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John the Blind or John of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Jang de Blannen; German: Johann der Blinde; Czech: Jan Lucemburský; 10 August 1296 – 26 August 1346), was the Count of Luxembourg from 1313 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland. [2]
English: A first edition, first issue, of one of the largest and most impressive maps of Long Island, New York to appear in the 19th century. Published in 1873, this magnificent map covers the whole of Long Island as well as parts of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Hudson county, New Jersey.
Jean de Luxembourg or John of Luxembourg may refer to: John of Bohemia (1296–1346), King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg. John I, Lord of Ligny (1313–1364), Count of Ligny; John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir (c. 1370 – 1397), Lord of Beauvoir; John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny (1392–1441) John of Luxembourg (died 1476), Count ...
The Arbitration Rock. The Arbitration Rock was set in 1769 as the boundary marker between the two Long Island townships of Newtown and Bushwick.Since Newtown was in Queens County (now the New York City borough of Queens) and Bushwick in Kings County (now the borough of Brooklyn), this rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle also served to mark the dividing line between these two colonial New York ...
The main land was split by a line 50 miles from the Connecticut River and Long Island was divided into an East (Connecticut) and West (New Netherland) at Oyster Bay. However, the treaty was never ratified back in England, which left the border unresolved when the Province of New York was created by a sea-to-sea grant in 1664 , just two years ...
John was the eldest son of Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol and Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons. [1] He became Count of Marle and Soissons, following the death of his mother in 1462. In 1473, John became a member in the Order of the Golden Fleece. He was unable to inherit his father's lands, since his father was beheaded ...
Though some consider the South Shore to include parts of Queens, particularly the beach communities in the Rockaways such as Belle Harbor, the term is generally used to refer to the Long Island coastline in Nassau and Suffolk counties. It is often used as a generic name for the entire southern half of Long Island rather than just the area ...
Long Beach Barrier Island lies off the south shore of Long Island.The island is shared by the hamlet of Atlantic Beach to the west, the city of Long Beach and the hamlet of Lido Beach in the central part of the island, and the hamlet of Point Lookout at the eastern end of the island.