It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located, Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut ; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

Still other stories claim that a secret line of hereditary protectors keep the Grail, or that it was hidden by the Templars in Oak Island, Nova Scotia's famous " Money Pit ", while local folklore in Accokeek, Maryland says that it was brought to the town by a closeted priest aboard Captain John Smith's ship.

Population centers of Whidbey Island include the City of Oak Harbor, the Town of Coupeville, the City of Langley, the Village of Freeland, the Community of Greenbank, the Village of Clinton and the Community of Bayview.

Whidbey Island is divided economically into two different regions: the northern end of the island ( encompassing Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island Naval Air Station ), and the remainder of the island ( encompassing Coupeville, Greenbank, Freeland, Langley, Clinton and the smaller communities in-between ).

The economy of the northern end of Whidbey Island is strongly influenced by the presence of Whidbey Island Naval Air Station near Oak Harbor ( N. A. S.

The economy of Whidbey Island south of Oak Harbor relies heavily on tourism, small-scale agriculture, and the arts.

* Whidbey Island Race Week-Week long sailing regatta every summer based out of Oak Harbor with daily racing in Penn Cove and / or Saratoga Passage ( depending on wind conditions ).

Kenmore Air Express restarted scheduled airline service to Whidbey Island in 2006, serving the Oak Harbor airport.

The largest is a two-runway airport located at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station north of Oak Harbor.

* Daniel McGinnis discovers the supposed Money Pit on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

The Northern Red Oak is the provincial tree of Prince Edward Island, as well as the state tree of New Jersey.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

* Oak Bluffs Harbor ( year-round transportation to Falmouth, Massachusetts and seasonal transportation to Hyannis and Nantucket, Massachusetts, Quonset Point, Rhode Island )

* 1950 – Tommy Aldridge, American drummer ( Black Oak Arkansas and Thin Lizzy )

* 1858 – The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England.

* 2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people ; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.

* 1943 – Richard Sterban, American singer ( The Oak Ridge Boys )

* 1983 – The U. S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee ( ultimately found to be 4. 2 million pounds ), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.

* 1963 – Shawn Lane, American musician ( Black Oak Arkansas ) ( d. 2003 )

* 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

* 1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.

* January 12 – William Lee Golden, American country and gospel singer, member of the Oak Ridge Boys

* September 12 – WWII: German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from imprisonment, in " Operation Oak ".

The standard for the lumber of the white oak group – all of which is marketed as white oak – is the White Oak.

Dąb – król polskich drzew ( Oak – the king of the Polish trees ), " AURA " ( A Monthly for the protection and shaping of human environment ), 9 / 88.

* Janka Hardness Scale for Oak – The Janka Hardness Scale for all Exotic and Domestic species

by O ' Sullivan, Orlaith ( The British Library & Oak Knoll Press in association with The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities London & New Castle, Delaware 2000 ), pp. 89 – 102.

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger ( July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943 ) and Mary Ellen " Mollie " Lancaster ( 1860 – 1907 ).

' for indeed, it was near – only five miles from the cultural heart of Germany – ' that nation of universities ' [...]" ( p. 100 ).</ ref > The Goethe Eiche ( Goethe's Oak ) stood inside the camp's perimeter, and the stump of the tree is preserved as part of the memorial at KZ Buchenwald.

* John Adams, ( 1778 – 1854 ), born in Oak Hill, United States Congressman

The most notable location used was that of the Ministry Field where Liz and Simon discover the Time Barrier – this was in fact the Burnt Farm Army Camp near Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire.

* Basil Kahan: Ottmar Mergenthaler – The Man and his Machine ; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle ( DE ), 2000 – ISBN 1-58456-007-X

Amongst the deciduous varieties, Garry oak ( from which Oak Harbor takes its name ) are seen more frequently in the northern portion of the island and Pacific madrone is also notably present.

Oak Bluffs enjoys a reputation as one of the more active night-life towns on the island for both residents and tourists, and is also a " wet " town.

Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, which is located in Oak Bluffs, serves the entire island.

The historic presence of black residents on the island resulted in the nickname of one of Oak Bluff's most popular beaches.

Since the 19th century, the island has had a sizable community of Portuguese-Americans, concentrated primarily in the three down-Island towns of Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and Edgartown ; they traditionally worked alongside other island residents in whaling and fishing.

A group called the Oak Island Tourism Society had hoped the Government of Canada would purchase the island, but a group of American businessmen in the drilling industry did so instead.

The new Oak Island Treasure Act came into effect as of January 1, 2011 and allows for treasure hunting to continue on the island under the terms of a licence issued by the Minister of Natural Resources.

There is a story that, like most others regarding the island, lacks adequate archival sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of Marie Antoinette ( which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collections of museums worldwide ) on Oak Island.

Oak Bluffs is a town located on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.

Oak Bluffs was the only one of the six towns on the island to be consciously planned, and the only one developed specifically with tourism in mind.

Oak Bluffs is also home to Martha's Vineyard Hospital, just northeast of the Lagoon, which serves all of the island, as does the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles branch near the center of town.

Oak Island, North Carolina is a seaside town located mostly on the barrier island of Oak Island ( which also contains the town of Caswell Beach ), in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.

A moated island that is home to two different species of lemur: four Ring-tailed Lemurs ( two females named Andromeda and Ninnia, and two males named Gelon and Mytro ), and two Red-fronted Lemurs ( a male named Red Oak and a female named Flare ).

On September 27, 1969, Pacific Union College students Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard were picnicking at Lake Berryessa on a small island connected by a sand spit to Twin Oak Ridge.

* Mink Island – An island located between Oak Island and the mainland near Schermerhorn Landing.

Muncie Island, ( was just north of Oak Beach, island was depleted for the construction of Ocean Parkway ) was host to one of the most elite sanatoriums and nearby Saltaire was host to the Surf Hotel offering several hundred rooms to guests.

* Oak Island, an island in the Great South Bay.

The large housing development to the west, Bream Close, is situated on a small island in the river, whilst in the distance the Gospel Oak to Barking Line crosses the river on a high bridge.

Most of the summer homes in this area of the island are fine examples of Victorian and Beaux Arts summer homes, in a similar style to those at Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard.