History
The first nourishment project in the U.S. was constructed at Coney Island, New York in 1922-1923.
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“There is no history of how bad became better.”
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“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)