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- ... that Alexander Hamilton, a future United States Founding Father, attended St. John's Episcopal Church in his youth?
- ... that GhostRider is the longest wooden roller coaster on the West Coast of the United States?
- ... that a Wisconsin radio station used to collect rent from the United States Congress?
- ... that in 1945 the US Army confiscated the Hotel Rose in Wiesbaden, which is now the Hessian State Chancellery?
- ... that actress Mattie Edwards was made a US deputy marshal at the age of sixteen?
- ... that Sharp Corporation produced three official variants of Nintendo's Famicom in Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?
- ... that in 1991, James F. Kelley claimed that he had been ordered to repatriate Amelia Earhart (who disappeared in 1937) to the United States, where she lived as Irene Craigmile Bolam?
- ... that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush?
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Zappa was married to Kathryn J. "Kay" Sherman from 1960 to 1964. In 1967, he married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, with whom he remained until his death from prostate cancer in 1993. They had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen. Gail Zappa manages the businesses of her late husband under the name the Zappa Family Trust.
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The comprises five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. With over 8.2 million residents within an area of 322 square miles (830 km²), it's the most densely populated major city in the United States.
Many of the city's neighborhoods and landmarks are known around the world. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they arrived at Ellis Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wall Street is home to the New York Stock Exchange. The city has had several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center.
New York is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art, abstract expressionism in painting, and hip hop, salsa and Tin Pan Alley in music. In 2005, nearly 170 languages were spoken in the city and 36% of its population was born outside the United States. With its 24-hour subway and constant bustling of traffic and people, New York is known as "The City That Never Sleeps."
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Anniversaries for July 25
- 1722 – Dummer's War, a series of battles between British colonists and the Wabanaki Confederacy, begins.
- 1866 – Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Ulysses S. Grant (pictured) becomes the first officer to hold the rank, and one of two to become President of the United States after holding the rank (the other being Dwight D. Eisenhower.)
- 1898 – The land invasion of Puerto Rico by the United States begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico. Sea-based shelling of the capital city of San Juan had been taking place since May in preparation for the landing.
- 1946 – An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads.
- 1969 – In response to a lack of combat success in the Vietnam War and public pressure at home, President Richard Nixon outlines the Nixon Doctrine, which states that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take charge of their own military defenses.
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- ... that the first United States postage stamp that depicted a space vehicle (pictured) was issued in 1948?
- ... that the Federalists of New England did not support the War of 1812, so Captain Oliver Filley of Connecticut, who built the Oliver Filley House, commanded 40 militiamen under state control?
- ... that National Labor Relations Board Chief Economist David J. Saposs was accused of being a Communist, and Congress defunded his position and division in October 1940?
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