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  2. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City - Wikipedia

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    NYPD taping off One Grand Central Place during the early afternoon of March 3, 2020, in response to New York's first confirmed case of COVID-19 person-to-person spread New York City Subway passengers on March 9, when there were 16 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York City, with NYC Transit Interim President Sarah Feinberg on the right

  3. Nude swimming in US indoor pools - Wikipedia

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    Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907) depicting boys swimming from a pier in the East River, New York City "Swimming baths" and pools were built in the late 19th century in poorer neighborhoods of northern industrial cities of the US to exert some control over a public swimming culture that offended Victorian sensibilities by including not only nakedness, but roughhousing and swearing.

  4. Hunter College High School - Wikipedia

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    After the introductory 7th grade social studies course, 4 semesters of global studies (8th-9th grades) and 2 semesters (10th grade) are followed by 2 semesters of 20th century history (11th grade). A series of English and mathematics courses are taught from 7th through 11th grades.

  5. Saffir–Simpson scale - Wikipedia

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    The scale was introduced to the general public in 1973, [5] and saw widespread use after Neil Frank replaced Simpson at the helm of the NHC in 1974. [6] The scale was created by Herbert Saffir, a structural engineer, who in 1969 was commissioned by the United Nations to study low-cost housing in hurricane-prone areas. [7]

  6. Tanner scale - Wikipedia

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    The Tanner scale (also known as the Tanner stages or sexual maturity rating (SMR)) is a scale of physical development as pre-pubescent children transition into adolescence, and then adulthood. The scale defines physical measurements of development based on external primary and secondary sex characteristics , such as the size of the breasts ...

  7. Academic grading in China - Wikipedia

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    Some US universities also provide guidance for converting different grading systems into 4.0 scale grading. For example, UC Berkeley has a GPA Conversion chart for non-US grading systems. [4] The lower grade ranges in 0-100 scale are given higher grades than usual in 4.0 scale for Chinese grading systems.

  8. Algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Flowchart of using successive subtractions to find the greatest common divisor of number r and s. In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm (/ ˈ æ l ɡ ə r ɪ ð əm / ⓘ) is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. [1]

  9. Jenna Ortega - Wikipedia

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    Jenna Marie Ortega, [1] the fourth of six siblings, was born on September 27, 2002, [2] in Palm Desert, California. [1] [3] Her father, a former sheriff who works at a California district attorney's office, is of Mexican descent, and her mother, who is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, works as an emergency room nurse.