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Historic neirs tavern. >> anthony: back in the 1820's when queens was still mostly farmland and live stock rather than the seven train was what rumbled down what became jamaica avenue. the manager of a racetrack called the union course opened a nearby tavern to accommodate the gamblers and lay-abouts who frequented his track. it was called the blue pump room. in later iterations it became the old abbey. the union course tavern and finally neirs tavern. the neirs family, german immigrants added a bowling alley a ballroom and a hotel after the racetrack closed in 1898 and renamed the place neirs...

Legally. this is insensitive and flawed or make sure the system isn't strained so much. >> this has been in law 100 years. 1898. like other laws they weren't allowed to enforce them. a director of citizenship and immigration services the patriot himself and he is doing what i did when i was ice director. takes the laws and enforcing them the way they are supposed to be enforced. the president wrote a memo to the secretary of homeland security saying they wanted these laws enforced. it's comment for 60 days. great regulation. 400 pages. i must live a boring life i have actually read it i think ...

>> the truth of the matter is that we've been treated as second-class citizens. the only reason why the recovery was different in texas, florida and in puerto rico is because puerto rico is a colonial territory of the united states. the people of puerto rico have chosen statehood twice in the past six years. so it's also a matter of democracy and of human rights and democratic rights. >> do you believe that people in puerto rico want statehood? do you see that happening some time in the near future here from the political perspective, what governor riccardo was saying? >> i believe the governo...

B-r-o-n-c-k. in 1874, all the area west of the bronx river was annexed to the city. and in 1895, all the areas east of the bronx river was annexed to the city. then in 1898, the city then decided that the two areas previously annexed should also become a borough. but what to call it, since it never had a name before? they looked at the map and right smack through the middle of the territory ran the bronx river, so they named it after the river -- the borough of the bronx. and that's why it is called the bronx, and not just plain bronx. if you have a question about the bronx, chances are lloyd ...

But eventually the white man showed up. that rarely works out well for indigenous people. americans built pineapple plantations and sugar mills, which the locals didn't want. the americans did what worked so well on the mainland, they took the land from the hawaiians at gunpoint. then you know the usa playbook. in an effort to destroy the native culture, they passed racist laws banning the hawaiian language from school and government. in 1898, congress officially annexed, aka stole hawaii and they become a u.s. territory, and it also became a u.s. target. see, japan didn't bomb hawaii because ...