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Carl Schurz Park overlooks the waters of Hell Gate and Wards Island in the East River, and is the site of Gracie Mansion ( built for Archibald Gracie, 1799, enlarged ca 1811 ), the official residence of the Mayor of New York since 1942 ( although current mayor Michael Bloomberg does not live there ).
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After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.
The Mugwumps, including such men as Carl Schurz and Henry Ward Beecher, were more concerned with morality than with party, and felt Cleveland was a kindred soul who would promote civil service reform and fight for efficiency in government.
Together with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States.
* In Life of Henry Clay, Carl Schurz notes that “ his fondness for card-playing, which, although in his early years he had given up games of chance, still led him to squander but too much time upon whist .”
One harsh assessment came from Carl Schurz, who reported on the situation in the states along the Gulf Coast.
Thompson, as Secretary of the Navy, had never been among the leading figures of the Cabinet ( William Evarts, John Sherman, or Carl Schurz ) nor had been even a close colleague and friend of President Hayes like Vice President William Wheeler.
His contemporary Carl Schurz described Seward as " one of those spirits who sometimes will go ahead of public opinion instead of tamely following its footprints.
In history, Spandau Prison succeeded as a prison to the Renaissance-era Spandau Citadel where Frederick II of Prussia had held captive the magistrates of the Prussian Kammergericht and the Spandau jail, where Carl Schurz had freed his friend Gottfried Kinkel in the aftermath of the 1848 German revolution.
Johann Gottfried Kinkel ( 11 August 1815 – 13 November 1882 ) was a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison in Spandau with the help of his friend Carl Schurz.
In 1848, with his wife and Carl Schurz, he started a newspaper, the Bonner Zeitung, mostly devoted to following revolutionary activities, but also providing the traditional material such as musical and theatrical reviews that people expected then from a full-service newspaper.
He was eventually transferred to Spandau in Berlin, where his friend and former student Carl Schurz helped him escape the prison at Spandau and reach London, England in November 1850.
During the winter of 1879 and 1880, she and her father visited Washington and gained permission from Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz for the Paiutes to return to Malheur at their own expense.
In the building where the Westliche Post was co-edited by Dr. Emil Pretorius and Carl Schurz, the attorneys William Patrick and Charles Phillip Johnson and surgeon Joseph Nash McDowell also worked.
A cartoon from Harper's Weekly of December 21, 1878, features Philip Sheridan and Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz
Carl and Park
Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.
Carl Boenish was the real catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978, he filmed the first BASE jumps to be made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique ( from El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park ).
Major memorials to Sherman include the gilded bronze equestrian statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at the main entrance to Central Park in New York City and the major monument by Carl Rohl-Smith near President's Park in Washington, D. C. Other posthumous tributes include the naming of the World War II M4 Sherman tank and the " General Sherman " Giant Sequoia tree, the most massive documented single-trunk tree in the world.
Conceived and promoted by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, the Lincoln Highway spanned coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California.
The park was originally named the Lumholtz National Park, after scientist Carl Sofus Lumholtz, when it was created in 1994.
* Tomaso Sports Park, a sports complex that was dedicated in 2009 to former Village manager Carl Tomaso.
Malta under Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park, and the Northwest African Air Forces ( NAAF ) under Major General Carl Spaatz.
A year later Carl was offered a position at the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases ( now the Roswell Park Cancer Institute ) in Buffalo, New York and the Cori's moved to Buffalo.
She was raised Roman Catholic, attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park and the Chicago Academy for the Arts in Chicago.
Durant named its Carl Albert Park for him, and a monument to Albert resides at his birthplace in McAlester.
As a result of the Tongsun Park influence peddling scandal, House Speaker Carl Albert retired from Congress and O ' Neill was elected Speaker in 1977, the same year Carter became President.
Yorkville includes Gracie Mansion, the official home of the mayor of New York City, and Carl Schurz Park.
* North Carolina's Research Triangle Park: An Investment in the Future UNC-TV documentary commemorating RTP's 40th anniversary, produced by John Wilson and narrated by Carl Kasell of NPR News
Over the ten years of weekly Saturday nights at Nation, the club played host to many international DJ superstars, including Paul Oakenfold ( who was resident DJ throughout 1997 and 1998 ), Paul van Dyk, Carl Cox, Sasha, Roger Sanchez, Graeme Park, Andy Weatherall plus early exclusive DJ sets from The Chemical Brothers.
On his 29th birthday while meeting with Jason Moran and his half brother Mark Moran on 13 October 1999 at a suburban park in Gladstone Park, Jason Moran shot Carl Williams in the stomach over a dispute about money earned in the amphetamine trade.
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