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The Sandy Hook Proving Ground was used by for many years – beginning after the Civil War until 1919, when the facility was moved to Aberdeen, Maryland – and was later the site of a Nike missile defense installation.
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The gun was tested at Sandy Hook, but was abandoned because of its cost and an American military bias against high-explosive ordnance in favor of armor-piercing rounds.
" It was Hendrik Hudson and his crew aboard the Dutch vessel ' Half Moon " who, in 1609, first spotted land in what is now Monmouth County, most likely off Sandy Hook.
Because of the warmer wintertime temperatures, Hardy Palms, including Trachycarpus Fortunei ( Chinese Windmill Palm ) and Needle Palms, would work quite well in the landscape, these plants having survived for many years also in other parts of coastal New Jersey, from Sandy Hook to Cape May.
Voices, its sister paper, covers Southbury, Middlebury, Oxford, Seymour, Naugatuck, Woodbury, Bethelhem, New Preston, Washington, Washington Depot, Roxbury, Bridgewater, Monroe, Sandy Hook and Newtown.
* Voices-A local newspaper serving Southbury, Middlebury, Oxford, Seymour, Naugatuck, Woodbury, Bethlehem, New Preston, Washington, Washington Depot, Roxbury, Bridgewater, Monroe, Sandy Hook and Newtown.
Sandy Hook is also the location for the Little Sandy Correctional Complex, a medium security prison operated by the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
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The proving ground was created as a successor to the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, which was too small for some of the larger weapons being tested.
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In this last role, calling himself Sandy Locke, he becomes the lover of Ina Grierson, a top executive at Ground to Space Industries, a powerful " hypercorp " known to all as G2S.
Many Major League Baseball stars got their start at the Parade Ground, including Joe Torre and Sandy Koufax.
Oxford United had no regular home until 1913, switching between the Quarry Recreation Ground, Wootten's Field, Sandy Lane and Britannia Field, all in Headington.
Having purchased the Sandy Lane site, the club developed and played at the Manor Ground between 1925 and 2001.
The preserve also contains archaeological evidence of settlements of the Lenape, early European settlers, and the Free Blacks of Sandy Ground.
While neighborhoods on Staten Island do not have universally agreed-upon boundaries, most observers today reckon Charleston as consisting of a triangle-shaped territory enclosed by Bloomingdale Road, the Richmond Parkway, and the Arthur Kill ; this gives Charleston a slightly larger area than that which the former post office served — and by the current prevailing definition Charleston includes Sandy Ground, settled in 1833 by African Americans who had achieved freedom from slavery, most of whom came to the area from Maryland ; remnants of the original settlement still exist.
In addition to the Kreischer mansion and Sandy Ground, the neighborhood is also home to the Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, and the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, a closed state prison property.
After slavery in New York was abolished in 1827, freedmen from all over the state, as well as far away as Maryland and Virginia, settled in the area known since colonial times as Sandy Ground, which was located in the area around what is now the intersection of Bloomingdale and Woodrow Roads in Rossville.
Sandy Ground also served as an important stop on the Underground Railroad, and is the oldest continuously settled free black community in the United States.
The Sandy Ground Historical Society, which preserves the history and physical surroundings of the Sandy Ground community and maintains a museum and library, was organized on February 28, 1980, and is located at 1538 Woodrow Road.
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In 2007, the destruction of the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River was the first dam removal in the system.
This version of Gia was not produced, but after Tamerlis ' death, footage of Carangi, Tamerlis, photographers, Carangi's family, and Sandy Linter discussing her life was incorporated into a 2003 documentary entitled The Self-Destruction of Gia.
Australia's first legal casino was the 17-storey Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Sandy Bay, opened in 1973.
Sandy Petersen was a level designer for 19 of the 27 levels in the original Doom title as well as 17 of the 32 levels of Doom II.
Phase 1 is the highway network between Kingston and Mandeville which itself has been divided into sub-phases: Phase 1a ( Kingston-Bushy Park ( in actuality, Kingston-Sandy Bay ) highway and the upgrade of the Portmore Causeway ) which was completed June 2006, and Phase 1b ( Sandy Bay-Williamsfield ).
Over the months, John Lewis alternated with Al Haig on piano, Mike Zwerin with Kai Winding on trombone ( Johnson was touring at the time ), Junior Collins with Sandy Siegelstein and Gunther Schuller on French horn, and Al McKibbon with Joe Shulman on bass.
Might & Magic: The World of Xeen ( comprising Clouds of Xeen and Dark Side of Xeen ) was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon # 201 by Sandy Petersen in the " Eye of the Monitor " column.
Sports Illustrateds Joe Posnanski wrote, " There has never been a pitcher in baseball history — not Walter Johnson, not Lefty Grove, not Sandy Koufax, not Tom Seaver, not Roger Clemens — who was more overwhelming than the young Pedro.
An early mention of the problems of soil erosion was made in 1718 when a waterspout broke over Sandy Bay, on the southern coast.
GM Sandy Alderson hired Walker in order to get " some Bill James-like stuff that was proprietary to us.
The 1875 New York State census listing for her ( living in Kingsbury / Sandy Hill in Washington County, New York ) indicates that she was a widow.
Between April 2003 and February 2010 the Library was home to two locally famous residents, Tessa Brown and Sandy Rankine a pair of very popular library cats.
His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer ; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA ( failed ), Oriental criminal mastermind ; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man ; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy ( Julian was played by Hugh Paddick ).
The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, created by CompuServe executive Alexander " Sandy " Trevor in Columbus, Ohio.
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