more info and facts about Dead Rabbits) Dead Rabbits combed the city's cemeteries for names to add to the voter rolls.
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	All Political Ideas Are Local (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But the conundrum is that New York is also, historically, the fertile soil from which some of the richest ideas and policies have been harvested, ideas and policies that have defined the relationship between the American people and their government.
		Upstate residents look at the city from more or less the same distance as people from other states, and the schism has only grown in recent years, as the city has become richer and parts of the state have languished.
		As a result, when the Dutch founded their New World colony centered on Manhattan Island, it, too, was a mixed society, and it, too, had as its social glue this notion of tolerance.
	www.mezomorf.com /magazine/news-5202.html (3677 words)

	Introduction to Romans
		He was born and educated in Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia, a city widely renowned for its Greek schools (Acts 22:3).
		It was a city of political and economic importance in its day to such a huge proportion it is hard for modern people to imagine.
		The poor lived in a squalid dwelling known as an "insula," which was like an apartment in buildings up to six stories high and occupying as much as a city block.
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	Vocabulary Builder (500 will get you 5000)
		Many were borrowed straight from the Greek language, but most were combined with Latin to make additional words with similar but distinctive meanings.
		Try to get a feel for the ETYMOLOGY of these words.
		You will also find a few Old English suffixes here since they are used quite freely with Latin and Greek root words.
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	Upstate New York Cabins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The exact definition of Upstate New York is somewhat ambiguous, but the term often refers the whole of the state besides New York City, Long Island, Westchester County, and Rockland County, an area sometimes correspondingly called 'downstate'.
		Many provincial Brooklynites even consider everything outside of the five boroughs of New York City to be Upstate New York, even Long Island, which is technically east of New York City.
		Greenville, the third largest city in South Carolina, is the largest city in the region and the base of most commercial activity.
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	加西生活网论坛总汇: 阅读主题 > All Political Ideas Are Local
		Why was it that the notion of a free press was first articulated, in 1735, in the case of a New York printer, John Peter Zenger?
		You could draw a line, then, from Stuyvesant's pluralistic Dutch port city to Tweed's street-smart control of immigrant groups in post-Civil War New York to F.D.R., the New Deal and the whole edifice of modern liberalism.
		Looked at in this way, liberalism isn't New York's contribution to the nation but one manifestation of the New York strain of influence, which is constantly evolving in a dialectical pattern, the success (or failure) of one idea leading to its own collapse and then to a new thesis.
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	Discussion Group Report: All Political Ideas Are Local
		In 1861 while southern states were in the process of seceding from the union, Fernando Wood, the mayor of New York, made a proposal to his city council that, if the South severed its ties to the United States, New York should, too.
		The city would refashion itself into a free city called Tri-Insula, which would do business with both the North and the South, thus sidestepping carnage and substituting business sense for patriotic fervor.
		These factors relate to New York's uniqueness: the World Trade Center was attacked because of what the city is and represents, and Hillary chose it as her base for similar reasons.
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