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Alexander Hamilton's House is Moved
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6-9-2008 9:31 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/11328d68-f3b3-410a-b9da-61420c9e5c26/00C1DE3D-1420-4BFC-8081-D2A810F3557D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/08/2008-06-08_historic_liftoff_alexander_hamilton_home.html" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/08/2008-06-08_historic_liftoff_alexander_hamilton_home.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nydailynews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/08/2008-06-08_historic_liftoff_alexander_hamilton_home.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nydailynews.com/img/8BB8F1BF-266C-4B9D-BA0E-4899536AD991" alt="Harlem home once owned by Alexander Hamilton is carefully moved to St. Nicholas Park. 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