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unusual facts about Long Island, Marlborough



1992 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup

It took place at the Hamlet Golf and Country Club in Commack, Long Island, New York, United States, from August 24 through August 30, 1992.

2012–13 St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers men's basketball team

They also played 2 games at the new Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn against St. John's and Long Island.

Amos Zereoué

Zereoué set Long Island records of 5,360 yards and 59 touchdowns at Mepham, earning Street & Smith All-America recognition.

Broad Creek, Prince George's County, Maryland

The area was settled by Europeans in the 1660s and the town was created in 1706 when the colonial Maryland Legislature authorized surveying and laying out the towns of Queen Anne Town, Nottingham, Mill Town, Piscataway, Aire (also known as Broad Creek) and Upper Marlboro (then known as Marlborough Town).

Canvastown

Canvastown is a locality at the point where the Wakamarina River joins the Pelorus River, in Marlborough, New Zealand.

Christopher Rheinlander Robert

Christopher Rheinlander Robert (Brookhaven, Long Island, New York, 23 March 1802, Paris, France, 28 October 1878) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Robert College later known as Boğaziçi University.

Chuck Schilling

After playing for Boston's Triple-A Minneapolis Millers farm team in 1960, Schilling broke into the major leagues in 1961, the same year as his friend and fellow Long Islander, eventual Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski.

Davis–Bacon Act

The act is named after its sponsors, James J. Davis, a Senator from Pennsylvania and a former Secretary of Labor under three presidents, and Representative Robert L. Bacon of Long Island, New York.

Easton Priory

The priory was built in 1234 A.D. on the southern end of a street village along the road between Marlborough and Salisbury.

Edward Francis Hutton

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Granville Roland Fortescue

Afterwards, she returned to a quiet life with her husband as they moved seasonally between family homes on Long Island and in Palm Beach.

Harry Halpern

Halpern served as the first "pupil rabbi" for the Talmud Torah "junior congregation" of Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom in Long Island, New York.

Ira Eisenstein

He also served as religious leader of the Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, as well as the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore on Long Island, N.Y.

Jim McMullan

Jim McMullan (born October 13, 1936) is an American actor from Long Island, New York best known for his role as Dr. Terry McDaniel on the 1960s series Ben Casey and as Senator Andrew Dowling on the CBS Primetime Soap Opera Dallas.

Joseph Johnston Muir

He served in succession: the Baptist church in Oxford, New Jersey; the East Marion Baptist Church on Long Island; First Baptist Church of Ticonderoga, New York; McDougal Street Baptist Church, New York City; the Park Baptist Church in Port Richmond, New York on Staten Island; North Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia; the E Street or Third Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and the Temple Baptist Church also in Washington.

Katuutire Kaura

During the same period, Kaura attended the universities of Long Island and Columbia.

Keith Feiling

The son of Ernest Feiling and Joan Barbara Hawkins, Keith Grahame Feiling was educated at Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and Balliol College, Oxford.

Ken's Foods

Besides its headquarters in Marlborough, the company employs over 600 people in facilities located in McDonough, Georgia and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Long Island Lighting Company

The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCO "lil-co" , was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for the communities of Long Island, New York, serving 2.7 million people in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties.

Long Island, Bermuda

It lies in the southeast of the sound, and is in the north of Warwick Parish.

Long Island, Marlborough

The island itself is also an important wildlife refuge and a number of species of threatened endemic birds which have been reintroduced to it including Little Spotted Kiwi (late 1980s), Yellow Crowned Kakariki (2001) and South Island Saddleback (2005) - all these reintroductions have been successful with healthy breeding populations of each species now present on the Island.

Lydiard Tregoze

Mentioned in Doomsday as a manor belonging to Alfred of Marlborough Baron of Ewyas and a Tenant-in-Chief to King William I. Near Royal Wootton Bassett, the parish of Lydiard Tregoze was part of the Kingsbridge Hundred, while its village originally centred on the medieval parish church of St Mary and the nearby manor house, Lydiard House, which was the home of the St John family, Viscounts Bolingbroke.

Mark Upton

Jean was the eldest daughter of Bob Turnell who was at the time one of the leading jumping racehorse trainers of the time with a yard just outside Marlborough at Ogbourne Maizey.

Marlborough Farms

Marlborough Farms is the debut album from Brooklyn, New York indie pop band The Ladybug Transistor.

Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel

In the Garry Marshall film Beaches, a young Hillary Whitney stays with her family at the hotel, where she treats a young C. C. Bloom to chocolate sodas in the Garden Court.

Minuscule 701

Thomas Payne, chaplain in the British embassy in Constantinople, presented the manuscript to Charles Herzog, Duke of Marlborough, in 1738.

Mistress Masham's Repose

Blenheim Palace and Stowe House are in turn linked in that Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who developed the house and gardens at Stowe in the early eighteenth century, was a notable officer serving under the Duke of Marlborough.

New York Air Route Traffic Control Center

It is located at 4205 Johnson Avenue on Long Island in Ronkonkoma, a hamlet (unincorporated community) in the Town of Islip, New York, United States, near New York City.

New Zealand State Highway 62

Located entirely within the wine-producing Marlborough region of New Zealand, SH 62 provides a northern bypass of Blenheim, connecting the towns of Spring Creek (on State Highway 1) with Renwick (on State Highway 6) via the locality of Rapaura.

New Zealand State Highway 63

It is 117 km long and runs between the settlements of Renwick (in Marlborough) and Kawatiri Junction (in the Tasman region) via Saint Arnaud, providing a bypass of the city of Nelson.

Night action at the Battle of Jutland

The third column consisted of the First Battle Squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney from Marlborough.

Nunley's Happyland

Nunley's (later called Smiley's) Happyland was an amusement park in the hamlet of Bethpage on Long Island, New York, located at the intersection of Hempstead Turnpike (Route 24) and Hicksville Road (Route 107).

Rachel Begley

Rachel J. Begley is a professional recorder and baroque bassoon virtuoso from England, now based in Long Island, New York, U.S. She has performed and interacted with many of the leading recorder players of this generation, including the Flanders Recorder Quartet.

Rene Morgan La Montagne, Sr.

(1856–1910) was treasurer and director of E. Montagne's Sons, a champion polo player, and one of the founders of the Rockaway Hunt Club in Cedarhurst, New York on Long Island.

Romy Haag

In 1972, an American show manager offered Haag a tour booking and she performed her show "Berlin Chanson" at Fire Island, in Long Island and Atlantic City.

Ruth Ann Swenson

Born in Bronxville, New York and raised in Commack, New York on Long Island, Swenson studied at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and briefly at Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Scott Skodnek Business Development Center

In cooperation with the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, the center provides a comprehensive package of expertise and services promoting economic development and job creation for the Hofstra community and Long Island.

SM U-156

Records show that she was to lay a field of mines in the shipping lane along the south shore of Long Island, just east of the Fire Island lightship.

Southfield

Southfield, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, a village and post office location situated within the town of New Marlborough

Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko

At the time he was working as an antique dealer at 598 Madison Avenue, and he was living in Freeport, New York on Long Island.

Stokeleigh Camp

It has been suggested that Stokeleigh was connected with the Wansdyke, a series of defensive linear earthworks, consisting of a ditch and an embankment running at least from Maes Knoll in Somerset, to the Savernake Forest near Marlborough in Wiltshire, however there is little evidence for this.

The Johnson Gang

On 1 February 2006 the gang perpetrated their biggest theft when they burgled Ramsbury Manor, the home of Harry Hyams, near Marlborough in Wiltshire.

Tracy Barnes

Tracy was born in Manhasset, Long Island, New York to parents Courtland Dixon Barnes (June 13, 1881 in Stonington, Connecticut - ?) and Katherine Lansing Barney (February 6, 1885 in New York City - ?), siblings were

Vedanta Resources

This includes the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Marlborough Ethical Fund, Millfield House Foundation and PGGM.

Wairau Valley

Wairau Valley is the valley of the Wairau River in Marlborough, New Zealand and also the name of the main settlement in the upper valley.

WHSH

WUTF-DT, a television station (channel 27 digital/66 PISP) licensed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States, which used the call sign WHSH from 1987 to 1992 and WHSH-TV from 1992 to 2000

WPPZ-FM

The station has always been short-spaced due to adjacent channel interference from WMGM in Atlantic City, WXCY in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and WNNJ in Newton, New Jersey (all located on 103.7 FM), WAEB-FM in Allentown and WNNK in Harrisburg (both located on 104.1 FM), as well as WRFF (104.5 FM), and co-channel interference from WRCN on Long Island and WFAS-FM in Bronxville, New York.

Yuma

Long Island, Bahamas, called Yuma by Native Arawak Indians over 500 years ago


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