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5 hours ago · New Year's Eve used to be called Old Year's Night in much of Scotland. Corporal William Glass, one of the three British soldiers who elected to stay on Tristan after the garrison departed in 1817, hailed from Kelso, Scotland, where "Auld Year's Nicht" was still being celebrated in 1923.
14 hours ago · William Doxford & Sons Sunderland: Rathmore: Steamship: For William Johnston & Co., or The Saint Andrew's Steamship Co Ltd. 1 November Norway: Karljohansverns Verft Horten: Brage: Vale-class gunboat For Royal Norwegian Navy. 9 November United Kingdom: Harland & Wolff: Belfast: Nubia: Cargo ship: For African Steamship Company. 9 November Germany ...
14 hours ago · The Roosevelt Hotel is a former hotel and a shelter for asylum seekers owned by Pakistan International Airlines at 45 East 45th Street (between Madison Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue) in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Named in honor of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel was developed by the New York Central ...
14 hours ago · Hampton ( / ˈhæmptən /) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 137,148. [7] It is the 7th-most populous city in Virginia and 204th-most populous city in the nation. Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, the 37th-largest in the United States ...
14 hours ago · The University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) [1] is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School which later evolved into San José State University.
14 hours ago · Lists of United States state symbols. Mississippi ( / ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi / ⓘ MISS-ə-SIH-pee) [6] is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the southwest, and Arkansas to the northwest. Mississippi's western boundary is largely ...
