Born of Italian immigrant parents, this former New York governor could scarcely speak English when he began school
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A Haider In Their Future - The New York Times  Apr 30, 2000 ... Briskly, he emerges from the lights beamed on him for a television ... level, Haider speaks of the European zeitgeist, for it is on this that he has .... actor at school, handsome, quick, he clearly intuited that his parents' ... By 1989, he was governor. ... So ex-Nazis here could see themselves again standing up to...
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Untitled  jeopardy-questions: This question originally...  Question: Born of Italian immigrant parents, this former New York governor could scarcely speak English when he began school. Answer: Mario Cuomo
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Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia  Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the ..... Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York City: ... There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Nov 15, 2012 ... #183690 Nov 15, 2012. ` Born of Italian immigrant parents, this former New York governor could scarcely speak English when he began school.
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The Chief - The New York Times  WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST did not speak often of his father. ... Only in his late seventies, when he began writing a daily column in his newspapers, ... He had been born in 1820 or 1821 - he wasn't quite sure when - to a relatively ... though "of such extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief, [had been]...
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Anne Sullivan - Educator - Biography.com  Sep 23, 2016 ... Anne Sullivan was a teacher who taught Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child, ... Early Life ... Her parents immigrated to the United States from Ireland during the Great ... for a governess for their daughter Helen, who was blind and deaf. ... the likes of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Mark Twain.
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Enrico Fermi | Italian-American physicist | Britannica.com  Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi explaining a problem in physics, c. ... After receiving a doctorate in 1922, Fermi used fellowships from the Italian Ministry of .... then in Leonia, N.J., Fermi began his new life at Columbia University, in New York City. ... When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, nuclear...
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5 Things You Should Know About George Pataki : It's All Politics : NPR  May 28, 2015 ... Cuomo, once a leading Democratic prospect for president, never ran for ... There, they started as farmers, and it gave the young Pataki a touch of ... In his late 30s, Pataki ran for mayor of Peekskill on a reform platform and won. ... The former governor of New York was born in June of 1945, so he will be 71...
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Harry Truman's History Lessons - National Archives and Records ...  At about the same time, Truman's mother gave him a "blackboard on the back of ... from the names of his courses, which included ancient and Roman history (year one), .... were the Roman general Cincinnatus, the Carthaginian general Hannibal, the Persian ... The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.".
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Scalia 'A Leader We Are Proud To Call A Native Son,' Christie Says ...  Feb 13, 2016 ... Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in Texas Saturday at the age of 79, has roots in New Jersey. ... His father, who emigrated from Sicily as a teenager and came through Ellis Island, became a professor of romance languages at Brooklyn College, resulting in the family moving to Elmhurst, N.Y.,...
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Week 31: Maximilian Berlitz - Dress British Think Yiddish  Aug 8, 2016 ... ... named Maximilian Berlitz in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1878. ... As it turned out, the teacher was fluent in French but spoke no English, and yet, when Berlitz returned to the class, he found the students to be doing pretty ... Inspired by this, Berlitz opened a foreign-language immersion school of his own,...
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The story of Francis Albert Sinatra | L'Italo-Americano - Italian ...  Dec 27, 2012 ... Francis Albert Sinatra, born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New ... He was the son of Anthony Martin Sinatra, who had arrived as a child ... They lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, a workingman's town across ... He was a good fireman, always first to arrive at the fires and he rose through the ranks to captain.
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Al D'Amato - Wikipedia  Alfonse Marcello "Al" D'Amato (born August 1, 1937) is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 ... D'Amato, of Italian heritage, was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, in the .... United States Senate election in New York, 1998.
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Politics Flashcards | Quizlet  U.S. POLITICS---This city has been the site of more major party presidential nominating conventions than any other ..... 20th CENTURY POLITICIANS---In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey; 2 years .... 2006 elections made this person the highest of Italian ethnicity in the order of U.S. pres. succession.
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Jhumpa Lahiri: 'I am, in Italian, a tougher, freer writer' | Books | The ...  Jan 31, 2016 ... I manage to order in a restaurant and exchange a few words with a saleswoman. Nothing else. ... Just like parents with their children. Thanks to them, I ... A likable, energetic woman, also from Milan, arrives at my house. ... I feel incomplete. As if Italian were a book that, no matter how hard I work, I can't write.
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Anne Sullivan - Educator - Biography.com  Sep 23, 2016 ... Anne Sullivan was a teacher who taught Helen Keller, a blind and deaf ... Her parents immigrated to the United States from Ireland during the...
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Mario Matthew Cuomo Facts - Biography - YourDictionary  Mario Matthew Cuomo was born on June 15, 1932, in New York City. ... (Giordano) Cuomo, had immigrated from Salerno, Italy, in the late 1920s. ... Governor Hugh Carey, an acquaintance from law school, appointed Cuomo secretary of state, ... His elder son, Andrew, managed his father's campaigns and served as a chief...
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Robert Martinez - Governor's Mansion  When he was elected governor in 1986, Martinez became the first grandson of Spanish immigrants to become governor of Florida since the colonial period, and...
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The Official Web Site for The State of New Jersey | NJ U.S. Presidents  Grover Cleveland is the only New Jersey native to become president. ... Born on March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, Cleveland spent his first five years in New Jersey before moving to upstate New York. ... There he earned his undergraduate degree.
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Lifeprint  Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born on December 10, 1787 in Hartford, Connecticut. ... These problems would affect him later on in life as well. ... He and Thomas persuaded the men to open a school specifically for deaf people. ... to America and started to campaign for money to start the first American school for the deaf.
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George Washington: A Life - The New York Times  What robbed Washington of a university education but spared him the ... All of his English and American ancestors including his mother were staunch royalists. ... All he would admit was that two brothers, John and Lawrence Washington, had .... the Washingtons were spared from starvation only by their royalist relatives.