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  1. 1 day ago · Shirley Anita Chisholm ( / ˈtʃɪzəm / CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. [1] Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [a] for ...

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  3. 1 day ago · The Brooklyn Immersionists were a community of artists, musicians and writers that integrated themselves and their creations into an industrial area of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in the 1990s, helping to innovate an urban ecological culture. The movement, according to the art historian, Jonathan Fineberg, was devoted to "a richer, more dynamically ...

  4. 1 day ago · The Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ), was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles. The program was announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan. [1] Reagan called for a system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete, and to end the doctrine of mutual assured ...

  5. 1 day ago · The New York Post ( NY Post) is an American conservative [3] daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The Post also operates three online sites: NYPost.com; [4] PageSix.com, a gossip site; and Decider.com, an entertainment site. The newspaper was founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, a Federalist and Founding Father who was ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Los_AngelesLos Angeles - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California. With roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits as of 2020, [7] Los Angeles is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nuevo_LeónNuevo León - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi, and has an extremely narrow international border with the U.S. state of Texas. Covering 64,156 square kilometers (24,771 square miles) and with a population of 5.78 million people, Nuevo León is the thirteenth-largest federal entity by area and the seventh-most populous as of 2020.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › StockholmStockholm - Wikipedia

    53 minutes ago · Stockholm ( Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː (h)ɔlm] ⓘ) [10] is the capital and most populous city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, [11] with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. [11] The city stretches across fourteen ...