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Last week, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration slammed a probe deep into the dark side of the moon to kick up tons of dust high into the sky — oh, sorry, there’s no sky on the moon. Um, high into the air. No, wait, there’s no air on the moon. Well, high into the something.
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Scott Brinton
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10/15/09
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On a plot of land called the Mariner’s Burying Ground in the Rockville Cemetery in Lynbrook, an 18-foot-tall marble obelisk pays tribute to the terrible tragedies of the Bristol and the Mexico, shipwrecked just days apart in the winter of 1836-37 off the coast of Long Island.
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Mary Malloy
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10/1/09
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On the corner of Merrick Road and Ocean Avenue, one can find the Rockville Cemetery which, a long time ago, was called the Old Sand Hole Cemetery. It is an unusual cemetery because it is nonsectarian, and most of the newer graves are marked by flat plaques, not by grave stones. Often one sees the resting places of this rainbow of diverse races, religions and history enhanced by flowers and flags placed at every site.
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9/13/09
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