Axis Landmark Theatres Trailer
Axis Film opens exclusively in NYC at our newest location THE LANDMARK AT 57 WEST on Friday September 29. Watch the Landmark Theatres trailer now!
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USA Landscapes Time-lapse Photography: Volume 2
Landscapes: Volume 2 is the second of a three part series. Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In Volume 2 is the beautiful state of Arizona and also Utah.
The amazing graphic work at the beginning and end was done by Chris Pettit of Digital Skye Media Development.
Music is Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor) by John Murphy.
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New York City Part 2
United States of America/New York City:
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world.New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters,New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part.
Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs — The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island — were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.[28] The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, estimated at 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.2 million people as of 2009 Census estimates.
New York traces its roots to its 1624 founding as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic, and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surrounds came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a globally recognized symbol of the United States and its democracy.
Many districts and landmarks in New York City have become well known to its approximately 50 million annual visitors. Times Square, iconified as The Crossroads of the World, is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theater district, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. The city hosts many world renowned bridges, skyscrapers, and parks. New York City's financial district, anchored by Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, functions as the financial capital of the world and is home to the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization of its listed companies. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. Manhattan's Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive rapid transit systems in the world. Numerous colleges and universities are located in New York, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which are ranked among the top 50 in the world.
How New York Got Its Skyline
Why do so many of New York's older skyscrapers have a similar design?
The answer can be traced back to a monumental 1916 zoning law, which established “setback” requirements for buildings above a certain height. In the heart of the Financial District, the Equitable Building, a historic skyscraper that predates the law, remains a symbol of the excesses of the pre-zoning era.
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TIM MILLER in LAY OF THE LAND
LAY OF THE LAND is Tim Miller's saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10 year old gay boy's throat, LAY OF THE LAND friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu!
Miller's LAY OF THE LAND enters territory as exhilarating as it is meaningful. Miller lays out his unapologetically renegade viewpoint with exemplary economy and sardonic humor. Marriage equality is the thematic undercurrent against which reminiscences of various activist and performance landmarks coalesce into something larger than the sum of their considerable parts. The final apotheosis stands high in Miller's canon, which, together with the overarching relevance, makes Lay of the Land a vivid, must-see achievement.
-David Nichols, The Los Angeles Times
As the newest of Miller's internationally acclaimed solo performances, LAY OF THE LAND takes on a fierce and funny examination of citizenship and who eats and who gets eaten. Framed by a No on Prop 8 protest in downtown L.A., Miller makes pit stops as Abraham and his gay son Isaac are spread out on a L.A. 70's suburban Formica kitchen, the L.A. Courthouse explodes in pink jury summons that call queer identity to judgment, and a vision of a Heimlich Manuever that helps us get out of this mess! LAY OF THE LAND is a lay in all kinds of ways: a sex-assignation, a queer citizenship map, and of course a narrative ballad with a recurrent refrain! (Miller's favorite way-down-the-list definition for lay!)
TIM MILLER is an internationally acclaimed solo performer. Hailed for its humor and passion, Miller's performance works have delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the London Institute of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS, an anthology of his performances and essays which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU and the Claremont School of Theology. He is a
co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. For more information check his website
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The City That Never Sleeps, this is how people commonly remember the city of New York. This city is the most heavily populated city of the United States of America. The city alone is normally known as New York City and it is named like this so that people can differentiate it from the State of New York inside which New York City is located.
Location wise it is located on the North East side of United States of America. According to 2007 estimates and statistics the population is over 8 million New Yorkers. The total covered area of the city is round about 470 square miles.
There are lot of land marks, monuments and many other places to visit. Out of these landmarks some of the commonly known is The Statue of Liberty which has now become a symbol of the city. Also Wall Street is very famous as it is home for the New York Stock Exchange, The Empire State Building, and the destructed TwinTowers of the WorldTradeCenter. New York City receives almost 47 million tourists who belong from United States f America and also all parts of the world.
Climate wise New York City is relatively humid as the city and receives about 250 days of sunshine throughout the year. Summers are very hot and have a lot of humidity, with temperatures ranging from 25-30 degrees. Winters are very cold and rainy as during the winter's peak time the temperature can range from 0 to -12 degrees.
New York City commonly has buildings huge in sizes vertically covering less ground and utilizing the height of buildings having more stories. Such buildings are commonly known as skyscrapers. It has around 5000 high rise buildings.
New York has a number of parks and beaches. Around 30,000 acres of land inside New York has been devoted for the parks.
Alongside these parks, there are hundreds of other places where people can spend their time. Theatres and cinema halls are in abundance in the city. This can be seen from the fact that New York City has now gained the status of being the second largest center for the showbiz field in all of United States of America.
Economically it is considered as the base for developing the total Economy of United States of America and is recognized as one of the biggest financial hubs of United States.
Now, when coming to sports, baseball is one of the major sports in New York City as well as United States of America. The city's two major teams in the field of baseball are New York Yankees and New York Mets.
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High NY & Steve DeAngelo // Higher Learning
High NY interviews visionary Cannabis leader Steve DeAngelo about entrepreneurship and his new book The Cannabis Manifesto
Steve DeAngelo has inspired millions throughout his four-decade career as an activist, advocate, entrepreneur and educator. Driven by his compassion for others, Steve has founded many successful ventures and supported a number of prominent campaigns in the cannabis space. He is best known for running Harborside Health Center, the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the world, which he opened in 2006. He’s also co-founder and president of the ArcView Group, a company that connects investors to entrepreneurs in the cannabis community.
From Steve's website SteveDeAngelo.com
Steve was born at precisely 4:20 p.m., which, as most visitors to this site already know, is the cannabis community’s most popular code word for consuming its favorite plant.
“In some unexplainable way, my mother knew, deep within the fiber of her physical being, that speaking the truth about cannabis would become my life’s mission,” he says.
Steve’s activist education started early. He was raised by two civil rights advocates in Washington, D.C., and India, where his father worked for the Peace Corps in the late 1960s. After the start of the Vietnam War, Steve became struck by images of bombs destroying villages much like the ones he’d seen in India. By the time he was in seventh grade, he’d organized a massive anti-war demonstration in his school’s gymnasium. He began skipping class to attend more protests, and he dropped out of school entirely at age 16 to join the Yippie movement. It was with the Yippies that Steve became the key organizer of the famous July 4 smoke-ins in front of the White House.
After several years as a street activist and working in the music industry, Steve completed his interrupted education in 1986, graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Maryland with a BA in American Studies. After graduation he opened D.C.’s legendary Nuthouse, a communal living collective that served as a refuge for cannabis activists and notables including William Kunstler, Wavy Gravy and Jack Herer. From the Nuthouse´s living room, he helped Jack edit and publish the manuscript for “The Emperor Has No Clothes,” which chronicled the link between industrial hemp and marijuana and the conspiracy to make both illegal. Inspired by the book, Steve co-organized the first ever Hemp Museum and Hemp Tour, which brought the news about hemp to hundreds of universities nationwide.
The tour led Steve to found Ecolution, a pioneering company that manufactured hemp clothing and accessories and exported them to retail stores in all 50 states and 21 foreign countries. Meanwhile, he continued to pour his heart into activism work beyond the cannabis space, organizing the Tiananmen Square vigil outside the Chinese embassy and the famous “Beat Around The Bush” anti-Gulf War demonstration in D.C. In 1998, two years after California passed its landmark medical cannabis initiative, Steve played a key leadership role in the passage of a similar law, Initiative 59, in D.C. After Congress blocked its implementation, Steve decided to move to California.
During his first few years in California, Steve immersed himself in the local cannabis world. He was one of the original founding members of advocacy group Americans for Safe Access, produced a documentary film about the industry, built several legal cannabis gardens and developed a new form of marijuana concentrate. All the while, he laid plans for a new type of medical cannabis dispensary — one truly dedicated to serving its patients above all else.
Steve got the chance to put his plans in action October of 2006, when Harborside Health Center’s doors opened with the city of Oakland’s blessing. Harborside quickly gained recognition for its free holistic care clinic, laboratory tested medicine, low-income care package program and wide array of patient services. This innovative approach generated widespread acceptance and acclaim by the community, city council, and local law enforcement in Northern California and beyond.
In 2009, after every commercial laboratory in the Bay Area refused to test Harborside’s medicine due to fear of federal intervention, Steve launched Steep Hill Labs, California’s premier medical cannabis analysis laboratory. A few years later, as individuals increasingly sought his advice about entering the burgeoning industry, he co-founded the ArcView Group, which connects investors to cannabis entrepreneurs seeking startup funds.
Washington Square Park - New York City, New York
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Washington Square Park lies over 9.75 acres in New York City's Greenwich Village at W 4th and MacDougal Streets. It is a great meeting place and center of cultural activity. The park was originally made famous by Henry James's novel Washington Square (1880).c
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New York University students using the park as a de facto campus area, while chess players come out regularly to play their game on any one of the park's 19 concrete tables. Street performers are common, as are poetry readings.c
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Washington Square Park used to be a marsh located near the Native American village of Sapokanikan, or Tobacco Field. The Common Council received the land in 1797 with the intent to use it as a burial ground and a field to be used for public executions. This led to the tale of the Hangman's Elm, located in the northwest corner of the park.
In 1826, the park was used as the Washington Military Parade Ground, not becoming a public park until the following year. At the time, wealthy families moved into the area around the park, building the Greek Revival mansions that line the north side of Washington Square to this day.
Fifth Avenue ran through the park until
1964 when the entire site was redesigned and closed to traffic. A $900,000 renovation in 1995 installed bocce courts, game tables and playgrounds.c
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The Washington Square Arch was based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. It was built out of wood in 1889 to commemorate the centennial of President George Washington's inauguration. It was rebuilt in marble between 1890 and 1892. Both versions were designed by architect Stanford White.
President Washington has two other tributes on the arch itself, both statues installed on the north face of the arch in 1918: Washington as Commander-in-Chief, Accompanied by Fame and Valor by Hermon MacNeil and Washington as President, Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice by Alexander Stirling Calder.
The arch is also a well-known landmark that has been used as a location in notable films like
When Harry Met Sally (1989), as well as television shows like Friends.
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Every Memorial and Labor Day weekend, Washington Square Park hosts a large art fair. The tradition was started in 1931 when acclaimed painter Jackson Pollock, in dire need of money to pay rent in his Greenwich Village studio, took several of his paintings and set them up for sale on a sidewalk near the park. He was soon joined by fellow artists and praised by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of Art, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art. That one act on Pollock's part has blossomed into the current Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, attracting artists from around the world twice a year.
Art exhibitors are chosen by a jury of fellow artists and cash prizes are awarded in various categories to exhibit winners.
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Other special events include a Halloween Parade every October through the park. Known as New York's Village Halloween Parade, it was begun in 1973 by Ralph Lee, a mask maker and puppeteer from Greenwich Village. What began as a walk from house to house in his small neighborhood has grown exponentially to become one of the largest parades in the nation if not the world. Nearly 40 years after its inception, the parade draws over 60,000 participants dressed in costume and nearly 2 million spectators every year.
The parade has won an Obie Award and recognition by the Municipal Arts Society and Citylore for their contribution to the life and culture of New York City.
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There are two areas for dogs designated in the park, one for smaller breeds and one for larger. Extra lighting and the absence of any toxic plants make Washington Square Park a perfect place to walk your dog.
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We’ve crammed a 20 day holiday into a 4 min video - there was so much more but this is a quick highlight of a great summer.
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Starting off with a quick stop at Rochester for Pranat Dayal‘s graduation to D.C and onwards to the mid west where we spent almost a week in Denver.
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25 Best Places to Visit in the USA | Part 2
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25 Best Places to Visit in the USA.
With the Statue of Liberty as a national icon, the United States is widely known as the Land of Liberty. For the past few centuries, people from all over the world have come to the US, drawn by the nation’s prosperity and democracy, seeking a better way of life. As a result, this vast nation is also a land of diversity from its landscapes to its culture, cuisine, politics and religion. An overview of the best places to visit in the USA.
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Places - U.S. - Seven Natural Wonders of the United States
I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.
We received a special request in a letter from a listener in Nagano, Japan. Atsumi Shimoda asked for a report about what the Special English writers thought were the seven natural wonders of the United States.So now we will visit these natural wonders. Some are huge. Some are powerful. And some are even a little frightening! But, we will keep a safe distance. The first stop is a natural wonder that the United States shares with Canada.That thundering crash is the tens of thousands of cubic feet of water that flow each second over Niagara Falls which includes the American Falls and Horseshoe Falls. The American Falls in New York State extends more than 320 meters across part of the Niagara River. The American Falls is more than 50 meters high.
Now we travel southeast to the state of Florida. We will visit the area once called the liquid heart of that state -- the Everglades.Hundreds of birds fly in a sunny blue sky. The only sounds are bird calls and the soft noise made by tall grasses as the water slowly moves them. Hidden in the grasses, dark green alligators move at the edge of the water, like part of the Earth come alive.
This is the Everglades -- a low, watery, partly coastal area that covers 10,000 square kilometers. The area is filled with sawgrass. This plant grows in sharp, thin pieces that are three to ten meters tall. The Everglades is sometimes called river of grass.
But as we travel west, the cropland gives way to wild grasses. A strong dry wind blows continuously from the west.
Suddenly, the land becomes torn and rocky, dry and dusty -- no longer green and gold. It is now a light red-brown color. All around are broken disordered forms. There are hills and valleys of all sizes and strange shapes.
These are the Badlands. Hundreds of thousands of years ago the area was grassland. But, then, forces of nature destroyed the grass. Water and ice cut into the surface of the Earth. They beat at the rocks, wearing them away. The result is one of the world's strangest sights.
All together, the Badlands cover more than 15,000 square kilometers. About ten percent is national parkland. The area is a study in extremes. Temperatures in the summer have been as high as 46 degrees Celsius. In the winter they have dropped to as low as 41 degrees below zero. Life in the Badlands is difficult.
. We want to see the huge hole in the Earth, called the Grand Canyon in the state of Arizona. The first sight is breathtaking. The Grand Canyon stretches for hundreds of kilometers before us and hundreds of meters below us. It is about 24 kilometers across at its widest point. Its deepest point is almost 2,000 meters down.
The Grand Canyon is a series of deep long cuts in rock.
Now, we are at the hottest, driest and lowest place in North America. Death Valley is part of the Mojave Desert. It lies mostly in the western state of California although part of it reaches into Nevada.
An area called Badwater sits about 86 meters below sea level. There is not really any water there. The area gets fewer than five centimeters of rain a year.
During the summer the temperature in Death Valley can reach 57 degrees Celsius. But, it can be dangerously cold in the winter there, too. And storms in the mountains can produce sudden flooding on the valley floor.
In other words, Death Valley is an unforgiving place.
We could probably just call all of Alaska a natural wonder. But of special interest are its glaciers. These huge, slow-moving masses of ice cover about 75,000 square kilometers.
About 100,000 of these rivers of ice flow down mountains. Some start from thousands of meters up a mountain. They can flow to areas just a few hundred meters above sea level. The largest Alaskan glacier is called Malaspina. It is more than 2,200 square kilometers.
Welcome to Mount Kilauea, the world's most active volcano. It is on the island of Hawaii. Kilauea is not far from Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world.
Kilauea has been releasing burning hot liquid rock called lava continuously since 1983. The lava flows down the mountain to the Pacific Ocean. Its fierce heat produces a big cloud of steam when it hits the cold water. Kilauean lava continues to add land to the island.
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ioux Falls (/ˌsuː ˈfɔːlz/) (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Okábleča Otȟúŋwahe;[7] Stone Shatter City) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 145th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County[8] and also extends into Lincoln County to the south. It is the 47th-fastest-growing city in the United States[9] and the fastest-growing metro area in South Dakota, with a population increase of 22% between 2000 and 2010.[10]
As of 2018, Sioux Falls had an estimated population of 183,200.[11] The metropolitan population of 251,854 accounts for 29% of South Dakota's population. It is also the primary city of the Sioux Falls-Sioux City Designated Market Area (DMA), a larger media market region that covers parts of four states and has a population of 1,043,450.[12] Chartered in 1856 on the banks of the Big Sioux River, the city is situated in the rolling hills at the junction of Interstate 90 and Interstate 29.Landmarks
Replica of Michelangelo's David in Fawick Park.
The Washington Pavilion contains the Kirby Science Discovery Center, as well as two performing arts centers that host several Broadway productions and operas. The South Dakota Symphony's home hosts dance groups as well as smaller theater and choral events. The Visual Arts Center, also part of the Pavilion complex, hosts six galleries of changing exhibits, all free of charge. The Wells Fargo Cinedome is a multiformat 60 ft (18 m) dome theater that plays several films each month.
The Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum provides the area with natural history and animal exhibits in its 50-acre (200,000 m2) park, and has dioramas depicting wildlife.[96]
The USS South Dakota Battleship Memorial to the World War II battleship USS South Dakota is on State Highway 42 (West 12th Street) and Kiwanis Avenue.
The 114th Fighter Wing, located at Joe Foss Field. The 114th houses F-16C/D fighter aircraft. This SD ANG unit is well known for its support of community activities and services.
A replica of Michelangelo's David is near the downtown area at Fawick Park.
Transportation
Roads
Most residents of Sioux Falls travel and commute by car. Interstate 90 passes east to west across the northern edge of the city, while Interstate 29 bisects the western portion of the city from the north and south. Interstate 229 forms a partial loop around Sioux Falls, and connects with Interstate 90 to the northeast and Interstate 29 to the southwest. A grid design system for city streets is the standard for the central (older) area of the city, while secondary streets in newer residential areas have largely abandoned this plan.
Due to current and expected regional growth, several large construction projects have been or will be undertaken. New interchanges have recently been added to Interstate 29. An interchange was also completed on I-90 at Marion Road. I-29 has recently been improved from I-90 to 57th Street. This upgrade includes additional lanes and auxiliary lanes. Over the next decade, the city of Sioux Falls and the South Dakota Department of Transportation plan to construct a limited-access highway around the outer edges of the city to the south and east known as South Dakota Highway 100.[97] This highway will start at the northern Tea exit (Exit 73 on I-29, 101st Street) and will travel east on 101st Street, and curve northeast east of Western Avenue, then turn northerly near Sycamore Avenue. The highway will end at the Timberline Avenue exit (Exit 402 on I-90).ompanies. The largest employers among these[29] are Wells Fargo and Citigroup. Other important financial service companies located in Sioux Falls include Great Western Bank, Western Surety Company (CNA Surety), Total Card Inc., Capital Card Services, Midland National Life Insurance Company, MetaBank, and First Premier Bank.
Sioux Falls is a significant regional health care center. There are four major hospitals in Sioux Falls: Sanford Health (formerly Sioux Valley), Avera McKennan Hospital, the South Dakota Veterans Affairs Hospital, and the Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota. Sanford Health and Avera Health are the largest and second largest employers in the city, respectively. Emergency medical services (EMS) are provided by Paramedics Plus and Sioux Falls Fire Rescue.
Companies based in Sioux Falls include Raven Industries, retailers Lewis Drug and Sunshine Foods, as well as communications companies SONIFI Solutions and Midcontinent Communications.
Because of the relatively long distances between Sioux Falls and larger cities, Sioux Falls has emerged as an important regional center of shopping and dining. The Empire Mall, with over 180
Sentinel Peak in Tucson, Arizona
Travel with me to Sentinel Peak in Tucson, Arizona where I explore this iconic landmark's history and influence upon the city. The peak is popularly known as A Mountain because of the giant A on its side for the University of Arizona.
Additional Note: Solomon Warner erected a flourmill on the slope of Sentinel Peak between 1874-75. This mill led some people to refer to Sentinel Peak as Warner's Mill during that time.
Check out the website for the new Sentinel Peak Brewing Company at
All historic images used in this video fall within the public domain. Google Earth was used for mapping scenes. Photos are credited in the order they appear in the video:
*Santa Cruz River from Sentinel Peak. Nineteenth Century. Unknown source.
*Father Eusebio Francisco Kino with O'odham guide. Diorama exhibit at Tumacacori National Historic Park. Tumacacori, Arizona.
*Murillo, Raimundo. Soldado de cuera. 26 August 1804. General Archive of the Indies. Seville, Spain.
*Flag of the First Mexican Empire, 1821-1823.
*Nebel, Carl. Fall of Mexico City during the Mexican-American War. 1851.
*Map of Mexican Cession, 1848. Created by Wikipedia user Kballen. 6 April 2008. (released for use)
*John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886). 1850s. Record ID #569978. New York Public Library. New York City, New York.
*Bartlett, John Russell. Tucson, Sonora from the Southwest. 18 July 1852. John Russell Bartlett Collection, The John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island.
*Map of Gadsden Purchase, 1853. Created by Wikipedia user XcepticZp. 23 March 2008. (released for use)
*Flag of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865.
*Old Main. 1889. Special Collections. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona.
*'A' Mountain. 1916. Special Collections. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona.
*Sentinel Peak quarry. Early twentieth century. Unknown source.
*Sentinel Peak Brewing Company logo.
Shake Shack in NYC - Eating The Double Shack Burger!
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Shake Shack is one of the most famous NYC fast food burger chains, and I didn’t want to leave NYC without trying it. We then went to church and then on to eat Ethiopian food!
00:35 Stumptown Coffee Roasters - I’m a big fan of coffee, and since it wasn’t too far away from where we were staying, we started off the day by going to Stumptown Coffee Roasters. I ordered an Americano which was wonderful, and a cold brew to go. Americano - $3.25
Cold brew - $4.50
1:38 Flatiron Building / Madison Square Park - While drinking my coffee, we were just enjoying New York City walking around leisurely. We had a great view of the famous Flatiron building, and then we continued on walking around Madison Square Park.
2:41 Shake Shack at Madison Square Park - I wasn’t actually planning to eat at Shake Shack today, but since we happen to be at Madison Square Park and since it was just a little while before they opened for the day, I decided it would be the perfect opportunity to try Shake Shack for the first time. I ordered the double Shack burger, which came with all the toppings. I’ll let you watch the full video for a full review of the burger and Shake Shack, but what stood out to me was the beef and the bun, which were about as excellent as fast food can get for me. Full Shake Shack review within the video. Double Shack Burger - $8.09, Chicken Shack - $6.29, Fries - $2.99
12:02 Hillsong Church NYC - After eating Shake Shack, since it was Sunday, we walked over to Hillsong Church NYC to attend the service. It was huge!
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12:58 Meske Ethiopian Restaurant - After church we headed to Meske Ethiopian Restaurant, which is one of Sarah’s favorite Ethiopian restaurants in NYC. It was so good to hang out with Sarah and to eat Ethiopian food — it had been way too long! We ordered the special tibs, doro wat, and a variety of vegetarian dishes. Total price - about $90
17:19 Luke's Lobster - Finally for dinner, since it was our final day in NYC, I didn’t want to leave without trying lobster roll. I wasn’t able to go to the exact location I had wanted to go, but I there was a Luke’s Lobster not too far from where I was staying. Lobster roll - $18.51 - It tasted food, but it was pretty expensive.
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The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described uniquely as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which is a separate county of the State of New York. The five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York City is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world. In 2017, the New York metropolitan area produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of US$1.73 trillion. If greater New York City were a sovereign state, it would have the 12th highest GDP in the world.New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the country's largest city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty and peace. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance, and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity.Many districts and landmarks in New York City are well known, with the city having three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013 and receiving a record 62.8 million tourists in 2017. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world. Times Square, iconic as the world's heart and its Crossroads, is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. The names of many of the city's landmarks, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. New York is home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is the largest single-operator rapid transit system worldwide, with 472 rail stations. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which ha ...