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In 2002, Smith's long poems evolved into her first play. She was awarded the 2004-2005 Fulbright Emerging American Artist (Playwriting) Fellowship in Dublin, Ireland , where she worked in the Abbey Theatre , [ 7 ] and the 2004-2005 Rhode Island School of Design Humanities Travel Award to Belfast .
Within Rossville is Sandy Ground, among the oldest surviving communities in the United States, which was founded by free African Americans prior to the American Civil War, with the first documented land purchase by an African American named Captain John Jackson on February 23, 1828, just months after the abolition of slavery in New York. Sandy ...
Buttafuoco first met then-15-year-old Amy Fisher when her father took his car to be repaired at his garage in 1990. The two began a sexual relationship around July 1991, when Fisher took her vehicle to Buttafuoco's auto body shop in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. [1] Fisher later said she had damaged the car several times as a pretext to see ...
ONEIDA COUNTY, N.Y. – Days of concentrated lake-effect snow resulted in feet of fresh powder being dumped on several counties in upstate New York.That was enough snow to collapse the roofs of ...
The good works of Capt. Hawkeye Pierce continue long after he went into reruns. An upcoming Heritage Auction features the dog tags and Army boots worn by actor Alan Alda during his run in the ...
Officials in New York City say a 1.7 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Queens and Roosevelt Island on Tuesday morning, not an explosion.. Around 5:45am, the FDNY received reports of buildings ...
The expression "boots on the ground" is an example of synecdoche which has an extended military-jargon history. It certainly dates back at least to British officer Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, strategist of the British counter-insurgency efforts against the Malayan National Liberation Army during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 (see entry).
The Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act was introduced into the United States House of Representatives by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D, NY-9). [5] The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Homeland Security and the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection ...