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	South Brother Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Brother Island is one of a pair of small islands in the East River situated between the Bronx and Riker's Island.
		The other island, larger and better known, is North Brother Island.
		Brothers: NYC's worst maritime tragedy Photos of the islands in 2004, and images of the General Slocum from Forgotten New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Brother_Island (243 words)

	North Brother Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Brother Island is an island in the East River situated between the Bronx and Riker's Island.
		The island was uninhabited until 1885, when Riverside Hospital moved there from the island now known as Roosevelt Island.
		Typhoid Mary was confined to the island for over two decades until she died there in 1938.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Brother_Island (325 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Island Retreats for Wading Birds
		Others say wading birds have forsaken those islands because owls, hawks and raccoons who once fed on garbage in the Fresh Kills landfill have ventured farther afield as the landfill gradually closed and are preying on heron eggs and young on the island.
		Mill Rock Island is just a few hundred feet from Gracie Mansion, yet about three dozen great-backed gulls and herring gulls nest near the island's perimeter, and there is evidence that a pair of fl-crowned night herons may have started nesting there, according to the Audubon Society reports.
		U Thant Island, across from the United Nations and named for the onetime secretary general, has a dozen nests of double-crested cormorants, one of which is plainly visible to passing boats.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=4308 (1391 words)

	Staten Island - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor.
		Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull.
		The island was probably abandoned later, possibly because of the extinction of large mammals on the island.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Staten_Island (4146 words)

	Manhattan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He thus confirmed that the island had been purchased in 1626 by Peter Minuit, the third director of New Netherland from the native Mannahatans for 60 guilders worth of trade goods (translated to about $24 which at a 4% annual inflation rate would be 71.3 million dollars today).
		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 recorded as having 20 square miles (51.8 km²) of land, and measures 13 miles (21 km) long and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) wide (at its widest point).
	www.1bx.com /en/Manhattan.htm (3006 words)

	Botany - Goat Island Complex - Niagara Falls
		The islands in the complex bear the brunt of the river current at their eastern ends, and the force of the prevailing winds at their west, southwestern end.
		The length of Goat Island indicated in a section across it in an east to west orientation was 2,500 feet (Lyell, 1845).
		The island presents bluffs of various soil types on the north and southern boundaries, becoming deeper toward the western boundary and presenting distinct northern and southern exposures.
	www.mobot.org /plantscience/ResBot/flor/Bot_Goat/06_Physi.htm (889 words)

	Beyond Manhattan \| Rikers Island \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		n island in the eastern arm of the East River, at the entrance to Long Island Sound, North Brother Island has an area of 20.5 acres and is part of the Bronx.
		North Brother Island was in private hands until it was purchased in 1871 by the Town of Morrisania.
		The island got its lighthouse legend at the beginning of the last century from a tragedy.
	www.nyc24.org /2003/islands/zone2/rikershistory.html (1127 words)

	Coney Island - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Coney Island is a peninsula (and formerly an island) located in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA, with a famous beach lying on the Atlantic Ocean.
		In Coney Island's lowest years there was some incremental improvement in relatively small areas, notably the preservation and later the expansion of what had been the rides area at the back of the Feltman's property as Astroland.
		The main beach area, extended from Coney Island Avenue in Brighton Beach westward to West 37th Street at the border of Sea Gate, is divided into "bays," areas of beach delineated by rock jetties, which moderate erosion and the force of ocean waves.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Coney_Island (2491 words)

	South Hero, Vermont (Cities)
		South Hero shares an island with the village of Grand Isle on Lake Champlain.
		Chartered on October 27, 1779, South Hero, along with its brother island North Hero, was named for Revolutionary War figures Ira and Ethan Allen, "The Two Heroes." Governor Thomas Chittenden helped parcel out the islands to the Green Mountain Boys.
		South Hero is part of the Burlington, Vermont metro area.
	www.ohwy.com /vt/s/southher.htm (175 words)

	District 22: Astoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Randalls Island: Randalls Island is a 195-acre strip of land at the confluence of the East River.
		South Brother Island is an undeveloped area in the East River that has the potential for development.
		The island is a mix of deciduous forest, scrub, and grassy patches and is an important wading bird nesting site.
	www.nylcv.org /ecofiles/queens/html/ccd22.htm (679 words)

	Norfolk Island - Bloodless Genocide
		Norfolk Island was occupied as a possession of the British Crown.
		Norfolk Island was henceforth to be a seperate and distinct colony for the former inhabitants of Pitcairn Island.
		Much of the vice-regal dissatisfaction seems to stem from the cheerful willingness of the Norfolk Islanders to admit oursiders to their ranks as residents of the Island, usually through marriage to Pitcairn girls.[c] It was felt that the isolation of the islanders and their morals were being corrupted by these outside influences.
	www.pitcairners.org /bloodless_genocide2.html (6104 words)

	About China - blogomonster.com
		The South Korean domestic TV network MBC, which was to tape andbroadcast the concert for its weekly music program, also expressedits condolences to the victims and said it would discuss compensation for the victims with Sangju City officials.
		South Korean people were on their three-day holiday from last Saturday.
		Monday is the National Foundation Day of South Korea, which marked the 4,337th anniversary of the accession of King Dangun, who according to legend was the founder of the first Korean dynasty.
	www.blogomonster.com /seoblog (5911 words)

	Four Brothers Islands IBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		However, North Brother has a history of municipal development and several abandoned buildings are present, whereas South Brother has none.
		The islands are a mix of deciduous forest, scrub, and grassy patches.
		Surveys in 1995 showed that the islands supported 36% of the state's breeding Cattle Egrets (15 pr.), 6% of its breeding Great Egrets (31 pr.), 17% of its breeding Snowy Egrets (118 pr.), 29% of its breeding Black-crowned Night Herons (524 pr.) and 24% of its coastal breeding Double-crested Cormorants (855 pr.).
	ny.audubon.org /iba/brothers.html (202 words)

	THIS SPOT'S FOR THE BIRDS - Daily Plant Newsletter
		Added to the early 20th century worries of the wading bird, North and South Brother Islands used to be dumps—literally.
		South Brother Island is believed to be the city’s first municipal dumpsite, filled primarily with household waste from the turn of the 20th century.
		North Brother Island, which is city-owned and has recently come under Parks’ jurisdiction, was the one-time home of Victorian-era quarantine facilities and was believed to house “Typhoid Mary” during her final living days.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=14943 (790 words)

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		and North Brother Island was the final resting place for passengers aboard the General Slocum, the excursion boat that caught fire in 1904 and is the greatest maritime disaster in New York City’s history.
		North Brother Island, Hog Island, Fat Briar Island and the Chimney Sweep Islands in the Bronx, and Shooters Island, Pralls Island, and the Isle of Meadows in Staten Island.
		Hoffman and Swinburne Islands were created from landfill in 1870 off of Staten Island’s east coast and served as quarantine stations for immigrants entering the United States.
	webdocs.nyccouncil.info /attachments/63259.htm (1577 words)

	(GCEED) Spooky island cache by tgamble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The island is the only privately held island within the confines of New York City.
		One of the other nearby islands used to contain a hospital, and it is where TB Marry was put in quarantine, it is also near the site of one the worst maritime disasters in US History.
		An important event that occurred on North Brother Island is the beaching of the General Slocum.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=3821 (1135 words)

	Brother Island: New York History
		The building of the prison-city on Rikers Island in the early thirties, during the depths of the Depression, was made even gloomier by a lesser-known marine disaster: the explosion and sinking of the steamship Observation.
		Then I thought about these old typhoid grounds becoming a bird sanctuary, and the likelihood that the city's birders would be successful in their efforts to protect the uninhabited Brother islands, North and South, as part of a chain of bird-nesting islands in the city's river system.
		Later I dreamed that I was on the darkened shore of North Brother Island.
	www.newyorkhistory.info /Hell-Gate/Brother-Island.html (1472 words)

	East Brother Lighthouse, California at Lighthousefriends.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Brothers (East and West Brother Island) lie roughly 1,000 feet off Point San Pablo, and they, along with the Sisters on the opposite side of the strait, had been reserved for military purposes by order of President Andrew Johnson in 1867.
		Charles soon became quite adept at rowing across the waters to the island to court Annie, and a June wedding was held for the couple in 1914.
		There aren't too many places to explore on the island, but by the time you visit with the other guests during the meals, do some reading, and perhaps pitch some horseshoes, your short sojourn on the island is over much too soon.
	www.lighthousefriends.com /light.asp?ID=70 (2141 words)

	Lighthouses@Lighthouse Digest ... Memories of North Brother Island
		Tom’s memories of his early life at North Brother Island Lighthouse have special significance now that the building is a decaying ruin that soon might be lost forever.
		North Brother’s lighthouse was established in 1869 to aid navigation through Hell’s Gate, the narrow and treacherous strait between Astoria and Ward’s Island.
		A Coast Guard crew ran the North Brother Island Light Station for a few years after the Murrays left, then in 1953, the lighthouse was decommissioned and an automatic light was installed on the nearby fog bell tower.
	www.lhdigest.com /Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=1941 (1489 words)

	Brother Against Brother at the Battle of Secessionville
		Two Brothers, born in Scotland and building new lives in America found themselves fighting each other for their adoptive countries at Secessionville in 1862.
		Alex's unit was transferred to Charleston and occupeid parts of James Island in early June 1862, placing him in sight of the city where he and his brother had once lived and that's conquest he had sworn to help obtain.
		The Charleston Courier editorialized on the two brothers, "another illustration of the deplorable consequences of this fratricidal war." It stated Alexander Campbell, "fought gallantly in the late action" and "displayed...
	www.awod.com /gallery/probono/cwchas/brother.html (1016 words)

	South Hero, Vermont, New England, USA
		Originally, South Hero, North Hero and Grand Isle were granted to Ethan Allen, Samuel Herrick and 363 other Revolutionary War veterans as a single town known as Two Heroes.
		In 1798, Two Heroes was divided into North Hero (the entire north island), Middle Hero and South Hero, the last two sharing the southern island and a representative to the legislature, hence they were not actually separate towns.
		The fourth "Lake Champlain Islands" town (which does not otherwise figure in this story) is Isle La Motte.
	www.virtualvermont.com /towns/southhero.html (454 words)

	TAHC - LaGuardia Intl. Runway Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The northerly 2,000 foot (by 150 feet wide) extension to Runway 4-22, complete with taxiway and holding pad, was built into Rikers Island Channel and opened to air traffic in March 1966.
		Similarly, the westerly 1,035-foot (by 150 feet wide) extension to Runway 13-31, with its parallel taxiway, was extended into the Channel and opened to air traffic in November 1966.
		A ship channel was dredged between Rikers Island and South Brother Island to replace the Rikers Island Channel, which was closed.
	www.flightsimnetwork.com /aea/lgarwinfo.html (416 words)

	TERN REPORT - 2005 - Ted C. D'Eon
		The Puffin colonies at Noddy Island and at Round Island (in the Mud Island group of islands) were still as active as usual.
		As we left N. Brother, a lone Raven settled on the island and was mobbed by the terns.
		The almost intact Common Tern was on the vegetated part of the island where Common Tern nesting is the most concentrated; the Arctic Tern, with the other dead terns, were found in the depression on the island where my observation platform used to be.
	www.geocities.com /teddeon509/tern05.html (3952 words)

	Beaches - Andaman Nicobar Island
		In addition, permits can also be obtained from: Indian Missions Overseas, Foreigner’s Registration Offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Calcutta and the immigration authorities at the airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Chennai.
		Cinque Island, Ross Island, Narcondum Island, Interview Island, Brother Island, Sister Island and Barren Island (Barren Island can be visited on board vessels only).
		However, permits are required to visit Nicobar Islands and other tribal areas, which are given in exceptional cases.
	www.indiatravelite.com /Beaches/andamanentryformalities.htm (129 words)

	All lighthouses known to offer guest accommodations
		East Brother Lightstation was constructed in 1873-74 and was one of the second group of lighthouses to be built along the west coast of the US.
		Of the 17 lighthouses built in and around San Francisco Bay, East Brother is the oldest that is still in operation.
		Less than 23 miles south of San Francisco on the rugged California coast, the historic Point Montara Fog Signal and Light Station has been restored and revitalized as a youth hostel.
	people.maine.com /lights/others.htm (1921 words)

	*Aesculus carnea Hayne
		They report it as "Possibly extirpated in New York," but it is not on the Rare Plant Status List of the New York Natural Heritage Program (Young, 1992).
		This is a south and western species occasionally planted, growing naturally north to Pennsylvania, south to Alabama and west to Nebraska (Bailey, 1949).
		Goat Island, east side meadow, planted, 1988 (BUF).
	www.mobot.org /plantscience/ResBot/Flor/WNY-Niag/aesculus.htm (308 words)

	Janet Frame
		Her brother's life was affected by epilepsy and two of her sisters died young by drowning is separate accidents in 1937 and 1947.
		Diane Caney has argued in her article "Janet Frame and The Tempest" (1998) that Frame's writing is iridescent with imagery drawn from Shakespeare's play The Tempest and mirrors the tale of Prospero with the notions of Storm, Sea, Island, Exile, Magic, Otherness and Return.
		The author herself considered the best thing she ever wrote to be a fable entitled 'Bird, Hawk, Bogie.' In it the bird (inspiration and imagination) is eaten by a strong hawk (materialism), which in turn is eaten by the bogie (repressed imagination and individualism).
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /frame.htm (1184 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser - Island Life
		Kathleen Finneran listened to a recording of Aaron Copeland compositions over and over during the decade that it took her to write the fictionalized account of her brother's death and its effect on her family.
		It is about a group of hostages and terrorists, immured for several months in a South American mansion in which time more or less stands still.
		It is, as others have said, the kind of book you want to thrust into other people's hands as soon as you finish it.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /current/il/bookclub (871 words)

	Primate Brow Flash
		I made mine wave its claws around and talk to her to try to make her comfortable.
		And to top off the night we watched South Park, which Maggie found hilarious.
		The South Park episode featured some homeschool kids.....
	radio.weblogs.com /0108008 (1531 words)

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