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  • 121ROCHESTER — ROCHESTER, industrial city in New York State. Early History Established in 1812 as a mill town at the falls of the Genesee River in western New York, Rochester attracted its first Jewish residents some three decades later. The construction in the …

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  • 122SPORTS — There is no evidence of sports among the Jews during the obscure period between the close of the Bible and the Maccabean periods. At the beginning of this latter period, in the second century B.C.E., circumstances conspired to make sporting… …

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  • 123VANCOUVER — VANCOUVER, city in British Columbia and largest in Western Canada, with a population of nearly 2 million in 2001, including a Jewish community of 22,590. Jewish life in Vancouver began in the early 1880s, when a small number of pioneers arrived… …

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  • 124Æthelberht of Kent — Infobox Monarch imagesize=150px caption=Statue of Æthelberht. Interior of Rochester Cathedral name= Æthelberht title=King of Kent reign=c. 590 ndash; 616 date of death=616 father=Eormenric issue=EadbaldInfobox Monarch Saint feast day=February… …

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  • 125Hamilton, Ontario — For Hamilton Township in Northumberland County, see Hamilton, Ontario (township). Hamilton   City   City of Hamilton …

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  • 126Irish diaspora — Emigrants Leave Ireland , engraving by Henry Doyle (1827–1892), from Mary Frances Cusack s Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868 …

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  • 127Immigration to the United States — 2000 Census Population Ancestry Map Immigration to the United States has been a major source of …

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  • 128Jack Kemp — Infobox Officeholder name = Jack Kemp, Jr. imagesize = 200px small caption = order = 1996 Republican Vice Presidential nominee term start =August 16, 1996 term end =November 5, 1996 runningmate = Bob Dole opponent = Bill Clinton/Al Gore… …

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