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The 1848 strike was a response to relaxed laws following the 1845 strike despite agreements made in 1845. Both were led by women and children because they made up the majority of the textile workforce. An initial concession to institute a ten-hour workday. The abolition of child labor in the factories. The subsequent defeat of strikers, a major ...
City of Lies is a 2018 crime thriller film about the investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. It is directed by Brad Furman, with a screenplay by Christian Contreras based on the non-fiction book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan.
Sex and the City is an American cable television program based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. It was originally broadcast on the HBO network from 1998 until 2004. Set in New York City , the show focuses on the sex lives of four female best friends, three of whom are in their mid-to-late thirties, and one of whom is in her ...
1871. Songwriter (s) Will S. Hays. " The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane " is a popular song written by Will S. Hays in 1871 for the minstrel trade. Written in dialect, the song tells of an elderly man, presumably a slave or former slave, passing his later years in a broken-down old log cabin. The title is from a refrain: "de little old log ...
The Workday Charity Open was a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour played in 2020, intended to serve as a one-time replacement for the John Deere Classic, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was played at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, the week before the Memorial Tournament, hosted at the same venue.
Ekistics. Shinjuku skyscrapers (foreground) and Mount Fuji (background) in Tokyo, the world's most populous city. List of largest cities. List of cities proper by population density. Conurbation. Megacity. Megalopolis. Settlement hierarchy. Cities portal.
It is "the only bi-state St. Patrick's Day Parade in the USA", according to the St. Patrick's Day Society of the Quad Cities, [109] crossing the Centennial Bridge from Rock Island, Illinois into Davenport, Iowa. Being so close to Chicago, this parade still gathers around 200,000 annually on its historical parade route.
September 10, 2012: Keys to the city were awarded to eight athletes who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics: swimmers Michael Phelps(Key revoked 2014) and Katie Ledecky, rower David Banks, windsurfer Farrah Hall, cyclist Bobby Lea, field hockey player Katie O'Donnell, kayaker Scott Parsons, and modern pentathlete Suzanne Stettinius.