Sentences with phrase «long island history»

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Luxembourg, a nation smaller than Rhode Island with a long history in mining, has bet 200 million euros — more than $ 225 million — on this industry that does not exist.

And so again the majority of the island's 3.4 million residents are again without power, extending what was already the longest power outage in US history.

The Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall toppled 80 percent of the island's power lines and flooded its generators last September, leaving the island in the longest and largest blackout in US history.

Richard Lignon, in his History of the Barbadoes (1647), described the two varieties of peppers he found on the island: «The one so like a child's corall, as not to be discerned at the distance of two paces, a crimson and scarlett mixt; the fruit about three inches long and shines more than the best pollisht corall.

Cecilware, a foodservice equipment manufacturer, dates its history back to 1911, when it was founded in Long Island, N.Y. Grindmaster was established in 1933 by Richard Shuman, who had patented a unique style of coffee grinders.

Kona coffee beans have a long history and were first planted in Hawaii way back in 1820, and by the time Mark Twain visited the Big Island he was impressed with the fact that coffee had a much richer taste and flavor than any other he had tried.

«At Turtle Island we have a long history of sustainability.

Uniquely situated between the mangroves lining Shrimp Road and the new state - of - the - art 220 - slip Stock Island Marina, the 100 - room Hotel Key West will feature architecture and design styles that pay homage to the industrial history of the first of Key West's seven islands and its long tradition of working boatyards, fishing fleets and marinas.

The International Olympic Committee, which has a long history of supporting Chiang Kai - shek at the expense of all the Chinese athletes who do not live on his island, threatened to withdraw its sanction for the Asian Games.

Updated: Kaminsky's campaign blasted the poll, saying Siena has a history of «consistently wrong in late polls» especially in Long Island races.

And he's done that because, while he regards the discipline and veracity of scholarship to be vital and irreplaceable, he believes that «history is for everybody» and «the life - blood of an informed democracy» — as long, of course, that it is not conformist Establishment propaganda of the «Island Story» kind.

«The fact that here on Long Island, we have such a rich environmental activism history, you know, we should really be concerned with using chemicals once again to control these mosquitoes.»

At 7 p.m. former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, the longest serving police commissioner in New York City history, will hold a book signing on Staten Island.

«This is the biggest jobs bonanza in a very long time perhaps in the history of Staten Island,» said Staten Island Borough President, James Oddo.

«At a time when our country is mourning the loss of 17 lives in a mass shooting, it is profoundly disappointing that a storied Coney Island institution, with a long history of being a strong civic and community partner, is choosing to host a National Rifle Association fundraising event that includes raffle giveaways of guns.

Peconic Bay Medical Center president and CEO Andrew Mitchell gave a short and sometimes funny history of the Massoud family's journey and of winemaking on Long Island.

Long Island, with a centuries - long history of farming, has undergone an agricultural revolution in just a few decades, sparked in 1973 by a pair of pioneers in planting grapes for fine wine, Louisa and Alex HargrLong Island, with a centuries - long history of farming, has undergone an agricultural revolution in just a few decades, sparked in 1973 by a pair of pioneers in planting grapes for fine wine, Louisa and Alex Hargrlong history of farming, has undergone an agricultural revolution in just a few decades, sparked in 1973 by a pair of pioneers in planting grapes for fine wine, Louisa and Alex Hargrave.

If approved by the Long Island Power Authority, the governor said the facility would be the largest offshore wind project in the nation's history, creating 2.4 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, or enough to power 1.25 million homes.

But these Republicans do not have the same geographic concerns Long Island faces, nor do they have the same deep well of personal and professional history.

Municipal officials across Long Island will delay critical infrastructure and public safety projects — from adding five more police officers in Southold to building a parking garage in Huntington's busy downtown — as they struggle to stick to the lowest state property tax cap in history.

At 10 a.m., Hochul leads a Women's History Month roundtable at Touro Law Center, 225 Eastview Dr., Central Islip, Long Island.

At noon, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas host Women's History Month luncheon in New York, honoring three Queens women for «dedication to community service» — Queens Assembly District Leader Carol Scarano, Long Island City Partnership President Elizabeth Lusskin, and Mt. Sinai Queens Director of Community Relations Ana Rodriguez, Kaufman - Astoria Studios, 3412 36th St., Astoria, Queens.

Thiele attended Cornell University, earned his B.A. in political science and History from Long Island University - Southampton and his J.D. from Albany Law School.

The governor again insisted that those findings were just DiNapoli's opinions, opinions which are open to debate given the comptroller's history as an assemblyman from Long Island.

He left Syracuse to attend Long Island University in 2010, eventually graduating with a bachelor's degree in history.

Murray deflects concern that she would be the first district attorney in recent history on Long Island not to come from the ranks of active attorneys working in criminal justice or from the judiciary.

«School property taxes on Long Island are projected to grow by the lowest levels in modern history, proving once again that the property tax cap is working,» Cuomo said in a prepared statement.

The former Long Island congressman accused Cuomo of «throwing political stones from his glass house» and said he has a «history of stonewalling» when it comes to releasing his own taxes.

NY - 1 candidate George Demos is continuing to slam one of his two Republican primary opponents, Randy Altschuler, for his history of sending jobs overseas, releasing this so - called «hidden video» of the Long Island businessman boasting about the success of his former firm, OfficeTiger.

LONG ISLAND, NY — The tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, carried out by 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, stands as one of the worst school mass shootings in history.

The Governor said it's the largest expansion of artificial reefs in New York State history, and it will also boost Long Island's recreational and sport fishing industries.

On July 14, 1993, the Long Island Pine Barrens Protection Act was signed into law by Gov. Mario Cuomo, creating one of the largest comprehensive land management plans in state history.

«We probably had one of the most progressive, productive state budgets in modern history,» Cuomo said on Long Island on Thursday.

While it remains to be seen which candidates will prevail at the polls — and, ostensibly, whether or not their placards could be judged as effective or not — political yard signs have had a place in American history since the years immediately following World War II, said Stanley Klein, professor of political science at C.W. Post Long Island University in Brookville.

Mr. Henry graduated from Westhampton Beach High School and has degrees in political science, history and education from Long Island University.

Flanagan's organization, for example, has a history of holding spirited roadside protests outside local congressional offices complete with brash signs and silly hats and aggressive, Long Island - accented chants.

The farm — the last operating duck farm on Long Island and a part of local history, is also making sure water quality is protected, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said Thursday at the new facility.

With a deadline imposed for tomorrow, the Long Island Power Authority's contract with Bortech to complete the long - delayed power pipeline project from Greenport to Shelter Island seems to be histLong Island Power Authority's contract with Bortech to complete the long - delayed power pipeline project from Greenport to Shelter Island seems to be histlong - delayed power pipeline project from Greenport to Shelter Island seems to be history.

Long Island's houseboat community is steeped in the Island's history, with enclaves moored on both the North and South Shores of Nassau and Suffolk counties.

A Parrish spokeswoman said Paterson has a long history on Long Island, having attended school at Hempstead and Hofstra University and participated in several museum functilong history on Long Island, having attended school at Hempstead and Hofstra University and participated in several museum functiLong Island, having attended school at Hempstead and Hofstra University and participated in several museum functions.

Look at a map of New York City and in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens (located on the west end of Long Island) you can see that chilly history encoded in the names of today's neighborhoods: Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Forest Hills.

Diamond acknowledges that many other factors are involved in the long history of this island but that the comparative method, he writes, consists of comparing — preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses — different systems that are similar in many respects but that differ with respect to the factors whose influence one wishes to study.

The drive - hunting of dolphins has a long history in the Solomon Islands, particularly at the island of Malaita, according to Marc Oremus, a biologist with the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium and lead author on the study.

The Hawaiian Islands have long been thought to support just one endemic land mammal in the archipelago's brief geologic history, the Hawaiian hoary bat.

Honnavalli Kumara at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History in Coimbatore, India, and colleagues followed 20 Nicobar long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis umbrosus) on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.

Tucked in a corner of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, next to fossils of long - gone gigantic sloths and knee - high horses, stands a newcomer to the extinction parade: Lonesome George, the last of his subspecies and a native of the Galápagos's Pinta Island.

As part of the conference, Mike Bottini, a wildlife biologist, talks about the natural history of the river otter on Long Island and documents the return of this charismatic species to our rivers.

On November 16, 2012, BNL hosted the 2012 Long Island Natural History Conference.

In collaboration with Stony Brook University (SBU), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), the DNA Learning Center (DNALC) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announces Barcode Long Island (BLI).

More work at a higher resolution, combined with modelling studies, is required to fine - tune and better understand the longer - term history of Pine Island Glacier.