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Breaking Ground (formerly Common Ground) Founded: 1990: Founder: Rosanne Haggerty: Type: social services organization: Purpose: Breaking Ground’s mission is to strengthen individuals, families and communities by developing and sustaining exceptional supportive and affordable housing as well as programs for homeless and other vulnerable New Yorkers.
Groundbreaking ceremony for Hunts Point Cooperative Market in New York City (1962). Groundbreaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod, turf-cutting, or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project.
Asian Americans is a five-hour PBS documentary film series made by ITVS, WETA, and the Center for Asian American Media. [1] [2] [3] The series focus on the history of Asian and Asian American people in the United States and first aired on May 11, 2020.
1543: Nicolaus Copernicus develops a heliocentric model, rejecting Aristotle's Earth-centric view, would be the first quantitative heliocentric model in history. 1543: Vesalius: pioneering research into human anatomy. 1545: Gerolamo Cardano discovers complex numbers. [122] 1556: Niccolò Tartaglia introduces parenthesis.
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice is a 2021 book by Scott Ellsworth that examines the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. The book has one "positive" reviews and ten "rave" reviews according to review aggregator Book Marks. [1] The book was longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. [2]
Satellite measurements of ground temperature taken between 2003 and 2009, taken with the MODIS infrared spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite, found a maximum temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), which was recorded in 2005 in the Lut Desert, Iran. The Lut Desert was also found to have the highest maximum temperature in five of the seven years ...
Now, if you are one of those people who also counts snow already on the ground as constituting a white Christmas - your odds do get a little better, though not substantially.. Famously, back in ...
49 kya – 30 kya: Ground stone tools – fragments of an axe in Australia date to 49–45 ka, more appear in Japan closer to 30 ka, and elsewhere closer to the Neolithic. [47] [48] 47 kya: The oldest-known mines in the world are from Eswatini, and extracted hematite for the production of the red pigment ochre. [49] [50]