On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

On the shores north and south, the fishers and mooncursers -- smugglers -- lived along the churning Great South Bay and the narrow barrier of sand, Fire Island.

On July 14 the Security Council -- with France and Great Britain abstaining -- voted the resolution which drew the U.N. into the Congo.

On this spot now stands the monastery of Saint Anthony the Great.

On 9 August 48 BC at Pharsalus in central Greece, Gaius Julius Caesar and his allies formed up opposite the army of the republic under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (" Pompey the Great ").

On the Great British canal system, the term ' barge ' is used to describe a boat wider than a narrowboat, and the people who move barges are often known as lightermen.

*" Great Hunt On For 27 Navy Fliers Missing In Five Planes Off Florida ", The New York Times, December 7, 1945.

On the south side of the great square was erected the Great Palace of the Emperor with its imposing entrance, the Chalke, and its ceremonial suite known as the Palace of Daphne.

Heuvelmans ' 1955 book On the Track of Unknown Animals traces the scholarly origins of the discipline to Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans and his 1892 study, The Great Sea Serpent.

On 4 July 1591 Oxford sold the Great Garden property at Aldgate to John Wolley and Francis Trentham.

On 2 and 3 September, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the centre of London.

On Jupiter, the most noticeable of these features is the Great Red Spot, which has been present for at least 300 years.

On his return to Venice was made a senator and a member of the Great Council.

On this date, the Scots Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain, based in the Palace of Westminster in London, the home of the English Parliament.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

On the international front, France came repeatedly to the brink of war with the other imperial powers, such as the 1898 Fashoda Incident with Great Britain over East Africa.

On the death of Alexander the Great ( 322 ) his generals divided the empire between them.

On the quayside may be seen the Pier Hotel of 1860 and Great Eastern Hotel of 1864, both reflecting the town's new importance to travellers following the arrival of the railway line from Colchester in 1854.

On March 11, 1969, the Great Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ) solemnly proclaimed the Act of the Universal Church Canonization of the Staretz Herman to Sainthood in the Orthodox Church in America: " Taking into consideration the long and undisputed witness of the grace of God, appearing through the servant of God, the Staretz Herman of Alaska.

On July 6, 1776, the first committee for the production of the Great Seal of the United States convened.

On top of all of this, Charles Barkla of Great Britain was awarded this Nobel Prize in 1917 for his experimental work in using X-ray spectroscopy in discovering the characteristic X-ray frequencies emitted by the various elements, especially the metals.

On leaving school, Maynard Smith joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and started studying engineering at Trinity College Cambridge.

On September 17, 2011, the Cincinnati Reds unveiled a statue of Bench at the entrance way of the Reds Hall of Fame at Great American Ball Park.

In 1600, William Gilbert published his De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ( On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth ).

On the Red Planet, he runs afoul of hostile, bat-winged, blood-sucking natives, a once-powerful civilization now ruled by the Great Brain.

On the east side of the island of Manhattan the indifferent hawk knew the East River that connected New York Bay with Long Island Sound.

On the western tip of Long Island protruded Brooklyn Heights.

On July 9, 2011, Agassi was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island.

On 1 January 1966 Selkirk's island was officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.

On March 3, 1764, a charter was filed to create the College in Warren, Rhode Island, reflecting the work of both Stiles and Manning.

On 5 December 1717 Teach stopped the merchant sloop Margaret off the coast of Crab Island, near Anguilla.

On 8 August the fleet's boats stormed Aboukir Island, which surrendered without a fight.

On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.

" On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825.

* On the " Island Of Terror " ( 1966 ), silicon based life-forms are created accidentally by scientists while researching a cure for cancer.

On May 3, 1778 he was transferred to Staten Island.

On June 15, 1897, a fire of unknown origin, possibly caused by faulty wiring, turned the wooden structures on Ellis Island into ashes.

On October 15, 1965, Ellis Island was proclaimed a part of Statue of Liberty National Monument.

On 8 February 1813 the British ship Isabella, a ship of 193 tons and a crew of fourteen, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island ( now known as Speedwell Island ).

On 5 April Captain Charles Barnard of the American sealer Nanina was sailing off the shore of Eagle Island, with a discovery boat deployed looking for seals.

* On Staten Island, Masonic lodge # 1130 at 236 Main Street is named after him.

On Faro Island, a giant octopus ( known as the Oodako ) attacks the native village.

On 5 August 1944 the Island Queen schooner disappeared with the loss of all 56 passengers and 11 crew.

The ten lines are the East Rail, Kwun Tong, Tsuen Wan, Island, Tung Chung, Tseung Kwan O, West Rail, Ma On Shan, the Airport Express and the Disneyland Resort lines.