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Subject: [BronxRoots] Today...
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:13:30 EST
Texas Mike writes,
On this day Feb 2nd in …
* 1653, New Amsterdam -- now New York City -- was incorporated.
Remember, though, this was 6 years after the Village of Breuckelen -- lineal
ancestor of Brooklyn -- was incorporated.
I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting.
Happy Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish Arbor Day celebrating the New Year for trees
(begins Friday, February 6 at sunset),
Walter Greenspan
Great Falls, MT
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