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  Representative Crowley: New York: Flushing
After the arrival of the English Quakers in 1657 Stuyvesant sought to renege on earlier promises of religious toleration, prompting freeholders in the area led by John Bowne to issue the Flushing Remonstrance, considered one of the earliest documents proclaiming religious freedom in America.
In the outskirts one-family houses were interspersed with schools, churches, and well-kept cemeteries and parks.
Historic buildings include the Bowne House (1661) at 37-01 Bowne Street, the oldest surviving house in Queens; and the Kingsland house on 37th Avenue, built about 1785, a rare example of English architecture.
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 Welcome to The New-York Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
By that time the house had attained its present configuration of two low, shingled wings built flush with the ground; the sloped roof of the larger wing exhibits the overhanging eaves characteristic of the Dutch Colonial style.
John Bowne, the original occupant, was a Quaker and an early proponent of religious freedom; nine successive generations of his family lived in the house through 1945.
Houses surrounded the central space of each quadrant, and the farmers herded their livestock into these common pastures come nightfall.
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 Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Prior to 1898
John Bell, of Tenn., on the subject of non-intervention, delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 13, 1852, Washington, Gideon and co., 1852.
John S. Abbott, The empire of Austria; its rise and present power, New York, Mason brothers; Cincinnati, Rickey, Mallory and co., 1859.
Barnes, John S, Submarine warfare, offensive and defensive, including a discussion of the offensive torpedo system, its effects upon iron-clad ship systems, and influence upon future naval wars.
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 Books on the Social Aspects of Computing
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, The Advent of Netwar, RAND, 1996.
John H. Connolly and Ernest A. Edmonds, eds, CSCW and Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 1994.
John H. Connolly and Lyn Pemberton, eds, Linguistic Concepts and Methods in CSCW, Springer, 1996.
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 Metaphysics in the Metaphysical Movement
Samuel Johnson derisively applied to John Donne and several other late sixteenth and early seventeenth century writers the name Metaphysical Poets, and "condemned them for their excessive use of 'learning' in their poetry."
It is a great mistake to fancy that our metaphysics is the source of experience, or that it in any way makes the experience real or unreal.
John Patrick Diggins, The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994), 432.
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 Hill & Knowlton - SourceWatch
According to the Public Relations Society of America's database of Silver Anvil Award winners, Hill and Knowlton's federal contracts have included work for the General Services Administration, on the "Dedication of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center," in Washington DC.
PR Watch: Council for Tobacco Research (http://www.prwatch.org/improp/ctr.html); Tobacco Documents From The Council on Tobacco Research (http://docs.house.gov/tobacco/docs2/ctrsearch.htm), U.S. House of Representatives.
John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, "How the public relations industry sold the Persian Gulf War (http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html)," from Toxic Sludge Is Good for you!
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 Paul Green Papers Inventory (#3693)
Addressees include his father William Archibald, his half-brother John, sisters Mary, Gladys, Caro Mae, and Erma, his cousin Buie Long, and Mrs.
Correspondents on professional matters included John Ehle, John Gassner, Kermit Hunter, G. Cheek, Isaac Van Grove, Maggie Dent, Robert Dale Martin (Robert Nachtmann), Richard Adler, John Cauble, John Howard Griffin, Josephina Niggli, Lee Devin, Mark Sumner, Wesley Van Tassel, Joel Climenhaga, Cheryl Crawford, Edward Devany, Vincent Kenny, Eugenia Rawls (Seawell), and Tyrone Guthrie.
Professional correspondents included Joel Climenhaga, John Ehle, Samuel Hirsch, Vincent Kenny, Eugenia Rawls (Seawell), Mark Sumner, Maxim Tabory, Isaac Van Grove, Maggie Dent, Kermit Hunter, John Haber, and Robert Dale Martin (Robert Nachtmann).
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 Greater Astoria Historical Society - About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the Bowne House Historical Society, which runs a museum (which is a historic house dating from 1661) in Flushing, Queens.
Jeffrey A. Kroessler is the author of New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis (NYU Press, 2002).
His ancestor, Edward Hart, the Town Clerk of Flushing, wrote the Flushing Remonstrance, the blueprint for religious freedom in America.
www.astorialic.org /about/board.shtm   (1021 words)

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