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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.
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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.
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 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.
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.
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Hawthorn Elementary was rented to the police department in 2006 and currently serves as the Nassau County Police Academy.
Nassau Coliseum, where the franchise relocated, is generally regarded as one of the most marginal venues currently used in major American professional sports, and is often proposed for replacement, so the improvement of the situation with regards to a venue has been fairly minimal to this point.
Only the tip, the former Oranje Nassau III mine, currently designed as a park, represents a kind of barrier between the towns.
At one time, the entire length of Merrick Road was signed as NY 27A ; the entire portion within Nassau County is currently designated as the unsigned County Route 27 ( CR 27 ).
It is an organization that has local chapters currently in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Long Island, Mid-Hudson, Nassau County, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse, and Westchester.
* Tom Rosicki-Retired FBI Agent, former Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission in 1989, former Vice President Director of Security for Macy ’ s East, former Chairman of the Nassau County Parole Board where he served for three years, former Chairman of the Society of Former FBI Agents, New York Chapter, and currently serves on the board as President of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children ( AHRC ), and on the business advisory council of The Rehabilitation Institute.
South Andros is accessed from Nassau via commercial airline ( currently two trips daily from Nassau to Congotown International Airport ), from the U. S. via two flights commercially from Fort Lauderdale International and other islands by charter airplane ( usually from Fort Lauderdale, Florida ), and from anywhere by private boat.
A Latin music pirate station is also currently broadcasting from the South Bronx on 106. 1 FM in the evening hours interfering with BLI's signal in Nassau County.
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Between these in age, Nassau Hall at Princeton University began as the single building of the then college.
* Nassau Hall, the oldest building at Princeton University, and a meeting place for the USA's Second Continental Congress
Vitagraph's first office was in Lower Manhattan, on the corner of Nassau St. and Beekman St. where they shot their first film, The Burglar On the Roof, on the roof of the building in 1897.
He supervised the construction of Nassau Hall, Princeton's best-known structure and the largest building in the colonies when it was completed in 1756.
The Archives at Queens Library, formerly known as the Long Island Division, is a special collection in the Central Library building that focuses on the history of Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties.
There is reason to believe that the design of the building was influenced by that of Princeton ’ s Nassau Hall ( sometimes described as the Italianate style ).
Levy Transit Facility on older buses and on the building itself, pictured in the background at the top of this page ) is located on 700 Commercial Avenue in Uniondale, and is the headquarters and central garage for Nassau Inter-County Express.
The AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties describes the building as having " poly-chromatic voussoir arched windows, elaborate cast-iron balustrades, and Dorchester stone trim.
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.
When Nassau Hall, the University ’ s main building, was gutted by an accidental fire in March 1855, Fitz Hugh left Princeton and transferred to Union College in Schenectady, joining the Kappa Alpha Society and living with other members of the fraternity.
In October 2008, David Denenberg, an executive for Nassau County, along with ten civic leaders, demonstrated in front of the NYSDOT building in the village of Merrick about the slow progress on construction for the NY 102 ( Front Street ) bridge over the Meadowbrook.
Nassau Hall ( or Old Nassau ) is the oldest building at Princeton University in the borough of Princeton, New Jersey.
Old Nassau refers affectionately to the building and serves as a metonym for the university as a whole.
The British Redcoats seized control of Nassau Hall in 1776, and American soldiers were forced to fire upon their own building in the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777.
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