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8 hours ago · For example, in Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities, Shirley Stewart Burns (2007) traces the impact of mountaintop removal on communities in Southern West Virginia, where residents had worked in the mines for over a century. 10 She frames her analysis in terms of the core–periphery relationship between a core of power elites ...
8 hours ago · In 2012, the New York City Police Department detained people more than 500,000 times under the city's stop-and-frisk law. Of the total detained, 55% were African-Americans, while Black people made up 20% of the city's population. Al Sharpton led the Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks protest on August 28, 2020.
8 hours ago · Marita Camacho Quirós. F. March 10, 1911. 113 years, 118 days. Costa Rican. First Lady of Costa Rica; widow of President of Costa Rica Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich [1] Anita Mackey. F. January 1, 1914.
8 hours ago · Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and 8th most ...
8 hours ago · The city features sunny days about 90% of the year. The Yuma Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 160,000. Yuma attracts many winter visitors from all over the United States. Flagstaff, in Coconino County, is the largest city in northern Arizona, and is at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet (2,100 m). With its large Ponderosa pine ...
8 hours ago · The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2024.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
8 hours ago · Beau Bayless was sitting outside Sushi Roku at Fashion Island on Tuesday, July 5, smoking a vape pen, when he heard a commotion near the Barnes & Noble. “I didn’t think anything of it or even bother to look that direction until someone said, ‘Oh my God, that woman’s getting robbed’,” Bayless, 43, of Fountain Valley, said in a phone interview Saturday.
