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The term "The Big Apple" was first used in the early 1900s, but it became popular in the 1920s.

Sportswriter John J. Fitz Gerald is credited with popularizing the term in his column "Around the Big Apple" in the New York Morning Telegraph.

Fitz Gerald claimed he heard the term from two stable hands at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, who used it to refer to the large prizes at New York horse races.

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• UNICEF was founded on 11 December 1946.
• It is stands for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.
• It's headquarters is located in New York City, USA.
• It was established to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in worldwide countries.

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The Wall Street Journal, is an  international daily newspaper based in New York City.

The Journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.

The newspaper is published in broadsheet format and online. 

also referred to simply as the Journal,

Owner: Dow Jones & Company

Publisher: Dow Jones & Company

Founders: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, Charles Bergstresser

First issue date: July 8, 1889

Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.

Built from 1930 to 1931.

Its name is derived from "Empire State", the nickname of the state of New York.

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New York is also known as the City of Sky Scrapers.

New York City is renowned for the concentration of high-rise buildings, commonly known as "the skyscrapers".

New York is the most populous city in the United States.

New York, a constituent state of the United States of America.

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The Headquarters of the United Nations Population Fund is in New York

UNFPA stands for United Nations Population Fund

The formation in 1969

The 193 member states of the United Nations 

 Its name was changed to United Nations Population Fund in 1987

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• 23 October 2020, Bonn, Germany - The United nations Institute for training and research (UNITAR) is now the 24th and latest member of the UN circle of relatives in Bonn.
• UNITAR, based in Geneva, Switzerland, opens its 1/3 out-published workplace within the UN metropolis in Germany, following the places of work in the usa (big apple) and Japan (Hiroshima). The Institute has several venture places of work and affiliated schooling centres around the sector.
• The Bonn workplace will offer a complete variety of services spanning its paintings across all pillars of agenda 2030, collectively with flagship programmes on multilateral international relations, climate trade mastering, e-waste, non-communicable sickness, warfare prevention, peacekeeping, satellite evaluation and carried out studies.