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		<title>The History of the New Yorker Hotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Yorker Hotel is one of the largest hotels in New York; it was conceived at the height of the roaring twenties but opened at the beginning of the Great Depression. Located at 481 Eighth Avenue, between 34th and 35th street, it was directly across the street from the majestic Pennsylvania Station, once the gateway for travelers coming to Manhattan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=556&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Niagara Falls Hydro-electric Power Plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the various inventions that lived in his three-dimensional imagination, Nikola Tesla, a famous Croatian inventor, had always dreamed of using the falls of Niagara to build a power plant knowing this nature’s energy could power machines. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=554&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford White and the Crime of the Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1901 Nikola Tesla commissioned his friend, the architect Stanford White, to design him a brick laboratory to accompany the Wardenclyffe Tower. Ten years later the laboratory would be abandoned, and the artist behind it dead, the victim of a salacious, scandalous murder deemed the crime of the century.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=552&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tesla’s Electric Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electricity is all around us: our homes, offices, and streets, it's easily available, for a price. But what if it was free, and available through the air? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=550&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prohibition &amp; 21 Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1920 the US Congress passed the 18th Amendment making production, distribution, and public consumption of alcohol illegal. The introduction of these new laws sparked a thirteen year period of Prohibition Era liquor speakeasies.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=548&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rat or Hero? Pigeons in N.Y. &amp; War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They fly, perch, nest, hobble, peck, and coo. From the tallest towers to the back of your park bench, pigeons are, like subway rats, a natural staple of New York City. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=546&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worlds of Tomorrow: Westinghouse Manufacturing &amp; Electric Company and the World Expositions of 1893 and 1939</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chicago to New York City, the World Exposition always offered a prime opportunity for American corporations to promote their services. No firm has shaped the World’s Fair in America quite like the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=544&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Me at the Hyphen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many stories can one block tell? Before there were skyscrapers and yellow taxis, there were a multitude of different New York Cities. Parceled off as plots of land and sold to individuals by the City of New York during the 1700’s, what was once the home of the Lenape people slowly evolved into the New York City of today.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=542&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nikola Tesla: A Legacy in Performance Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever watched an electrical storm from your porch, or seen a fork of lightning descend in the distance while driving on the highway, you understand the simple power that electricity has to entertain and amaze. During the late 1800s, the famed Serbian Scientist, Nikola Tesla, used showmanship and theatrics to amaze his lecture audiences.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=540&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electric High Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debbie Rabina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gilded age in New York City: a time of tremendous growth in the American economy.  This was the era of the Robber Barons, and captains of American industry created vast fortunes from the booming steel, railroad and finance industries.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minystories.wordpress.com&#038;blog=30993130&#038;post=538&#038;subd=minystories&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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