Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Park plays host to a holiday party like no other with Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, held select nights from Nov. 7 to Dec. 22, 2016. Enjoy live entertainment, spectacular fireworks and a jolly holiday parade with Mickey, Santa and other familiar Disney friends.
2001 by Jon Richards. Peter Minuit is said to have purchased the island of Manhattan in the year 1626 for about $24 worth of beads. If instead of buying Manhattan he had put the $24 into a bank account paying 6% compound interest per year and left the money there continuously, today he would have a bank account of approximately $65 billion, ignoring income taxes.
After Dutch rule of the New York City area was ended by the British in 1664, the Far Rockaway area passed through Governor Thomas Dongan, settler John Palmer and later, Richard Cornell, who owned vast acreage of land along the future Queens-Nassau border stretching from the North Shore south to the Five Towns and Far Rockaway.