Public libraries in Nassau County have been lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century, but the system enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive basis.

Category: People from Nassau County, New York

* 1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.

However, these early events received little attention, and it was not until 1957, when the New York Times reported an unsuccessful struggle to restrict DDT use in Nassau County, New York, that the issue came to the attention of the popular naturalist-author, Rachel Carson.

Demme was born in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York in 1944, and graduated from the University of Florida.

Category: Islands of Nassau County, New York

* Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame – inducted in 2006.

A fax received at the Nassau County, Florida fire department was forwarded to police, and from there to all city departments.

It only serves four stations in Nassau County.

* Amelia City, Florida, a town in Nassau County, Florida, United States

The New York City Metropolitan Area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, enumerating 682, 265 individuals as of the 2010 United States Census, including at least 8 Chinatowns-six in New York City proper, and one each in Edison, New Jersey and Nassau County, Long Island, not to mention fledgling ethnic Chinese enclaves emerging throughout the New York City metropolitan area.

* Nassau County, New York — southeast, water boundary only, across the Long Island Sound

: There is also a Town of Nassau in Rensselaer County.

Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, immediately east of New York City in the U. S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area.

Nassau, together with Suffolk County to its immediate east, are generally referred to as " Long Island " by area residents — as distinct from the New York City boroughs of Queens ( Queens County ) and Brooklyn ( Kings County ), which are geographically on the island's westernmost end.

Nassau County is the name of two counties in the United States:

* Nassau County, New York

* Nassau County, Florida

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The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

In Nassau, there are two daily newspapers, three weeklies, and several international newspapers available for sale.

The end of the line for the Bandanese came in 1609 when the Dutch reinforced Fort Nassau on Bandanaira Island.

The company built two forts that are in ruins today: in 1628 on the face of Nassau Cove and 1639 at Nassau on the hill, as well as warehouses for goods destined for the mainland trading posts.

He was active in the undergraduate American Whig-Cliosophic Society literary and debating society, serving as speaker of the Whig Party and writing for the Nassau Literary Review, organized a separate Liberal Debating Society, and later coached the Whig-Clio Debate Panel.

The band opened three shows for The Cars at Madison Square Garden and the Nassau Coliseum between their own headline gigs at smaller area venues.

Illustrations for booklets, catalogs, posters ( particularly movie promotions ), sheet music, stamps, playing cards, and murals ( including " Yankee Doodle Dandy " and " God Bless the Hills ", which was completed in 1936 for the Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey ) rounded out Rockwell's œuvre as an illustrator.

With no functioning government in the Bahamas, Nassau became a base of operations for English privateers, in what has been called a " privateers ' republic ," which lasted for eleven years.

After nearly being captured by Jamaican privateers, and hearing that the king had extended the deadline being pardoned for piracy, Rackham and his crew returned to Nassau and received pardons from Woodes Rogers.

He returned to Britain in 1722 to plead for repayment of the money he had borrowed to build up Nassau, only to find he had been replaced as governor.

The Bahamian government ordered that all ships bound for the Turk Islands obtain a license at Nassau first.

Memorial for Nassau ( state ) | Nassauers fallen at the Battle of WaterlooAt the 1815 Congress of Vienna, the Duchy of Nassau joined the German Confederation.

The name of the county comes from an old name for Long Island, which was at one time named Nassau, after the Dutch Prince William of Nassau, Prince of Orange ( who later also ruled as King William III of England.

By 1739 Diarium von Pilgerhut and his German ( Moravian ) Pilgrim brothers arrived in Fort Nassau on the Berbice River and once there decided to teach their ways by example.

Many of the streets in St. Peter were named after streets in New York City ; Park Row, Chatham, Broadway, Nassau, and Union, for example.

For example, major U. S airlines and their subsidiaries routinely operate many daily flights from locations like Toronto or Nassau to New York City.

Rogers continued to improve the defenses of Nassau, spending his money and going heavily into debt to do so.