LaGuardia then collaborated closely with Robert Moses, with support from the governor, Democrat Herbert Lehman, to upgrade the decaying infrastructure.

He is given credit for many massive public works programs administered by his powerful Parks Commissioner Robert Moses and employed thousands of voters.

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.

In the 19th century the agnostic Robert G. Ingersoll wrote "... that all the ignorant, infamous, heartless, hideous things recorded in the ' inspired ' Pentateuch are not the words of God, but simply ' Some Mistakes of Moses '".

New York City official Robert Moses tried to interest Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley in this site as the location for a new Dodger stadium, but O ' Malley refused, unable to agree on location, ownership and lease terms.

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

** Robert Moses, American civil engineer, public works director, and highway and bridge builder ( d. 1981 )

* July 29 – Robert Moses, American urban planner ( b. 1888 )

They married around 1808, and according to court records, they had nine children together: Linah, born in 1808, Mariah Ritty in 1811, Soph in 1813, Robert in 1816, Minty ( Harriet ) in 1822, Ben in 1823, Rachel in 1825, Henry in 1830, and Moses in 1832.

In the fall of 1961, SNCC organizer Robert Moses began the first such project in McComb and the surrounding counties in the Southwest corner of the state.

In 1962, Barnes fought with domineering city planner Robert Moses and killed the planned elevated Lower Manhattan Expressway.

* Moses Pitt, Robert Hooke and the English Atlas

At the time Robert Moses wielded significant influence, who, according to Robert Caro ( in his Robert Moses biography The Power Broker ), Impellitteri deferred to behind the scenes.

Hydroelectric power dam at the Robert Moses Generating facility, Lewiston, New York.

Up to of water a second is diverted from the Niagara River through conduits under the City of Niagara Falls to the Lewiston and Robert Moses power plants.

The most powerful hydroelectric stations on the Niagara River are the Sir Adam Beck 1 and 2 on the Canadian side and the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant and the Lewiston Pump Generating Plant on the American side.

* Robert Moses, New York planner with whom Haussmann is occasionally compared.

Ammann's designs for the George Washington Bridge, and, later, the Bayonne Bridge, caught the attention of master builder Robert Moses, who drafted Ammann into his service.

Frequent visitors and guests included Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Moses, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and Fernand Léger, who waited out part of World War II by painting a mural at the bottom of Harrison's swimming pool.

Mannie refers to a comrade, Foo Moses Morris, who following the revolution, becomes broke and starts a tailor shop in Hong Kong Luna ; a reference to Robert Morris, who helped support the American revolutionary government and also suffered financial reverses.

A short drive on the Robert Moses Causeway affords access to good fishing at the Captree Boat Basin and swimming at the Robert Moses State Park.

The park is accessible from Long Island by the Robert Moses Causeway across Great South Bay.

The park is accessible by automobile from the Robert Moses Causeway, which connects Fire Island with mainland Long Island.

Ferry service was maintained from Babylon to the park until 1964 when Robert Moses Causeway opened and the park was renamed for Moses.

Its eastern end is linked to Babylon, New York as well as to Fire Island, New York by the Robert Moses Causeway.

The island is accessible by automobile via Robert Moses Causeway on its western end and by William Floyd Parkway ( Suffolk County Road 46 ) near its eastern end.

* In 1964, Robert Moses built the Captree Causeway to the western end of the island.

The Robert Moses Causeway is an-long parkway in Suffolk County, New York, in the United States.

The Robert Moses Causeway begins inside Robert Moses State Park, located on the western tip of Fire Island.

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The Robert Moses Causeway leads to Robert Moses State Park on the western end of Fire Island while the William Floyd Parkway leads to the eastern end of the island.

Found at markets, and in some bars, it is also used in Robert Ditty ’ s sesame seed and dulse oatcakes, and in the Causeway Cheese Company ’ s cheese, and it can add a very pleasant saline edge to a loaf of soda bread.

The Long Beach Loop Causeway was completed six months ahead of schedule in October 1934 and on October 27, 1934, the causeway along with the Meadowbrook State Parkway, were opened by Robert Moses, then a candidate for the Governor of New York and New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

The Loop Parkway, originally envisioned as the Long Beach Loop Causeway, comes from a part of the original design for the Long Island Parkway System, developed by Robert Moses and the Long Island State Park Commission ( LISPC ), created in 1924.

The Lido Beach Loop Causeway was opened to extreme fanfare on October 27, 1934 with parades in Freeport and nearby Rockville Centre attended by Robert Moses, a candidate for Governor of New York at the time and Mayor of New York City Fiorello LaGuardia.

The route continues on, meeting the Robert Moses Causeway near West Islip.

* The original interchange with the Robert Moses Causeway in West Islip had two parkway-style arch bridges over two lanes of NY 27.

Crossing south of Guggenheim Lake, the Southern State Parkway enters exit 40, which serves the northern end of the Robert Moses Causeway.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

* Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great, His Life and World ( New York: Ballantine, 1981 ).

In 1796, during the French Revolution and three years after the declaration of war between France and Great Britain, Étienne-Gaspard Robert met with the French government and proposed the use of mirrors to burn the invading ships of the British Royal Navy.

It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000.

The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

Written by Robert Riskin, it is one of the first of the " screwball comedies ", and with its release during the period of the Great Depression, critics considered it an escapist story and a variation of the " American Dream ".

* In his short story The Harbor Master, by Robert W. Chambers, the discovery and attempted recovery of the last known pair of Great Auks is central to the plot ( which also involves a proto-Lovecraftian element of suspense ).

The connection with Joseph of Arimathea and with vessels associated with the Last Supper and crucifixion of Jesus, dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d ' Arimathie ( late 12th century ) in which Joseph receives the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it with his followers to Great Britain.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

Robert Engman's Möbius Strip hangs from the crown of the Barker Engineering Library's reading room located inside the Great Dome

* The Great Ideas Today ( 1961 – 1977, 17 volumes ), with Robert Hutchins, 1978 – 1999, 20 volumes

* Gateway to the Great Books ( 1963, 10 volumes ), with Robert Hutchins

Tancred's sons William Iron Arm, Drogo of Hauteville, Humphrey of Hauteville, Robert Guiscard and Roger the Great Count conquered the Emirate of Sicily and additional territories in Southern Italy.

They continued the exploration of the New World: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River.

This was followed by a pulsed system demonstrated in May 1935 by Rudolf Kühnhold and the firm GEMA in Germany and then one in June 1935 by an Air Ministry team led by Robert A. Watson Watt in Great Britain.

Wilson adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Anton, for his writings, at first telling himself that he would save the " Edward " for when he wrote the Great American Novel and later finding that " Robert Anton Wilson " had become an established identity.

Perhaps the best summation of his career is in the biographical entry in Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins ( NEHGS, Boston 1995 ): " Among the many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler's is the most remarkable.

The party governed Australia for much of the 1930s, through Australia's recovery from the Great Depression under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under Robert Menzies.

* Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain

Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ), Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) directed by Robert Hamer.