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.

In Nassau, as in other systems, the long-range objective is to bring the maximum service of libraries to bear on the schools, and on adult education in general.

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.

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

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.

East Farmingdale is bordered to the west by South Farmingdale, the Village of Farmingdale and Old Bethpage ( which are in Nassau County, to the north by Melville, to the east by Wyandanch and West Babylon, to the southeast by North Lindenhurst, and to the south by North Amityville.

North Amityville is bordered by East Massapequa ( in Nassau County ) to the west, East Farmingdale to the north, North Lindenhurst to the east, Lindenhurst to the southeast, Copiague to the south, and the Village of Amityville to the southwest.

Rosedale is bordered to the north by Cambria Heights, the east by Valley Stream and North Woodmere ( both in Nassau County ), the west by Laurelton and Brookville Park, and to the south by John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The building occupies the entire block, and is bordered by Broadway to the West, Cedar Street to the North, Nassau Street to the East, and Pine Street to the South.

Little Neck is a neighborhood of Queens, New York City, bordered on the north by Little Neck Bay and on the east by Great Neck in Nassau County.

It is located in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, and is bordered by Nassau Avenue, Bayard Street, Lorimer Street and North 12th Street.

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.

He could imagine her at this minute, honeymooning in Nassau with what's-his-name, lounging on golden sands, looking forward to a life of unalloyed bliss.

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

* 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.

The Nassau Agreement was signed on December 18, 1962 resulting in the signing of the Polaris Sales Agreement on April 6, 1963.

It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included parts of Bavaria ( the Rhenish Palatinate ), the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province ( including the District of Birkenfeld which formerly belonged to Oldenburg ), parts of the Prussian Province of Nassau ( see Hesse-Nassau ), and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt ( Rhinehessen on the western banks of the Rhine ); the constitution was legally confirmed by referendum on 18 May 1947.

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.

Service was cut back to Canal Street when C service resumed on September 21, but Chambers Street and Broadway – Nassau Street remained closed until October 1.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough Richard Savage. JPG | The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M. P., ( c. 1778 – 80 ), oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts

van Neck land on the island which they name Mauritius, after Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, and sight the Dodo.

After Wilhelmina died in 1837, William married Countess Henriette d ' Oultremont de Wégimont ( Maastricht, 28 February 1792 – Schloss Rahe, 26 October 1864 ), created Countess of Nassau, on 17 February 1841 in Berlin.

In 1703 and in 1706 combined French-Spanish fleets attacked and sacked Nassau, after which some settlers left and the Proprietors gave up on trying to govern the Bahamas.

" Under pressure from Napoleon, both countships merged to form the Duchy of Nassau on August 30, 1806.

In the Revolutions of 1848, 30, 000 citizens of Nassau assembled in Wiesbaden on March 4.

The Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth was built on the Neroberg from 1847 to 1855 by Duke Adolf of Nassau on the occasion of the early death of his wife Elizabeth Mikhailovna, who died in childbirth.