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	Bertrand Island, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bertrand Island, New Jersey, is a small peninsula in Lake Hopatcong, part of the community of Mount Arlington.
		It is best known as the former site of the Bertrand Island Amusement Park which existed from 1928 to 1983, as well as being the place of origin for Bette Cooper, 1937's Miss America.
		Prior to the building of the amusement park, Bertrand Island actually was an island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bertrand_Island,_New_Jersey (216 words)

	Albert Einstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After British solar eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed that light rays from distant stars were deflected by the gravity of the Sun in the amount he had predicted in his theory of relativity, Einstein became world-famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist.
		In the mid-1920s, as the original quantum theory was replaced with a new theory of quantum mechanics, Einstein objected to the Copenhagen interpretation of the new equations.
		in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from internal bleeding, which was caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurism, leaving the Generalized Theory of Gravitation unsolved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_einstein (8638 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		The uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century; they subsequently became a trading center for African slaves and later an important coaling and resupply stop for whaling and transatlantic shipping.
		Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans, due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs.
		The population of the island continues to drop (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to about 2,100 in 2002) with substantial emigration to New Zealand, 2,400 km to the southwest.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	This is Jersey - Living in Jersey - History & Heritage - Occupation
		Initially the Islands were used as a place for rest and relaxation for the troops but the occupiers soon set about Germanising the Islands - the language of the road signs was changed, cars had to drive on the right and schoolchildren were forced to learn German ÷ which incensed the local population.
		In such small Islands with no military capabilities of their own, it was impossible to organise a resistance movement, but the majority of Islanders fought back in their own way by refusing to co-operate with the regime.
		The new Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Islands in February 1945, Admiral Friedrich Huffmeier, was a fanatical Nazi.
	www.thisisjersey.com /code/showarticle.pl?ArticleID=000186 (674 words)

	This is Jersey - Living in Jersey - History & Heritage - Sir George Carteret
		AT a time when the Island is celebrating its 800-year bond with the Crown it is appropriate to remember a Jerseyman who served his monarch with utmost loyalty in the turbulent and dangerous era of the English Civil War.
		Although Jersey had attempted to remain neutral in the Civil War, Parliament eventually sent forces to the Island and besieged Carteret’s uncle, Sir Philippe de Carteret, who was Bailiff, in Elizabeth Castle.
		The Jersey ‘sea boy’ was made Vice-Chamberlain of the King’s Household, a Privy Councillor and Treasurer of the Navy.
	www.thisisjersey.com /code/showarticle.pl?ArticleID=000616 (1120 words)

	Hopatcong State Park, a New Jersey State Park near Basking Ridge, Bayonne, Berkeley Heights, Boonton, Brooklyn
		During the spring the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife stocks both lakes with brown, rainbow and brook trout.
		Fishing is subject to New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife regulations.
		Bertrand Island Amusement Park, Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey - Bertrand Island Amusement Park on Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey NJ...
	www.stateparks.com /hopatcong.html (968 words)

	Colonial History - New Amsterdam (New York City)
		The settlement of New Amsterdam followed the explorations of Henry Hudson for the Dutch (approx.
		The New Netherland Project - sponsored by the NY State Library; project to transcribe original documents relating to the Dutch colony.
		New Netherland Museum - the museum maintains a reproduction of the vessel the Half Moon, the ship Henry Hudson sailed to the New World.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /goldcoop/newamsterdam.html (974 words)

	Morris County Heritage Commission - Directory \| Bibliography
		History of Morris County, New Jersey, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers.
		New Brunswick, NJ: Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 1994.
		New Jersey Office of Safety Compliance. Abandoned Iron Mines of Mt. Olive, Roxbury, Mt. Arlington Townships, Morris County New Jersey. Prepared by Mine Safety Section. Trenton, NJ: State of New Jersey, Division of Workplace Standards, Office of Safety Compliance, 1978.
	www.co.morris.nj.us /MCHC/directory-bibliography.html (3417 words)

	New York Daily News - Boroughs - History was made here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Yet in 18th-century Queens, the vast majority of the population were loyalists, with smaller numbers of Dutch and French, said George Miller, the historian at the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society.
		After the Battle of Long Island, many Americans who did not support the crown fled to New England and northern New York State, and to New Jersey, he said.
		Stockton was the great-grandson of another Richard Stockton, a signer of the Flushing Remonstrance, which was a declaration in 1657 that the people of Flushing would not tolerate religious persecution and welcomed all faiths to fully worship.
	www.nydailynews.com /boroughs/story/430409p-362859c.html (545 words)

	fanny.html
		Bertrand Russell, a non-believer, knewandemdash;not believedandemdash;that upon his death his body would become food for the worms.
		the major philosopher in the New York City area and editor of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, spoke to FANNY and others at New School University on the subject, "God and the Philosophers." An estimated 100 were in attendance.
		Ditullio and Smith regularly report to Rob Tielman of the IHEU on Siloist activities which are considered to be harmful to the humanist movement.
	fanny.humanists.net (2768 words)

	Local Museums in Northwest New Jersey Skylands
		The canal is the subject of another of the museum's exhibits, and it is a former lock tender's house that houses the museum.
		A separate room chronicles Bertrand's Island Amusement Park, which for years drew schoolchildren and senior citizens from as far away as New York City.
		Second graders wiggle in their seats just as they would at their own school, but at the Township of Lebanon Museum at New Hampton (map), the seats and desks are attached, and there are two pupils to a desk.
	www.njskylands.com /hscollections.htm (4206 words)

	Bertrand Island Amusement Park, Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey
		Bertrand Island Amusement Park was located in Mount Arlington, NJ, just a few yards north of the Landing, NJ border on an arm of land that jutted out into Lake Hopatcong.
		This park was once one of New Jersey's most popular summer attractions.
		Proof that Bertrand really was an Island for a number of years.
	www.landingnewjersey.com /bertrand.htm (934 words)

	Frequently asked questions about "The Manhattan Skyline" panoramas of New York City
		The panoramas show New York City from the perspective familiar to most — at ground level, as opposed to the view from an airplane.
		Buildings on the far side of the island seem as close as those on the near side.
		All structures were drawn to the same scale regardless of their location in Manhattan, ensuring no structure is diminished in size because of its distance from the viewer.
	www.grandscapes.biz /faq.html (1048 words)

	Miss America
		The first prize winner of the national pagent is awarded the title of "Miss America" for one year.
		It originated on September 7, 1921 as a beauty contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
		The Miss America Pagent now prefers to avoid terms like "beauty contest" since beauty is no longer the only criterion used to judge contestants.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/mi/miss_america.html (551 words)

	History of Jefferson Township
		The railroad lines in Jefferson Township were the Ogden Mine Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, and to some extent the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
		By 1882 – the Central Railroad of New Jersey, had built a line from their High Bridge Terminal into Nolan’s Point.
		On the island itself there was the Raccoon Island Hotel (later the Hollywood Hotel), store, and summer cottages.
	www.nynjctbotany.org /njhltofc/jeffersontwn.html (1228 words)

	NCESA NEWS: July 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lake Hopatcong in upper New Jersey is honored to be hosting the 2006 ECESA Championship Regatta on Wednesday August 2nd through Friday August 4th.
		LHYC is locaed on Bertrand's Island, Landing New Jersey.
		The first half of the New York State Championships was held at Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club June 16-17 under bright blue skies and temps in the high 80's.
	www.e-scow.org /REACHES/NCESAdigital-July2006.html (2315 words)

	Mad Scientists' Club: The Official Website
		Returning to the States again, he became news chief for the U.S. First Army on Governors Island, New York.
		We lived on Staten Island in the oldest house on the island, so he took two ferries to get to work-- one from Staten Island to Manhattan; and the other from Manhattan to Governors Island.
		We were still living on Staten Island when he finished the story, but the family had moved to Florida by the time it was published by Boys' Life in 1961.
	www.madscientistsclub.com /author.html (1461 words)

	The New Yorker: Goings On About Town: Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Feb. 16 at 6:45: More new music is offered on the latest “Double Exposure” concert, two performances of works by Keith Fitch, Anthony Gatto (“The Sheltering Sky”), and David Rakowski with refreshments offered in between.
		Robert Mealy, the Collegium’s violin soloist, plays with the kind of dashing virtuosity that New York’s early-music groups often lack.
		Feb. 12 at 2: Nakamura is joined by a clutch of New York’s best new-music pros (featuring the pianist Stephen Gosling and the violinist Tom Chiu) for an afternoon of works by five young Japanese composers.
	www.newyorker.com /goingson/music/articles/060213gocl_GOAT_classical (1582 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum has released a new video "Greetings from Bertrand Island" - a 47 minute narrated history of Bertrand Island Amusement Park.
		The Park was located at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey until its closure in 1983.
		This video includes wonderful footage of the wooden coaster that operated at the park from 1925 until the park's closure.
	www.coasterbuzz.com /2003-29-710871.htm (112 words)

	Bertrand Island - Lake Hopatcong, NJ
		Bertrand Island - Lake Hopatcong, NJ Bertrand Island
		A new book about Bertrand's Island has been released detailing the history of the park.
		Greeting's From Bertrand Island Amusement Park by Martin and Laura Kane has 128 pages of extensive information about the park.
	www.defunctparks.com /parks/NJ/Bertrand/bertrand.htm (109 words)

	History of Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey NJ
		The company provided service from the "new" Landing railroad station, built around 1886, to all areas of the Lake by means of a 'feeder canal' that traveled from the Lake at the area of the State Park and connected to the Canal in the area of the current Landing Shopping Center.
		The "Lackawanna Cut-off" begins construction across New Jersey at this time, it is a Railway Engineering marvel, running in a straight level line from just north of Port Morris to the Delaware River.
		In 1972 the new, larger Roxbury High School was built, allowing the Eisenhower School to be used as a Middle School.
	www.roxburynewjersey.com /history.htm (5041 words)

	Landing, New Jersey on Lake Hopatcong, Roxbury Township NJ
		Landing, New Jersey on Lake Hopatcong, Roxbury Township NJ Landing, New Jersey on scenic Lake Hopatcong in Roxbury Township, NJ !!
		Landing New Jersey is on scenic Lake Hopatcong and is part of the municipality of Roxbury Township in western Morris County.
		Landing has a population of approx 7,300 people, several hundred white-tailed deer, a few bears, and one elusive water creature named "Hoppie", who lives in the depths of Lake Hopatcong and can occasionally be seen swimming on the surface of the Lake.
	www.landingnewjersey.com (435 words)

	The New Yorker: Goings On About Town: Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jean Vigo’s only feature film, from 1934, transfigures the sooty metal of heavy industry and the strivings of its survivors with a romantic illumination so intense that the film is at once a great working-class drama, an exalted love story, a lusty comedy, and—without a single stage-bound contrivance—the most magical of musicals.
		The new Sydney Pollack movie is set at the United Nations: not the bear pit of recent wrangling but a barely ruffled pool of international good will.
		A thirteen-year-old girl from the New Jersey suburbs, Aviva, wants desperately to get pregnant and repeatedly begs a teen-age boy and a grown man to sleep with her.
	www.newyorker.com /goingson/movies/articles/050502gomo_GOAT_movies (3312 words)

	The Whacky Shack at Waldameer Park
		Tracey bid to build the new ride, with Tracey winning and creating another one of his popular rides, possibly utilizing the "Hush-Puppy" ride car system.
		This is a classic Tracey design, and a later work in his career, being built in 1970-1971.
		Other examples of Tracey’s work along with his association with the Messmore and Damon Company would be built on several New Jersey Piers and in amusement parks from Maine to Florida, and all the way west to Kansas.
	www.laffinthedark.com /articles/waldameer/whackyshack.htm (270 words)

	The New Jersey Historical Society
		The New Jersey Historical Society Library Collection of Vertical Files also includes Family Vertical Files, Biography Vertical Files, and Newark Vertical Files.
		See also: Manuscript Group 134, New Jersey State Anti-Slavery Society Records; Manuscript Group 408, Horace N. Congar (1817-1893) Papers (one of the founders of the antislavery Free Soil Party in New Jersey); Manuscript Group 886, Harmonic Society of Newark Records, (Contains a fragment of the Newark Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society's constitution)
		Jersey City, NJ: Published by The New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 1938.
	www.jerseyhistory.org /arch_browse-subject-A-C.html (1080 words)

	NJN - New Jersey Public Television and Radio
		For more than 70 years, an amusement park in the hills of northwestern New Jersey provided summertime fun for the young and young at heart.
		The roar of the roller coaster, the magic of the carousel, the smell of popcorn in the air, and the sense that adventure was only as far away as the next ticket booth … for countless thousands, the place that had all this and more was Bertrand Island Amusement Park in Lake Hopatcong, NJ.
		Relive the days when big bands, beauty pageants, Nickel Nights, Kiddieland and the boardwalk brought thousands each day to Bertrand Island.
	www.njn.net /television/highlights/july02/bertrandisland.html (127 words)

	Left Forum 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		She holds a Masters degree from the New School for Social Research and was one of the first US-based and focused human rights activists selected for the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights Community Advocates Fellowship in 2002.
		She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.
		While studying at the New School, he was Assistant Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA), where he organized a conference on the current crisis in the US retirement system in September, 2004.
	www.leftforum.org /bios.htm (16928 words)

	New Jersey Historical Society
		The New Jersey place photograph files are organized alphabetically according to place or locality name.
		New Magnesium Founsry, Wright Aeronautical Corporation; The Garretson Forge and Farm; Municipal Buildinng; Tel-News.
		Scenes along the Morris Canal from Jersey City and Newark to Morristown and Warren County.
	www.jerseyhistory.org /findingaid.php?aid=1361 (7591 words)

	Coney Island - Rides & Shows List. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is a history of popular culture, in this case Coney island, New York at the turn of the century.
		While this is a comprehensive history of the New Jersey park that overlooked the Hudson River opposite Manhattan, it was written by an author who had a minimum knowledge of amusement rides.
		The photos are from the Museum of the City of New York, but it is obvious that the author was unfamiliar with the material as 3 of the photos are not from Coney Island.
	naid.sppsr.ucla.edu /venice/articles/amusementparkbooks.htm (2703 words)

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