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Austin, Nancy
Las Vegas, Nevada comedic entertainer Nancy Byrne Austin was born in Silver Springs, Maryland in 1934. She received her education at the University of Maryland, earning a degree in Education. She taught elementary school for a short time before committing full time to show business. She began performing comedy in New York City in the 1950s and moved to Las Vegas in the early 1960s. Austin made an initial impression as one of the original cast members of the popular Las Vegas daytime review Bottoms Up.
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Series II. Twitter datasets, 2017
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This series contains data collected from the Twitter microblogging platform. The dataset was captured as a part of a range of efforts to capture Twitter data associated with the October 1, 2017 mass shooting that occured at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. Data were gathered via concurrent queries to the Twitter API for all Tweets containing the term "vegas" occurring September 29 and October 7, 2017 before 5:00 PM PT. The full Twitter datasets (restricted to use on campus) is expressed in the JSON (javascript object notation) format structured text files and represents de-duplicated Tweets, shared and re-tweeted URLs, and shared and re-tweeted image URLs. The dataset also includes the images that were associated with the collected Tweets. The public Twitter dataset includes a list of Tweet identifiers for public distribution in accordance with Twitter’s Terms of Service.
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Collection Name: Web Archive on the October 1, 2017 Shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Women's Studies Department
The Women’s Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) was established in 1979 with the goal of meeting the unique needs of women. The program was designed to give clarity and organization to existing data on women, increase research in neglected areas, create new research, and evaluate feminist theory. The program was initiated in 1978 when UNLV staff members formed a Women’s Studies Committee. The Women’s Studies program was originally housed under the College of Arts and Letters as an interdisciplinary degree.
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