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Celebrating 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s Historic Voyage
NY Times ^ | March 29, 2009 | SAM ROBERTS

Posted on 03/29/2009 6:35:03 AM PDT by Pharmboy

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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Adjacent to Central Park—Fifth and 103rd.


21 posted on 03/30/2009 4:56:08 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must...)
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To: Pharmboy; SunkenCiv; eastsider

NY has created a web site for this event.

Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission

22 posted on 03/30/2009 6:12:29 AM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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“The Dutch were the first to overthrow a king and create a republic,” said Sarah Henry, chief curator of the museum. “Nobody was celebrating tolerance, but the Dutch had a pragmatic approach to diversity.”

No they weren’t. The Romans did it 2000 years plus earlier.

Also, Iceland is the oldest republic in Europe, not the Netherlands.


23 posted on 03/30/2009 9:52:23 AM PDT by ZULU (Obamanation of Desolation is President. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: Pharmboy

THANKS, bfl


24 posted on 03/30/2009 1:50:16 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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