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The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays its home... games in East Rutherford, New Jersey at MetLife Stadium, which it shares with the New York Jets in a unique arrangement. As a result of their victory in Super Bowl XLVI, the Giants are the reigning champions of the NFL. The Giants were one of five teams that joined the NFL in 1925, but the only one admitted that year which still exists. The team ranks third among all NFL franchises with eight NFL titles: four in the pre–Super Bowl era and four since the advent of the Super Bowl , XXV , XLII , and XLVI . Their championship tally is surpassed only by the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears . During their history, the Giants have featured 15 Hall of Fame players, including NFL Most Valuable Player award winners Mel Hein, Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly, Y. A. Tittle, and Lawrence Taylor.
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The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan. It is one of the original eight Public Ivy universities and is one of the founding members of... the Association of American Universities. U-M also has satellite campuses in Flint and Dearborn. The university was founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, about 20 years before the Michigan Territory officially became a state. What would become the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university has physically expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 31 million gross square feet , and transformed its academic program from a strictly classical curriculum to one that includes science and research. U-M was the site of much student activism in the 1960s. When presidential candidate John F.
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Bixby is a city in Tulsa and Wagoner counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is a suburb of Tulsa. The population was 13,336 at the 2000 census and 20,884 in the 2010 census. It is nicknamed "The Garden Spot of Oklahoma" for its rich agrarian heritage. Though one of the fastest growing... communities in Oklahoma, it remains a sod-growing center and a popular location for purchasing fresh vegetables. In 2009, CNN Money.com placed Bixby No. 67 on its list of 100 Best Places to Live. Bixby is located at 35°57′39″N 95°52′42″W / 35.96083°N 95.87833°W / 35.96083; -95.87833 . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 24.1 square miles , of which, 24.0 square miles is land and 1.0 square mile is water. The average elevation is 750 ft above MSL. The town is bisected into north and south portions by the Arkansas River; the original town center is located south of the river. Alexander Posey, a member of the Muscogee nation, and his family settled in the area now known as Bixby in the late 1800s.
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