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.

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.

Within the city, and in Henrico County, it roughly defined as including the area of Richmond north of the James River and east / northeast of the former Virginia Central Railroad-Chesapeake and Ohio Railway line ( now owned by CSX Transportation and operated by the Buckingham Branch Railroad ) which originated at Main Street Station, and south and west of I-295.

The Sussex teams of Richmond and Gage enjoyed an inter-county rivalry with Stead's Kent that could have originated the concept of the county championship ( see Champion County ).

Booth had been rehearsing at the Richmond Theatre when he abruptly decided to join the Richmond Grays, a volunteer militia of 1, 500 men travelling to Charles Town for Brown's hanging, to guard against an attempt by abolitionists to rescue Brown from the gallows by force.

In the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War, the basic offensive plan for the Union had been to advance and seize the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.

In some areas, new road projects have been completed with public-private partnerships funded by tolls, such as the Pocahontas Parkway ( I-895 ) near Richmond, Virginia.

In 1965, upon the creation of Greater London, the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames incorporated areas that had been parts of both Middlesex and Surrey ; and further changes in 1974 moved some of the boundaries away from the river.

They had been living openly together in Richmond, Houghton Hall and London society since about 1724, and she had borne him an illegitimate daughter whom he eventually had ennobled as Lady Maria Walpole.

The site of Richmond, at the fall line of the James River, had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610 – 1611.

Many films and television shows have been filmed, in whole or in part, in Richmond, including The Box, Finnegan Begin Again, Hannibal, The Jackal, Hearts in Atlantis, The Contender, Shadow Conspiracy, Evan Almighty, and Iron Jawed Angels.

A telegram arrived shortly afterwards, bringing the news that their home in Richmond had been bombed.

* ( Burlington House, Piccadilly, London ): Burlington's own contribution is likely to have been restricted to the former colonnade ( demolished 1868 ) In London, Burlington offered designs for features at several aristocratic free-standing dwellings, none of which have survived: Queensbury House in Burlington Gardens ( a gateway ); Warwick House, Warwick Street ( interiors ); Richmond House, Whitehall ( the main building );

Her brother, the Duke of Clarence, had been executed by Edward IV in 1478 ; Edward himself had died of illness in 1483 and finally, her younger brother Richard, who took the throne as Richard III was in 1485 killed at the Battle of Bosworth by the leader of the House of Lancaster, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, a cousin and nephew of Henry VI, who went on to become Henry VII, and to marry the daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York.

Though Thomas Seymour's name had been linked to Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond, he was still unmarried at the time of the King's death.

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.

The figure of Britannia was said by Samuel Pepys to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Richmond, who was famous at the time for refusing to become the mistress of Charles II, despite the King's strong infatuation with her.

Collingwood's two opponents in the themed Rivalry Rounds staged to date have been Carlton ( 2005 – 2006, 2009 ) and Richmond ( 2007 – 2008 ).

Henry Haxall would, at least, have been familiar with this fashionable house on the corner of 5th & Main in Richmond, as well as the architectural trend in Richmond which this house embodied.

Among recent Economic Development successes in Caroline have been the recruitment of the State Fair of Virginia ( previously in Richmond since 1854 when the first State Fair opened in Monroe Park ), Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders, The Virginia Sports Complex, the multi-national electrical contracting firm, M. C.

* Ian Dury, English singer-lyricist, best known for No. 1 hit Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick, his ashes have reputedly been scattered in the Thames, there is a memorial bench in Richmond Park

It can been seen from a map that the borough is not entirely urbanised – there are some large areas of open space within the borough boundaries, including the large urban park Richmond Park.

Richmond is believed to have been the smallest community in the United States to have supported a professional opera company and symphony orchestra.

Since the club's inception in 1885, it has been based at the Richmond Cricket Ground ( better known as the Punt Road Oval ), just a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ).