The construction of the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike in the 1950s led to the destruction of many blocks of homes and businesses in Jackson Ward, Richmond's oldest historically African-American community.

Richmond's elite society has also been portrayed in various popular culture references, such as in 1920s novels by Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell, or the 1990s television sitcom A Different World, which featured the character Whitley Gilbert, an obnoxious and wealthy African American debutante.

Since all of Richmond's land occupies islands in a river delta, the city has plenty of rich, alluvial soil for agriculture, and was one of the first areas in British Columbia to be farmed by Europeans in the 19th century.

Richmond has been joined with the Welsh Marches since the time of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and Richmond's relations with Mercia, go back to the time when Edwin, Earl of Mercia, held the old manor of Gilling West ( an enclave within Northumbria ), that was moved by the Bretons to Richmond.

Richmond's 929 West Grace Street has housed a punk and rock-oriented club nearly uninterrupted for nearly three decades.

It has been followed by a number of derivative works such as Diana Richmond's Antar and Abla, which furthered western exposure to the Antar bin Shaddad legends.

It has been followed by a number of derivative works such as Diana Richmond's Antar and Abla which furthered western exposure to the Antar bin Shaddad legends.

Richmond's importance has waned since the 1930s, however, as the railways have also come to play a lesser role in the economy.

Richmond's amalgamation with the city of Ottawa in 2001 has had mixed results.

WRVA currently has two locally originated programs in its weekday lineup, both of which occur in the drive times: WRVA has signed Leland Conway for ( afternoon drive ) after Doc Thompson's unexpected departure from this slot in February 2012, and Richmond's weekday morning news with Jimmy Barrett ( morning drive ).

Richmond's work has also been seen in film and on television.

Near the south end is Richmond's Boulevard Bridge ( commonly called the " Nickel Bridge ," in reference to its toll, which has increased to 35 cents ) across the James River.

But on Grand Final day, Dyer sat on the sidelines watching his teammates break a long sequence of finals failures and win Richmond's third premiership, unsure if he would be able to rejoin them.

Currently, London Heritage Farm, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery and the Britannia Shipyard National Historic Site in Steveston highlight these parts of Richmond's diverse history.

Broad Street is significant to Richmond due to the many commercial establishments that have been built along it throughout Richmond's history.

Charlotte was hostess of the Duchess of Richmond's Ball —" the most famous ball in history "— held on the eve of the Battle of Quatre Bras, the precursor to the Battle of Waterloo.

According to Richmond's Maymont Foundation, " Major Dooley's leadership of various civic endeavors runs as a continuous thread through the history of Richmond, from the early 1870s through the early 1920s.

Vic Thorp, Richmond's great full back

At noon on March 1, 2001, the station fell silent for a few moments, as the studio-transmitter link was changed, and then signed back from the Cox studios as " Richmond's New Rock ".

More importantly, however, he went on to maintain the same high level of performance throughout the season, kicking precisely 100 goals for the year to become the first player to top the ton since Richmond's Jack Titus in 1940.

Sheedy played a key role in Richmond's premiership sides of the mid-70s.

Richmond's also dispatched 53 soldiers from the 96th Regiment from Auckland to Wellington.

File: Kellerbeach1. jpg | People also swim recreationally, at Kellar Beach in Richmond's Miller / Knox Regional Shoreline.

Unknown to Robert E. Lee, Grant pulled out of Cold Harbor and stealthily moved his Army south of the James River, freed Maj. Gen. Butler from the Bermuda Hundred, and attacked Petersburg, Richmond's central railroad hub.

Attention is now drawn to Wellington ( Plummer ), who attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball, where Picton and other generals are present.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

His last appearance in the House of Lords was on 7 April 1778, on the occasion of the Duke of Richmond's motion for an address praying the king to conclude peace with America on any terms.

At a ball in Brussels ( based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo ) George gives Becky a note inviting her to run away with him.

Granlund secured a position for her with producer Harry Richmond's act and arranged for her to do a screen test which he sent to producer Harry Rapf in Hollywood.

Richmond's economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government, with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, as well as notable legal and banking firms, located in the downtown area.

Slaves were imported from Africa to Richmond's Manchester docks, and were bought and sold at the same market.

To facilitate the transfer of cargo from the flat-bottomed bateaux above the fall line to the ocean-faring ships below, George Washington helped design the James River and Kanawha Canal in the 18th century to bypass Richmond's rapids, with the intent of providing a water route across the Appalachians to the Kanawha River.

Contributing to Richmond's resurgence was the first successful electrically powered trolley system in the United States, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway.

In 1900, the Census Bureau reported Richmond's population as 62. 1 % white and 37. 9 % black.

The 2009 TNT television drama HawthoRNe, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan, is set at the fictitious Richmond-Trinity Hospital which is based on Richmond's Community Hospital in Church Hill.

This new city council elected Richmond's first black mayor, Henry L. Marsh.

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

Reconsidering ethnic culture and community: a case study of Japanese Canadian taiko drumming.

For example, the guardian spirits of the land, occupations, and skills ; spirits of Japanese heroes, men of outstanding deeds or virtues, and those who have contributed to civilization, culture and human welfare ; those who have died for the state or the community ; and the pitiable dead.

The Japanese parent company was concerned that it may be viewed as a " Japanese Invasion " by forcing Japanese community standards on North American and European children.

The community scored quite a coup in the early 1990s with the construction of Michigan Automotive Compressors, Inc., a car parts plant run by a Japanese company.

The number of Japanese citizens identifying their religious beliefs as Shinto has declined a great deal, yet the general practice of Shinto rituals has not decreased in proportion, and many practices have persisted as general cultural beliefs ( such as ancestor worship ), and community festivals ( matsuri )— focusing more on religious practices.

In Japan, the community is well-educated about earthquakes and tsunamis, and along the Japanese shorelines the tsunami warning signs are reminders of the natural hazards together with a network of warning sirens, typically at the top of the cliff of surroundings hills.

In 2006, construction of new plants owned by Sharp Corporation and other companies of mainly Japanese origin has started in the neighboring community of Łysomice ( about 10 km from city center ).

Those emperors who entered a Buddhist monastic community became a Cloistered Emperor ( Japanese 太上法皇 Daijō Hōō ).

In some cases they are forest dwelling monks of the Theravada tradition and in other cases they are married clergy of a Japanese Zen lineage and may work a secular job in addition to their role in the Buddhist community.

A Japanese school has also attracted a Japanese community to West Acton.

The area's 41 organizations and 12 civic clubs include Filipino community organizations, a Finnish organization, and American Lebanese Women's Club, several Hispanic and Latin American organizations, and a Japanese organization among the many sports, cultural, conservation, charitable, and civic associations.

English settlers, Americans from the Midwest and Deep South, Latinos who remained from the Rancho and Japanese immigrants enabled Duarte to grow into a thriving agricultural community specializing in citrus production.

Japanese immigrants were the dominant group in Florin and they were the predominant farmers in Florin, making the area noted for being a Japanese immigrant community.

Florin ceased to be a Japanese American community as it once was before the internment.

As early as 1914, a large Japanese community lived in Walnut Grove.

Vista has one of Southern California's only two Japanese American cultural centers, due to the North County region's large Japanese community and historical presence in the agricultural industries goes back to the 1890's.

In early years the factory had a labor shortage, leading to a local community of Nikkei — Japanese migrants and their descendants.

There were two Japanese families that lived in Castleford during WWII, they were told to go to the camp, but the Castleford community voiced their objections to the government, and the families were allowed to stay in Castleford.

With more than 1000 Japanese then living in the Yakima Valley, the community soon became a center of Washington's Japanese population, second only to Seattle.