At the other are organizations like the newly formed Nassau Library System, in a high-density area, with ample resources and a rapidly growing territory to serve.

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.

At least 20 pirate captains used Nassau or other places in the Bahamas as a home port during this period, including Henry Jennings, Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ), Benjamin Hornigold and Stede Bonnet.

Woodes Rogers arrived in Nassau in late July 1718, with his own 460 ton warship, three other ships belonging to his company, and escorted by three ships of the Royal Navy.

Like many other large species in the Epinephelinae subfamily, the Nassau grouper is threatened by overfishing

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

The main environmental and agricultural body is the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, which works closely with other area agencies.

Other regular events at the arena include the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus when it comes to New York City ( although the Izod Center and Nassau Coliseum also host the circus each year ), selected home games for the St. John's men's Red Storm ( college basketball ), the annual pre and postseason NIT tournaments, the NBA Draft, the Millrose Games track and field meet, and almost any other kind of indoor activity that draws large audiences, such as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the 2004 Republican National Convention.

In 1931, estate owners banded together to win village incorporation to head off what they saw as undesirable residential and commercial development in other parts of Nassau County.

The n31 and n32 buses of Nassau Inter-County Express run down Central Avenue extending southwest into Far Rockaway ( with a connection to the Line of the New York City Subway ) and northeast to the Hempstead Transit Center in central Nassau County with connections to other parts of Long Island.

Without the other three band members ' knowledge, Fogerty agreed to a tax shelter scheme proposed by Saul Zaentz and his lawyers in which most of the bandmembers ' assets were transferred to Castle Bank & Trust ( Bahamas ) of Nassau.

Along with six other classmates from St. Paul's, he lived in a house at 82 Nassau Street in Princeton.

Inside the bar of the Nassau Inn in Princeton is a photo of Baker flanked by two other famous Princeton athletes, Bill Bradley and Dick Kazmaier.

Similar resolutions were adopted in Württemberg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau, and other German states.

This coat, designed in the High Middle Ages, has been variously combined with those of France, Scotland, Ireland, Nassau and Hanover, according to dynastic and other political changes affecting England, but has not itself been altered since the reign of Richard I.

The Nassau grouper is fished both commercially and for sport ; it is less shy than other groupers, and is readily approached by scuba divers.

Most of the neighbourhood's eclectic shops, cafes, and other attractions are located along Augusta Ave. and neighbouring Nassau St., Baldwin St., and Kensington Ave. In addition, to the Market, the neighbourhood features many historic Victorian homes, the Toronto District School Board operates Kensington Community School and at Dundas St. W. and Bathurst St., Toronto Western Hospital is located.

The factory, Nassau Smelting and Refining, was purchased by Western Electric in the middle 20th century and used principally to recycle copper and other metals from old wires until it was closed late in the century by Lucent.

Tottenville has been the southern terminus of the Staten Island Railway since the railway was extended to the neighborhood on June 2, 1860, and today the three southernmost stations along this railway are generally regarded as part of the community ; besides the terminal station which bears the neighborhood's name ( which is the southernmost railway station in New York state ), the other two are Atlantic ( named after the defunct Atlantic Terra Cotta Co. factory nearby ) and Nassau ( referring to Nassau Smelting and Refining, the original name of the factory later taken over by Lucent Technologies ).

( The government still retains some housing and other facilities in the vicinity of the Nassau campus.

For the past decade, the MTA has provided a unique subsidy ( of $ 24 million in 2011 and over $ 140 million since 2000 ) to the Nassau County bus system that the other New York City suburban county bus systems have not received.

Finely crystallized specimens have been obtained from the Friedrichssegen mine in Lahnstein near Nassau, Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony, Mies in Bohemia, Phoenixville in Pennsylvania, Broken Hill, New South Wales ; and several other localities.

The MetroCard is the payment method for the New York City Subway rapid transit system ; New York City Transit buses, including routes operated by Atlantic Express under contract to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA ); MTA Bus, and Nassau Inter-County Express systems ; the PATH subway system ; the Roosevelt Island Tram ; AirTrain JFK ; and Westchester County's Bee-Line Bus System.

For many years, through cable coverage WVIA was available on cable systems beyond the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre TV market ( including Cablevision in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Nassau County, New York ).

Saltonstall captained the Alfred on the Continental Navy's maiden voyage in March 1776, an expedition to Nassau in the Bahamas whose objective was arms and critically needed gunpowder.

In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

Headquarters of the Nassau system is an increasingly busy place these days, threatening to expand beyond its boundaries.

The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.

The country's infrastructure is best developed in the principal cities of Nassau and Freeport, where there are relatively good paved roads and international airports.

The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen or " Half Moon ", captained by Henry Hudson, in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Holland's stadholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

* April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who is killed.

* October 2 – Eighty Years ' War: After a siege of 86 days, Bergen-op-Zoom is relieved by a Dutch army led by Maurice of Nassau and Ernst von Mansfeld.

* April 23 – Stadtholder Maurice of Nassau of the Dutch Republic dies and is succeeded by his younger brother, Frederick Henry.

* Nassau Castle is built.

* June – Zutphen is captured by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.

* July – Deventer is captured by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.

* The German state of Nassau is divided, not to be reunited until 1806.

: 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.

Europeans came to the Delaware Valley in the early 17th century, with the first settlements founded by the Dutch, who in 1623 built Fort Nassau on the Delaware River opposite the Schuylkill River in what is now Brooklawn, New Jersey.

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

Nassau is the capital and largest city, located on New Providence.

The highest point is only 63 meters above sea level on Cat Island ; the island of New Providence, where the capital city of Nassau is located, reaches a maximum elevation of only thirty-seven meters.

The College of the Bahamas, established in Nassau in 1974, provides programmes leading to associate's degrees and bachelor's degrees ; the college is now converting from a two-year to a four-year institution.

Nassau County is a county located in the state of Florida.

Nassau County is part of the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan area.