While Staten Island was rich in natural resources, it may very well have been an effort to control the access to New York’s harbor. If two different provinces controlled the narrows (New Jersey via Staten Island and New York via Brooklyn), is may well lead to disputes and competing taxes/tariffs on goods entering and leaving the port of New York.
To settle the dispute, the Duke decreed that any island in the harbor that could be circumnavigated in 24 hours would belong to New York. The Duke of York contracted Christopher Billopp with the task of circumnavigating Staten Island. As the story goes, Billopp embarked in his ship, the Bentley, and successfully completed the trip in about 23 hours in 1675.
For a long time, I thought the Gulf of California extended north all the way into the USA, and it separated all of Baja California from the rest of Mexico. It actually becomes the Colorado River about 75 miles south of the border.
I wasn’t intellectually surprised at how north England was, but the actual shock of it being completely bright as day out before 5 am and not getting completely dark until midnight was jarring when I actually experienced it.
But I wasn’t surprised at all at how far north Madrid was because I had already heard about how late the night life starts there which implies long daytime hours. But again, it was slightly jarring to be descending into Madrid at 8 pm and have the pilot wish us a “good afternoon”.
A quick look at Google Overhead view makes it clear that if there is flow, it’s not much.
It’s still identifiable (barely) as a river when it passes the US / Mexican border south of Yuma AZ. In the ~40 miles before it becomes the estuary at the top of the Golfo de California it turns into a braided river where there’s no telling whether any water molecules actually make it from the purely fresh river to the purely salty golfo without first going underground as mud. If that wet.
I just found one out today! I remember as a child I visited my grandmother in Flushing, Queens, and we went to a baseball game. She said that Yankee Stadium was too dangerous to go to so we went to Shea Stadium instead for a Mets game. Then, after the game, we too a subway back to Flushing.
Thus, Shea Stadium had to have been somewhere else, entirely separate from Flushing, instead of being easily walkable, although perhaps not at night for someone who is already too afraid to go to Yankee Stadium. Before the game we even went to Flushing Meadows but I didn’t know it was called that, all I remember is that it held some remains of former exhibitions. It was probably not much closer to the former Shea Stadium than my grandmothers house!
What exactly does “northern Ontario” mean? Because it looks to me like two-thirds of Ontario is “you cannot drive to there”. The northern part of Ontario that you actually can drive to is in the lower third of the province. Even Quebec has a town you can drive to that is way farther north than any in Ontario, from what I can tell.
Is it like in London, where if West Ham is playing was playing, it wasn’t safe to get on the tube at Upton Park? It wasn’t so much football hooliganism as massive crowds that made leaving the station unsafe. There were lots of police, but it was only a little bit about controlling drunken yobs, and mostly about controlling waaaay more people than the station was designed to get out safely without being crushed to death.
On a match day people in the know would exit at East Ham instead and walk up.
Going home was different because not all the fans left the area at the same time.
