NYC teens conducting original research at the American Museum of Natural History announced the results of separate studies evaluating two animals that many New Yorkers would be surprised to hear are making the metropolitan area home.
Income taxes were first levied 154 years ago this month, when President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill levying a 3 percent tax on incomes between $600 and $10,000, and 5 percent for greater incomes.
One of the most important inventions of our time — the transistor — was announced in early July 1948 by Bell Laboratories (New Jersey).
Today’s move shows just how far House Republicans’ obsession with denying climate change can go.
As you battle, train, and capture your Pokémon just remember you’re still in the real world.
MAYOR DE BLASIO, MAYOR’S FUND TO ADVANCE NYC, U.S. SOCCER FOUNDATION, NYC FOOTBALL CLUB AND ADIDAS LAUNCH NYC SOCCER INITIATIVE – BRINGING 50 NEW SOCCER FIELDS TO UNDERSERVED NEIGHBORHOODS Over the next five years, public-private partnership will invest $3 […]
Historian Frederick Jackson Turner delivered a landmark academic paper declaring that the closing of the American frontier ended the formative national experience.
Forget the hyperbole, consider the daily stress of the racial double standard faced by African Americans (even trying to have fun).
The successful relay of a transatlantic TV signal by Telstar, the first privately owned satellite launched this week in 1962.
It took a while after the invention of the gas-powered automobile by Karl Benz in Germany in 1886 for someone to steal the wheels.
House Republican and Democratic leaders on Friday urged unity in the wake of the shooting deaths of five police officers Thursday night in Dallas.
July is not only National Grilling Month but also National Hot Dog Month and National Ice Cream Month.
ALL FLAGS TO FLY AT HALF-STAFF EFFECTIVE TODAY IN HONOR OF VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE IN DALLAS NEW YORK––As a mark of respect for the victims of the deadly violence that occurred in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, July 7, 2016, […]
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies will host a luncheon reception and awards ceremony for the 65th Infantry Regiment Sunday, July 17, 2016 at Hunter College.
This week in 1898, President William McKinley signed a resolution annexing the Hawaiian islands, then an independent republic.
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