Founding of Seneca Village In 1825, a shoeshiner named Andrew Williams paid $125 for three lots in upper Manhattan. That same ...

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As celebrations began on the East Coast for the first Fourth of July, a distant Colorado was untouched by British colonials.

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To do that, trees would have to cover the entire land mass of North and Central America, according to a study out Thursday.