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The Central Subway is a Muni Metro light rail tunnel in San Francisco, California, United States. It runs between Chinatown station in Chinatown and a portal in South of Market (SoMa) , with intermediate stops at Union Square/Market Street station in Union Square and Yerba Buena/Moscone station in SoMa.
McDonald’s want folks to know the $5 Meal Deal isn’t the only offer on the table: National Cheeseburger Day: On Sept. 18, the chain is selling its double cheeseburgers for 50 cents.
Since the opening of the original New York City Subway line in 1904, and throughout the subway's history, various official and planning agencies have proposed numerous extensions to the subway system. The first major expansion of the subway system was the Dual Contracts, a set of agreements between the City of New York and the IRT and the BRT ...
Market Street parades have long marked global events, such as the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, the Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916, the parade of the influenza-masked revelers of the first Armistice Day, the 1934 general strike that paralyzed the ports of the Pacific Coast, and the end of World War II.
The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the British, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.The language also spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and settlement and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, included 470–570 million people, about a quarter of the world's population.
The district, with an enrollment exceeding 400,545 students (2013–2014 20th Day Enrollment), is the third-largest in the U.S. [312] On September 10, 2012, teachers for the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike for the first time since 1987 over pay, resources, and other issues. [313]
"A Day in the Life of a Classroom": After Mr. Simmons wins an award, a TV station plans to do a documentary on a normal day in his class; at first, Mr. Simmons just wants to keep it normal, but when Arnold mentions that millions of people will be watching them on TV, Mr. Simmons makes his students rehearse a "perfect" day - scripted, of course.
"Folk rock" refers to the blending of elements of folk and rock music, which arose in the U.S. and UK in the mid-1960s. [2] The genre was pioneered by the Byrds, who began playing traditional folk music and songs by Bob Dylan with rock instrumentation, in a style heavily influenced by the Beatles and other British Invasion bands.