It had the twentieth highest percentage of Jamaican residents in the US, at 5. 70 % of the population ( tied with Golden Glades, East Orange, NJ and Gordon Heights, NY.

It also had the thirty-fourth most Peruvians in the US, at 1. 47 %, while it had the eleventh highest percentage of Trinidadians and Tobagonians, at 1. 30 % of all residents ( tied with North Amityville, New York and Gordon Heights, New York.

Gordon Heights is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

Gordon Heights is in the Town of Brookhaven.

Gordon Heights is located at ( 40. 857498 ,-72. 966437 ).

Gordon Heights had its beginnings in the early 1920s, when developer Louis Fife went to Black neighborhoods in New York City ( Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx ) with the offer of land and a better life on Long Island.

It would later become known as the Gordon Heights Progressive Association, which was founded in 1945.

This group was the parent body of the Gordon Heights Fire Department.

Prior to the creation of the Gordon Heights Fire Department ( GHFD ) in 1947, there had been no fire services in the community, dating back to its founding in 1927.

Neighboring departments had no obligation to protect Gordon Heights.

The Gordon Heights Fire District has been at the center of contention in recent years, with some residents complaining that the district has the highest tax rates on Long Island.

The high residential tax burden is due in part to Gordon Heights lacking a commercial tax base.

A second petition to dissolve the Gordon Heights Fire District was filed on December 31, 2008.

Public education in Gordon Heights is provided by the Longwood Central School District, which is headquartered in Middle Island.

* Gordon Heights History ( Longwood Public Library )

* Gordon Heights Archive

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* Judith Anderson, Claire Bloom, James Mason, George Rose, Gordon Gould for Wuthering Heights

* October 8, 1977: Franklin hid in long grass behind a telegraph pole at Brith Shalom, a synagogue in Richmond Heights, Missouri and used a hunting rifle to kill Gerald Gordon and injure two others.

Lilley currently covers the north-eastern part of the City of Brisbane local government area, and includes Ascot, Banyo, Boondall, Brighton, Chermside, Deagon, Geebung, Gordon Park, Hamilton, Hendra, Kedron, Northgate, Nudgee, Nundah, Pinkenba, Sandgate, Shorncliffe, Taigum, Virginia, Wavell Heights, Wooloowin, and Zillmere, and parts of Albion, Aspley, and Lutwyche.

On 20 October 1897, Findlater, then a junior piper in the Gordon Highlanders, was shot in the feet during an advance against opposing defences at the Battle of the Dargai Heights ; unable to walk, and exposed to enemy fire, he continued playing, to encourage the battalion's advance.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

The most valuable player award was split three ways, among Glen Mankowski, Gordon Hartweger and Tom Kieffer.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

An English translation of all three volumes, with notes, essays and appendices, was translated and edited by Rabbi Gordon Tucker, entitled Heavenly Torah: As Refracted Through the Generations.

A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.

Lara played in Trinidad and Tobago junior soccer and table tennis sides but Lara believed that cricket was his path to success, saying that he wanted to emulate his idols Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

The estate is recorded in 1451 as " Bouchmorale ", and was later tenanted by Alexander Gordon, second son of the 1st Earl of Huntly.

According to Sub-Lieutenant Gordon Steele: " Wegener ran to a cabin on the upper deck -- I later found out it was Manning's bathroom.

The first incarnation of the film was a 1953 script by Alex Gordon titled The Atomic Monster, but a lack of financing prevented any production.

The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming.

For example, at least one El Borak in which the protagonist infiltrates the City of the assassins was rewritten with Conan replacing Francis Xavier Gordon and a supernatural element added.

He was seen when Tony Gordon tried to evict him from his property, causing Jed to have a heart attack.

* Wang the Perverted from the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders ( or as he's known for most of the film, " Evil Presence ") was brought back from the dead with many cybernetic body parts including a hand that spontaneously flips the bird due to a malfunction

David Gordon White traces the modern popularity of the " Hindu " seven chakra system to Arthur Avalon's The Serpent Power, which was Avalon's translation of a late work, the Satcakranirupana.

The second was by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has rallied the world community to support UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, denouncing the regime's leaders as a " criminal cabal ".

He notes that Vaccinium macrocarpon ( American cranberry ) was cultivated by James Gordon in 1760.

Gordon Bell remembered that it was being used in Oregon some time later, but could not recall who was using it.

The PDP-11 16-bit computer was designed in a crash program by Harold McFarland, Gordon Bell, Roger Cady, and others.

Zoff was a goalkeeper of outstanding ability and has a place in the history of the sport among the very best in this role, being named the 3rd greatest goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS behind Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks.

Dino Zoff was born in Mariano del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia ( Italy ), and was elected in a poll by the IFFHS as the third best goalkeeper of the 20th Century-after Lev Yashin ( 1st ) and Gordon Banks ( 2nd ).

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, located at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, was named in his honor.

) The Declaration was then taken to the papal court at Avignon by Bishop Kininmund, Sir Adam Gordon and Sir Odard de Maubuisson.