| 1. For the native Algonquins this land would
their home until the arrival of the first settlers nearly 100 years later.
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| 2. New York is a melting pot of nations, but some groups
made areas distinctively their own
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| 3. The Chinese
to arrive about 150 years ago, about the same time as the Irish and the European Jews.
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| 4. It
fourteen years and 600 men to build this magnificent feat of engineering.
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| 5. One hundred years ago, P.T. Barnum solemnly
24 elephants across to prove it was safe.
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