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    contrastingly characterised with an evolving modern persona‚ thus portrayed “thanking him in a tone Rose might have used; something she could not have done in the town where any of her family or friends might have seen her.” The transient nature of Brooklyn clearly extends an opportunity for Eilis to pursue a new identity‚ thus enabling her to choose her own

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    1942. She was an author and musician who wrote “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.” The book that Maria wrote was made into the movie called “The Sound of Music.” Ben Cohen‚ Born in Brooklyn NY in 1961 and Jerry Greenfield‚ Born in Brooklyn NY in 1951 Ben and Jerry were childhood friends from Brooklyn. They started Ben & Jerry’s‚ one of the country’s most successful ice cream companies. They produce premium ice cream in fun flavors with eco-friendly practices and social activism. Sadly

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    story telling and character. The Academy award was so earned and deserved. The 1947 post World War II era setting of the movie in Brooklyn made me think how my grandparents must have lived. My grandfather is German/Polish and grew up in Flatbush‚ Brooklyn. My grandmother was born 1937 in Berlin‚ Germany. She was ten years old when this movie took place. She moved to Brooklyn when she was 15 years old‚ because her mother married an American Italian soldier. My grandmother has spoken about many horrific

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    she published her first novel in August 2016. She published two more novels in the series in quick succession in September and October of 2016 and another in 2011‚ novels that quickly became fan favorites. The series is set in Van Bakel Beach in Brooklyn and follows the lie and times of several loser friends that can never seem to make anything of their lives. Each novel in the series features the same characters all of whom

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    Wilbour  Plaque                      The  Wilbour  Plaque  is  named  after  Charles  Edwin  Wilbour  a  Egyptologist  that   came  across  the  slab  in  1881‚  in  Egypt.  The  Wilbour  Plaque  is  made  out  of   Limestone  rock.  Measuring  6  and  3/16  x  8  11/16  x  1  5/8  inches.  The  stone  slab  is   engraved  with

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    historians‚ ethicists‚ professors of the hebrew bible‚ hermeneutics‚ and historians of religions‚ those scholars will join in with sociologists‚ political analysts‚ local church pastors‚ and denominational officials to examine the african-american religious experience and its historical‚ theological‚ and political context. the workshops‚ the panel discussions and the symposium will go into much more intricate detail about this unknown phenomenon of the black church than i have time to go into in

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    with a girl named Maria Pia my grandmother. Just to get her attention he went to her house everyday and when he was at work he sent her love letters. After they got married he took her to America Brooklyn‚ New york. My mother Maria Saviglio was a tomboy at first ‚ but had a lot of friend and she loved Brooklyn so much I guess you can call her brooklyn’s girl.She had an older sister and a younger brother. Ida and Gino Ida loved to sing and Gino loved to play the guitar . While my Grandfather was making

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    However‚ there is a downside to the concept due to the fact that low income small businesses are the ones that are suffering‚ as the values elevates. Big businesses moves in and as this is done‚ the small businesses that once populated Downtown Brooklyn have no choice but to relocate or to close their doors. There is no way that the mom and pop shops could

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    But maybe there’s another way — which is why‚ in early April‚ this middle-aged avowed Manhattanite checked into the Wythe and spent a long weekend trying to educate himself‚ canvassing Kings County’s artisan-loving‚ kale-devouring epicenter. “Brooklyn” is now a byword for cool from Paris to Sweden to the Middle East. It’s been strange to live across the river from a place that suddenly becomes a cultural reference point — not unlike having your dachshund become an overnight celebrity. Part of

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    and moderate human being as a child helping his poor single mother‚ as a young adult going to college and being nominated for many awards‚ going to the U.S. Army‚ and as an adult playing with the Montreal Royals‚ being scouted and recruited by the Brooklyn Dodgers‚ breaking and setting world records and breaking the color barrier for Major League Baseball. Mary Kay Linge wrote a biography about Jackie Robinson ’s life and all of the the great things he did and the struggles he went through from a

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