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  New York World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New York World was a newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931.
In 1890 the newspaper built the New York World Building, the tallest office building in the world at the time.
The belief that the World Series of baseball is also named after the newspaper, however, is refuted by baseball researcher Doug Pappas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_World   (222 words)

  
 1939 New York World's Fair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1939 New York World's Fair, located on the current site of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964 New York World's Fair), was one of the largest world's fairs of all time.
Not long after, these men formed the New York World's Fair Corporation, whose office was placed on one of the higher floors in the Empire State Building.
World's Fair (now Willets Point-Shea Stadium) station on the IRT Flushing Line was rebuilt to handle fair traffic on the IRT and BMT.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1939_New_York_World's_Fair   (964 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: New York World's Fair
New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States and is at...
Flushing Meadows in Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island.
New York World's Fair (http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s/DISPLAY/39wf/frame.htm) from the The University of Virginia (also called UVa) is a research university in Charlottesville, Virginia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-York-World%27s-Fair   (1145 words)

  
 New York World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The role of underdog doesn't come naturally to a city that calls itself "The Capital of the World," but that is how New York's Olympic boosters are casting themselves as they scramble to recover from a setback that nearly wrecked their bid for the 2012 Summer Games.
NEW YORK The emergency-room death of Gao Rongrong was neither accidental nor unnoticed.
NEW YORK (AP) - An attempt to erect the world's largest Popsicle in a city square ended with a scene straight out of a disaster film - but much stickier.
www.infothis.com /find/New_York_World   (360 words)

  
 The 1939 New York World's Fair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1939 New York World's Fair set a new price performance point, with their amusement parks and rides and "stage-set representations of vernacular architecture," that Walt Disney was inspired to create Disney World.
Inside was Democracity, a perfect model of a perfect world with a thriving central core and pleasant suburbs for nuclear families.
The Trylon and Perisphere, painted white and lit brightly at night, were the visual icons of this world's fair, appearing everywhere you went in New York.
park.org /Pavilions/WorldExpositions/new_york.html   (512 words)

  
 New York World's Fair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seen by its organizers as an antidote to the despair of The Great Depression by projecting a future of hope, the Fair emphasized international cooperation and the impact of technology on the world of the future.
The site became a park and home to New York's Shea Stadium where the New York Mets play.
New York World's Fair from the University of Virginia's American Studies program
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_World's_Fair   (232 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Business (World Series)
Many believe that the name World Series is American hype or arrogance, but the truth is that the Series was named after the New York World newspaper who sponsored the title games in the early part of the century.
The New York World was established in 1860, just before the Civil War, and it fared poorly throughout the 1870s before being bought up by Joseph Pulitzer in 1883.
Over the next half-century, the World was renowned for everything from its "yellow journalism" to its debut of the crossword puzzle; in 1930 it was sold and merged with the Evening Telegram to become the New York World-Telegram.
www.snopes.com /business/names/worldseries.asp   (884 words)

  
 Trenches on the Web - Special: A Survey of New York City World War I Monuments
New York had closer ties to the war than much of the rest of the country.
The typical World War I monument of the city's streets is bronze and heroic, preferably with a bayonet flourish, like this one in a grungy little plaza in front of the Health Department in Chelsea, lower Manhattan.
Mitchel was elected Mayor of New York City in 1913 at the age of 25.
www.worldwar1.com /sfnycm.htm   (1363 words)

  
 New York
New York farms produce cattle and calves, corn and poultry, and vegetables and fruits.
New York, University of the State of - New York, University of the State of, chartered 1784.
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra - New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, dating from 1842, the oldest symphony orchestra in the...
www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0108252.html   (528 words)

  
 New York World Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of ...
The collection includes an estimated 1 million photographs that the New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper assembled between the 1890s and 1967 (chiefly 1920 to 1967), the year in which the newspaper closed.
The New York World-Telegram & Sun newspaper itself is not indexed, but it has been microfilmed and is available for use in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room of the Library (LM 133).
Photographs taken by New York World-Telegram & Sun staff photographers are in the public domain and may be used without restriction.
www.loc.gov /rr/print/coll/130_nyw.html   (1226 words)

  
 1939 New York World's Fair
At the end of the Depression, New York City was the host of the 1939 World's Fair.
the '39 World's Fair was indeed the gate way to the Future demonstrating television broadcasts, suburban homes built with plywood and a transcontinental highway system.
In keeping with the World's Fair theme of "Building the World of Tomorrow," the General Motors Exhibit presents a conception of future motor traffic regulations and super-highways, "Highways and Horizons." By means of a continuous escaltor, visitors seated in comfortable moving chairs travel over the super-highways of tomorrow.
www.geocities.com /hepcat_paul/1939nywf.html   (451 words)

  
 New York World Fair Spoons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Public television broadcasting began in the New York City area on the same day as the Fair, a publicity event of such tremendous import that its consequences could not be forseen.
For the World's Fair to be truly successful it had to be a conspicuous international event, and the nations of the world were represented in the Government Zone or the "foreign section".
This was the world's largest diorama and stretched the length of a city block.
www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/1975/nywf.html   (1161 words)

  
 WORLD WEBCAMS NEW YORK
The Twin Towers of World Trade Center are terrible missing in the skyline of New York City, here (2) provided by the Haze Cam Pollution Visibility Camera Network from Newark (New Jersey).
September 11, 2001 the New York World Trade Center was destroyed in a terrorist attack against World Trade Center, Humanity and Liberty.
The terrorists attack at the New York World Trade Center destroyed the world famous skyline of 'the Big Apple'.
members.chello.nl /~a.horlings/geo-ny.html   (397 words)

  
 NEW YORK WORLD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Robert Moses and the Shaping of New York was an exhibit that was shown at the Paine Webber Gallery in NYC and the Museums at Stony Brook (516) 751-0066.
The broadcasts were between studios in Newark, NJ and the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City, NY, it consisted of her and seven other dancers in ethnic Hungarian costumes.
Probably the most inspiring metaphor for hope in the future during the latter part of the thirties was The New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1940, with its theme, "The World of Tomowwow".
www.late1.com /new_york_world.htm   (12774 words)

  
 New York City | World Parking
An 1896 restored mansion in the heart of the historic arts/cultural district of Rochester, New York.
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World Travel Guide to New York NY, USA - a detailed New York city guide featuring city information, New York tourism and tourist attractions, museums, restaurants, hotel discounts, weather information and general New York travel tips...
www.worldparking.co.uk /directory/North_America/USA/New_York/New_York_City/index.php   (181 words)

  
 Globaled.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York and the World uses the Metropolitan area itself as a resource, collaborating with local educational and cultural institutions, and scholars to provide teachers with content and instructional strategies.
Designed in collaboration with the World History Institute and the College Board, these courses are designed to strengthen the content knowledge of world history teachers.
This New York City Department of Education approved professional development series is designed for arts and humanities teachers.
www.globaled.org /nyworld   (179 words)

  
 The 1939 New York World's Fair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While the radio world was moving quickly in the 1930s with the stunning success of Armstrong's FM invention, David Sarnoff had staked RCA's future on the new-fangled medium of television.
The 1964 World's Fair in New York also featured the future, but it was in somehow different.
The fairs are people went to understand what this new world would be and how it would affect their lives.
amsterdam.park.org /Pavilions/WorldExpositions/new_york2.html   (521 words)

  
 New York 1964 World's Fair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1964 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadow in Queens, New York had a two year run; from April 22 to October 18, 1964 and from April 21 to October 17, 1965 - a total of 360 days.
It was held in conjunction with the city of New York's 300th anniversary of British forces under the command of the Duke of York gaining control of the Dutch city of New Amsterdam in 1664.
Articles - The are several articles that give the reader a general overview of the New York 1964 World's Fair; its construction, as a showcase for technology at the beginning of the space age, and its impact on the general public.
naid.sppsr.ucla.edu /ny64fair   (834 words)

  
 World Trade Center - Minoru Yamasaki - Great Buildings Online
World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York...
The world's tallest building for a short time, taking over from the Empire State Building, and then surpassed by the Sears Tower.
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at 8:45am New York local time, One World Trade Center, the north tower, was hit by a hijacked 767 commercial jet airplane, loaded with fuel for a trans-continental flight.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/World_Trade_Center.html   (2070 words)

  
 American Experience | The Center of the World - New York: A Documentary Film | Further Reading | PBS
NOVA investigates the World Trade Center's collapse from a scientific perspective, presenting information on how and why the buildings did not withstand the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
New York: Library of America: Distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, 1998.
Stern, Robert A. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/newyork/filmmore/fr.html   (1010 words)

  
 Gerhard Richter - Forty Years of Painting - a Review by Donald Goddard - New York Art World
And so it is in Richter's work, but more likely the color of the representation of tragedy, or the world as represented by photographs, the preponderance of which (at least in newspapers) were fl and white until recently.
That is how we of a certain age retained and transmuted the great events of our time--the rise of totalitarianism, the Second World War, the aftermath of hope and recidivism--as well as the people in our lives, known and unknown.
In the 1980s and '90s, his abstractions are increasingly formulaic, made with a squeegee that pushes across the surface in straight paths the way his brush did in "unpainting" images during the 1960s.
www.newyorkartworld.com /reviews/richter.html   (1355 words)

  
 1939 New York World's Fair Collectables
Here are 1939 New York World's Fair collectable auctions currently running on eBay.
You may want to click over and search for "1939 New York World's Fair collectable" or something more specific such as "New York 1939 World's Fair admissions ticket".
By the way, if you collect World's Fair memorabilia, Erik Mattie's World's Fairs is an entertaining "coffee table" book.
www.collectable4.com /New-York/1939-World-Fair.html   (329 words)

  
 new york carpet world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New York Carpet World liens on banker for unpaid bill.
Bloomsburg Carpet is a world carpet manufacturer, headquartered in New York, New York.
...of carpet is being replaced or patched that is in a high traffic area, such as the living room, the repair is noticeable due to taking a new...
www.elegance-carpets.co.uk /new-york-carpet-world.php   (210 words)

  
 1964 New York World's Fair Collectables
If you're looking for a 1964 New York World's Fair collectable, an online auction may be your best bet.
Here are 1964 New York World's Fair collectable auctions currently running on eBay.
You may want to click over and search for "1964 New York World's Fair collectable" or something more specific such as "New York 1964 World's Fair admissions ticket".
www.collectable4.com /New-York/1964-World-Fair.html   (329 words)

  
 The Real Truth behind MTV's The Real World - New York
After production of The Real World was completed in 2001, the loft was on the rental market.
The loft is located in New York's West Village, 1.2 miles from the SoHo loft used in filming of the first season.
The loft from the Real World New York (1992) is located at 565 Broadway.
www.realworldhouses.com /realworld10.html   (138 words)

  
 New York's World Trade Center: A Living Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This quote is incised in the pavement of Battery Park City's esplanade which was built atop landfill from the World Trade Center's excavation.
The result of eight years of research, writing and revision, it also distilled the cumulative associations of my 50 years as a New Yorker and witness to the city's heroic and deeply flawed trajectory of development.
The idea of assembling the material found here owes much to the spirit of Walter Benjamin's "Arcades Project." But I acknowledge with humility that the World Trade Center is too big a story for anyone to tell alone.
www.ericdarton.net   (241 words)

  
 World New York
But although the mail server was running on a five-year-old box, and their file server was woefully short on brute power and storage space, the game server was one of the finest, newest machines in the office.
The correct approach, though, is that clients should be dependent upon you for new information, with the understanding that this new information will allow them to care for their computers themselves.
In a city like New York, even with the high density of businesses, you can spend up to a third of your work day traveling from client to client.
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 New York | World Parking
Elegant historic 1800's Victorian country colonial farmhouse bed & breakfastlocated southeast of Rochester in the heart of the Fingerlakes Region of New York State...
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For me THE FAIR was something of a dream, as well as an actuality that spoke of the future, "the world of tomorrow." It remains a monument to those who dream and who "dare to do their dreams" (as I would discover in the words of Samuel Silas Curry decades later).
The caption explains, "The emblem of the New York World's Fair, the modernistic Trylon and Perisphere, was reproduced on 25,000 items between 1939 and 1940.
THe New York City Building, in which the museum is located, is referred to as "the only major structure remaining" from the fairs.
websyte.com /alan/nywf.htm   (13110 words)

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