Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

Until the 216th assembly met in Richmond, Virginia in 2004, the General Assembly met once a year ; since 2004, the General Assembly has met biennially in even-numbered years.

Greater Vancouver has seven suburban municipalities with at least 100, 000 people, with the largest being Surrey and Vancouver's direct neighbors Burnaby and Richmond.

Richmond is the capital of Virginia, and its metropolitan area has a population of over 1. 2 million.

* Fritz Richmond ( 1939-2005 ) has performed on numerous recordings from America and Japan.

She has a plaque in Richmond parish church which calls her simply ' Miss Braddon '.

The company has its headquarters in an unincorporated area within Henrico County, less than five miles west of the city limits of Richmond and less than ten miles from its downtown Richmond buildings.

Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, and the historic county of Middlesex ; it has not been inhabited by the British Royal Family since the 18th century.

Richmond has originated and been home to many musicians, including GWAR, D ' Angelo, Lamb of God, Avail, Fighting Gravity, Municipal Waste, Trey Songz and Carbon Leaf.

The Richmond area has many major institutions of higher education, including Virginia Commonwealth University ( public ), University of Richmond ( private ), Virginia Union University ( private ), Virginia College ( private ), Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education ( private ), and the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond ( BTSR — private ).

The Richmond area also has two railroad stations served by Amtrak.

Richmond has seven sister cities, as designated by the Sister Cities International, Inc .:

Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Indiana has a collection of 62 Tiffany windows which are still their original placements, but the church is deteriorating and is jeopardy.

Throughout its history, the club has developed a number of rivalries with cross-town and interstate clubs, including Essendon, Richmond, Carlton Port Adelaide and Brisbane.

Powhatan County, which in the early 21st century has both rural and suburban landscapes, is located southwest of Richmond along U. S. Route 60 in the Richmond-Petersburg region.

Hash has been inducted into the University of Richmond Baseball of Fame.

In recent decades, however, the decline of tobacco, the railroads, and Fort Pickett has presented the county, like much of Southside Virginia, with economic difficulties and lead many Nottoway families to seek jobs and homes in Richmond and other prospering cities in central Virginia.

Richmond County also has notable options for both fishing and hunting.

Hampton has a Non-League football club Hampton & Richmond Borough F. C.

Kew has several sports clubs and gyms including Kew Cricket Club, North Sheen Bowling Club, Pensford Tennis Club, Putney Town Rowing Club and Richmond Gymnastics Association.

The installation and construction of a pedestrian entrance to Richmond Park from the Alton Estate was secured by Justine Greening ( MP for the Putney constituency, which includes Roehampton ) was secured in 2007 although it has not yet materialised.

The island is divided into four of Nova Scotia's eighteen counties: Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria.

Cape Breton Island is divided into four counties: Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria.

In 1888, when he was four years old, the family moved to Liverpool, England, and in 1890 to the United States, to Richmond, Virginia.

Not surprisingly Essendon then lost four of the remaining six matches, including to wooden spooners Richmond to tumble out of contention.

* James Henry Greathead, who helped with the Tower Subway, and became resident engineer on the Hammersmith extension railway and the Richmond extension of the Metropolitan District Railway, a post which he held for four years.

Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth had several children, four of which survived infancy: Arthur, Prince of Wales, Henry, Duke of Richmond, Margaret, who married James IV of Scotland, and Mary, who married Louis XII of France.

Of the current Dukes, four are male-line descendants of Charles in the illegitimate line: the Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon, the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, the Duke of Grafton and the Duke of St Alban's.

On February 1, 1960, four students Ezell A. Blair, Jr. ( now known as Jibreel Khazan ), David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College, an all-black college, sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans.

During the Civil War, Petersburg, Virginia, was an important railhead, where four railroad lines from the south met before continuing to Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

Only four teams have won more than one championship: Springfield in 1996 and 1998, Johnstown in 1995 ( as the Steal ) and in 2000 ( as the Johnnies ), Richmond ( now Traverse City ) in 2001 and 2002, and Windy City in 2007 and 2008.

He placed the ephemeris and its subsequent revisions in a number of editions in a six-year series of almanacs which were printed and sold in six cities in four states for the years 1792 through 1797: Baltimore ; Philadelphia ; Wilmington, Delaware ; Alexandria, Virginia ; Petersburg, Virginia ; and Richmond, Virginia.

Colloquially referred to as the R-Braves, they were based in Richmond, Virginia, where they played from 1966, when the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta where their AAA team, the Crackers, had been playing for four years, until 2008.

Moreover, NCDOT is planning to finish four laning US 1 in Richmond County past NC 177 with a Rockingham bypass to the east.

Two of the four ( Richmond and Wimbledon ) western branches of the route are also the only lines across the entire network to cross the Thames by bridge and not by tunnel.

However, in an eventful twist to their season, the Demons have only recorded four wins since the bye in Round 5, that being a 96-point thrashing of Adelaide at the MCG in Round 7 and a convincing 33-point win over top eight side Essendon in Round 11, an 89-point thrashing of Fremantle in Round 13, and a 27-point victory over Richmond.

In the immediate post-war era, despite an influx of excellent new players, Richmond struggled to make the four, appearing in the finals only once, in 1947.

He also works for WTVQ news station of Richmond, KY, and has received four Emmy awards for A Year on Kentucky's Backroads ( 2003 ), He Loves to Beat People ( 2005 ), The Avon Lady ( 2007 ), and Marina's Story ( 2008 )

After this the town of Westerly organized itself into four separate areas: Westerly, Charlestown, Richmond, and Hopkinton.

Although recognized by the BC legislature's speaker, former Social Credit cabinet minister-turned BC Liberal Claude Richmond, as Leader of the Official Opposition, MacPhail's caucus was not granted party status by Campbell on the grounds that the legislature's rules stipulated a party must hold four seats.

" A contrary view has been published by historian Eric J. Wittenberg, who notes that of four major strategic raids ( Richmond, Trevilian, Wilson-Kautz, and First Deep Bottom ) and thirteen major cavalry engagements of the Overland and Richmond – Petersburg campaigns, only Yellow Tavern can be considered a Union victory, with Haw's Shop, Trevilian Station, Meadow Bridge, Samaria Church, and Wilson-Kautz defeats in which some of Sheridan's forces barely avoided destruction.

Yonge Street through Richmond Hill expanded from two lanes to four in 1971, relieving congestion on what had become known as " Ontario's worst stretch of highway ".

The council serves a four year term, after which a new council is elected by qualified electors in Richmond Hill.

However the L & SWR adopted the Richmond line and so had four tracks from the junction of the routes, just east of the present Clapham Junction station, to Waterloo Bridge.