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The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, " From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale ".
Hip Hop first emerged in the South Bronx in the early 1970s.
The Pregones Theater, which produces Latin American work, opened a new 130-seat theater in 2005 on Walton Avenue in the South Bronx.
Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.
The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.
The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".
Knights of the South Bronx, a true story of a teacher who worked with disadvantaged children, is another film also set in the Bronx released in 2005.
By contrast, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1987 ) portrays a wealthy, white protagonist, Sherman McCoy, getting lost off the Major Deegan Expressway in the South Bronx and having an altercation with locals.
* " South Bronx " by Boogie Down Productions
" CCRP in the South Bronx.
263 ISBN 0-231-12114-8 ), scholarly history focused on the slums of the South Bronx online edition
Images of America Series: South Bronx ( 2002 )
* Remembrance of Synagogues Past: The Lost Civilization of the Jewish South Bronx by Seymour Perlin,
* The South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation,
The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
The group pioneered the fusion of dancehall reggae and hip hop music and their debut LP Criminal Minded contained frank descriptions of life in the South Bronx of the late 1980s thus setting the stage for what would eventually become gangsta rap.
Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.
While Criminal Minded contained vivid descriptions of South Bronx street life, BDP changed after Scott's death.

South and Rising
The only substantial combat of the first day of the Rising took place at the South Dublin Union where a piquet from the Royal Irish Regiment, encountered an outpost of Éamonn Ceannt's force at the north-western corner of the South Dublin Union.
Cosgrave played an active role in the Easter Rising of 1916 serving under Eamonn Ceannt at the South Dublin Union.
A veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin South constituency in a by-election on 18 November 1924 and was returned at each election until the constituency was abolished in 1948, when he was re-elected for Dublin South – Central until his retirement in 1969.
United Irishmen General Joseph Holt, a participant in the 1798 Rising, was incarcerated in the Bermingham Tower before being transported to New South Wales in 1799.
Rising high on the slopes of Gunung Korbu, the second highest peak in Peninsular Malaysia, the Nengiri River flows east to merge first with the Galas, and then with the Lebir — the latter born in the wilds of Taman Negara National Park — before turning decisively northwards and emptying into the shallow waters of the South China Sea.
He was second-in-command at the South Dublin Union under Commandant Éamonn Ceannt in the Easter Rising of 1916.
* 2006 Wollongong Undergraduate Students ' Association President and 2011 Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales " Rising Star " award winner, Jess Moore
He sat as Member of Parliament for Castle Rising and South Hampshire.
* Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture ( ISBN 0-15-600550-6 ).
Rising in northeastern Wyoming, in western Crook County about west of Devil's Tower, it flows northeastward, across a corner of southeastern Montana, and into South Dakota.
Rising sea levels in three massive pulses may have caused flooding and the submerging of the Sunda continent, creating the Java and South China Seas and the thousands of islands that make up Indonesia and the Philippines today.
He was made commandant of the 4th Battalion of the Volunteers, and during the Rising was stationed at the South Dublin Union and the Marrowbone Lane Distillery, with more than 100 men under his command, notably his second-in-command Cathal Brugha, and W. T. Cosgrave.
Rising rapidly, he served in the South Carolina General Assembly in 1818 – 1821, and in the United States House of Representatives in 1821 – 1834.
Heunginjimun, literally " Gate of Rising Benevolence " or more commonly known as Dongdaemun, is one of the The Eight Gates of Seoul in the Fortress Wall of Seoul, a prominent landmark in central Seoul, South Korea.
Rising educational levels and rising prosperity in the South, combined with shifts to the left by the national Democratic Party on a variety of socio-economic issues, led to widespread abandonment of the Democratic Party by white voters and Republican dominance in many Southern states by the 1990s and 2000s.
A veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin South constituency in a by-election on 18 November 1924
These included: Al Anderson ( Bob Marley & The Wailers ), Bob Berg, South African pianist Dollar Brand ( Abdullah Ibrahim ), Ron Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Mark Gray, Art Gore, Herbie Hancock, Carter Jefferson, Kraig Kilby ( The Whispers, Etta James ), Geoff Lee, Raphe Malik, Rene McLean, Bob Mintzer, Nobuku Miyamoto, Jaco Pastorius, Sun Ra, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Lady Jane Robertson, Glenn Spearman, Cecil Taylor, Harry Whitaker, Benny Yee ; as well as New York-based Japanese expatriates, acoustic double bassist and Rising Sun group leader Teruo Nakamura, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, drummer Keiji Kishida, electric jazz guitarist Shiro Mori, trumpeter Shunzo Ono, percussionist Nobu Urushiyama, electric guitarist Masuo Yoshiyaki, and trumpeter Terumasa Hino.
The Merthyr Rising of 1831 was the violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales and the surrounding area.
" The Half-Breed Rising on the South Sas-katchewan, 1885.
In January 2006 she was awarded the Breakthrough Award for Rising British Talent at The South Bank Show Awards.
Rising power South Korea, for example, won qualifications held in North America in 1986 and in 1988.
When Connolly was sentenced to death after the 1916 Rising, White rushed to South Wales and tried to bring the miners out on strike to save his life.

South and Rise
Apart from the MoD and DOS sites on the south side of the A3, Gala Cosmetics had a large production facility as did Andre Rubber ( who specialised in bonding rubber to metal and made components for cars, docks, armoured fighting vehicles, hospitals, warships and diving helmets )-now the site of the Hook Rise South Industrial Park.
The islands sit on the Chatham Rise, a large, relatively shallowly submerged ( no more than deep at any point ) part of the Zealandia continent that stretches east from near the South Island.
Suburbs of Chippenham include Cepen Park ( North & South ), Pew Hill, Monkton Park, Pewsham, Frogwell, Hardenhuish, Rowden Hill, Derriads, Lowden, The Folly, Redlands, Queen's Crescent, Lackham, Fenway Park, and Hill Rise ; these loosely correspond to local government wards.
This is evidenced in the popular Folk music fake book Rise Up Singing, which includes such shanties as " Blow the Man Down ," " What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor ," and " Bound for South Australia.
The Rise Of The South African Reich.
* The Rise of the South African Reich – Chapter 6, Brian Bunting, 1969
* Reed, Merl E. Educating the Urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University, 1913 – 1969 ( Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xiv, 321 pp. ) ISBN 978-0-88146-148-0
* Charles Bloomberg and Saul Dubow, eds., Christian – Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa, 1918 – 48 ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989 ).
* 836-Eden Rise SC via Beaconsfield-Bridgewater ( Berwick South )
Using the pseudonym of Stephan Langton, Pearson was the editor of The New Patriot, a short-lived magazine published in 1966 – 67 to conduct " a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question ," which included articles such as " Zionists and the Plot Against South Africa ," " Early Jews and the Rise of Jewish Money Power ," and " Swindlers of the Crematoria .".
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Geologically and tectonically, the Chatham Rise can be thought of as an extension of the eastern South Island.
Near Easter Island, the East Pacific Rise meets the Chile Rise at the Easter Island and Juan Fernandez microplates, trending off to the east where it subducts under the South American Plate at the Peru-Chile Trench along the coast of southern Chile.
* Klein, Rachel N. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808.
The Galapagos Rise is a divergent boundary located between the South American coast and the triple junction of the Nazca Plate, the Cocos Plate, and the Pacific Plate.
He paid US $ 1 million in cash for a house in South Granville Rise Vancouver.
* Alexandra, Berrylands, Beverley, Chessington North & Hook, Chessington South, Grove, Old Malden, St James, St Mark ’ s, Surbiton Hill, and Tolworth & Hook Rise.
The Rise of African Nationalism in South Africa.
* Chorocaris paulexa – South Pacific Ocean, southern East Pacific Rise, Rapa Nui Homer hydrothermal vent site, ; occurs in large numbers on black smokers.
* High Rise Unit ( HRxxx )-1 only, in South Command
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 ( London 1779 )

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