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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Iceland The island called Iceland, which, though really a part of America, is considered, because of its population and history as forming a part of Europe, is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, between 63 deg. New roads and bridges, and the establishment of the postal service and of telegraphy, are doing much to develop commerce. During the reigns of Christian III and his successors the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the island was dissolved, and Luther's teachings were forced upon the people, who were deprived of all their rights. www.newadvent.org /cathen/07615b.htm   (4894 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hobart Tasmania was originally under the jurisdiction of the vicar Apostolic of Capetown, Mauritius and New Holland, and afterwards under that of New Holland, when it was made a separate vicariate. The circumstances of the early settlement of the island did not tend to religious progress. At the request of the archbishop, the Catholic schools of the island are subject to inspection and examination by the State School inspectors, but they receive nothing from the public funds. www.newadvent.org /cathen/07380c.htm   (984 words)

[No title] Brooklyn Union 4 September 1876 BARREN ISLAND Its odors and its industries--possible improvements Barren Island in no sence is an attractive resort.It is a place of swamps, some hills, fertilizing factories, and bad odors. The flesh of the dead animals costs about 3 cents per pound to gather and land on the island, and a carcase weighs from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds.The manure prepared for farmers is sold mostly on Long Island in its dry state and to New Jersey in its wet condition. PRIME discribes the island (1844) as having become " a place of great resort in a hot season for the luxury of sea-bathing and the enjoyment of ocean air." Coney Island has been a favorite resort with many of the theatrical people for years. www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Town/1876.Barren.Island.html   (1468 words)

Long Island Association, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) New York State should create an incentive fund to reward school districts that have historically low reading and math scores that improve their performance over a three year period. New York should encourage the federal government to adopt externality cost procedures consistent with the recommendations arising from this proceeding. Support the immediate development of a new, high-speed ferry, to be operated by the private sector, between Shoreham, Long Island and New Haven, Connecticut, and urge LIPA to enter into a lease agreement with an operator to allow user of their property at Shoreham. www.longislandassociation.org /li_action_plan_2000.cfm   (7366 words)

Long Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, colloquial usage of the term "Long Island" or "the Island" refers only to the suburban and rural Nassau and Suffolk counties; the more urban Brooklyn and Queens are not thought of as being part of Long Island, as they are part of New York City, However Geographically, the boroughs are part of Long Island. Long Island has a climate that is very similar to other coastal areas of the Northeastern United States; it has warm, humid summers and cold winters, but the Atlantic Ocean helps bring afternoon sea breezes that temper the heat in the warmer months and limit the frequency and severity of thunderstorms. New York City's portion of the census was 4,694,705, with Brooklyn's population at 2,465,326 and Queens having 2,229,379 residents. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Island,_New_York   (7412 words)

Hart Island, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The island was part of the 9,166 acre property purchased by Thomas Pell from the local Native Americans in 1654. Hart, a childless widow, inherited Lesser Minneford Island and donated it to the City of New York or the county and the island was renamed after her. The island's land area is 0.531 km² (0.205 sq mi, or 131.22 acres) and had no permanent population as of the 2000 census. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hart_Island_(New_York)   (719 words)

Barren Island, Brooklyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Barren Island, a small community immediately south of Floyd Bennett Field, and an island in name only, resembles an isolated village in some remote countryside. To the south, on Dead Horse Inlet, are the ruins of a fertilizer factory where the families of Barren Island once found employment. The notorious pirate Gibbs, who met death on the gallows in the early nineteenth century, was said to have buried a portion of his booty on Barren Island, and legend has it that the treasure is still hidden there. www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/barren_island.html   (260 words)

The Hog Islanders One problem deemed of critical importance by her new allies, the British, was the depredations of the German U-Boats and surface raiders. Soon the island was transformed with a connecting railroad and marshalling yards, thirty slipways, seven fitting out wet docks, a forest of cranes and gantries and a holding basin. The Type B in particular was said to be designed with camouflage in mind because with their lack of sheer, high stern, and the evenly balanced superstructure, submarines would have trouble telling which direction they were going. smmlonline.com /articles/hogislanders/hogislanders.html   (1114 words)

Billingsgate Island In all of these, "Billingsgate Island" or "Islands," for then Old Point was apparently a small island beside the larger one, was specified, for, until 1763, "Billingsgate," alone without the '"Island," was the name for the north part of Eastham, which at that time, separated from its mother town and became Wellfleet. For unpretentious Billingsgate Island, apparently around sixty acres of sand and meadow at its maximum, was vitally-important in the economy of lower Cape Cod. Broke through (the sea) at the north end of the island, filling the middle of the island full, running up to the south corner of the foundation on which stands the lighthouse, carrying away the walk which leads to the wharf. www.capecodhistory.us /Wellfleet-records/BillingsgateIsland.htm   (3046 words)

Light Millennium: Return to Tenedos, by Dmetri KAKMI Translated, it means "barren island", and its reputation is not to be disputed since most of the island was denuded of trees centuries ago. Briefly, in 1912, the island was liberated during the First Balkan War, but the Treaty of Lausanne gave it back to Turkey in 1923, forcing many of the Greeks to flee. Thanks to this little island, I was bound to this well-trampled soil as surely as the rocks upon the hills, the caverns beneath my feet, and the history and religion that binds the people who toil here for their duration. www.lightmillennium.org /newyear_03/dkakmi_tenedos.html   (2082 words)

Euskal Herria Journal | A Basque Journal | News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The dispute between Spain and Morocco over a barren islet long abandoned to wild goats may have had all the trappings of comic farce, but the two nations' next face-off might not end so peacefully. Adding insult to injury was the deployment of a Spanish armada to Perejil/Leila, and the sight of helicopter-borne commandos storming the island, forcing a humiliating departure by the Moroccan police. Andrew Reding is a senior fellow with the World Policy Institute in New York and a dual citizen of the United States and the European Union. members.freespeech.org /ehj/news/n_conpol_areding.html   (812 words)

The Republic of Boon Island It was the wackiest three-hour tour since Gilligan visited his island. A boatload of journalists and lighthouse lovers cruised aboard the MV Thomas Laighton to barren Boon Island off the coast of Southern Maine. As the ship curcled Boon Island former lighthous keepers posed on the deck and reminsced about life on the bleak offshore station. www.seacoastnh.com /dct/boonisland.html   (237 words)

Car Rental New York City and Barren Island Barren Island was an island off the southern end of Brooklyn in Jamaica Bay, just opposite Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. The area on which Barren Island is located was created to form the Floyd Bennett Field. Barren Island is located in Brooklyn, which is only a short trip to New York and New Jersey in your Brooklyn car rental. www.allcarrentacar.com /barren-island.php   (487 words)

Boon Island Lighthouse Wallpaper Guide The town of York was a prosperous shipping center established by trade and fishing until the Embargo of 1807, which grounded all of America’s shipping. Boon Island, 8-miles off the coast of York, is a 700-feet long narrow barren rock ledge barely exposed above the surface of the sea that is extremely hazardous to shipping. The February Blizzard of 1978, one of New England’s worst snow storms, flooded the Keeper’s house to a depth of five feet forcing the Coast Guard Keepers to seek refuge in the Tower’s lantern room. home.comcast.net /~debee2/maine/BoonIsland.html   (1115 words)

VAI: Governors Island: Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) That does not mean that they looked only for public parks, as laudable a goal as that might be, or that every square foot of the island had to be open to all the people all the time, or that commercial ventures were not acceptable while civic one were. The island was dedicated to sports, from golf to health camps on a razed field, to the sensible proposal of the first grade class from the Governors Island elementary school for riding, biking, and boating. The first and second entries illustrate an important vision for the future of New York’s and other cities’ with public and semi-public spaces: they engage the most current “public” issues in terms of the most contemporary science and culture--green technology, virtual community--and at the same time make places that people would want to go. www.vanalen.org /competitions/governors_island/projects.htm   (535 words)

Sierra Club: Long Island Group | Green Places William Bayard Cutting and her daughter in the memory of William Bayard Cutting "to provide an oasis of beauty and quiet for the pleasure, rest, and refreshment of those who delight in outdoor beauty; and to bring about a greater appreciation and understanding of the value and importance of informal planting." Open year round. Located only one hour east of New York City, this island retreat is a world apart from the main island world. Fire Island stretches 32 miles from Robert Moses State Park on the west to Smith Point Park on the east, featuring the only federally declared Wilderness Area in New York State. newyork.sierraclub.org /longisland/places.html   (2318 words)

TIME.com: Airports -- Feb. 25, 1929 -- Page 1 Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Last week Barren Island was so far prepared that the Curtiss flying service made arrangements to move its headquarters ters there from famed Curtiss Field. www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,880507,00.html   (752 words)

Floyd Bennett Field Historic District--Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places ... Floyd Bennett Field, on Barren Island, Jamaica Bay, was the first municipal airport in New York City. Constructed between 1928 and 1931 by the City Department of Docks, the airport was designed to divert the increasing volume of air traffic to New York City away from Newark Airport where the vast majority of New York bound flights terminated. The longer of the new runways extended southeast for 5,500 feet from the northern terminus of the 3,100-foot runway. www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/flo.htm   (983 words)

National Sea Grant Office: New York Researchers Investigate Dramatic Loss of Long Island Wetlands Dramatic losses of wetlands in New York City’s Jamaica Bay, as well as threats to salt marsh and coastal wetland habitats elsewhere on Long Island, are being investigated by researchers supported by New York Sea Grant. Of special interest is Jamaica Bay—a complex ecological system that provides important habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants and lies in the shadow of New York’s skyscrapers. The marshes are in the middle of an active bay where waves constantly wash away sediment and redeposit it. www.seagrant.noaa.gov /newsevents/stories/newyork_wetlands.html   (374 words)

Painting the Town White-and Green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Heat islands are found in many large cities, including Chicago, Washington, and (as the Olympic athletes and fans can attest) Atlanta. F heat island greatly raises the rate at which pollutants-nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds emanating from cars and smokestacks -"cook" into ozone, a highly oxidizing and irritating gas that is the main ingredient of smog. The figures assume the planting of 10 million new trees and the lightening of 2,500 square kilometers of roofs and pavement. eande.lbl.gov /HeatIsland/PUBS/PAINTING   (3377 words)

New York The Smith family had extensive land holdings in New York, and the Land Office, constructed by Peter Smith in 1804, was the administrative focal point of the family's real estate activity and business ventures. John Brown (1800--1859) considered this farm, a National Historic Landmark and New York State Historic Site, his home during the ten years leading up to the infamous 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry where he was killed. Born in New York in 1806, Amanda, in possession of her "free papers," obtained employment as a nurse to Arkansas Governor Conway. www.ratrun.com /new_york.htm   (5673 words)

nsf.gov - News - Scientists Discover Undersea Volcano Off Antarctica - US National Science Foundation (NSF) Eugene Domack, a researcher at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and the expedition's chief scientist, said the volcano stands 700 meters (2300 feet) above the seafloor and extends to within roughly 275 meters (900 feet) of the ocean surface. He noted that there has been "no previous scientific record of active volcanoes in the region" where the new peak was discovered and that it is north of an existing boundary where volcanic activity is known to occur in the region. But a dark mat of underwater life is broken along the edges of the volcano by barren patches of dark, fl rock indicating that lava has flowed there. www.nsf.gov /news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100385   (961 words)

Secrets of New York by Chaosium for Call of Cthulhu During the day ships, barges, tugs, and pleasure boats ply New York's bay and rivers, dashing beneath bridges and disgorging thousands of people upon the city's shores. Secrets of New York is a compendium of one of the oldest and most popular cities in the new world, and is a supplement for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. Included are maps and historical documents and photographs of 1920's New York City, as well as several scenarios that explore the most popular and less savory locales of this grand metropolis. www.spiritgames.co.uk /rpgsin.php?UniqueNo=3911   (332 words)

New York Marinas Directory - NY Marinas Barren Island Marina, Inc., 2642 Coyle St., Brooklyn, NY. Island Boatyard, Inc. 65 S Menantic Rd., Shelter Island, NY. New Suffolk Shipyard, Inc. 6775 New Suffolk Rd., New Suffolk, NY 631-734-6311. www.sailmiami.com /Marinas/new_york.htm   (1233 words)

Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal: World Reports Supersonic transports whisk passengers from New York to Paris in a few hours. These new technologies may also improve the economic viability of deep-sea mining. Once thought to be a barren, inexhaustible sink, the deep seas have served over the years as a repository for large quantities of human waste. www.earthisland.org /eijournal/spring98/sp98f_wr.htm   (998 words)

The Game Smiths - Role Playing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Secrets of New York is a compendium of one of the oldest and most renowned cities in the United States. Included are maps and historical documents and photographs to bring 1920s New York City to life, as well as three scenarios that explore the most popular and less savory locales of this grand metropolis. Thehandbook focuses not only on new classes, races, and feats, but alsocovers ways to tailor the existing d20 canon to a demon-hunter theme.It includes rules for possession and exorcism, organizations both pureand demonic, and guidelines for creating truly villainous demons tohunt. thegamesmiths.com /store/c-25-role-playing.aspx   (3194 words)

Long Island Rail Road Historical Society Home Page NOTE: There is now The New York Connecting Railroad Society, an all-volunteer organization started in 1993 and recently incorporated to preserve the history of the joint venture between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New Haven (NYCRR and the Hell Gate Bridge); they publish a newsletter, "The Connecting". The Long Island Rail Road Historical Society is an internal LIRR employees and retirees group which can be reached by snail-mail at "Oyster Bay Train Station, Oyster Bay, New York 11771" (where they have an exhibit in the waiting room). The Long Island Rail Road is an agency of New York State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. home.att.net /~Berliner-Ultrasonics/lirrhs.html   (2385 words)

New York City Car Rentals and the Cadillac CTS All Rent A Car New York City car rentals want you to experience the Cadillac CTS — which features a new generation of engines. All Rent A Car New York City car rentals say the CTS blends the Cadillac’s century-long tradition and innovative design with a modern twist. All Rent A Car New York City car rentals say that taller drivers or passengers will appreciate the good legroom the CTS provides. www.allcarrentacar.com /cadillac-cts-2.php   (611 words)

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