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Long Island Sound
(Encyclopedia) Long Island Sound, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.90 mi (145 km) long and 3–20 mi (5–32 km) wide, separating Long Island, N.Y., from the SE New York mainland and Connecticut. On the W…Long Island University
(Encyclopedia) Long Island University, main campus at Brooklyn, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered 1926, opened 1927. It also includes C. W. Post College (est. 1954) at Brookville, Long Island, a campus…Long Sault Rapids
(Encyclopedia) Long Sault RapidsLong Sault Rapidssō, s&oomacr; [key], in the Ottawa River, Canada, midway between Ottawa and Montreal. There in 1660 the Iroquois defeated a party of 18 Frenchmen…long-wall mining
(Encyclopedia) long-wall mining: see coal mining.Chaillé-Long, Charles
(Encyclopedia) Chaillé-Long, CharlesChaillé-Long, Charlesshäyāˈ-lông [key], 1842–1917, American soldier, African explorer, and writer, b. Princess Anne, Md. After serving in the Civil War, he was…Lewis & Clark: Beginning a Long Journey
by NoahBrooks A Great Transaction in LandFrom the Lower to the Upper RiverBeginning a Long Journey In 1803, availing himself of a plausible pretext to send out an…Lewis & Clark: The End of a Long Journey
by NoahBrooks Adventures on the YellowstoneIndexThe End of a Long Journey The reunited party now set out for the lower river and proceeded rapidly down-stream,…Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long Biography
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long “The Mother of Texas”Born: 7/23/1798Birthplace: Charles County, Md. Around 1811 Jane Wilkinson's family moved to the Mississippi Territory from Maryland. She…Walt Whitman: I Was Looking a Long While
I Was Looking a Long WhileI was looking a long while for Intentions, For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it, It is not in those…Long Beach, NY Census Data
People QuickFactsLong BeachNew YorkPopulation, 2003 estimate 35,41519,190,115Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 -0.1%1.1%Population, 2000 35,46218,976,457Population,…Trending
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