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* Norfolk ScopeNorfolk ( 12, 600 ) – Hockey, opened in 1971
The Admirals play at Norfolk Scope Arena, seating 8, 725 or 13, 800 festival seating, which opened in 1971.
Norfolk Scope was also the site of an infamous episode of WCW Monday Nitro, where several members of the World Wrestling Federation stable D-Generation X literally drove a tank to the entryway of the Scope, thus " invading " the competition.
For larger concerts and events, Virginia has the Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow ( marketed as D. C. for most tours ), the Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach in Virginia Beach, the Richmond Coliseum, the Hampton Coliseum and the Norfolk Scope.
They even staged a protest / paramilitary take-over of the Norfolk Scope, where an episode of WCW Monday Nitro was taking place ( on that same night, Monday Night Raw was emanating from nearby Hampton, Virginia ).
Things got so heated between the two programs that D-X was sent to Atlanta, Georgia to film a segment near Turner's headquarters for a " war " storyline that was done when both shows were in nearby areas on the same night ( Raw in Hampton, Virginia and Nitro in nearby Norfolk ), sending D-X to the Norfolk Scope arena which Nitro was broadcasting from and interacting with WCW fans.
( This eventually led to a lawsuit filed by WCW against the WWF, who had claimed that in order to fill the Norfolk Scope for Nitro, WCW had given away free tickets on the day of the program.
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D-Generation X traveled from the WWF show in Hampton to The Scope in Norfolk and shouted insults against WCW through a bullhorn, as well as mentioning the fact that WCW gave out free tickets to fill up arenas for television while sporting black armbands with the acronym POWCW ( Prisoner of WCW ), which referenced Kliq members Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.
* Norfolk Scope, an arena in Norfolk, Virginia
The first two World War 3 events were held at the Norfolk Scope and the last two were held at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
World War 3 1995 took place on November 26, 1995 from the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia.
The Admirals play in Norfolk, Virginia at the Norfolk Scope.
The Squires played there in addition to Roanoke Civic Center, Norfolk Scope and Hampton Coliseum ( all within the Commonwealth of Virginia ) from 1970 until just before the ABA – NBA merger in 1976.
Norfolk Scope is a cultural, entertainment, convention and sports complex at the northern perimeter of downtown Norfolk, Virginia, comprising an approximately 11, 000 person arena, a 2500-person theater known as Chrysler Hall, a 10, 000 square foot exhibition hall and a 600 car parking garage.

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Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.
Likewise, The Berney Arms in Norfolk has no road access.
It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south.
Norfolk forms the urban core of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, which has a population over 1. 6 million people and is the site of the world's largest naval base, Naval Station Norfolk.
The accent has resemblances to both Australia-NZ English, and that of Norfolk in England, and contains a number of Spanish loanwords.
Flint, knapped or unknapped, has been used since antiquity ( for example at the Late Roman fort of Burgh Castle in Norfolk ) up to the present day as a material for building stone walls, using lime mortar, and often combined with other available stone or brick rubble.
Norfolk has a population of about 850, 000, Suffolk 715, 000 and Cambridgeshire 769, 000, giving a total population of approximately 2. 3 million.
The landscape of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk has been heavily influenced by Dutch technology, from the use of red clay roof tiles to the draining of The Fens.
The region has a wide range of small-scale holiday resorts ranging from the traditional coastal towns of Felixstowe and Lowestoft in Suffolk and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk to small fishing villages like Aldeburgh and Southwold in Suffolk.
It was first mentioned in print in 1900 and was flown locally in various places in Norfolk, but has no official status.
In the left field, the " Norfolk " crop rotation sequence ( potatoes, oats, peas, rye ) is being applied ; in the right field, rye has been grown for 45 years in a row.
The Norfolk Orbital Railway, an independent organisation, has plans to join and link the NNR with the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
Known as Kett's Oak, it has been preserved by Norfolk County Council, and a new plaque was unveiled in 2006.
Lotus of Norfolk, UK, has a prototype direct-injection two-stroke engine intended for alcohol fuels called the Omnivore which it is demonstrating in a version of the Exige.
Norfolk Island, listed above, has archaeological evidence of East Polynesian rather than Melanesian settlement.
Norfolk reed from the broads has been a traditional material for thatching houses.
The city has an East Side and a West Side, separated by a wide area of railroad tracks which include the Canadian National Railway's ( Grand Trunk Western ) Shoreline and River subdivisions and the Norfolk Southern Railway / Conrail Shared Assets's Detroit Line.
The city of Virginia Beach has a lower crime rate than the other regional cities of Hampton Roads, Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, which all exceed national average crime rates.
Popular legend has it that the Mahones traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations.
Directly opposite Norfolk, the city of Portsmouth also has miles of waterfront land on the Elizabeth River as part of the harbor of Hampton Roads.
In the 21st century, the city has access to lines of CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern and three short line railroads.
The county is crossed by the railroad tracks of CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern, but has no passenger rail stations.
Extending all the way from the rural border with North Carolina to the harbor area of Hampton Roads adjacent to the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Chesapeake is located on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and has miles of waterfront industrial, commercial and residential property.
It has been a seaside resort since 1760, and is the gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the sea.

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Alexandria is served by the Norfolk & Southern Railway with a connector which allows rail traffic to flow smoothly between lines servicing east – west and north – south destinations.
Dover is located on a former Pennsylvania Railroad line, which is now served by Norfolk Southern.
According to Vallée, a Navy veteran who served on board the USS Engstrom noted that the Eldridge might indeed have travelled from Philadelphia to Norfolk and back again in a single day at a time when merchant ships could not: by use of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Chesapeake Bay, which at the time was open only to naval vessels.
He was assigned to Fighter Squadron 42 ( VF-42 ) based at Norfolk, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida, and served several tours aboard aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea with the squadron.
Portsmouth is primarily served by the Norfolk International Airport, now the region's major commercial airport.
Industrial parks are located in both Montpelier and Hartford City, and both cities are served by railroad line owned by Norfolk Southern.
By road, Sudbury is served by the A131 which runs from near Little Waltham, north of Chelmsford in Essex, and the A134 which runs from Colchester in Essex, through Bury St Edmunds, past Thetford in Norfolk to its west, before merging with the A10 south of King's Lynn.
Demopolis is served by several railway companies, including Norfolk Southern Railway, BNSF Railway, and the Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway.
From the 11th century onward, the castle has served as a hereditary stately home and has been in the family of the Duke of Norfolk for over 400 years.
Columbus is the eastern terminus of the Columbus and Greenville Railway ; it is also served by the BNSF Railway ( on the original right-of-way of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway ), the Norfolk Southern, and the CN ( using the original right-of-way of the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio ).
The City is served by two railroads-it is on the Norfolk Southern's Buffalo-East Coast mainline and is the eastern terminus of the mainline of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad.
For many decades West Jefferson was served by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, better known as the " Virginia Creeper ".
The regional Norfolk Southern ( one of the predecessors of the modern system which adopted the same name ) had lines between Norfolk, Virginia and Charlotte and served many locations in southestern Virginia ( including branches to Virginia Beach and Suffolk ) and most of eastern and central North Carolina, including Elizabeth City, New Bern, Morehead City, Goldsboro, Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, North Carolina and Asheville.
Air travel is best served through the Norfolk International Airport ( ORF ) in Norfolk, Virginia or the Pitt-Greenville Airport ( PGV ) in Greenville, North Carolina
Homestead is served by three railroads: the Norfolk Southern, CSX Transportation and the Union Railroad.
Either before or after this he became apprentice to his uncle Sir John Gresham, also a merchant, who founded Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk in 1555: we have his own testimony that he served an apprenticeship of eight years.
Connellsville has the distinction of being served at one time by 5 railroads: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Western Maryland Railroad, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
Milan is served by two railroads: CSX ( formerly Louisville and Nashville ) and West Tennessee ( formerly Illinois Central, then Norfolk Southern ).
Both her father and grandfather had practised law in the Norfolk area, and her sister Audrey was married to Thomas Gawdy, a lawyer and Justice of the Court of King's Bench with links to the Earl of Arundel, something that later served Edward well.
Coke's uncle Thomas Gawdy had served as the Steward to the Third Duke of Norfolk, and during the 1580s Coke was employed by the Howards to see off lawyers employed by the crown who argued that the Howards ' lands were forfeit due to the treason of the 4th Duke of Norfolk.
As such, the then Norfolk Navy Yard served as the official Homeport for ships stationed in the Hampton Roads region.
Following training at the Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Virginia, Miller was assigned to the ammunition ship where he served as a Mess Attendant, and on January 2, 1940 was transferred to the battleship, where he became the ship ′ s main cook.

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