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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of famous Long Islanders
		Long Island is connected to the mainland and the other island boroughs by a ribbon of vehicular bridges that cross the East River, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge (which connects to Staten Island), and several tunnels carrying motor vehicles and trains.
		In sequence from shallowest to deepest, the Long Island aquifers are: the Upper Glacial, the Magothy and the Lloyd Aquifers.
		The West of Long Island was settled by the Dutch, and the East settled by Puritans from Massachusetts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-famous-Long-Islanders (4136 words)

	Long Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Long Island is connected to the mainland and the other island boroughs by a ribbon of vehicular bridges that cross the East River, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge (which connects to Staten Island), and several tunnels carrying motor vehicles and trains.
		In sequence from shallowest to deepest, the Long Island aquifers are: the Upper Glacial, the Magothy and the Lloyd Aquifers.
		The West of Long Island was settled by the Dutch, and the East settled by Puritans from Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Island (5434 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: South Sea Islander
		These people were generally referred to as Kanakas, although many Islander descendants today regard the term as pejorative and an insulting reminder of their ancestors' exploitation at the hands of white planters.
		Of the 62,000 South Sea Islanders recruited the majority were repatriated by the Australian Government in the period between 1906-08 under the Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901 ([1]), legislation related to the White Australia Policy.
		Slavery This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-Sea-Islander (1448 words)

	List of famous Long Islanders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of famous people from Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island.
		People from Brooklyn and Queens are on List of famous New Yorkers.
		This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_famous_Long_Islanders (103 words)

	Smithtown Luxury Homes, Smithtown Real Estate, Smithtown
		Smithtown is bordered on the north by Long Island Sound, the west by Huntington, the south by Islip and the east by Brookhaven, and lies in the western part of Suffolk County, approximately 50 miles east of New York City.
		Long Island is home to many beautiful beaches, with the Long Island Sound to the North, and the Atlantic Ocean to the South.
		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.
	www.smithtownluxuryhomes.com (2328 words)

	Long Island -
		Long Island is an island in New York, at 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) the largest island in the continental United States, and with 7.4 million residents, the 17th most populous island in the world.
		Long Island is home to the luxury communities of the Hamptons, as well as Cold Spring Harbor and Lloyd Harbor in Suffolk County and Garden City, Laurel Hollow, and Manhasset in Nassau County.
		For example, superstar diva Mariah Carey was born and raised on Long Island and Billy Joel is from Hicksville in Nassau County.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Long_Island (5040 words)

	Airdisaster.Com Forums - Islanders forcibly removed by UK/US win fight to return
		It was one of the most shameful episodes in British post-war history: the secret expulsion of an entire population of islanders, carried out in clear violation of international law, to make way for a giant American military base.
		which was cleared of Islanders and other undesirables by the British on instruction from the US as part and parcel of the US occupational lease.
		On behalf of everyone on Diego Garcia, I hope you have a safe and pleasant journey to the "the Footprint of Freedom." We are looking forward to having you as part of the DG Team.
	www.airdisaster.com /forums/showthread.php?t=79286&goto=nextoldest (1019 words)

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		The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (or Cobble Hill Tunnel of the Long Island Rail Road) is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York.
		Pearlman was very influential for the band, getting them gigs, their first record with Columbia, and using his poetry as the basis of many of their...
		Long Island protest against paying a tax of 10 per cent on all imports and exports, on the sole authority of the governor and council.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Long-Island.htm (1429 words)

	List of famous Long Islanders - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		This is a list of famous people from Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island.
		Famous residents who grew up in Nassau or Suffolk
		This page was last modified 16:51, 31 May 2005.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/List_of_famous_Long_Islanders (54 words)

	Long Island History on the World Wide Web
		Long runs of some of these journals are available-in the case of The American Historical Review, everything from its inception in 1895 to within a few years of the present.
		This may be an indication of the relative neglect of Long Island as a subject of historical research, although it should be kept in mind that none of the historical journals included in JSTOR include any of those dealing with Long Island or even New York State history.
		The manuscript maps of Long Island produced by the Coast Survey in the 1830s are the first detailed maps of many parts of the island, and contain important information about such maters as vegetation, buildings, and roads not contained in the printed maps mentioned in note 6.
	www.sunysb.edu /libmap/liweb.htm (7360 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Long White Cloud, by William Pember Reeves
		The list of books on the Colony is indeed so long that its bibliography is a larger volume than this; and the chief plea to be urged for this history must be its brevity—a quality none too common in Colonial literature.
		The long, narrow, mountainous islands upon which Abel Jansen Tasman stumbled in December, 1642, are so far from being the antipodes of Britain that they lie on an average twelve degrees nearer the equator.
		Even their single canoes were sometimes between 100 and 150 feet long, and the crews of these, wielding their elastic paddles, kept time in a fashion that has won respect from the coxswain of a University eight.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/2/4/1/12411/12411-h/12411-h.htm (21017 words)

	Long Island: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		The Long Island Rail Road (Long Island Rail Road: the long island rail road or lirr is a railroad that serves the length of long...
		Long Island is home to numerous colleges, including Stony Brook University (Stony Brook University: more facts about this subject), Southampton College (Southampton College: the southampton college of long island university is a small liberal arts college located...
		The world's largest thoroughbred racetrack, Belmont Park (Belmont Park: A racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island; site of the Belmont Stakes), is located in the Nassau County community of Elmont.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/long_island (827 words)

	scubaventuresinc.com - Dive Trips - Long Island, Bahamas
		The Long Island in Bahamas promises a fun filled diving, especially on its extravagant walls which are known to be best in the area.
		Located southeast of the Exuma Cays, this 76-mile long island is an unspoiled, tranquil, and scenic hideaway divided by the Tropic of Cancer and bordered by two strikingly different coast lines, one with powder white beaches and the other, rocky headlands that descend suddenly into the sea.
		Long Island is famous for its local fisherman who are divers and go to sea for week long trips to spear spiny lobster and fish.
	www.scubaventuresinc.com /trips/long_island_bahamas (1100 words)

	Reflections On Suffolk County Pre-History - 1914
		After the disasterous "Battle of Long Island" the American troops were forced into retreat from the Island for the remainder of the War and many Long Island units simply ceased to be - and now retribution was on the "Whigs" by the British and Loyalists for their earlier indignties and perscecutions.
		New York City became the British headquarters and it was Long Island's fate to house, feed and maintain the army for the remainder of the war.
		Many who had fought in the disastrous Battle of Long Island had nothing for it, when once the invaders were established in the Island, but to return to their homes and families and submit to the inevitable.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /reflections.html (13022 words)

	Italian American Web Site of New York: index.htm page
		William "Buffalo Bill"Cody (1846-1917) Famous western scout and buffalo hunter brought his "Wild West Show" to an area of Mariners Harbor called Erastina (named for Staten Island promoter Erastus Wiman) for two seasons from June to October in 1886 and again in 1887.
		He was a native Staten Islander, a West New Brighton resident and a graduate of PS 45 and Curtis High School.
		She was crowned "successor" to the other famed Islander and etiquette expert, Emily Post, when the seven hundred page Complete Book of Etiquette was published.
	www.italian-american.com /sifamous.htm (7583 words)

	Greece
		The story that Paros was colonized by one Paros of Parrhasia, who brought with him a colony of Arcadians to the island, is one of those etymologizing fictions in which Greek legend abounds.
		Already in ancient history Paros was famous for its semi-transparent marble, which is still quarried today.
		World famous for the Olympics during its ancient times, Greece was host to the last Olympic games in 2004.
	www.addgr.com (486 words)

	Newsday.com \| Names of Long Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		A thirteen-mile segment of County Road 67 from Dix Hills to Ronkonkoma is the longest remaining stretch of America’s first highway, the Long Island Motor Parkway.
		Today, while the eastern portion of the road is known as Long Island Motor Parkway, the western segment is referred to as Vanderbilt Parkway.
		Names of Long Island is a daily promotional feature produced by the Newsday Marketing Department.
	cf.newsday.com /promotion/wlistory.cfm?id=342 (166 words)

	Work with Nature... don't wage war against her
		When Rachel Carson published her famous anti-pesticide book `Silent Spring' in 1962, a campaign was launched to discredit her.
		Islanders have been patient for too long, waiting for change.
		If you would like to be included in our mailing list for continuing information on pesticides, please email us at list@safe2use.com with "subscribe" in the subject line.
	www.safe2use.com /ca-ipm/00-08-27a.htm (985 words)

	Staten Island on the Web: Famous Staten Islanders
		In 1804 he killed his long time rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel after Hamilton had publicly accused him of being "dangerous".
		William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) Famous western scout and buffalo hunter brought his "Wild West Show" to an area of Mariners Harbor called Erastina (named for Staten Island promoter Erastus Wiman) for two seasons from June to October in 1886 and again in 1887.
		He was a native Staten Islander, a West New Brighton resident and a graduate of PS 45 and Curtis High School.
	www.nypl.org /branch/staten/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1391 (8388 words)

	SHARK TEETH
		G.W's were just put on the Endangered Species list in South Africa, Australia may follow, order while we have them.
		G.W.'s are now listed as Endangered in most parts of the world, we have one lot of 51 teeth, all sterling capped with bail.
		1-3/4" wide x 2-1/4" long brown tooth with a smaller secondary tooth protruding down from the root on either side.
	www.boonetrading.com /Pg38.html (531 words)

	Gaspee Virtual Archives
		LONG: The Impact of the Gaspee Affair on the Coming of the Revolution, 1772-1773 -- Lawrence J. DeVaro.
		List of RI State Archives Holdings re: the Gaspee Affair
		The pocket guide contains copies of the original 1768 drawings of Sultana and a listing of all of the 101 crew members who served aboard her from 1768-1772.
	gaspee.org (1602 words)

	Global Warming: The Future Threat
		Many of the island nations and other developing countries will not be able to overcome the latest projections in sea level rise, and they should find a way to bring their present and future losses to resolve in international courts.
		Some of the coral reefs, long described as undersea rainforests, home to marine ecosystems that sustain thousands of species of fish and other marine life, have been alive for up to 2.5 million years.
		The famous wispy “anvil” atop thunderclouds marks where the cloud usually stops rising as it bumps up against the tropopause and the high-speed winds of the stratosphere.
	www.ecobridge.org /content/g_tht.htm (11812 words)

	St. James Travel & Tours Ltd. - Caribbean Destination Management - Tobago
		It's famous for hosting the loudest and wildest Carnival in the Caribbean, whereas on Tobago the oceanside hotels are casual, the reefs are calm and protected and the beaches are good.
		It's not the country's tourist centre by any means, since its attractions are limited to a few 19th-century colonial buildings and its hotels are geared toward business travellers rather than tourists.
		Plantation owners unable to sell their sugar or rum quickly sold or abandoned their land, leaving the economy in shambles but most of the islanders with a plot of land; those who had no money to purchase land simply squatted.
	www.stjtt.com /networkNeighbourhood/trinidad.html (3153 words)

	archtypical Long Islanders (Babylon, Baldwin, Bovina: people) - Long Island - New York (NY) - Page 3 - City-Data Forum
		Would like to hear from Long Islanders who moved to NCarolina, Long Island Forum, 12 replies
		Where Are All The Long Islanders Moving To?
		Long Islanders are racist, Long Island Forum, 71 replies
	www.city-data.com /forum/long-island/136367-archtypical-long-islanders-3.html (616 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Rachel Sokol
		My best friend Shena thinks that growing up on Long Island was an inevitable trap; the solution for living in the suburbs of NYC without living in Queens or Brooklyn.
		I mean, come on--The Great Gatsby, one of the most famous American novels, is practically an ode to wealthy Long Islanders and their socialite Manhattan friends.
		But the truth is, growing up on Long Island made me the person that I am today...and it made me realize the type of person I didn't want to be.
	www.gvny.com /columns/sokol/sokol06-06-03.html (1123 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: How come we can't decipher Indus script?
		In the chapter dealing with written languages, they list Egyptian hieroglyphics, Mesopotamian pictographs, and Indus script as the three oldest known written languages.
		Several of the words were only a single letter long, suggesting Ugaritic used a consonantal alphabet written without vowels (as was the case with other early Semitic alphabets such as Hebrew).
		Certainly a long text would be a great gift to modern science.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mindusscript.html (3221 words)

	LCS Hockey : Team Reports : New York Islanders
		In 1814, a group of really famous and well-dressed guys, quaffed to the moon, gathered in Vienna for one of the most famous meetings ever held in western civilization.
		Paul Kraus, who represents unsigned free agent winger Zigmund Palffy, met with Islanders' GM and Coach Mike Milbury in a Vienna hotel to discuss the Islanders' latest contract offer, which Kraus rejected quickly.
		It is either a publicity stunt or an insult to fans of the New York Islanders - whatever remaining fans there are.
	www.lcshockey.com /issues/106/nyi.asp (610 words)

	The Royal Anthropological Institute - INTERNATIONAL VIDEO SALES LIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Preliminary scenes establish the themes that underlie the Feast: a mixture of the sacred and the profane, eroticism and death, celebration and mourning.
		These catalogues list RAI films and videos that are available for hire (within the UK and Ireland only).
		A supplementary list is included for those titles acquired after the publication of the catalogues.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /rai/video.html (3827 words)

	Ben Maller : Archives - August 24, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Also, if an organization has a pitcher on the disabled list as of Aug. 31, he can be replaced on a postseason roster by any pitcher in the organization, even a pitcher not on the 40-man major league roster.
		Francisco Liriano, the guy some people believe could be the next Johan Santana, is 8-1 after striking out 12 for the Twins' Class AAA Rochester club last weekend, and he has a 1.59 earned-run average while limiting hitters to a.160 batting average.
		Nomar Garciaparra is suffering from back spasms and appears headed to the disabled list for the second time this season.
	www.benmaller.com /archives/2005/august/24.html (10532 words)

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