The Star-Spangled Banner, St. Bartholomew's Church
#720 from The Hymnal 1982: the Third Sunday after Pentecost at St. Bartholomew's, an Episcopal church in New York City on July 3, 2011.
Words: Francis Scott Key, 19th century
Tune: 'National Anthem', source unknown, ca. 18th century
July 4th is Independence Day in the United States. It has become a tradition at St. Bartholomew's Church to sing the national anthem after the service.
Chapel of the Transfiguration Virtual Tour
An early morning virtual tour of the Chapel of the Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park.
Bent's Opera House Restoration, Medina, NY
Built in 1864, Bent's Opera House is the cornerstone structure of Medina's Downtown Historic District. It is one of the oldest surviving opera houses in the United States, having been built at the height of the Civil War and the Lincoln Presidency. Its Medina Sandstone construction shares a heritage with such other notable places as the H. H. Richardson Towers, St. Louis RC Church, and St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Buffalo NY, and countless other architectural masterpieces in Medina, Western New York, and around the world.
The building is owned by the Orleans Renaissance Group, Inc., a 501(c)(3) volunteer organization, dedicated to preservation and cultural events in and around the Medina, NY area. The Group's vision for the edifice is a full and complete restoration/renovation.
Tax deductible contributions to the restoration project, both large and small, may be made to: The Orleans Renaissance Group, Inc., PO Box 543, Medina, New York 14103.
Additional information about the Orleans Renaissance Group, Inc. and Bent's Opera House can be found at eggstreet.org, or on Facebook at Bent's Hall.
USA Trip | Backpacking | 2017
An impromptu budget trip across USA.
Itinerary:
Day 1:
Kolkata - JFK, New York
New Brunswick Station, New Jersey
Day 2:
New Jersey - New York
- Times Square
- Times Square Church
- Carnegie Hall
- Central Park
- Museum of Modern Art
- Radio City Music Hall
- Rockefeller Center
- St. Patrick’s Cathedral
- Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
- NY Public Library
- Bryant Park
- Grand Central Terminal
- Empire State
JFK, New York - Las Vegas
- Visit Fremont Street (The Golden Nugget [Largest Gold Nugget in the World at the Gold Tower hotel
lobby])
Day 3:
Grand Canyon South Rim & Hoover Dam Tour
Las Vegas - Visit Strip (Circus Circus, Palazzo, Fashion Show, Wynn, Treasure Island, Venetian Hotel, Mirage [Volcano Show], Madame Tussaud’s, Fat Tuesday, Harrah's, Caesar's Palace & Forum Shops, Bellagio [Fountains, Botanical Garden], Flamingo, Carnaval Court, High Roller Ferris Wheel, Paris Hotel [Eiffel Tower], Cosmopolitan Hotel [Chandelier Bar, Giant Red High Heel, Chrome Lucky Cat], Planet Hollywood, MGM Grand, New York [Miniature Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty], Excalibur Hotel, Luxor Hotel [Pyramid with Pharaohs], Mandalay Bay, Welcome to Las Vegas Sign)
Day 4:
Antelope Canyon & Horseshoe Bend Tour
Day 5:
Las Vegas - Los Angeles
- Bradbury Building
- Angels Flight
- Walt Disney Concert Hall and Music Center
- LA City Hall
- Union Station
- El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument
- Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels
- Grand Park
- Universal Studios
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Hollywood Sign at the Hollywood & Highland shopping and entertainment complex
- Grauman's Chinese Theater
- Rock Walk at the Hollywood Guitar Center
Los Angeles - San Jose
Day 6:
- Santa Clara University “Bronco” Statue
- Mission Santa Clara de Asis
- Santa Clara Depot
- Statue of St. Clare at Civic Center Park
- Universal Child Statue
- Shrine of Our Lady of Peace & Statue of St. John Paul II at Our Lady of Peace Church
- Winchester Mystery House
Day 7:
San Jose - San Francisco
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Chinatown
- Transamerica Pyramid
- Coit Tower
- Cable Car Museum
- Lombard Street known as ‘The crookedest street in the world’
- Ghirardelli Square
- Fisherman’s Wharf
- Seals at K-Dock Pier 39
- Alcatraz Landing & Alcatraz Island Tour
- The Palace of Fine Arts
- Golden Gate Bridge
- City View from Twin Peaks
- Eat Clam Chowder and Snow Crave Ice Cream
Day 8:
San Francisco - Seattle
- Northwest Railway Museum
- Snoqualmie Waterfalls
Day 9:
- Mount Rainier
- Puget Sound Waterfront
Day 10:
- Ride the Ducks
- Space Needle
- Museum of Pop Culture
- Seattle Center
- Pacific Science Center
- Pike Place Market
- Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
- City Underground Tour
- Art Museum
Seattle - Anchorage, Alaska
Day 11:
- Lake Hood Airstrip
- 26 Glaciers' Tour
Alaska - Chicago
Day 12:
- The Skydeck
- Willis Tower
- Grant Park [Buckingham Fountain]
- Art Institute
- Millennium Park [Crown Fountain & Cloud Gate]
- Chicago Cultural Center
- Navy Pier
- Museum of Contemporary Art
- History Museum
- Lincoln Park and Zoo
- Lincoln Monument
- Franklin Monument
- Oz Park
- General Ulysses S. Grant Statue
Chicago - Buffalo
Day 13:
Buffalo - Niagara Falls
- Maid of Mist Tour
- Cave of Winds Tour
Niagara Falls - Buffalo
Day 14:
Buffalo - Washington D.C.
- The White House
- Washington Monument
- World War II Memorial
- Declaration of Independence Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Einstein Memorial
- Arlington Cemetery [John F Kennedy Grave-site, The Women's Memorial]
- John Ericsson Memorial
- The Lincoln Memorial
- Korean War Memorial
- DC War Memorial
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- George Mason Memorial
- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Holocaust Memorial Museum
- American History Museum
- Natural History Museum
- Smithsonian Castle
- National Museum of African Art
- Arthur M. Sackler Galleries
- The Freer and Sackler Galleries
- Arts & Industries Building
- Hirshhorn Museum
- Sculpture Garden
- National Gallery of Art Sculpture
- National Gallery of Art
- United States Capitol
- Library of Congress
- Supreme Court
- Union Station
Washington D.C. - New York
Day 15:
- Staten Island Ferry
- Statue of Liberty
- Battery Park [Sea Glass Carousel, John Ericsson Memorial, Netherland Monument, The Korean War Memorial, Giovanni da Verrazzano]
- Bowling Green
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Charging Bull
- Trinity Church
- New York Stock Exchange
- Federal Hall
- Our Lady of Victory Church
- 9/11 Tribute Museum
- 9/11 Ground Zero
- Horace Greeley Memorial
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Manhattan Bridge
- Ferry Ride
- NY Public Library
- Bryant Park
- Times Square
- M&M Store
Day 16:
- Long Island Beach
- United Nations
JFK, New York - Kolkata
Papal Nuncio in Buffalo Avoids Protestors
Papal Nuncio and Archbishop Christophe Pierre is here for Catholic Charities USA's annual gathering.
Trinity Church in New York City
Trinity Church in New York City
Drive-thru religion
(Boston Globe) Members of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Beverly pass out ashes to go at the Beverly Depot train station for Ash Wednesday. By Darren Durlach / Globe staff
Trinity Church on the Green | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:19 1 History
00:07:45 1.1 First Wood Trinity Church 1752-1753
00:10:08 1.2 Second Stone Trinity Church 1814–1816
00:15:03 1.3 Description of the original Gothic building
00:19:46 1.4 Nineteenth-century changes
00:23:14 1.5 Twentieth-century changes
00:31:42 1.6 Twenty-first-century changes
00:32:56 2 Ministers
00:34:59 3 Notable members and artists
00:48:38 4 See also
00:48:48 5 Notes
00:48:57 6 Further reading
00:51:38 7 External links
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Trinity Church on the Green or Trinity on the Green is a historic, culturally and community-active parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut in New Haven, Connecticut of the Episcopal Church. It is one of three historic churches on the New Haven Green.
This landmark building was designed by Ithiel Town in 1813, built between 1814 and 1815, and consecrated in 1816. It was built in what contemporaries such as the Rev. Samuel Jarvis labeled as the Gothick style. It is the first example of a thoroughly Gothic style derived church building in North America, and predates the Gothic Revival architectural style in England by more than two decades.It is notable for its historic architecture. It largely retains its original early Gothic exterior, using the indigenous New Haven trap rock, in this form, a red/brown/orange stone that changes color with light and moisture for its external walls. Its mostly newer Gothicizing interior has burgundy walls and deep-sea green ceilings, oak pews with closing doors leading into the aisle, and gilt arches, groining, and organ pipes. It has eight stained glass windows on the north and south sides, including four Tiffany stained glass windows, and a rare nonafoil or nonagon shaped nine-petal Trinity Rose Window on the chancel end of the church (to the west), added when the chancel was added in 1884. The west end (liturgical east) wall of the chancel also contains two pentafoils alpha/omega windows, and five narrow windows with medallions giving the history of creation, along with icons of the four gospels and other religious symbols. Most unusual is the east side outfacing window Trinity's History and Vision, commissioned for the 250th anniversary of the first church and designed by glass artist Val Sigsted; it is back-lit at night and it shines out on the dark New Haven green for those passing by or waiting for the bus. The stone reredos in the chancel was dedicated in 1912, with statues carved by Lee Lawrie in both late Gothic Revival and very early Art Deco styles. There is also an historically sensitive architect-designed columbarium in the nave, completed in 2009, with a small altar used in healing services.
Trinity, along with its two neighboring churches on the Green, is part of the New Haven Green Historic District, that was designated a National Historic Landmark District on December 30, 1970.Calling itself a historic church in the heart of a city, Trinity is also known for its music. Its music program includes the Choir of Men and Boys, first formed in 1885, that has performed at the White House and toured England and the Continent, the more recently formed Choir of Men and Girls, and an adult parish choir, all accompanied by a large Aeolian-Skinner organ. Its Trinity Players dramatic group performs original sermon dramas during services, and plays at other events.
Trinity Parish also sponsors the Chapel on the Green, a highly-accessible outdoor church that offers services and also lunch for the homeless every Sunday afternoon of the year regardless of weather. Its drumming circle, heard for blocks each Sunday, is its call to worship. Nearly a quarter of the parish income is spent is spent on local community outreach programs.
A cultural center, Trinity on the Green is ...
The Masters Series: Michael Bierut in Conversation with Steven Heller
In conjunction with the 27th annual Masters Series award and exhibition, SVA will be live streaming 2015 Masters Series honoree Michael Bierut in conversation with MFA Design Co-chair Steven Heller beginning at 7:00pm EST on Wednesday, October 14. The conversation will take place at the SVA Theatre and is free and open to the public ( In addition, Bierut will be answering questions submitted via Twitter. To submit a question, use the hashtag #BierutSVA.
Michael Bierut is widely admired in the creative world and beyond for his intelligent contributions to the design field, his expertise as a cultural critic and his tireless role as a mentor and educator. He has been a partner in the acclaimed design firm Pentagram since 1990. Prior to joining Pentagram, he worked for 10 years at Vignelli Associates, ultimately as vice president of graphic design. His clients at Pentagram have included The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, the New York City Department of Transportation, MIT Media Lab, Yale School of Architecture, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Penguin Random House, the New York Jets, the Robin Hood Foundation and Nuts.com. For more info on Bierut, including his many awards, click here:
For a recent New York Times article on Bierut and his Master Series award and exhibition, read The Man Who Designed Manhattan (
National Faith Leaders on Uganda.mov
10. The Great Deception. The mark of the beast - Part 3
List of churches that are National Historic Landmarks in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:19 1 NHLs that are to be classified
00:00:33 2 NHLs that are A.M.E. or A.M.E. Zion churches
00:00:57 3 NHLs that are Baptist churches
00:01:29 4 NHLs that were Congregational churches
00:01:55 5 NHLs that are Congregational Christian Churches that did not join the United Church of Christ
00:02:12 6 NHLs that are Episcopal churches
00:03:18 7 NHLs that are French Protestant Reformed (Huguenot) churches
00:03:34 8 NHLs that are Greek Orthodox churches
00:03:48 9 NHLs that are Jewish synagogues
00:04:12 10 NHLs that are Latter Day Saint temples
00:04:26 11 NHLs that are Lutheran churches
00:04:40 12 NHLs that are Muslim mosques
00:04:59 13 NHLs that are Presbyterian churches
00:05:10 14 NHLs that were shared by various Protestant churches
00:05:30 15 NHLs that are Quaker meetinghouses
00:05:57 16 NHLs that are Roman Catholic churches
00:07:41 17 NHLs that are Russian Orthodox churches
00:08:03 18 NHLs that are Unitarian Universalist churches
00:08:24 19 NHLs that are United Church of Christ (U.C.C.) churches
00:08:43 20 NHLs that are United Methodist churches
00:08:59 21 NHL churches in New York State
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This is a very incomplete list of churches and other places of religious function that are U.S. National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in the United States.
A significant proportion of the 2,430 National Historic Landmarks sites in the U.S. are churches.
SAAM Symposia - Augustus Saint-Gaudens Centennial
This symposium will reexamined the influence and importance of one of America’s greatest sculptors, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907).
Madison, Wisconsin | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2017, Madison's estimated population of 255,214 made it the second-largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties. The Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area's 2010 population was 568,593.
Founded in 1829 on an isthmus between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota, Madison was named the capital of the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and became the capital of the state of Wisconsin when it was admitted to the Union in 1848. That same year, the University of Wisconsin was founded in Madison and the state government and university have become the city's two largest employers. The city is also known for its lakes, restaurants, and extensive network of parks and bike trails, with much of the park system designed by landscape architect John Nolen.
Since the 1960s, Madison has been a center of political liberalism. Though Wisconsin is regarded as a battleground or swing state in elections, Madison and Dane County have supported every Democratic Party presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy in 1960, with the party's most recent nominees, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, carrying Dane County with over 70 per cent of the vote in 2008, 2012, and 2016.
Franciscans | Wikipedia audio article
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The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi. These orders include the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis. These orders adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary, among many others.Francis began preaching around 1207 and traveled to Rome to seek approval from Pope Innocent III in 1209 to form a new religious order. The original Rule of Saint Francis approved by the Pope disallowed ownership of property, requiring members of the order to beg for food while preaching. The austerity was meant to emulate the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Franciscans traveled and preached in the streets, while boarding in church properties. Saint Clare, under Francis's guidance, founded the Poor Clares (Order of Saint Clare) in 1212, which remains a Second Order of the Franciscans. The extreme poverty required of members was relaxed in the final revision of the Rule in 1223. The degree of observance required of members remained a major source of conflict within the order, resulting in numerous secessions.The Order of Friars Minor, previously known as the Observant branch, is one of the three Franciscan First Orders within the Catholic Church, the others being the Conventuals (formed 1517) and Capuchins (1520). The Order of Friars Minor, in its current form, is the result of an amalgamation of several smaller orders completed in 1897 by Pope Leo XIII. The latter two, the Capuchin and Conventual, remain distinct religious institutes within the Catholic Church, observing the Rule of Saint Francis with different emphases. Conventual Franciscans are sometimes referred to as minorites or greyfriars because of their habit. In Poland and Lithuania they are known as Bernardines, after Bernardino of Siena, although the term elsewhere refers to Cistercians instead.
Albany, New York | Wikipedia audio article
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Albany ( (listen) ALL-bə-nee) is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County. Albany is located on the west bank of the Hudson River approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River and approximately 150 miles (240 km) north of New York City.
Albany is known for its rich history, commerce, culture, architecture, and institutions of higher education. Albany constitutes the economic and cultural core of the Capital District of New York State, which comprises the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area, including the nearby cities and suburbs of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. With a 2013 Census-estimated population of 1.1 million the Capital District is the third-most populous metropolitan region in the state. As of the 2010 census, the population of Albany was 97,856.
The area that later became Albany was settled by Dutch colonists who in 1614, built Fort Nassau for fur trading and, in 1624, built Fort Orange. In 1664, the English took over the Dutch settlements, renaming the city as Albany, in honor of the then Duke of Albany, the future James II of England and James VII of Scotland. The city was officially chartered in 1686 under English rule. It became the capital of New York in 1797 following formation of the United States. Albany is one of the oldest surviving settlements of the original British thirteen colonies, and is the longest continuously chartered city in the United States.During the late 18th century and throughout most of the 19th, Albany was a center of trade and transportation. The city lies toward the north end of the navigable Hudson River, was the original eastern terminus of the Erie Canal connecting to the Great Lakes, and was home to some of the earliest railroad systems in the world. In the 1920s, a powerful political machine controlled by the Democratic Party arose in Albany. In the latter part of the 20th century, Albany experienced a decline in its population due to urban sprawl and suburbanization; however, the New York State Legislature approved a $234 million building and renovation plan for the City in the 1990s that spurred renovation and building projects around the downtown area. In the early 21st century, Albany has experienced growth in the high-technology industry, with great strides in the nanotechnology sector.
Gerald Ford | Wikipedia audio article
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Before his accession to the presidency, he served as the 40th Vice President of the United States from December 1973 to August 1974. Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office.
Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and attended the University of Michigan and Yale Law School. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, serving from 1942 to 1946; he left as a lieutenant commander. Ford began his political career in 1949 as the U.S. Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district. He served in this capacity for 25 years, the final nine of them as the House Minority Leader. Following the resignation of Spiro Agnew, he was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment. After the resignation of Richard Nixon, Ford automatically assumed the presidency. His 895 day-long presidency is the shortest in U.S. history for any president who did not die in office.
As president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, which marked a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the collapse of South Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. In one of his most controversial acts, he granted a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Ford's presidency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President. In the Republican presidential primary campaign of 1976, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination. He narrowly lost the presidential election to the Democratic challenger, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
Following his years as president, Ford remained active in the Republican Party. His moderate views on various social issues increasingly put him at odds with conservative members of the party in the 1990s and early 2000s. After experiencing a series of health problems, he died at home on December 26, 2006. At the time of his death he was the longest-lived president in American history, a record he held until George H. W. Bush surpassed him on November 25, 2017.
Fort Wayne, Indiana | Wikipedia audio article
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
00:02:17 1 The History
00:02:26 1.1 Early history
00:02:34 1.1.1 Native Americans and New France
00:03:33 1.1.2 British control
00:04:11 1.1.3 US Invasion of Native American Land
00:05:07 1.1.4 Settlement permitted by Treaty of St. Mary's
00:06:23 1.2 Modern history
00:10:46 2 Geography
00:11:35 2.1 Topography
00:13:51 2.2 Cityscape
00:15:15 2.2.1 Architecture
00:18:10 2.3 Climate
00:20:25 3 Demographics
00:23:06 3.1 Religion
00:24:47 4 Economy
00:29:41 5 Culture
00:29:50 5.1 Performing arts
00:31:25 5.2 Attractions
00:33:25 5.3 Festivals and events
00:35:26 6 Sports
00:37:37 7 Parks and recreation
00:39:56 8 Government
00:43:09 8.1 Politics
00:43:17 9 Education
00:43:26 9.1 Primary and secondary education
00:44:46 9.2 Higher education
00:46:15 9.3 Libraries
00:46:59 10 Media
00:48:15 11 Infrastructure
00:48:24 11.1 Transportation
00:53:10 11.2 Healthcare
00:54:03 11.3 Utilities
00:55:01 12 Notable people
00:55:10 13 Sister cities
00:55:46 14 See also
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Fort Wayne is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Allen County, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west of the Ohio border and 50 miles (80 km) south of the Michigan border. With a population of 253,691 in the 2010 census, it is the second-most populous city in Indiana after Indianapolis, and the 75th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Fort Wayne metropolitan area, consisting of Allen, Wells, and Whitley counties, a combined population of 419,453 as of 2011. Fort Wayne is the cultural and economic center of northeastern Indiana. The city is within a 200-mile (320 km) radius of major population centers, including Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Milwaukee.
In addition to the three core counties, the combined statistical area (CSA) includes Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, and Steuben counties, with an estimated population of 615,077.Fort Wayne was built in 1794 by the United States Army under the direction of American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne, the last in a series of forts built near the Miami village of Kekionga. Named in Wayne's honor, the European-American settlement developed at the confluence of the St. Joseph, St. Marys, and Maumee rivers as a trading post for pioneers. The village was platted in 1823 and underwent tremendous growth after completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal and advent of the railroad. Once a booming manufacturing town located in what became known as the Rust Belt, Fort Wayne's economy in the 21st century is based upon distribution, transportation and logistics, healthcare, professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and financial services. The city is a center for the defense industry which employs thousands.Fort Wayne was an All-America City Award recipient in 1982, 1998, and 2009. The city also received an Outstanding Achievement City Livability Award by the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 1999.
Los Angeles, California | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:52 1 History
00:04:01 1.1 Pre-colonial history
00:04:56 1.2 Spanish rule
00:06:10 1.3 Mexican rule
00:06:36 1.4 1847 to present
00:14:25 2 Geography
00:14:34 2.1 Topography
00:17:17 2.2 Vegetation
00:18:29 2.3 Geology
00:20:11 2.4 Cityscape
00:20:38 2.4.1 Overview
00:22:46 2.4.2 Landmarks
00:23:40 2.5 Climate
00:28:54 2.6 Environmental issues
00:32:01 3 Demographics
00:34:55 3.1 Race and ethnicity
00:39:57 3.2 Religion
00:44:57 4 Economy
00:47:11 5 Culture
00:47:41 5.1 Movies and the performing arts
00:49:26 5.2 Museums and galleries
00:50:21 6 Sports
00:54:12 7 Government
00:56:01 7.1 Federal and state representation
00:56:31 8 Crime
00:58:34 9 Education
00:58:44 9.1 Colleges and universities
00:59:47 9.2 Schools and libraries
01:01:02 10 Media
01:05:19 11 Transportation
01:05:29 11.1 Freeways
01:07:15 11.2 Transit systems
01:10:08 11.3 Airports
01:11:38 11.4 Seaports
01:13:19 12 Notable people
01:13:41 13 Twin towns and sister cities
01:14:16 14 See also
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Los Angeles ( (listen); Spanish: Los Ángeles), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in California, the second most populous city in the United States, after New York City, and the third most populous city in North America. With an estimated population of four million, Los Angeles is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. The city is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, and its sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles is the largest city on the West Coast of North America.
Los Angeles is in a large basin bounded by the Pacific Ocean on one side and by mountains as high as 10,000 feet (3,000 m) on the other. The city proper, which covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km2), is the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the country. Los Angeles is also the principal city of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second largest in the United States after that of New York City, with a population of 13.1 million. It is part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach combined statistical area, also the nation's second most populous area with a 2015 estimated population of 18.7 million.Los Angeles is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States, with a diverse economy in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. Los Angeles is also famous as the home of Hollywood, a major center of the world entertainment industry. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index and 9th in the Global Economic Power Index. The Los Angeles metropolitan area also has a gross metropolitan product of $1.044 trillion (as of 2017), making it the third-largest in the world, after the Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the event for a third time in 2028. The city also hosted the Miss Universe pageant twice, in 1990 and 2006, and was one of 9 American cities to host the 1994 FIFA men's soccer World Cup and one of 8 to host the 1999 FIFA women's soccer World Cup, hosting the final match for both tournaments.
Historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was officially founded on September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 18 ...
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Italian Americans
00:02:45 1 History
00:02:54 1.1 Early period (1492–1775)
00:07:08 1.2 War of Independence to Civil War (1775–1861)
00:11:39 1.3 Civil War and after (1861–90)
00:14:44 1.4 The period of mass immigration (1890–1920)
00:27:26 1.5 1917-1941
00:35:04 1.6 World War II
00:39:05 1.7 Wartime violation of Italian-American civil liberties
00:42:20 1.8 Post-World War II period
00:48:37 1.9 Close of the twentieth century
00:51:49 2 Politics
00:55:57 3 Business and economy
00:56:58 3.1 Workers
00:58:50 3.2 Women
01:04:17 4 Culture
01:07:10 4.1 Literature
01:13:06 4.2 Religion
01:16:56 4.2.1 Italian Jews
01:20:04 4.3 Education
01:21:23 4.4 Language
01:27:55 4.5 Newspapers
01:32:17 4.6 Folklore
01:34:15 5 Discrimination and stereotyping
01:40:52 6 Communities
01:43:01 6.1 New York City
01:46:25 6.2 Philadelphia
01:49:15 6.3 Boston
01:50:19 6.4 Newark
01:52:12 6.5 Saint Louis
01:52:21 6.6 Syracuse
01:53:42 6.7 Providence
01:54:34 6.8 Chicago
01:56:57 6.9 Cleveland
01:58:41 6.10 Milwaukee
01:59:39 6.11 Ybor City
02:00:57 6.12 Birmingham
02:01:39 6.13 San Francisco
02:02:10 6.14 Los Angeles
02:03:29 6.15 San Diego
02:04:43 7 Demographics
02:10:14 7.1 U.S. States with over 10% people of Italian ancestry
02:10:48 7.2 U.S. Communities with the most residents of Italian ancestry
02:13:05 8 Notable people
02:13:14 9 See also
02:13:55 10 References and notes
02:14:05 11 Bibliography
02:14:14 12 External links
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Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani or italo-americani [ˌitalo.ameriˈkaːni]) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy. Italian Americans are the seventh largest Census-reported ethnic group in the United States (which includes American ethnicity, an ethnonym used by many in the United States; overall, Italian Americans rank seventh, behind German American, African American, Irish American, Mexican American, English American, and American).About 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. By 1870, there were less than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian unification and independence from foreign rule. Immigration began to increase during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated (1870–79: 46,296) than during the five previous decades combined (1820–69: 22,627). The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States, the great majority being from Southern Italy and Sicily, with most having agrarian backgrounds. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year (1922), never fully resumed.
Further immigration was greatly limited by several laws Congress passed in the 1920s.Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. This was the poorest and least developed part of Italy, still largely rural and agricultural, where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign misrule, and an oppressive taxation system imposed after Italian unification in 1861. After unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a half million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy and elsewhere to fill the labor shortage caused by the war. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps and in agriculture.
The descendants of the Italian immigrants gradually rose from a lower economic class in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. The Italian community has often been characterized by strong ties to family, the Roma ...