Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978 ; in 1978 – 1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.

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Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

George Mason University ( often referred to as GMU or Mason ) is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax.

The city of Fairfax purchased and donated of land to the University of Virginia for the college's new site, which was referred to as the Fairfax Campus.

The main campus of George Mason University is situated on just south of the City of Fairfax, Virginia in central Fairfax County, approximately west of Washington, D. C.

Category: Education in Fairfax County, Virginia

Its former headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia, are currently used as ExxonMobil's downstream headquarters.

Mobil moved its headquarters from New York to Fairfax County, Virginia in 1987.

In 1811 he purchased the estate Sully in Fairfax County, Virginia from his second cousin Richard Bland Lee.

Fairfax County is the most populous locality in Virginia, with over one million residents, although that does not include its county seat Fairfax, which is one of the independent cities.

Operated by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Dulles Airport occupies straddling the border of Fairfax County and Loudoun County, Virginia.

** A Fairfax, Virginia jury finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of murdering 2 CIA employees in 1993.

In Virginia, however, all cities are independent and report directly to the commonwealth government ; but notwithstanding they are not part of the county, they might operate as a county seat ( e. g. the Independent City of Fairfax is the seat of Fairfax County, though it is not legally within Fairfax County ).

On April 5, 2009, The Washington Post reported that the National Funeral Home, a facility owned by SCI in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County, Virginia which also acts as a central care center for embalming and body preparation for other nearby SCI-owned operations ( Arlington Funeral Home, Danzansky-Goldberg Memorial Chapel and Demaine Funeral Home ), was storing naked bodies in various stages of decomposition in conditions described as " disgusting, degrading and humiliating ".

* Clara Barton Drive in Fairfax Station, Virginia

The UNCF is headquartered at 8260 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive in an unincorporated area in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, east of the city of Fairfax.

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From June 2008 to 2009 he was Senior Fellow, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

He grew up in Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia, attending JEB Stuart High School in Fairfax, and then attended Randolph-Macon College, receiving a degree in paleontology, fine arts, and social anthropology in 1968, followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the Pratt Institute in 1971.

* Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.

The Institute is housed in a dedicated facility on the Fairfax Campus of George Mason which includes extensive wet-laboratories, computer labs, a 3T MRI human brain imaging center, a cellular imaging facility, as well as faculty offices and breakout space.

He is a member of the board of the Whitlam Institute, and is married to another journalist from the Fairfax stable, Laura Tingle.

Negro parents have filed application for admission of additional children to schools in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, and Warren Counties.

This setback for Parliament in Cornwall, and the last major victory for the Royalists, was reversed by Sir Thomas Fairfax leading the New Model Army at or near Tresillian Bridge, close to Truro on 12 March 1645.

In July 1774, he chaired the meeting at which the " Fairfax Resolves " were adopted, which called for the convening of a Continental Congress, among other things.

Local jurisdictions of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church agreed to appropriate $ 3 million to purchase land adjacent to Mason to provide for a Fairfax Campus in 1966 with the intention that the institution would expand into a regional university of major proportions, including the granting of graduate degrees.

As well as the construction of the Fairfax campuses network of hot and cold water piping that provides power efficient, centralized heating and cooling for the university's buildings.

In both the United States and Britain, the Georgian style is still employed by architects like Quinlan Terry Julian Bicknell and Fairfax and Sammons for private residences.

The Army commanders Thomas Fairfax and Cromwell were worried by the strength of support for Levellers in the Army, so they decided to impose " The Heads of the Proposals " as the army's manifesto instead of the Levellers ' " Agreement of the People ".

In the American Lung Association's 2011 report, 11 counties received failing grades for air quality, with Fairfax County having the worst in the state, due to automobile pollution.

Soldiers were billeted here during the English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell visited for discussions with the general and parliamentary commander-in-chief Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron in 1646.

He moved to Fairfax in Marin County, California, in the early 1970s, where he joined the 35-voice Fairfax Street Choir and played guitar for a shuffle blues band called Osceola.

From 1976 to 1978 he was chief political correspondent for the now-defunct Fairfax newspaper The National Times, then its deputy editor from 1978 to 1979.

" Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program ," Center for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University, Fairfax: Virginia, USA.

In Virginia, a county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center ; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County and is completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county.

* Virginia, except for fourteen counties ( Amherst, Augusta, Botetourt, Essex, Frederick, Greene, Middlesex, Page, Pulaski, Roanoke, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Washington and Warren ) and four independent cities ( Fairfax, Harrisonburg, Salem, and Winchester )

For statistical purposes, the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Falls Church with Fairfax City and Fairfax County.

Desegregation can also result from additional suits brought by Negro plaintiffs against school boards in Newport News, Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Norfolk.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Accessed 2009-10-22 via Fairfax County Public Library.

* Fairfax M. Cone ( 1903 – 1977 ), former director of the American Association of Advertising Agencies

He attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles.

* 1780 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician ( d. 1872 )

The Parliamentarian General Fairfax attacked from the north in 1646, taking the town and forcing the Royalists to surrender, after which Gallants Bower was demolished.

In 2010, a fire seriously damaged numerous historical properties in Fairfax Place and Higher Street.

* 1903 – Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive ( d. 1977 )

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

William Fairfax, Lawrence's father-in-law and cousin of Virginia's largest landowner, Thomas, Lord Fairfax, was also a formative influence.

Surviving letters suggest that he may have been in love at the time with Sally Fairfax, the wife of a friend.

The Fairfax campus construction planning that began in early 1960 showed visible results when the development of the first of Fairfax Campus began in 1962.