Word: area
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schools were closed and police cordoned off a 130-block area as city leaders sought to restore calm in the predominantly Black Overtown neighborhood...
Dershowitz explained that the owners opened Maven's "to provide a service to the [Jewish] community." but found that there just was not a large enough market in the area for the business to produce profits...
...trouble erupted again when a white man in a luxury car reportedly fired into a crowd of Blacks in the area yesterday afternoon, wounding one person before driving away...
Police fired tear gas at the crowd and in turn were pelted by rocks and bottles. They then sealed off a several block area and shots could be heard from within...
...took some gunboat diplomacy to bring the area under British sovereignty. The Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ended the First Anglo-Chinese War and transferred Hong Kong to the crown. In 1898 the mainland region later known as the New Territories was added under the 99-year lease agreement. The only disruption of the tenancy was the Japanese occupation during World...