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Parks and Recreation is an American television series created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.It has been billed as a companion piece to Daniels' and Schur's other comedy, The Office.
The Army delayed their adoption, as Mauser requested time to develop a new pistol of their own, which was finished in 1907. [19] However, the new pistol was still found to be less desirable than the Luger, and on 22 August 1908, Kaiser Wilhelm II signed an order for 50,000 Lugers for the German Army, with orders to produce a total of 170,000.
They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts. July 20 – Van Halen releases The Best of Both Worlds, a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals. July 24 – The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach ...
Motto and Star of India emblem on the stern of the ship The ship was named after Cutty-sark , the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns 's 1791 poem Tam o' Shanter . The ship's figurehead , the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with ...
'Bank of England New Change' was designed by Victor Heal and opened in 1957 (at the time it was London's biggest post-war rebuilding project); [86] the new building contained several staff amenities alongside the office accommodation and, at street level, retail units were let to an assortment of businesses.
The beginning of the twentieth century also saw the Celtic Revival stimulate a new appreciation of traditional Irish literature, while the Scottish Renaissance brought modernism to Scottish literature as well as an interest in new forms in the literatures of Scottish Gaelic and Scots. The English novel developed in the 20th century into much ...
Norfolk Island (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ə k / NOR-fək, locally / ˈ n ɔːr f oʊ k / NOR-fohk; [9] Norfuk: Norf'k Ailen [10]) is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, approximately 1,412 km (877 mi; 762 nmi) east of Australia's Evans Head and about 900 km (560 mi; 490 nmi) from Lord Howe Island.
New York City has focused on reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint. [223] Mass transit use is the highest in the country. New York's high rate of public transit use, more than 610,000 daily cycling trips as of 2022, [224] and many pedestrian commuters make it the most energy-efficient major city in the United States. [225]