* 1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11, 747 people, more than on any other day.

Other locations and landmarks that have become part of American folklore include: Independence Hall, Ellis Island, Hoover Dam, Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War Memorial, and the Grand Canyon.

Ellis Island is an island in Upper New York Bay that was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.

The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by Save Ellis Island.

Ellis Island is located in Jersey City, New Jersey and is situated in the Upper New York Bay east of Liberty State Park and north of Liberty Island.

A bridge built for transporting materials and personnel during restoration projects connects Ellis Island with Liberty State Park, but is not open to the public.

First Ellis Island Immigrant Station, opened on January 1, 1892.

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.

The Federal Government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890 and Congress appropriated $ 75, 000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station on Ellis Island.

Artesian wells were dug, and landfill was hauled in from incoming ships ' ballast and from construction of New York City's subway tunnels, which doubled the size of Ellis Island to over six acres.

On June 15, 1897, a fire of unknown origin, possibly caused by faulty wiring, turned the wooden structures on Ellis Island into ashes.

Plans were immediately made to build a new, fireproof immigration station on Ellis Island.

Second Ellis Island Immigration Station, opened on December 17, 1900 ( photo 1905 )

After its opening, Ellis Island was expanded with landfill and additional structures were built.

The peak year for immigration at Ellis Island was 1907, with 1, 004, 756 immigrants processed.

Today, over 100 million Americans-one third of the population-can trace their ancestry to the immigrants who first arrived in America at Ellis Island before dispersing to points all over the country.

Generally, those immigrants who were approved spent from two to five hours at Ellis Island.

More than three thousand would-be immigrants died on Ellis Island while being held in the hospital facilities.

Ellis Island was sometimes known as " The Island of Tears " or " Heartbreak Island " because of those 2 % who were not admitted after the long transatlantic voyage.

One of his pictures showing Britten and the harpist Ellis appears in the Britten-Pears Foundation pages.

Scenes showing immigrants arriving at the Immigration Depot at Ellis Island in 1906

A sequence depicting Arsenal Gear's displacement of the Statue of Liberty and crashing through half of Manhattan was removed, as was a short coda to appear after the credits, a breaking newscast showing the Statue of Liberty's new resting place, Ellis Island.

The Boks rolled up to Ellis Park the following week to right the wrongs of their heartbreaking loss to Australia in their final away match ; they provided another very strong showing with yet another disciplined and accurate display.

Patient with Ellis – Van Creveld syndrome at the age of 5 years showing long narrow chest and shortness of the limbs

Ellis intent upon showing the connections between the Communist movement and the ALP of the later 1940s, and ignoring Garden's 1920's leaving the party, wrote a book The Garden Path: The Story of the saturation of the Australian Labour Movement by Communism

" Ellis countered that he was showing his World Series ring as evidence of his affiliation with the Pirates.

Jenkins is a recent recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is given to those showing outstanding qualities in their personal and professional lives, yet maintaining the richness of their particular heritage.

After the departures of Ramírez and Sandy Alomar, Jr., the Indians signed Ellis Burks and former MVP Juan González, who helped the team win the Central division with a 91 – 71 record.

Ellis County ( county code EL ) is a county located in Northwest Kansas, in the Central United States.

In 1871, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad ( H & TC ) purchased of land in Ellis County at a price of, establishing the line's northern terminus.

Milford is a town located in Northern Central Texas in the southwestern corner of Ellis County, Texas United States.

13 on Billboard in 1938, staying on the charts for 2 weeks, " Parade of the Milk Bottle Caps ", " Dusk in Upper Sandusky " with Larry Clinton, " Shoot the Meatballs to Me Dominick Boy " with Toots Camarata, " A Man and his Drums ", " Mutiny in the Brass Section ", " Praying the Blues ", " Contrasts ", his theme song, " Major and Minor Stomp ", " Hep-Tee Hootie ( Juke Box Jive )" with Fud Livingston and Jack Palmer, " I Bought A Wooden Whistle ", " Tailspin " with Frankie Trumbauer, the classic jazz standard " I'm Glad There Is You ( In This World of Ordinary People )", " Clarinet Polka ", " I Love You in Technicolor ", " All The Things You Ain't " with Babe Russin, " JD's Boogie Woogie ", " Jumpin ' Jehosaphat ", " I'll Do Anything For You ", " Dorsey Stomp ", " Grand Central Getaway " with Dizzy Gillespie, " Sunset Strip " and " The Champ " with Sonny Burke, " Town Hall Tonight ", " Outer Drive " with Herb Ellis, the jazz standard " It's the Dreamer in Me " with Jimmy Van Heusen, recorded by Duke Ellington and others.

Central to the project is Ben Watkins and his collaborations with a constantly changing ensemble of musicians from across the world, including percussionist Mabi Thobejane from South Africa, along with countrymen Amampondo, Eduardo Niebla, Steve Stevens, Greg Ellis, Taz Alexander, Ghetto Priest, Sugizo, Yasmin Levy, Budgie ( drummer ) and recently Hamsika Iyer, and Maggie Hikri, Ben Watkins also collaborated with composer Don Davis for the musical score of the film The Matrix.

View of Ellis Island and the railyards and piers of Central Railroad of New Jersey before development of the park and restoration projects

In front of the property is a lake representing New York Harbor, with a replica of the Statue of Liberty, and replicas of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Main Immigration Building on Ellis Island, and Grand Central Terminal.

Ellis ' prophetic study helped establish his reputation as one of the forefront of naval theorists and strategist of the era in amphibious warfare, foreseeing the imminent attack from Japan leading to the island-hopping campaigns in Central Pacific.

On April 9, 1921, Ellis submitted a pro forma request to the Commandant to conduct a clandestine reconnaissance mission to the Central Pacific to examine the Marshall and Caroline Islands.

The Central Committee then proceeded to nominate and accept by acclamation candidate and developer Ellis Ivory.

His The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 ( 1963, 1998 ) received the Albert J. Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association ; Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America ( 1984, 1992 ) received the Gustavus Meyers Prize, and The Clash: U. S .- Japanese Relations Throughout History ( 1997 ) received both the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Ellis Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.

As of 1996 lustration laws had not been passed in Belarus, nor in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics ( Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan ) ( Ellis, 1996 ).

* Ellis Simon Hillman ( Lab ): Hackney 1964 – 1973 ; Hackney Central 1973 – 1981