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The Bosnian Crisis, also known as the Annexation Crisis (German: Bosnische Annexionskrise, Turkish: Bosna Krizi; Serbo-Croatian: Aneksiona kriza, Анексиона криза) or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted on 5 October 1908 [1] when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, [a] territories formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire but under Austro ...
The Parker Building and its neighborhood on a map published in 1903. The Parker Building was a 12-story office and loft structure completed in 1900 at the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue (later Park Avenue South) and 19th Street, in Manhattan, New York City.
The hotel was opened under the proprietorship of Hawk & Wetherbee. [5] In September 1957, the unrelated Hotel Lincoln at 700 Eighth Avenue was remodeled and renamed as the Manhattan Hotel. In 1958, an enormous, illuminated letter "M"—31 feet (9.4 m) feet wide and 12 feet (3.7 m) deep—was added to the roof of the former Hotel Lincoln.
The report speaks of the numerous violations of international conventions and war crimes committed during the Balkan Wars. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The information collected was published by the Endowment in the early summer of 1914, but was soon overshadowed by the beginning of the First World War .
Bosnian Crisis 1908–1909; ... Map of the Ottoman Empire in 1900, ... The Balkans Since 1453. New York University Press. ISBN ...
The seven-story, 42-unit building was built in 1878 by Virginia Leedy Matthews, née Brander, for some $500,000 ($15,786,207 today [1]), mostly financed by a $400,000 [2] balloon loan from The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York. Matthews was the wife of Edward Matthews, "a real estate entrepreneur who at one time controlled more property ...
Elaine's restaurant and New York Hilton hotel in business. The New York Review of Books begins publication. 1964 February: Public school boycott. [119] March 13: Kitty Genovese murdered. April: 1964 New York World's Fair opens. May 16: Antiwar protesters burn draft cards. [120]
The InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel is a hotel at 111 East 48th Street, on Lexington Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The 14-story hotel, operated by IHG Hotels & Resorts , was designed by Cross and Cross in the Colonial style and contains 702 rooms.