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Other well-known areas are: Chironico ( Switzerland ), Stanage ( UK ), Hueco Tanks ( Texas ), Val Masino and Val di Mello ( Italy ), Castle Hill ( New Zealand ), Bishop ( California ), Joe's Valley ( Utah ), Yosemite ( California ), Rocktown ( Georgia ), Rocklands ( South Africa ), Cocalzinho de Goiás ( Brazil ), Kjugekull ( Sweden ), Hampi ( India ) Horse Pens 40 ( Alabama ) and Horseshoe Canyon Ranch ( Arkansas ) amongst others.
While the southern two counties have historically been predominantly agricultural, New Castle County has been more industrialized.
Most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania was originally defined by an arc extending from the cupola of the courthouse in the city of New Castle.
Despite its small size ( roughly from its northernmost to southernmost points ), there is significant variation in mean temperature and amount of snowfall between Sussex County and New Castle County.
In 1651, the Dutch, reinvigorated by the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, established a fort at present-day New Castle, and in 1655 they conquered the New Sweden colony, annexing it into the Dutch New Netherland.
However, by 1704 the Province of Pennsylvania had grown so large that their representatives wanted to make decisions without the assent of the Lower Counties and the two groups of representatives began meeting on their own, one at Philadelphia, and the other at New Castle.
So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.
The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County.
In the 35 years before Ellis Island opened, over eight million immigrants arriving in New York had been processed by New York State officials at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in lower Manhattan, just across the bay.
Hopkinson obtained a public appointment as a customs collector for New Castle, Delaware on May 1, 1772.
Both stories, Milan and Crispus Attucks, are memorialized for their accomplishments and tradition at the Indiana State Museum as well as at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in New Castle, Indiana.
Seventeen venues in Indiana today boast a capacity of over 6, 000, the largest being the New Castle Fieldhouse, seating 9, 325.
* The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1996 ISBN 978-0-06-250959-8 ; Edison ( NJ ) and New York: Castle Books, 1997 ISBN 978-0-7858-0871-8.
* 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
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The publication of The Quest of the Historical Jesus, effectively put a stop for decades to work on the Historical Jesus as a sub-discipline of New Testament studies.
" Coherence and Incoherence in Historical Studies: From the Annales School to the New Cultural History ," New Literary History, olume 35, Number 2, Spring 2004, pp. 207 – 231 in Project Muse
The peninsular borough's maritime heritage is acknowledged in several ways. The City Island Historical Society and Nautical Museum occupies a former public school designed by the New York City school system's turn-of-the-last-century master architect C. B. J. Snyder.
* Baver, Sherrie L. " Development of New York's Puerto Rican Community ", Bronx County Historical Society Journal 1988 25 ( 1 ): 1 – 9
“ Urban Decline and the Withdrawal of New York University from University Heights, The Bronx .” The Bronx County Historical Society Journal XLVI ( Spring / Fall 2009 ): 4-24.
The Encyclopedia of New York City, ( Yale University Press and The New-York Historical Society, ( 1995 ) ISBN 0-300-05536-6 ), has entries, maps, illustrations, statistics and bibliographic references on almost all of the significant topics in this article, from the entire borough to individual neighborhoods, people, events and artistic works.
* U. S. Navy Historical C / The Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Secrets, Sci Fi Channel documentary ( November 2005 )
* See Dianne Durante, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide ( New York University Press, 2007 ), with a discussion of the Verrazzano.
I: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, Berlin / New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004, 497 p.
After the remains were exhumed in New Orleans, they lay for a day at Memorial Hall of the newly organized Louisiana Historical Association, with many mourners passing by the casket, including Governor Murphy J.
Baseball writer Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, ranked Robinson as the 32nd greatest player of all time strictly on the basis of his performance on the field, noting that he was one of the top players in the league throughout his career.
" The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor ," Journal of American History Vol.
* The official works of Albert Phelps and Grace King and the publications of the Louisiana Historical Society and several works on the history of New Orleans ( q. v.
Distribution of races in the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor in 1910 ( Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, New York )
At the end of World War II, the National Jewish Welfare Board had a matzo factory ( according to the American Jewish Historical Society, it was probably the Manischewitz matzo factory in New Jersey ) produce matzo in the form of a giant " V " for " Victory ," for shipment to military bases overseas and in the U. S., for Passover seders for Jewish military personnel.
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