2 April is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. April 2 - Events. 69 - Galba, governor of Spain, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Roman emperors begun with Caesar and Augustus. 1453 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29 1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first known European to ...

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UConn has repeatedly been ranked the top public university in New England by U.S. News and World Report, and is also ranked among the top 25 public research universities nationally. Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs are offered through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences[1] College of Agriculture and Natural Resources[2]< ...

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Following the 1979 cancellation, the stars enjoyed varying degrees of success. After several strong showings, Travolta's film career took a nosedive until 1994's Pulp Fiction revived his status as a strong box office draw. Kaplan made a few comedic films and television guest appearances, but began to focus on investments and a passion for professional poker. He has, however, returned to his stand-up comedy roots in recent years. Hegyes continued acting in movies and on television, where he landed a regular role on Cagney and Lacey on CBS. Pa ...

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New York-New Jersey English - Pronunciation. See the article International Phonetic Alphabet for explanations of the phonetic symbols used, as indicated between square brackets. These represent actual pronunciations. The symbols in curved parentheses () are variables, in this case historical word classes that have different realizations between and within dialects. This system was developed by William Labov. A link to a site with an example text read in various accents, including New York, can be found under external links. New York-New Jersey English is predo ...

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When Cheshire was originally settled by Europeans, it was part of the town of Wallingford and known locally as "Northfarms". In 1780, Cheshire separated from Wallingford to become its own town, and for the next 170 years, Cheshire remained a small but prosperous farming town. In the post-war period, Cheshire began to suburbanize as residents of New Haven began moving outwards from the urban core. Several industrial plants also located themselves in one of the town's many planned industrial parks. Despite significant residential develo ...

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Since 1934, the mascot of UConn has been the husky. (Prior to that year, athletic teams were known as the Aggies.) All UConn huskies are named Jonathan in honor of Jonathan Trumbull, and all but the first, a brown and white husky, have been white with one brown eye and one blue eye. The current "real" Jonathan is Jonathan XII; he is often seen greeting fans and eating dog biscuits at sporting events. Jonathan is one of the few university mascots in ...

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• Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan was a big fan of the show. • Sebastian's Welcome Back is the only song written for a television show to reach to the top of the musical charts in the U.S. • The show was originally going to be called simply Kotter, but that was changed because of the theme song lyrics. • The orange lettering used for Shortridge's name in the opening credits did not match that of the other actors. • Palillo got a nosejob years after the show ended so he would less resemble Horshack. • The Welcome Back, Kotter comic book was published ...

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UCONN 2000 was a public-private partnership to rebuild, renew and enhance the University of Connecticut from 1995 to 2005. It was paid for by the State of Connecticut, UConn's students, and private donations. UCONN 2000 was enacted by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1995 and signed into law by Governor John G. Rowland. The construction projects were overseen by President Philip E. Austin. The le ...

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Kotter began its run amid controversy. In Boston, a city going though a tumultuous school busing program to enhance racial equality, the ABC affiliate felt Mr. Kotter's integrated classroom would only add fuel to the fire. The affiliate refused to air the first four episodes, but decided by the fifth episode to pick up what had become a ratings success. Meanwhile, teachers had concerns about how Mr. Kotter might be portrayed, so producers allowed a teachers' union representative on the set to ensure the show protected the image of tho ...

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UConn's sports teams (nicknamed "Huskies") participate in the NCAA's Division I-A and in the Big East Conference, except for hockey, which is not sponsored by the Big East. The men's hockey program competes in Atlantic Hockey and the women's hockey program is a member of Hockey East. The most notable athletic facilities are: Gampel Pavilion on the Storrs campus, the regular home for both men's and women's basketball Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, the second home for both basketball teams Rentschler F ...

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• September 1975-January 1976, ABC, Tuesday 8:30-9:00 p.m. • January 1976-August 1978, ABC, Thursday 8:00-8:30 p.m. • September 1978-October 1978, ABC, Monday 8:00-8:30 p.m. • October 1978-January 1979, ABC, Saturday 8:00-8:30 p.m. • February 1979-March 1979, ABC, Saturday 8:00-8:30 p.m. • May 1979-August 1979, ABC, Friday 8:00-8:30 p.m. ...

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Gabe Kotter is a wise-cracking teacher who returns to Buchanan High, the school from which he graduated ten years earlier, to teach a group of remedial academics students known as the Sweathogs. Having been a Sweathog himself, Kotter has a special appreciation for the potential of these 'unteachable' students. His first day on the job, he shows the students both his authority and his playful side when he fires a giant paper airplane at them in response to a similar attack. Kotter is married to Julie, with whom he eventually has twin girls. When Buchanan High principal John Lazarus retires, Kotter becomes the vice ...

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UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, two brothers who donated the land for the school as well as initial funding. Women began attending classes in 1891 and were officially admitted in 1893, when the name was changed to Storrs Agricultural College and it became Connecticut's land grant college. In 1899, the name changed again to Connecticut Agricultural College; in 1933, to Connecticut State College; and fina ...

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The dialect is closely confined to the geographically small but densely populated New York City Dialect Region, which consists of the city's five Boroughs, western and central Long Island, and certain neighboring New Jersey areas like Newark, Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, Union City, and Fort Lee. However, the terms “New York English” and “New York dialect” are strictly speaking misnomers. The classic New York dialect is centered on middle and working class European Americans, and this racial group now accounts for less than half of the city ...

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According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 86.5 km² (33.4 mi²). 85.2 km² (32.9 mi²) of it is land and 1.3 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.50% water. Cheshire is situated in the midst of several major cities of Connecticut. It lays fourteen miles north of New Haven, twenty-five miles south of the capital Hartford, and is adjacent to Waterbury. Interstate 691 skirts the northern edge of ...

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Every June, the town celebrates its annual Strawberry Festival on the First Congregational Church green. The town is also known for its highly competative high school sports team, the Cheshire Rams, its award winning marching band, and its rivalry with Amity High School. Cheshire Academy (originally The Episcopal Academy of Connecticut) was founded in Cheshire in 1794. Cheshire is home to two large state prison facilities located in the northern section of town. The largest of these facilities is the Cheshire Correctional Insti ...

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The origins of the dialect are diverse, and the source of many features is probably not recoverable. Labov has pointed out that the short a split is found in southern England as mentioned above. He also claims that the vocalization and subsequent loss of (r) was copied from the prestigious London pronunciation, and so it started among the upper classes in New York and only later moved down the socioeconomic scale. This aristocratic r-lessness can be heard, for instance, in recordings of Franklin Roosevelt. After WWII, the r-ful pronunciation became the prestige norm, and what was once ...

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Similarly, some speakers claim that there are differences among speakers of European American New York English that break down along ethnic lines, particularly between the descendents of the Irish, Eastern European Jews, and Italians, the three main late 19th and early 20th Century immigrants. Evidence for this differenciation may be found in sociolinguistic research, in particular Labov's (1982), finding of differences in the rate and degree of the tensing and raising of (oh) and (aeh) of Italian American versus Jewish American New Yorkers. ...

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The present accent of the Jersey Shore is heavily influenced by that of North Jersey, from which it was principally settled. However, prior to the influence of the tourism industry on the area, the situation was different. Cape May was first a Dutch town, which is still reflected in the Dutch names of some local businesses and streets. The only road to Cape May was from Philadelphia, so Philadelphia English mixed in with the Dutch. The Cape May accent is fading away now; people are moving away from Cape May and businesses are closing. New people are moving i ...

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Generally, the so-called Jersey accent or North Jersey accent spoken in northern New Jersey is somewhat closer to General American than the speech of New Yorkers, but still shares enough features with it that two can be considered together as a single dialect group for sociolinguistic purposes. Most colloquial greetings and expressions used in New York are also said by New Jerseyans and with the same frequency. However, aside from the areas immediately closest to New York, north Jersey speech is free of certain New York City features which are heavily stigmatized: the Jersey accent is at leas ...

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