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Jay Street
Jay Street may refer to: ;Transportation *Jay Street – MetroTech (New York City Subway), a New York City Subway station complex at Jay, Lawrence and Willoughby Streets in Brooklyn consisting of: **Jay Street – MetroTech (IND Fulton Street Line) Jays are a paraphyletic grouping of passerine birds within the family Corvidae. Although the term "jay" carries no taxonomic weight, most or all of the birds referred to as jays share a few similarities: they are small to medium-sized, usually ...; serving the ** Jay Street – MetroTech (IND Culver Line); serving the ** Jay Street – MetroTech (BMT Fourth Avenue Line); serving the * Bridge–Jay Streets (BMT Myrtle Avenue Line), a demolished New York City Subway elevated station ;People *Jay Street, a pen name of Henry Slesar See also * Jay Street Bridge, in Pennsylvania {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Street – MetroTech (New York City Subway)
Jays are a paraphyletic grouping of passerine birds within the family Corvidae. Although the term "jay" carries no taxonomic weight, most or all of the birds referred to as jays share a few similarities: they are small to medium-sized, usually have colorful feathers and are quite noisy. These superificial characteristics set them apart from most other corvids such as crows, ravens, jackdaws, rooks and magpies, which are larger and have darker plumage. Many so-called "jays" are genetically closer to these other corvids than other jays, however. Systematics and species Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into a New World and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac), while the grey jays of the genus ''Perisoreus'' form a group of their own.http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021299/Corvidae%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext The black magpies, formerly believed to be related to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Slesar
Henry Slesar (June 12, 1927 – April 2, 2002) was an American author and playwright. He is famous for his use of irony and Plot twist#Twist ending, twist endings. After reading Slesar's "M Is for the Many" in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'', Alfred Hitchcock bought it for adaptation and they began many successful collaborations. Slesar wrote hundreds of scripts for Television program#Seasons/series, television series and soap operas, leading ''TV Guide'' to call him "the writer with the largest audience in America." Life Henry Slesar was born in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, and he had two sisters named Doris and Lillian. After graduating from the High School of Art and Design, School of Industrial Art, he found he had a talent for ad copy and design, which launched his twenty-year career as a copywriting, copywriter at the age of 17. He was hired right out of school to work for the prominent advertising agency Young & Rubica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
