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Produced by: Iñigo Benito Ignacio Elia

Martin Jimeno Lucas oderiz

New york city:

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History :The history of New York City began with the first European visit to the area by Estevão Gomes. European settlement began on September 3, 1609 when Englishman Henry Hudson in the employ of the DUTCH EAST INDIA Company sailed the Half Moon through The Narrows into Upper New York Bay. The area around New York City was the location for multiple battles of the American Revolutionary War, including the largest battle of the war: the Battle of Brooklyn. the British occupied the city from September 1776 to late 1783.

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Monuments:The empire state: The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located

in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 381 meters, and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 443.2 meters high. The Empire State Building is generally thought of as an American cultural

icon.

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Monuments:The statue of the liberty: is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue was a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking the law upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence

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Manhattan:HISTORy:

Manhattan is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River. The borough and county consist of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, Mill Rock, and U Thant Island.

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Monuments:Central Park : is a public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on 3.41 km2 of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873.

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Monuments:Twin Towers (11-s): The September 11 attacks were a series of

four suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, coordinated to strike the areas of New York City and Washington, D.C. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally piloted two of those planes.

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