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Brooklyn

2008-11-29T18:51:43Z

Womzilla:

'''Brooklyn''' is one of the five boroughs of [[New York City]], situated at the southwestern tip of Long Island. Brooklyn is now Kings Borough (a political subdivision of New York City), but before the Grand Unification in 1898, Brooklyn was a single city filling Kings County. It is sometimes referred to as "America's Fourth Largest City", including on a (now-removed) "Welcome to Brooklyn" sign at the Verazano-Narrows Bridge; if it were still a separate city, it would indeed be the fourth largest, after New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. It is the most populated borough in the city, but the borough of [[Queens]] is the largest in terms of area.

Brooklyn is composed of a number of "neighborhoods", many of which have achieved a degree of fame on their own, such as Greenpoint, Flatbush, Coney Island, Williamsburg, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brooklyn has been the birthplace of many famous Americans, such as actresses Barbara Stanwyck and [[Clara Bow]], directors Woody Allen and Spike Lee, and singer Barbara Streisand, to name just a few.

==The Borough of Neighborhoods==

Brooklyn is sometimes known as "the borough of neighborhoods" because of its many well-defined and culturally independent neighborhoods. It would be difficult to list every single neighborhood here because there are so many of them, but some of the most notable and famous are:

*DUMBO (acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass")
*Downtown Brooklyn (New York City's third most significant financial center after Midtown [[Manhattan]] and Manhattan's Financial District)
*Brooklyn Heights
*Williamsburg (a well-known community popular with artists and bohemians)
*[[Bedford-Stuyvesant]] (pronounced STY-vess-ent, birthplace of many celebrities)
*Brighton Beach
*Coney Island

[[Category:New York]]

Brooklyn

2008-11-29T18:51:27Z

Womzilla:

'''Brooklyn''' is one of the five boroughs of [[New York City]], situated at the southwestern tip of Long Island. Brooklyn is now Kings Borough (a political subdivision of New York City), but before the Grand Unification in 1989, Brooklyn was a single city filling Kings County. It is sometimes referred to as "America's Fourth Largest City", including on a (now-removed) "Welcome to Brooklyn" sign at the Verazano-Narrows Bridge; if it were still a separate city, it would indeed be the fourth largest, after New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. It is the most populated borough in the city, but the borough of [[Queens]] is the largest in terms of area.

Brooklyn is composed of a number of "neighborhoods", many of which have achieved a degree of fame on their own, such as Greenpoint, Flatbush, Coney Island, Williamsburg, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brooklyn has been the birthplace of many famous Americans, such as actresses Barbara Stanwyck and [[Clara Bow]], directors Woody Allen and Spike Lee, and singer Barbara Streisand, to name just a few.

==The Borough of Neighborhoods==

Brooklyn is sometimes known as "the borough of neighborhoods" because of its many well-defined and culturally independent neighborhoods. It would be difficult to list every single neighborhood here because there are so many of them, but some of the most notable and famous are:

*DUMBO (acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass")
*Downtown Brooklyn (New York City's third most significant financial center after Midtown [[Manhattan]] and Manhattan's Financial District)
*Brooklyn Heights
*Williamsburg (a well-known community popular with artists and bohemians)
*[[Bedford-Stuyvesant]] (pronounced STY-vess-ent, birthplace of many celebrities)
*Brighton Beach
*Coney Island

[[Category:New York]]

1984

2007-03-23T13:34:19Z

Womzilla:

'''1984''' is a novel by [[George Orwell]] in what is now called the [[dystopia]]n genre. It is often viewed as a critique of the Soviet regime.

It was originally to be titled "The Last Man in Europe," but the title was changed at the publisher's suggestion. It is often suggested that "eighty-four" is a reversal of "forty-eight," the year in which the book was written, but this has never been confirmed.

Orwell was influenced by Jack London's novel ''The Iron Heel,'' and Yevgeny Zamyatin's ''We.''

1984 describes an [[alternate history]] in which Oceania (roughly, the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and South Africa) is perpetually at war with [[Eurasia]] or Eastasia and allied with the other. The book describes a dystopia where the government monitors and controls nearly all aspects of every individual's life.

The [[protagonist]], Winston Smith, works in the Ministry of Truth, altering records to fit the Party's current view of history. However, Smith grows to gradually disagree with the Party and what it stands for. Eventually, he and his lover Julia are captured by the thought police and tortured to the point where they once again love the party.

Much of the novel is taken up with discussions of the nature of power and societal control, and words and mottos from the novel--"doublethink", "We have always been at war with Eastasia", "the memory hole" and many more--have become standard shorthand in political discussions.
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