Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.

* Michael Wise, Martin Abegg, Jr, and Edward Cook, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, ( 1996 ), HarperSanFrancisco paperback 1999, ISBN 0-06-069201-4, ( contains the non-biblical portion of the scrolls )

Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and The Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.

" Great White Way " is a nickname for a section of Broadway in the Midtown section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically the portion that encompasses the Theatre District, between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and encompassing Times Square.

The American border with New Brunswick did not have any significant action during this conflict, although British forces did occupy a portion of coastal Maine at one point.

The act renamed the northeasterly portion of the former French province of New France as Province of Quebec, roughly coextensive with the lower third of contemporary Quebec.

The original portion of the island is and is an exclave of New York City, while reclaimed areas are part of Jersey City.

The natural portion of the island, part of New York City, is surrounded by rest of the island in Jersey City.

This portion was printed in 1514, but publication was delayed until 1522 by waiting for the Old Testament portion, and the sanction of Pope Leo X. Erasmus had been working for years on two projects: a collation of Greek texts and a fresh Latin New Testament.

The town is home to the New Hampshire Highland Games and to a portion of Franconia Notch State Park.

The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of Clinton County and Essex County.

Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England.

For each subsequent century, more and more manuscripts survive that contain a portion or all of the books that were held to be part of the New Testament at that time ( for example, the New Testament of the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, once a complete Bible, contains the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas ), though occasionally these manuscripts contain other works as well ( e. g., Papyrus 72 and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex ).

Despite New Mexico's arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state, especially towards the north.

According to different sources, the Korean population in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is around 20, 000, of whom around 8000 reside in the Kingston Borough portion of New Malden.

Papua New Guinea ( PNG ; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini ), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea ( the western portion of the island is a part of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua ) and numerous offshore islands.

According to a New York Times article from Feb. 1, 1893, Smith allegedly: " picked up little Myrtle Vance ... near her father's residence, and ... carried her through the central portion of the city ... En route through the city he was asked by several persons what he was doing with the child.

The writings ascribed to him by the church ( the Pauline epistles ) form a considerable portion of the New Testament.

* Stuyvesant and his family were large land owners in the northeastern portion of New Amsterdam, and the Stuyvesant name is currently associated with the Stuyvesant Town housing complex as well as Stuyvesant Square, a park in the area.

It took more than forty years before any serious proposal to establish settlements in the south-western portion of New South Wales were put forward.

The village of Lewiston, located on the lower portion of the Niagara River in Western New York State, celebrates an annual two day smelt festival.

Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U. S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico.

The state also has political jurisdiction over the approximately-wide portion of subsea land of the inner continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico.

The history of Mexico, a country located in the southern portion of North America, covers a period of more than two millennia.

The Republic of Texas claimed the portion east of the Rio Grande when it seceded from Mexico in 1836.

A significant portion of the residents of the San Luis Valley are Hispanic with historic populations in Costilla and Conejos counties which were settled by early migrants from New Mexico.

In southern New Mexico and the upper portion of the Texas border segment, the river's discharge dwindles.

The bank eventually failed and Zarossi fled to Mexico with a large portion of the bank's money.

In 1861, in the midst of the American Civil War, a group of people in the southern portion of New Mexico Territory passed a resolution condemning the United States for creating a vast territory with only a single, small government in place at Santa Fe.

* A motive for the Gadsden Purchase of land from Mexico in 1853 was to provide suitable terrain for a southern transcontinental railroad, since the topography of the southern portion of the existing Mexican Cession land was too mountainous.

Mexico is located at about 23 ° N and 102 ° W in the southern portion of North America.

NERC oversees eight regional reliability entities and encompasses all of the interconnected power systems of the contiguous United States, Canada and a portion of Baja California in Mexico.

The weapons-development portion of this project was located at the Los Alamos Laboratory in northern New Mexico, though much other development and production work was carried out at the Clinton Engineer Works near Oak Ridge, Tennessee ( the separation of uranium-235 ); the Hanford Engineer Works near Hanford, Washington ( the production and separation of plutonium-239 ); in and near Chicago, Illinois ( at the University of Chicago and at the Argonne National Laboratories ); and at the University of California, Berkeley.

To satisfy the Mexican authorities, the portion identifying the station ’ s call letters and the station ’ s location in Mexico, would then be repeated in the Spanish language.

* Heterosilpha ramosa is located in the western portion of the United States from California to New Mexico and up to Nebraska and Montana.

In 1851 Army officer and geographer Lt. Nathaniel Michler, working under Major William H. Emory, mapped this portion of the boundary between Mexico and the United States.

A small portion of the southeastern area lies on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Sunset Route of the Union Pacific Railroad crosses northern parts of the county, and a recently revived portion of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway traverses the county en route to Presidio.

The county was created from the southern portion of San Miguel County February 26, 1891 by an act of the New Mexico Territorial Legislature.

Catalina Council serves the southeastern portion of Arizona, from Ajo, Arizona to the Mexican Border in the south, and all the way east to the New Mexico boarder.

In 1823, the Republic of Mexico granted Rancho San Pablo, an extent of land lying north of Cerrito Creek and the Rancho San Antonio, including that portion of land that is now Kensington, to Francisco María Castro, a veteran of the Mexican Army and former alcalde of San José.

The four men travelled northward from San Francisco, and were each given land grants from the government of Mexico in 1844, with Thomes ' portion being Rancho Saucos.

A portion of Chaparral is also in Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

The Mexican Cession included essentially the entirety of the former Mexican territory of Alta California, but only the western portion of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico, and includes all of present-day California, Nevada and Utah, most of Arizona, and western portions of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.