Nellie Bly Amusement Park Tilt A Whirl Ride In Coney Island Brooklyn New York
Nellie Bly Amusement Park Tilt A Whirl Ride In Coney Island Brooklyn New York
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Nellie Bly
1.056 acres
This Parks property honors Nellie Bly (1867-1922), the pioneering female reporter who went undercover to investigate injustice, corruption, and crime. In 1889, she achieved international fame by circumnavigating the earth in 72 days.
Born Elizabeth Cochrane near Ford City, Pennsylvania, the young woman ventured into journalism in 1885 at Dispatch, a Pittsburgh newspaper. By the late 1880s, she secured a position writing for New York World. There, under the by-line Nellie Bly, she innovated the practice of investigative reporting. Throwing herself into the matters she investigated, this new approach to journalism brought her on an early diving expedition, a hot air balloon journey, an undercover mission in a mental asylum, and a whirlwind trip around the world.
In 1888, Nellie Bly got herself committed to the mental hospital on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), to investigate and report on the conditions at the facility. The next year, she made a frantic trip around the world, with the aim of beating the record set by Jules Vernes fictional character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. Blys steamboat trip churned out worldwide publicity, and made her an American heroine. In 1890, she wrote a book chronicling her 72 day, 6 hour, and 11 minute journey, Around the World in Seventy-two Days.
Nellie Bly had no time for romance until 1895, when she fell in love with and married an attractive millionaire, Robert Seaman. Bly put her career on hold for the handsome industrialist and did not return to journalism until her husband died in 1915. Nellie Bly remained on the staff of the New York Journal until her death in 1922.
Located on the south side of Shore Parkway between 25th Avenue and Bay 41st Street Nellie Bly came under Parks jurisdiction on April 9, 1956. This property was created concurrently with the adjacent, now defunct, Southwest Brooklyn Sanitation Center. The construction required the modification of the lines and grades of the street system in the territory bounded by Bay 38th Streets, Bay 43rd Streets, Shore Parkway, and U.S. Bulkhead Line in Gravesend Bay.
Opened in 1966, Nellie Bly is a family run amusement park. The concessionaire named the fun park for Nellie Bly because of her reputation as an adventurer. The park features more than a dozen kiddie rides, including a miniature roller coaster, ferris wheel, carousel, and train. Although most of its amusements appeal to younger children, Nellie Bly also sports an 18-hole miniature golf course, batting cages, and go-carts.
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History: Nellie Bly 1.056 acres This Parks property honors Nellie Bly (1867-1922), the pioneering female reporter who went undercover to investigate injustice, corruption, and crime. In 1889, she achieved international fame by circumnavigating the earth in 72 days. Born Elizabeth Cochrane near Ford City, Pennsylvania, the young woman ventured into journalism in 1885 at Dispatch, a Pittsburgh newspaper. By the late 1880s, she secured a position writing for New York World. There, under the by-line Nellie Bly, she innovated the practice of investigative reporting. Throwing herself into the matters she investigated, this new approach to journalism brought her on an early diving expedition, a hot air balloon journey, an undercover mission in a mental asylum, and a whirlwind trip around the world. In 1888, Nellie Bly got herself committed to the mental hospital on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), to investigate and report on the conditions at the facility. The next year, she made a frantic trip around the world, with the aim of beating the record set by Jules Vernes fictional character Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days. Blys steamboat trip churned out worldwide publicity, and made her an American heroine. In 1890, she wrote a book chronicling her 72 day, 6 hour, and 11 minute journey, Around the World in Seventy-two Days. Nellie Bly had no time for romance until 1895, when she fell in love with and married an attractive millionaire, Robert Seaman. Bly put her career on hold for the handsome industrialist and did not return to journalism until her husband died in 1915. Nellie Bly remained on the staff of the New York Journal until her death in 1922. Located on the south side of Shore Parkway between 25th Avenue and Bay 41st Street Nellie Bly came under Parks jurisdiction on April 9, 1956. This property was created concurrently with the adjacent, now defunct, Southwest Brooklyn Sanitation Center. The construction required the modification of the lines and grades of the street system in the territory bounded by Bay 38th Streets, Bay 43rd Streets, Shore Parkway, and U.S. Bulkhead Line in Gravesend Bay. Opened in 1966, Nellie Bly is a family run amusement park. The concessionaire named the fun park for Nellie Bly because of her reputation as an adventurer. The park features more than a dozen kiddie rides, including a miniature roller coaster, ferris wheel, carousel, and train. Although most of its amusements appeal to younger children, Nellie Bly also sports an 18-hole miniature golf course, batting cages, and go-carts. Thanks for watching and please subscribe!
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About the book: A wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement as told, at the time of its making, by the visionaries who forged it. This anthology collects over forty essays, manifestos, letters, and speeches each introduced and placed in historical context by noted writer and arts commentator Todd London, who spent nearly a decade assembling this collection. The founding visions of theatres from across the country are represented here, including: Arena Stage (Washington, DC), El Teatro Campesino (California), Barter Theatre (Virginia), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Roadside Theater (Kentucky), Second City (Illinois), Theatre 47 (Dallas), Bread and Puppet (Vermont), The Actor's Workshop (California), Public Theater (New York), Minnesota Theatre Company, The Group Theatre (New York), and dozens more. This celebration of the artists who came before is an exhilarating look both backward, and toward the future.
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The unseen face of meth use
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In the 1990s and early 2000s, meth became the most widely used illicit drug among urban gay men. Early characterizations of the meth problem in the gay community depicted the party boy or the middle-class white man as the prototype of the meth user, says Dr. Perry Halkitis, professor of applied psychology, global public health, and medicine at New York University.
Public health campaigns in the early 2000s targeted white gay meth users as a way of combating the AIDS epidemic. This, Halkitis believes, created a stigma among middle- and upper-class white gay men and pushed the drug underground in the gay community. And while Halkitis says meth use is still common among all subsets of the gay population, a recent study of his found meth now disproportionately affects HIV-positive and African-American gay men.
To make this short, filmmaker Spencer Macnaughton spent weeks of chatting online with many men and attending a Crystal Meth Anonymous meeting at New York's LGBT Community Center, where 38 gay male ex-meth users shared their recovery stories. For more on how this was made, see the article on Vox.com:
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Coming to America: 2017 National Book Festival
Peter Ho Davies presents The Fortunes and Lisa Ko presents The Leavers in a panel discussion at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Peter Ho Davies is the award-winning author of two novels as well as two short story collections. Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, he now makes his home in the United States. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is a winner of the PEN/Malamud Award. He has taught at the University of Oregon and Emory University and is currently on the creative writing faculty at the University of Michigan. His short story collection The Ugliest House in the World won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and his collection Equal Love was a New York Times Notable Book. His novel The Welsh Girl was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel, The Fortunes, which follows the lives of four Chinese Americans across generations, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Chautauqua Prize.
Speaker Biography: Lisa Ko is a novelist and short fiction writer from New York City. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nickel and the Asian Pacific American Journal. She submitted a manuscript of what would become her debut novel to the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, expecting another rejection to add to her self-imposed rejection quota, and instead won the prize and a publishing contract. The winning novel, The Leavers, tells the story of Polly, an undocumented immigrant from China who vanishes, and her 11-year-old son, who is adopted by a white American couple—from both of their perspectives.
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Jillian Lauren discusses her family's journey through the adoption of her son and her unique perspective as both an adoptive mother and adopted child. Though adoption has come a long way through the years, there is still a long way to go with many children still in need of a home. Join her on her reflections on family, identity, and most importantly, love.
Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel, Pretty. Some Girls has been translated into 17 different languages and is currently being adapted into a Lifetime movie. Her next memoir, Everything You Ever Wanted, is coming out from Plume/Penguin in 2015. Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Salon, and The Moth Anthology, among others. She is a regular storyteller with The Moth. Jillian blogs about motherhood and writing at whatever else she feels like at her award-winning blog: jillianlauren.com/blog.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne | Part 1 of 2 | Audiobook with subtitles
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3)
Jules VERNE , translated by F. P. WALTER
Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged text from the original French and offered up into the public domain. It is considered to be the very first science fiction novel ever written, the first novel about the undersea world, and is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax - Summary by Michele Fry
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction
Chapters:
1:15 | Introduction
12:20 | 1-1. A Runaway Reef
29:22 | 1-2. The Pros and Cons
43:22 | 1-3. As Master Wishes
55:22 | 1-4. Ned Land
1:12:15 |1-5. At Random!
1:27:56 | 1-6. At Full Steam
1:48:13 |1-7. A Whale of Unknown Species
2:05:17 | 1-8. Mobilis in Mobili
2:24:49 | 1-9. The Tantrums of Ned Land
2:41:04 | 1-10. The Man Of The Waters
3:02:02 | 1-11. The Nautilus
3:21:39 |1-12. Everything through Electricity
3:38:19 | 1-13. Some Figures
3:55:10 |1-14. The Black Current
4:22:52 | 1-15. An Invitation in Writing
4:41:57 | 1-16. Strolling the Plains
4:57:14 | 1-17. An Underwater Forest
5:14:02 | 1-18. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
5:34:33 | 1-19. Vanikoro
5:59:28 | 1-20. The Torres Strait
6:19:46 | 1-21. Some Days Ashore
6:44:41 | 1-22. The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
7:09:26 |1-23. Aegri Somnia
7:29:58 | 1-24. The Coral Realm
7:49:50 | 2-1. The Indian Ocean
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Skoll World Forum 2018 Opening Plenary | Jimmy Carter, Bryan Stevenson, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
In a world transformed by immediate digital connectivity, physical nearness—proximity—has never been more critical to crafting solutions and creating lasting social change. As we gather as a community, we’ll explore the tremendous power of proximity in our work. Through this lens, we’ll consider lessons from the past that may illuminate a course to a more peaceful, prosperous, and just future. LADAMA, a musical ensemble of women from the Americas who use their art to address gender inequality and celebrate humanity, joins us for a Pan-American performance.
MASTERS OF CEREMONIES
Stephan Chambers, Director, Marshall Institute, London School of EconomicsJess Search, Chief Executive, Doc Society
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GLOBAL TREASURE AWARD
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LADAMA
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MOMENTS IN HISTORY YEAR 1 FULL MOVIE DAM STUDIO MOVIE NIGHT
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PCSBI Meeting Two: Sept. 13-14, 2010 in Philadelphia, Penn., Session 6: Current Practices and
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List of company name etymologies | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:09 0–9
00:02:10 A
00:13:44 B
00:20:49 C
00:28:55 D
00:34:47 E
00:39:31 F
00:42:59 G
00:46:20 H
00:50:54 I
00:54:04 J
00:55:36 K
01:00:01 L
01:06:41 M
01:16:46 N
01:19:41 O
01:21:34 P
01:27:29 Q
01:28:56 R
01:32:46 S
01:44:25 T
01:52:36 U
01:54:18 V
01:57:03 W
01:59:56 X
02:01:17 Y
02:03:10 Z
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This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some of the origins are disputed.
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