It is ranked as the fourth longest and fourth largest island in the contiguous United States, behind Padre Island, Texas ( the world's longest barrier island ); Long Island ( a fact disputed by residents ); and Isle Royale, Michigan.

Thompson's attribution of the Long Rede to her grandmother has been disputed, since Adriana Porter died in 1946, well before Gerald Gardner published The Old Laws, and no evidence for Porter's authorship exists other than Thompson's word.

Their report has been disputed by the Chinese media, citing " The 25, 000 li of the Red Army's Long March are a historic fact and not open to doubt.

The discovery is still disputed between Jim White and Abijah Long.

This Peach Lake meeting house, like many others starting at Long Island Sound and heading north, was built in the disputed area between the Connecticut and New York colonies called the Oblong.

After he married the daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, in 1639, Coventry's patronage secured Cooper a seat in the Short Parliament, although Cooper lost a disputed election to a seat in the Long Parliament.

The reason behind this failure was subsequently disputed between supporters of Brigadier Long and Marshal Beresford.

* Edgar Hull, M. D., 1927, co-founder of Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans ( 1931 ) and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport ( 1969 ); later disputed the T. Harry Williams account of the assassination and death of Huey Pierce Long, Jr.

The IRA commander inside Long Kesh at the time, Brendan McFarlane ( known as " Bik ") has publicly disputed this version of events.

The pieces, though predominantly Canadian in origin, also represent the Far East, Europe, and other regions, and can be arranged thematically, such as the Asian influenced pieces in the Long Gallery, the portraits of Canadian governors general in the reception room.

A predominantly African American community, the boundaries are considered to be the Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road to the west, Hillside Avenue to the north, Francis Lewis Boulevard to the east ( although parts of Queens Village are addressed as Hollis on Jamaica water bills ) and Murdock Avenue to the south.

Though predominantly Protestant the party opposed the Kulturkampf, but approached to Bismarck when during the Long Depression the chancellor began to implement protectionist policies by restricting corn imports from Russia and the United States.

During this period, Song stated that he was predominantly located in the Long Beach area of Los Angeles while in a relationship with a girlfriend who was a member of the " Bloods " gang.

Long distance trains ( IC ) trains only run on Fridays and Sundays from Berlin and are geared predominantly to commuting Bundeswehr soldiers.

Now many houses have been built, predominantly in the east and south, with larger communities at Leeward, Long Bay and Chalk Sound, as well as expansion of the original three settlements.

David Alexander argues that any earlier declines were simply part of the global Long Depression, and that the Maritimes first fell behind the rest of Canada when the great boom period of the early twentieth century had little effect on the region.

* Harwich is also the site of the Long Pond Medical Center, which serves the southeastern Cape region.

Atsby is a New York vermouth made from a base of locally-sourced Chardonnay ( North Fork of Long Island ), and are fortified with craft apple brandy from the finger lakes region.

The Port Authority also participates in joint development ventures around the region, including The Teleport communications center on Staten Island, Bathgate Industrial Park in The Bronx, the Essex County Resource Recovery Facility, Newark Legal Center, Queens West in Long Island City, NY, and The South Waterfront in Hoboken.

She is named in the colophon to the Elizabethan Brigittine Long Text manuscript produced in exile in the Antwerp region, now known as the Paris Manuscript.

For two centuries New Netherland Dutch culture characterized the region ( today's Capital District around Albany, the Hudson Valley, western Long Island, northeastern New Jersey, and New York City ).

The region is also home to Los Angeles International Airport, the second-busiest airport in the United States by passenger volume ( see World's busiest airports by passenger traffic ) and the third by international passenger volume ( see Busiest airports in the United States by international passenger traffic ); San Diego International Airport the busiest single runway airport in the world ; Van Nuys Airport, the world's busiest general aviation airport ; major commercial airports at Orange County, Ontario, Burbank and Long Beach ; and numerous smaller commercial and general aviation airports.

The Long Island Ducks, founded in 2000, continue to be a strong draw in the region, averaging 400, 000 fans a season, and have seen the likes of such Major League alumni as Edgardo Alfonzo, Pedro Borbón, Jr., José Offerman, Donovan Osborne, Bill Pulsipher, Armando Ríos, John Rocker, and Mark Whiten.

Long before human habitation, this mountainous region has been home to dinosaurs and pandas.

Long after the sect was suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church, the remaining Waldensians, now mostly in the Luberon region of France, sought to join William Farel, John Calvin and the Protestant Reformation, and Olivetan published a French Bible for them.

The picture at right uses the broadest definition of the region, including all communities south of Interstate 105 and west of Long Beach ( with the exception of Compton, which is generally considered South LA ).

* East End ( Long Island ), a region on Long Island, New York

Valrico began as a region of cotton plantations known as Long Pond.

The village is home to the Vernon Area Public Library, whose district serves a large region of the Vernon Township ( specifically, the villages of Lincolnshire ; Buffalo Grove ; and Long Grove, and portions of the village Vernon Hills ).

Long wave is only used for radio broadcasting in ITU region 1 ( Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia ), and is not allocated elsewhere.

Long referred to as Newmarket, the town arose from its beginnings in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to be a social and commercial center serving the northern hinterland region of Dorchester County, Maryland into the early 20th century.

Long considered a recreational area for the region even under ownership by the Iron Works, the property was finally purchased in 1902-3 by the City and preserved in perpetuity as the Bridgeton City Park.

Much of Long Valley is part of Schooley's Mountain, a tall ridge that contrasts greatly with the rest of the region.

Great Neck is a region on Long Island that covers a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, which includes villages of Great Neck, the village of Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, and others, as well as an area south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border territory of Queens.

Aquebogue is part of Long Island's North Fork wine region and is home to such wineries as Paumanouk Vineyards.

The Native American inhabitants of the region, the Lenape, called the island Narrioch — meaning " land without shadows "— because, as with other south shore Long Island beaches, its orientation means the beach remains in sunlight all day.

New York City and Long Island, regions 10 and 11, share 0 ; Westchester is region 8 ( the Hutchinson River Parkway also shares this oddity ).

Long live Alsace.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

Long before he reached the protection of the stage door, Andy was recognized.

Willie's partner was Long Jim Barnes, who tried to keep count.

Prior to that he was associated with Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Long before 1815 the Christian conscience was leading some to declare slavery wrong and to act accordingly.

Their return was blocked, and they resolved to march on Athens, where the Long Walls were not yet completed, winning a victory at the Battle of Tanagra.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

King was a major shareholder in the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later the Long Island Rail Road ) and therefore had a conflict of interest and stood to benefit by the compensation payments to the railroad from the tax assessment.

for torpedo manufacture ( which were test-fired in Loch Long ) and then in the early 1970s was the scene of the Plessey sit-in.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

Long considered a mathematical curiosity, it was during the 1960s that theoretical work showed black holes were a generic prediction of general relativity.

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

Long ago, his master was murdered by Jade Fox ( Cheng Pei-pei ), a woman who sought to learn Wudang skills.

Athel Long CMG, CBE was the last Administrator and the first Governor of the Cayman Islands.

Smith was born January 13, 1893 in Long Valley, California, of English and Yankee parentage.

His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders including a fear of crowds, and although admitted to high school after attending eight years of grammar school ( Long Valley School, whence dates the earliest known photo of him ), he never went to high school.

Long after the Roman census was no longer taken, the Latin word lustrum has survived, and been adopted in some modern languages, in the derived sense of a period of five years, i. e. half a decennium.

The Communists, tipped-off that a Nationalist offensive was imminent, retreated in the Long March, during which Mao Zedong rose from a mere military official to the most influential leader of the Communist Party of China.

The Rump was created by Pride's Purge of those members of the Long Parliament who did not support the political position of the Grandees in the New Model Army.

The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.