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	Manhattan - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, andthree New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens onLong Island to the east and south.
		The name Manhattan ("hilly island" or "place of intoxication") is from the Algonquian languages of the earliest known inhabitants of the area.Legend has it that the island was purchased from the natives for $24 in beads and othersuch trinkets.
		The island was settled by the Dutch in 1624.
	www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Manhattan (1296 words)

	Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Marble Hill was originally part of Manhattan Island; but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in the late 19th century to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan, and eventually the part of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble Hill from the Bronx was filled in.
		Manhattan Island is 21.5 km (13 miles) long and 3.7 km (2.3 miles) wide (at its widest point).
		Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
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	Sawing off of Manhattan Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sawing off of Manhattan Island is an ancient New York City story that is largely unverified.
		According to the story, in the 1820s a rumor began circulating among city merchants that southern Manhattan Island was sinking near the Battery due to the weight of the urban district.
		It was believed that by cutting the island, towing it out, rotating it 180 degrees, and putting it back in place that Manhattan would be stabilized, and that the thin part of the island could be condemned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sawing_off_of_Manhattan_Island (292 words)

	Read about Manhattan at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Manhattan and learn about Manhattan here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The northernmost area of "uptown" is Upper Manhattan, encompassing the neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood, and often Harlem.
		A less famous and hectic area, and given the distance from Midtown, Upper Manhattan is often thought of as an outer borough, given the similarities the region has to the adjacent western section of the South Bronx.
		Manhattan is officially designated as the county seat of New York County.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Manhattan (1422 words)

	Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Manhattan ("hilly island" or possibly "place of intoxication") is from the Algonquian languages of the earliest known inhabitants of the area.
		The first European discovery of Manhattan is generally credited to English explorer Henry Hudson sailing for the Dutch, who first entered Upper New York Bay on September 11, 1609, and sailing up the lower Hudson River, anchored off the tip of northern Manhattan that night.
		From the 1960s onwards Manhattan suffered from urban flight as the middle-class fled to the outer boroughs and suburbs due to an increase in crime.
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	Sawing - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sawing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sawing is a method of torture and execution.
		The condemned was hung upside down and then sawed apart down the middle, starting at the crotch.
		The victim would remain alive and conscious until the saw severed the major blood vessels of the abdomen, and sometimes even longer.
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	MANHATTAN FACTS AND INFORMATION
		As of 2000, the population comprised 1,537,195 people, but the county is geographically the smallest in the state of New_York with only 23 square miles of land.
		Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New_Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on Long_Island to the east and south.
		Manhattan is officially designated as the county_seat of New York County.This is meaningless for all practical purposes because there are no other towns or cities in New York County, which is wholly contained within the City of New York.
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	Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Explorers however, paid the wrong tribe, who were glad to accept money for an island that wasn't even theirs.
		Like the other counties which are contained within New York City, there is no county government, but county courts and some others such as the district attorney (public prosecutor) do exist.
		Each borough within New York City elects a borough president - Manhattan's borough president is currently Democrat C.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manhattan,_New_York (2111 words)

	Sawing off Manhattan by Steve Silverman
		The best proposal that anyone had at the time was to saw off the end of Manhattan at Kingsbridge, which is located at the northern end of the island.
		He then enlisted the support of men to build the giant saws and the twenty-four sweeps needed to “sweep” the island around once it was detached.
		Lozier figured that if you were going to saw an island off, then someone would have to be located on the end of the saw that was beneath the water’s surface.
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	Encyclopedia: Sawing off of Manhattan Island
		Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, music, and culture.
		A practical joke or prank is a practice intended to be humorous (usually in action, not just in words) in which another person is fooled, annoyed, or embarrassed in what the perpetrator imagines to be a mild and light-hearted fashion.
		Long Island, New York is an island off the North American coast, some 118 miles (190 km) long, and from 12 to 20 miles (32 km) wide, extending from New York Harbor into the North Atlantic Ocean.
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	HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Day They Almost Sawed Off Manhattan
		Simply put, he informed them that Manhattan Island was much too heavy on the Battery end because of all the heavy construction that had gone on in recent years.
		With much drama, Lozier explained how Manhattan Island could be saved.
		The plan was as follows: First it would be necessary to saw the island off at the Northern end, at the Kingsbridge, and tow it past both Governor's and Ellis Island and out to sea.
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	The Sawing Off of Manhattan Island
		Already the island had begun to sag, as was plain from the fact that it was all downhill from City Hall, and there were numerous and alarming indications that it might break off and sink into the sea, with apalling losses of life and property.
		Lozier and the Mayor had decided therefore that the island must be sawed off at Kingsbridge, at the northern end and turned around, so that the Kingsbridge end would be where the Battery end had been for ages.
		The Mayor thought that before Manhattan could be turned around it would be necessary to detach Long Island from its moorings and tow it out of the way, returning it later to its proper place.
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	"Sawing the Island Off" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Apparently all the new buildings going up around the battery had caused that end of the island to become too heavy, the result being that the entire island was tipping like a see-saw into the ocean.
		The men idly contemplated whether it would be possible to correct this problem by sawing the island in half at Kingsbridge, towing the sinking half out to sea, turning it around, and then towing it back and reconnecting it to the secure half.
		This story of the sawing off of Manhattan is one of the most popular tales about the early history of New York City.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /lozier.html (611 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Manhattan"
		I would love to see those bright colors contrasted with pure white snow on the ground.
		We got off and caught a Q train in the correct direction
		I was in Manhattan only for the day, 52nd Street.
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	Sawing Off of Manhattan Island Essays, Term Papers on Sawing Off of Manhattan Islands, and Research Paper Essay Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Articles - Manhattan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Virginia Fields, but the office no longer carries any significant powers.
		However, the Borough President's office, City Hall, the District Attorney's office, and the Municipal Building all cluster, within a few blocks of each other, near Centre Street and the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge - a downtown neighborhood.
		If the GOP used to win more than 20% of the vote, it doesn't get more than 15% since the Clinton area.
	www.kamero.net /articles/Manhattan,_New_York?mySession=a47678dad4aa447063de6166abdd4c70 (1888 words)

	This lesson plan is about the Northeast region of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Practiced storytelling of the sawing off of the Manhattan Island hoax.
		Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York).
		Perform the storytelling of the Manhattan Island hoax (Brown, R. The Day They Almost Sawed Off Manhattan.
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	"Sawing the Island Off" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He argues that De Voe's book (or rather, the small part of it that relates the story of Manhattan being sawed in half) is itself a hoax, and that this famous con probably never happened.
		I'm afraid to say that I don't have any more information about Lozier's Manhattan Island hoax than the few sentences I included in the timeline of hoaxes on my webpage.
		I am interested in the hoax you summarized regarding the planned sawing of Manhattan Island.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /comments/loziercm.html (366 words)

	Manhattan - guideofpills.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During most of the twentieth century, Manhattan has suffred the flight of white middle-class, who flew to outer boroughs and the suburbs, but since the 80s, the borough has again an increasing population, with the begining of a new wave of immigration and the arrival of yuppies in distritcs such as Tribeca.
		Manhattan Island cruises are operated by Circle Line.
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	www.guideofpills.com /Manhattan.html (2455 words)

	Manhattan \| TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Manhattan Toy Whoozit Gym to Go, by Manhattan Toys
		The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manha..
		Now It Can Be Told: Story of the Manhattan Project
	www.tutorgig.co.uk /ed/Manhattan (1779 words)

	Manhattan Island - All About All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Also helps finding: ManhattanIsland, manhatton, islande, mahattan, islan, manhatan, ijsland, manhatta
		The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Vintage)
		An American Tail - The Treasure of Manhattan Island
	www.allaboutall.info /article/Manhattan_Island (1764 words)

	Food Timeline: history notes-pie & pastry
		The ham should be raised with a good number of figs and some three laurel leaves; the skin is then pulled off and cut into square pieces; these are macerated with hone.
		Scrape it off the sheet, place in an airtight container, and refrigerate for several hours.
		Spread some clean paper on the board, turn the meringues upside down on that paper, and put them into the oven, that the crmb or soft aprt may be baked and acquire substance.
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	Hoax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hoax bomb warning returns Gulf Air flight to Cairo airport
		Gulf Air Flight 070 returned to Cairo International Airport on Sunday 70 minutes after it took off because of a bomb alert which turned out to be a hoax.
		ABC radio yesterday apologised to Wayne Bannister, the father of Carlton player Jordan Bannister, after it aired a talkback caller on Saturday claiming to be the player's father.
	www.infothis.com /find/Hoax (1126 words)

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