Riis worked as a carpenter in Scandinavian communities in the western part of the state, also working a variety of other jobs.

Riis worked briefly as editor of a south Brooklyn newspaper, the Brooklyn News.

Riis returned to Ribe in 1868 at age 19.

After five days, during which he used almost all his money, Riis found work as a carpenter at Brady's Bend Iron Works on the Allegheny River.

After a brief period of farmworking and odd jobs at Mount Vernon, Riis returned to New York, where he read in the newspaper New York Sun that the newspaper was recruiting soldiers for the war.

Riis was destitute, at one time sleeping on a tombstone and surviving on windfall apples.

His attendance at Le Tour was at the invitation of Danish former cyclist Bjarne Riis.

Riis began cycling at local club Herning CK.

Riis finished 3rd at the 1995 Tour de France, the first Dane to reach the podium in Paris, and was named the sensation of the 1995 Tour.

Bjarne Riis was the favourite at the 1997 Tour de France, but instead it was his young German teammate Jan Ullrich, who won the overall competition, with Riis finishing 7th.

On his way to the startup at stage 2 of the 1999 Tour de Suisse, Bjarne Riis hit the curb and crashed.

The earliest mention of the nickname can be traced to interviews with riders of Festina in 1998 – 2000, who apparently suggested that if they had been doped above 50 %, then Riis must have been doped to at least 60 %, since he was able to win the Tour de France in 1996 ahead of the Festina rider Richard Virenque: in Willy Voet's book Breaking the Chain, he mentions that Festina's team doctor would not allow EPO to be administered if a rider's hematocrit level was near 55 %.

Bjarne Riis never tested positive as a rider, though no EPO test existed at that time.

Reports have noted, however, that police in Italy found evidence that Riis may have been among riders treated with EPO in 1994 and 1995 by medical researchers under Professor Francesco Conconi at the University of Ferrara, which resulted in prosecutions against Conconi and also involved Michele Ferrari.

Some critics have stamped him as a cheater, and claimed that the results Riis has achieved in his career are worthless, while others have labelled him as a victim of the doping culture that was rampant in professional road cycling at the time and that he should not be scapegoated for a wider problem.

File: Jacob Riis Park. jpg | The beach at Jacob Riis Park

Parker received many visits at Police Headquarters on Mulberry Street from Jacob Riis, the photographer famous for documenting the lives of slum dwellers, who enjoyed " smoking a pipe in his poky little office " and was " famous for his access to internal police reports.

For some time, NY Waterway service was available at the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Pier 11 / Wall Street, the East 34th Street Ferry Landing, the Sandy Hook Bay Marina, or Riis Landing on summer Fridays.

Miguel Indurain ( 1991 – 95 ), Bjarne Riis ( 1996 ), Pedro Delgado ( 1988 ), Jan Ullrich ( 1997 ), Óscar Pereiro ( 2006 ) and Bradley Wiggins ( 2012 ) all rode Pinarello to victory at the Tour de France.

New York Water Taxi's Rockaway / Sandy Hook beach service is available at the Brooklyn Army Terminal to Pier 11 / Wall Street, the East 34th Street Ferry Landing, the Sandy Hook Bay Marina, or Riis Landing on summer Fridays.

Riis used these acquaintances at first to gather photographs, but eventually took up the camera himself.

This got Team CSC owner Bjarne Riis to release Gerdemann from his contract at the end of 2005.

In 1894, Roosevelt met Jacob Riis, the muckraking Evening Sun newspaper journalist who was opening the eyes of New York's rich to the terrible conditions of the city's millions of poor immigrants with such books as, How the Other Half Lives.

Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children ( one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered ) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and occasional writer for the local Ribe newspaper, and Carolina Riis ( née Bendsine Lundholme ), a homemaker.

Riis noticed an advertisement by a Long Island newspaper for an editor, applied for and was appointed city editor.

Conveniently, the politicians offered to buy back the newspaper for five times the price Riis had paid ; he was thus able to arrive in Denmark with a substantial amount of money.

Yet soon the article proved to be popular and Riis spent the better part of a year expanding it into the book How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

P. J. Riis " The Cult Image of Diana Nemorensis " in Acta Archaelogica Kopenhagen 37 1966 p. 69 ff.

* 1849 – Jacob August Riis, American journalist ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Jacob August Riis, Danish-American journalist, photographer, and reformer ( b. 1849 )

" The Trade ", as it came to be known, upset Canadians to the extent that New Democratic Party House Leader Nelson Riis demanded that the government block it, and Pocklington was burned in effigy outside the Northlands Coliseum.

* ( 1890 ) In How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on " Jewtown " are described.

Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914 ) was a Danish American social reformer, " muckraking " journalist and social documentary photographer.

While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums.

Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting, and who persuaded him to read ( and improve his English via ) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.

The father disapproved of the boy's blundering attentions, and Riis was forced to complete his carpentry apprenticeship in Copenhagen.

Discouraged by poor job availability in the region and by Gjortz's disfavor of his marriage proposal, Riis decided to emigrate to the United States.

Riis emigrated to America in 1870, when he was 21 years old, seeking employment as a carpenter.

Riis disembarked in New York on June 5, on that day spending half the $ 40 his friends had given him on a revolver for defense against human or animal predators.

Riis rushed there to enlist, but the editor ( whom he later realized was Charles Anderson Dana ) claimed or affected ignorance but offered the famished Riis a dollar for breakfast ; Riis indignantly refused.

She worked very hard.

Walter Quin, tutor to the future Charles I, worked hard on multilingual anagrams on the name of father James.

He likewise supported the pope at Ferrara and Florence, and worked hard in the attempt to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches.

Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture and unlike many other Sultans, worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of " the Just ".

Chaplin worked hard and the act was popular with audiences, but dancing did not satisfy the child and he dreamt of forming a comedy act.

Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars, saying that Love " worked hard on these songs, instead of just babbling a bunch of druggy bullshit and assuming people would buy it, the way she did on her 2004 flop, America's Sweetheart.

He worked hard, and quickly distinguished himself as talented.

Nonetheless, Chicagoans worked hard to create a literary tradition that would stand the test of time, and create a " city of feeling " out of concrete, steel, vast lake, and open prairie.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

Edgar Codd worked at IBM in San Jose, California, in one of their offshoot offices that was primarily involved in the development of hard disk systems.

All ancient doors were hung by pivots at the top and bottom of the hanging stile which worked in sockets in the lintel and sill, the latter being always in some hard stone such as basalt or granite.

He worked hard for the Platte Purchase, which extended the northwestern boundary of Missouri to the Missouri River in 1837.

Beatty worked hard to raise efficiency so that she was highly rated in gunnery and other competitions by the time he left the ship 19 December 1902.

The King Kong suit for this film has widely been considered to be one of the least appealing and insipid gorilla suits in film history Sadamasa Arikawa ( who worked with Eiji Tsuburaya ) said that the sculptors had a hard time coming up with a King Kong suit that appeased Tsuburaya.

Henry was also known as " Henry Beauclerc " ( because of his education — as his older brother William was the heir apparent and thus given the practical training to be king, Henry received the alternate, formal education ), worked hard to reform and stabilise the country and smooth the differences between the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman societies.

According to Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman " the State Department worked hard to dissuade the Soviets from invading.

For four years he worked hard, with help from his supporters in Congress, to defeat Adams in the presidential election of 1828.

Tiptree / Sheldon was an eclectic writer who worked in a variety of styles and subgenres, often combining the technological focus and hard-edged style of " hard " science fiction with the sociological and psychological concerns of " soft " SF, and some of the stylistic experimentation of the New Wave movement.

As such, Ribbentrop worked hard during his early diplomatic career to realize Hitler's dream of an anti-Soviet Anglo-German alliance.

John worked extremely hard to ensure that this system operated well, through judges he had appointed, by fostering legal specialists and expertise, and by intervening in cases himself.

In Washington, Landis worked hard to protect Gresham's interests in the State Department, making friends with many members of the press.

In the colloquial, one can say that a person's kung fu is good in cooking, or that someone has kung fu in calligraphy ; saying that a person possesses kung fu in an area implies skill in that area, which they have worked hard to develop.

Kunisato inherited the tradition from his father Heizaemon in 1708, and the two of them worked hard together to improve the bogu until Heizaemon's death.

Thus he worked hard promoting Notre Dame football so as to make it financially successful.

He demanded hard work of all of his MPs and Ministers, and worked hard himself.