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Markley, a Yorktown, N.Y. native, has settled into the role of a premier offensive option for the Crimson. This has been a breakout season for the sophomore, who saw limited playing time during her freshman year...
Long Live the Revolution. Despite what you may have learned in grade school, the American Revolution did not end at the Battle of Yorktown. The war wasn't officially over until two years later, when the British withdrew from New York City and relinquished power, on Nov. 25, 1783. This Tuesday, Nov. 25, the National Park Service (NPS) celebrates the 225th anniversary of Evacuation Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Federal Hall (6 Wall Street, New York City), with costumed re-enactors and fife and drum music, as well as a lecture by New York historian Barnet Schecter...
...continue to be fresh without losing the essence of Hello Kitty? Jo-Anne Sears, Yorktown, Va. Trends are the key - what colors and what motifs are in. If roses are in fashion, then I think of rose designs. I have to be able to predict more or less what is coming...
...off—away from the gym and the classroom—thinking about the role that basketball played in her life. Markley’s sudden doubts about her commitment to basketball came as a surprise to her and those around her. A highly-touted recruit out from Yorktown Heights, N.Y., the 6’3” forward possessed a number of collegiate options from which to choose. Continuing her basketball career as a college student seemed a given, but for some reason, it suddenly wasn’t.As Markley thought aloud about these questions on her year...
...independence, France was still smarting from its defeat by Britain in the Seven Years' War, which ended in 1763. France wanted to even the score; the U.S. wanted French money, supplies and military help. Together they beat Britain (there were more French soldiers than Americans at the battle of Yorktown). Their hardheaded transactions were sweetened by personal alliances. America's most important diplomat in Paris was the scientist and wit Benjamin Franklin, who became such a celebrity in France that his image graced snuffboxes and inkwells. The hero the French sent in return was the Marquis de Lafayette, an ardent...