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Irish Immigrants

                                                  The Potato Blight of 1845 caused an insurgence of Irish immigrants to come to America....

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The Main Building at Ellis Island (phoot by Dolores Monet)91

Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty - Gateway to America

Nearly 1/2 of all Americans had a family member emigrate to the United States through Ellis Island. From 1892 - 1954, more than 12 million people came to America by way of the small island in the Upper New...

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An Icon of New York Style: The Chrysler building

New York, the big apple, the city that never sleeps, portal to a new world full of promise and hope. Claiming to its name Ellis Island, doorway for immigrants, the Statue of Liberty, beacon for the tired, the...

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Visiting New York City with Kids

Visiting New York City with kids is a wonderful experience! Adults and children alike will enjoy exploring New York's landmarks and the many family-friendly activities that the city offers. Some of the sites...

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America's Next Top Model Cycle 12 Episode 4 Hardly Strikes a Pose

Tahlia's big huge boost of confidence. And the backstabbing begins!  The fourth episode of cycle 12 starts off with showing Sandra’s winning picture from the tour-bus shoot in the house since she was...

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Americans - A Patchwork of the World

Ask any American what his nationality is, and nine out of ten, he won’t say “American.” Instead he’ll say something like, “I’m half French and half Polish with a little German thrown in” There...

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Is there any more room left for tolerance in America

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to...

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A First-Timer's Guide to Visiting Vegas

So you want to go to Las Vegas. Let me give you some advice. Better yet, some tips to preparing for the trip and the scoop on the best places to go while you’re on your vaca in Vegas. But before, you have...

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ELLIS ISLAND: GATEWAY TO AMERICA

This may be hard to believe but it’s true:  9 percent of the population of Norway relocated to the United States during the 1880’s. And that was just the beginning. Another 27 million immigrants arrived...

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The figure in Jules Joseph Lefebvre's painting La Vérité the same year as the first model of the Statue of Liberty â shows pose that is similar pose to that of the statue of Liberty. 68

New York’s Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty, also called as Liberty Enlightening the World,  is a statue given by France to the United States in the late 19th century, located at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudson River in New...

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