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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons being inflated with the Museum of Natural History in the background. West 77th street and Central Park West. New York City, New York.

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The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by Macy's. The tradition started in 1924, In 1924, the inaugural parade (originally known as the Macy's Christmas Parade and later the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Christmas Parade was staged by the store.

Employees and professional entertainers marched from 145th Street in Harlem to Macy's flagship store on 34th Street dressed in costumes.There were floats, professional bands and live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo. At the end of that first parade, as has been the case with every parade since, Santa Claus was welcomed.

Large animal-shaped balloons, produced by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, replaced the live animals in 1927 when the Felix the Cat balloon made its debut. Felix was filled with air, but by the next year, helium was used to fill the expanding cast of balloons.

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At the finale of the 1928 parade, the balloons were released into the sky where they unexpectedly burst. The following year they were redesigned with safety valves to allow them to float for a few days. Address labels were sewn into them, so that whomever found and mailed back the discarded balloon received a gift from Macy's

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Kermit the Frog Balloon Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Kermit the Frog Balloon Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kermit sitting on west 77th street with the Museum of Natural History in the background. New York City, New York, November 24, 2009.

Kermit the Frog is puppeteer Jim Henson's most famous Muppet creations, first introduced in 1955. Kermit was performed by Henson until 1990. Since then he has been performed by Steve Whitmire. Kermit's iconic look and voice are recognizable worldwide.

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Spider-Man Balloon Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Spider-Man Balloon Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Spiderman slings his web in front of the Museum of Natural History. 77th street and Central Park West, November 24, 2009

Peter Parker is introduced as an orphaned science whiz teenager living with his aunt and uncle in the Forest Hills section of New York City.

One day, he is bitten by a radioactive spider during a science demonstration. As a result, he gains spider-like powers such as super-strength, the ability to climb walls, and a phenomenal jumping skill.

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Shrek Balloon Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Shrek Balloon Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Shrek contemplates tiny humans as he readies for flight on west 77th street, beside the Museum of Natural History just off Central Park West, New York City, New York. November 25, 2008.

Shrek, the green ogre has always enjoyed living in peaceful solitude in his swamp, finds his life disrupted when fairytale beings, including Pinocchio, the Three Little Pigs, and Donkey, are forced into the swamp by order of Lord Farquaad, who is obsessed by many things, including having a perfectly clean and normal realm and his short size.

Shrek decides to travel the country to see Farquaad to try to regain his privacy, with Donkey tagging along.

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Camels Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show

Camels Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show. Part of the Living Nativity, with its wise men and camels. Three stars arriving at the stage door entrance on west 51st street between 5th and 6th avenue, New York City, November 12, 2009. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is an annual musical holiday stage show presented at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The show features over 140 performers, lavish sets and costumes and an original musical score. Since the first version was presented in 1933, the show has become a New York Christmas tradition seen by more than a million visitors a year. In 2009, it will run from November 13 through December 30. Image License: I, (sookietex) the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. If This image is subject to copyright in your jurisdiction, i (sookietex) the copyright holder have irrevocably released all rights to it, allowing it to be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited in any way by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, with or without attribution of the author, as if in the public domain.

A Thanksgiving Tour Turkeymobile

A Thanksgiving Tour Turkeymobile, Description:"A Thanksgiving Tour". 1907 editorial cartoon for Thanksgiving holiday from the Daily Picayune newspaper of New Orleans. A turkey is depicted driving an automobile through a fence labeled "Financial Flurry"; a road sign says "To Prosperity". Reference is to the Panic of 1907, with hopes that prosperity is ahead.

Date: November 1907(1907-11). Source: Originally published in The Daily Picayune newspaper, late November, 1907. Author: Winterhalder.

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Santa Claus Reading Letters in Macy's Window

Santa Claus Reading Letters in Macy's Window. According to American public opinion, Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. According to legend the Santa Claus at Macy's in New York City is often said to be the real Santa Claus. :)

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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Star

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Star. Newly Designed Swarovski Crystal Star Unveiled for the 2009 Rockefeller Center(R) Christmas Tree. State-of-the-Art Technology and 720 New LED Bulbs Create Dynamic Light Show. NEW YORK, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Swarovski, the leading producer of crystal stones and crystal fashion jewelry, today unveiled the newly refurbished crystal star that will crown the 2009 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Nadja Swarovski, Vice President of International Communications, and Thomas Madden, Managing Director of Tishman Speyer, co-owners of Rockefeller Center, were on hand to reveal the enhancements to the star, which include a cutting-edge computerized new lighting system with energy-efficient LED bulbs.

The star's 12 rays are outfitted with 720 LED bulbs on 3,000 feet of wire to create a dazzling, twinkling effect through customized light sequencing programmed by a complex computer system. This is the first year that the Swarovski star, which debuted at the top of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 2004, will feature dynamic light movement.

A team of nine artisans and engineers spent three months employing a unique combination of art, science and technology to complete the new design. The team spent 1,200 hours installing, programming and testing the star to ensure the effects would withstand the challenging winter weather conditions 76-feet above Rockefeller Center.

The Swarovski star is comprised of 25,000 crystals, with 1,000,000 facets, measures 9 1/2 feet in diameter and is 1 1/2 feet deep. Weighing 550 pounds -- including 300 pounds of crystal panels -- it is composed of six outer rays and six smaller inner rays. The main surfaces of the rays are made of point-mounted safety glass, the same shatter-proof glass that adorns the facades of New York City buildings. The crystals are affixed to the inner sides of the glass in a tight, scale-like pattern to ensure maximum brilliance.

The 77th Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, December 2nd, from 7 P.M.-9 P.M. The two-hour ceremony will be televised live, locally on WNBC-TV from 7 PM-8 PM and nationally on NBC from 8 P.M.-9 P.M.

Rockefeller Center officially began the Tree Lighting Ceremony in 1933, when a Christmas tree was erected in front of the then-RCA Building and covered with 700 lights. Christmas trees in Rockefeller Center have ranged from 50-foot Pines to 100-foot Norway Spruces and are viewed by millions of spectators during the holiday season.

Spectators can view the lighted tree each day from 5:30 A.M. - 11:30 P.M.; all day (24 hours) on Christmas; and from 5:30 A.M. - 9 P.M. on New Year's Eve. The last day to view the tree is January 9, 2009.

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Giuseppe Verdi

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VERDI had both genius and a noble character. To this happy union he owes his fame.

Giuseppe Verdi, the humble son of a poor peasant farmer, was born in 1813, in one of a cluster of little houses called " Le Roncole," situated a few miles from the town of Bussetto, near Parma, in North Italy. When he was seven years old, his father sent him to the Bussetto public school, where, though he applied himself with a will to study, he soon showed an irresistible inclination for music.

After a while, the father, yielding to the plea of his son, consented to give him the advantage of lessons in music from the organist of the church of Bussetto, who was also something of an authority in counterpoint. The elder Verdi also bought for his son an old spinet. Thus the boy began his beloved occupation. He was then eight years old. All the time to be had outside of his school hours was employed in music and in reading. It may be added that, after music, reading was the passion of his life.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons Spongebob Squarepants, Energizer Bunny and Pikachu

The 2006 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Spongebob Squarepants, the Energizer Bunny and Pikachu with Poké Ball is shown tied down before the parade.

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Moby Dick The white whale

This Day in History: 11/14/1851 - Moby Dick is Published, A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.

Title: Moby Dick; or, The white whale, Famous sea stories by Herman Melville, Herman Melville. Author: Herman Melville. Illustrator: Augustus Burnham Shute d. 1906. Publisher: St. Botolph Society, 1892, Original from Harvard University, Digitized: Mar 20, 2008. Length: 545 pages.

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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving oft the spleen, and regulating the circulation.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

Veterans Day Parade New York City 2009

The 90th New York City Veterans Day Parade November 11, 2009.Organizers say more than 20,000 people are participating in the Fifth Avenue parade.

The New York City Parade began at 11 AM ET in Madison Square Park, and ended at 56th Street and Fifth Avenue.

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The USS New York LPD-21

About The USS New York LPD-21 The history of naming US Navy ships "New York" goes back to the Revolution and has a proud heritage that continues today. USS New York (LPD-21) is the fifth ship in the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, and the sixth ship of the USS Navy to be named after the Great Sate of New York. The USS New York is state of the art and built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems of New Orleans, Louisiana. The contract was awarded in 2003 and she was christened on March 01, 2008 at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans by the former Secretary of the Navy, Gordon England's wife and ships sponsor Dotty England. Three San Antonio Class warships will be named to commorate the tragic events of September 11, 2001, when 2,760 people lost their lives in New York City. The other two ships will be named USS ARLINGTON (LPD-24) and USS SOMERSET (LPD-25). The contract for SOMERSET was awarded December 21, 2007, and construction will begin later this year. A special tribute to the people that died on 9/11 is the 7 1/2 tons of steel recovered from the World Trade Center and cast as USS NEW YORK's bow stem. The ship is the first to be designed fully from the CAD-screen up to support all three of the Marines' primary mobility capabilities — the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV), Landing Craft Air Cushion and MV-22B Osprey. The New York was christened on 1 March 2008, in a ceremony at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans. Dotty England, the ship’s sponsor, smashed the traditional champagne bottle on the ship’s bow and christened the ship the New York. Several dignitaries were in attendance, including Louisiana Congressman William J. Jefferson, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon R. England, members of the New York City Police Department and the New York City Fire Department, and family members of September 11 victims. The champagne bottle did not break the first time it was struck against the hull of the ship, but the second attempt was successful. The USS New York was commissioned on November 07, 2009, this marked her entry into the United States Navy and will be held in New York City. Photos taken at berth, Pier 88, on Manhattan's 12th Ave. at W. 48th St, New York, New York, October 8, 2009, 11:30 am.

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Veterans Day Poster 2009

The Veterans Day National Ceremony is held on November 11th at Arlington National Cemetery. At 11:00 a.m., a color guard, made up of members from each of the military services, renders honors to America's war dead during a tradition-rich ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns. The ceremony takes place inside the Memorial Amphitheater. The Veterans Day National Committee also selects a number of regional sites for Veterans Day observances throughout the country. From stirring parades and ceremonies to military exhibits and tributes to distinguished veterans, these events serve as models for other communities to follow in planning their own observances.

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Election Day voting allows everyone to participate

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