The arrangement had been set up in principle as a result of the Nassau Agreement.

* Nassau Agreement, a treaty between the USA and the UK trading missiles for rights to lease a nuclear submarine base

The Nassau Agreement, concluded on 22 December 1962, was a treaty negotiated between President John F. Kennedy for the United States and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan for the United Kingdom.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.

He didn't know what was so tough about Vivian's world, slopping around Nassau with what's-his-name.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

However, these early events received little attention, and it was not until 1957, when the New York Times reported an unsuccessful struggle to restrict DDT use in Nassau County, New York, that the issue came to the attention of the popular naturalist-author, Rachel Carson.

An early instance was ordered by Louis of Nassau during operations near Mons in Hainaut, when 500 infantry were transported this way.

When the Continental Congress was forced to leave Philadelphia in 1783 while he was president, he moved the meetings to Princeton, where they met in the College's Nassau Hall.

After a season-long series of dismal results under John Wyer in 1964, the program was handed over to Carroll Shelby after the 1964 Nassau race.

In August 1687 Count William Nassau de Zuylestein was sent to England, ostensibly to send condolences due to the death of the queen's mother.

In 1462, during a conflict between two archbishops, Mainz was sacked by archbishop Adolph von Nassau, and Gutenberg was exiled.

In January 1465, Gutenberg's achievements were recognized and he was given the title Hofmann ( gentleman of the court ) by von Nassau.

Demme was born in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York in 1944, and graduated from the University of Florida.

They landed and decided to name the island " Prins Maurits van Nassaueiland ", after Prince Maurits ( Latin version: Mauritius ) of the House of Nassau, the stadtholder of Holland, but also after the main vessel of the fleet which was called " Mauritius ".

Escher was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of Orange Nassau in 1955.

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.

In 1788, while part of the Province of Quebec ( 1763 – 1791 ), southern Ontario was divided into four districts: Hesse, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, and Nassau.

As a result of the Peace of Prague ( 1866 ), the German Confederation was dissolved ; Prussia annexed Schleswig, Holstein, Frankfurt, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), and Nassau ; and Austria promised not to intervene in German affairs.

In 1618, Descartes was engaged in the army of Maurice of Nassau in the Dutch Republic, but as a truce had been established between Holland and Spain, Descartes used his spare time to study mathematics.

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.

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.

The leaders of the nobles who signed a solemn league known as the Compromise of Nobles, by which they bound themselves to assist in defending the rights and liberties of the Netherlands against the civil and religious despotism of Philip II of Spain were Louis, Count of Nassau, and Henry, Count of Bréderode.

The service roads of I-495 are called the Queens – Midtown Expressway between the Brooklyn – Queens Expressway and Queens Boulevard and the Horace Harding Expressway between Queens Boulevard and the Nassau County line, and are generally signed as such like any other city streets.

The Treaty of Westminster, signed on February 19, 1674, renamed New Orange and Willemstadt back to their English names ; Fort Nassau became Fort Albany and Willemstadt became Albany.

I-78 through New York City was canceled in March 1971, but the Nassau Expressway continued to be signed as I-78.

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 ).

In 2001, the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, at their 22nd meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas, signed the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, rebranding the Caribbean Community and Common Market to include the proposed CARICOM Single Market and Economy ( CSME ).

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.