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Nov 11, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Isha Banerjee
President-elect Donald Trump declared victory over Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday morning after a competitive presidential election race. West Harlem politicians responded to the election results, encouraging residents and the Democratic Party to continue organizing efforts for future elections.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Zohar Ford |Isha Banerjee
Smoke was spotted coming out of the top floor of the Vagelos Science Center at around 2:29 p.m.Smoke was spotted coming out of the top floor of the Vagelos Science Center at around 2:29 p.m.A fire broke out on the 14th floor of the Vagelos Science Center on Tuesday afternoon, a Fire Department of New York spokesperson confirmed in a statement to Spectator.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Isha Banerjee
West Harlem has three early voting locations open to voters, including The Forum, the City College of New York North Academic Center Building, and the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center. West Harlem has three early voting locations open to voters, including The Forum, the City College of New York North Academic Center Building, and the Jackie Robinson Recreation Center.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Isha Banerjee
The downtown 1 train is skipping all stops between 145th Street and 96th Street this and next weekend, according to a MTA sign posted outside of the 110th Street and Broadway station. This disruption is due to “station improvements,” according to the MTA sign. The trains will skip these stops from Friday at 9:45 p.m. to Monday at 5 a.m. between Oct. 11-14 and Oct. 18-21. The MTA’s website only has disruptions listed for this weekend.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Isha Banerjee
Dozens of pro-Israel protesters gathered outside the 116th Street and Broadway gates to commemorate those killed and taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Isha Banerjee
Workers across all three Hex & Co. locations are encouraging customers to pledge to boycott if the owners of the board game café do not meet union demands. The pledge comes over nine months after Hex & Co. workers unionized, but remain without an agreement on a union contract. Hex & Co., the Brooklyn Strategist, and the Uncommons, all individually or co-owned by Gregory May and Jon Freeman, unionized to form Tabletop Workers United in December 2023.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Isha Banerjee
History books say the soldier-led 1857 rebellion ignited India’s fight for independence. Not everyone agrees. The year 1857 in India began with some wild rumors. The British had issued a new gun to their Indian soldiers, an Enfield musket. But these guns required special cartridges, which soldiers had to bite to activate. That wouldn’t have been a problem, except people were convinced that animal fat greased the cartridges, namely beef tallow and pork lard.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Isha Banerjee
The first Bollywood actor to wear a bikini wasn’t trying to make a statement. That’s what makes her radical. It was the summer of 1966. As India awoke, the August issue of entertainment magazine Filmfare waited at doors and graced newsstands. Jaws dropped as soon as readers saw the cover: a young woman sitting cross-legged with a defiant look. But the stunned reactions perhaps had more to do with the outfit she wore: a black-and-white bikini.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Isha Banerjee
We all know the quadratic formula and the Fibonacci sequence. Why don’t we talk about their roots? In school, you probably had to learn the quadratic formula — a method to find the roots of a parabolic function. Students know the formula like the back of their hand: . But how many know who discovered it? Math theorems are either named for their utility — what they help solve — or their discoverers (Pythagorean Theorem or the Fibonacci Sequence anyone?).
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thejuggernaut.com | Isha Banerjee
You definitely know his tunes, but do you know him? “Sweetheart, tara, tara, tara…” is how singer and composer R.D. Burman opens the song “Duniya Mein Logon Ko” (1972) in his characteristically guttural voice. Enter a guitar riff, a Rajesh Khanna in a red suit, and a blonde Mumtaz, and you can witness Panchamda’s magic. Over 35 years later, you hear it again in Timbaland’s “I Love Them Girls” (2007). You’ll also hear another one of his songs, “Dum Maro Dum” (1971), in Apple’s iPhone 13 ad.
