Executive authority in British Virgin Islands is vested in The Queen and is exercised on her behalf by the Governor of the British Virgin Islands.

He had a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, and he would later write several works about the Queen of Heaven.

Sometimes called " The Virgin Queen ", " Gloriana ", or " Good Queen Bess ", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.

This is the earliest full-length portrait of the queen, made before the emergence of symbolic portraits representing the iconography of the " Virgin Queen ".

In 1594, they were visited by English commander Richard Hawkins, who, combining his own name with that of Queen Elizabeth I, the " Virgin Queen ", gave the islands the name of " Hawkins ' Maidenland.

** The Most Holy Virgin Mary Queen of Poland

Hungarians interpreted the incorruptibility of his right arm and hand-with which he had held the Holy Crown aloft from his deathbed when asking Virgin Mary to be the Queen of the Hungarians-as a sign that the Blessed Virgin Mary had accepted the king's offer to her of the Hungarian people, and she remains officially their queen.

The name " Virginia " may have been suggested then by Raleigh or Elizabeth, perhaps noting her status as the " Virgin Queen ", and may also be related to a native phrase, " Wingandacoa ", or name, " Wingina ".

* The Blessed Virgin is proclaimed Queen of Genoa.

Lingard also authored the very popular Catholic hymn to the Virgin Mary titled Hail Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star.

In 1859 he produced repetitions of The Virgin of the Host, and in 1862 he completed Christ and the Doctors, a work commissioned many years before by Queen Marie Amalie for the chapel of Bizy.

* In the 2005 The Virgin Queen, Hans Matheson played the ill-fated Earl of Essex.

The largest producing mines of Virgin Valley have been the famous Rainbow Ridge, Royal Peacock, Bonanza, Opal Queen, and WRT Stonetree / Black Beauty Mines.

" Her films of this period included The Virgin Queen ( 1955 ), Storm Center ( 1956 ), and The Catered Affair ( 1956 ).

Pope Pius XII declared the Virgin of Guadalupe " Queen of Mexico and Empress of the Americas " in 1945, and " Patroness of the Americas " in 1946.

It was located in what was then called Virginia, named in honor of England's ruling monarch and " Virgin Queen ", Elizabeth I.

* Queen Mary is a title given to the Virgin Mary by some Christian denominations

In Spenser's allegory, Britomart connotes the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I of England.

The final scene has Faust's soul carried to heaven in the presence of God as the " Holy Virgin, Mother, Queen, Goddess ... The Eternal Feminine ".

Hence, more mature women can be virgins ( The Virgin Queen ), men can be virgins, and potential initiates into many fields can be colloquially termed virgins ; for example, a skydiving " virgin ".

* According to Roman Catholic tradition the Blessed Virgin Mary was crowned as Queen of Heaven after her assumption into heaven.

By law this is 75% for the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.

By law this is 70% for the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

There is also an underwater statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe here, created in 1958 by Armando Quesado in memory of a group of divers that died here.

At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

At the time, a shrine like this might shelter an image of the Crucifixion or the Virgin Mary, but since it is turned away from the viewer, we are not sure what it truly is.

To the east of Batalha is the world famous location of Fátima and a point of pilgrimage for the Roman Catholic religion due to the vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917 by three young children whilst tending their flock.

: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father?

The Virgin Islands, often called the British Virgin Islands ( BVI ), is a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico.

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

The Virgin Islands were first settled by the Arawak from South America around 100 BC ( though there is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the islands as far back as 1500 BC ).

There is no record of any native Amerindian population in the British Virgin Islands during this period, although the native population on nearby St. Croix was decimated.

The British Virgin Islands is divided into 9 electoral districts.

The Territory is also technically divided into 5 administrative districts ( one for each of the four largest islands, and then a fifth for all other islands ), and into 6 civil registry districts ( three for Tortola, Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) although these have little practical relevance today.

The British Virgin Islands is heavily dependent on migrant workers, and over 50 % of all workers on the islands are of a foreign descent.

Exports from the United States, including those from Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands, to the Dominican Republic in 2005 totaled $ 5. 3 billion, up 11 % from the previous year.

* The 40-Year-Old Virgin ( 2005 )

* March 30, 2005 – Steve Fossett breaks a world record by completing the first non-stop, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.

A second tour, in 2005, saw the band headline the 20-city Virgin College Mega Tour, playing alongside Gomez ; while the Tour was in California, the band announced that it had been dropped from Columbia Records.

In late 2005 / early 2006, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic came forward about their involvement in large price-fixing schemes for cargo and passenger surcharges in which 21 airlines were involved since 2000 ( amongst which were British Airways, Korean Air, and Air France-KLM ).

Branson's other work in South Africa includes the Branson School of Entrepreneurship, set up in 2005 as a partnership between Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation of Virgin, and entrepreneur Taddy Bletcher, the founder of CIDA City Campus, a university in Johannesburg.

On 31 October 2005, Virgin Atlantic operated a humanitarian aid charter flight to Islamabad, with 55 tonnes of aid for the people affected by the earthquake in Pakistan.

* 2005 The Virgin Queen.

* The 40-Year-Old Virgin ( 2005 )

In December 2005 NTL and Virgin Mobile announced that talks had taken place regarding a merger.

When Virgin won the franchise, Railtrack was to upgrade the West Coast Main Line to allow tilting trains to operate at 140 mph by 2005.

In September 2005 Virgin introduced its first 125 mph timetable following the completion of Stage 1 of the upgrade.

In 2005, Fossett made the first solo, nonstop, unrefueled circumnavigation of the world in an airplane, in 67 hours in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, a single-engine jet aircraft.

* Tainted Love ( Virgin Books, London 2005 ).

Now retired, she has homes in Arizona and the Virgin Islands but lived mainly in Glengarriff, County Cork after suffering a stroke in 2005.

In 2005, contestants came from the Bahamas, Jamaica, Guam, the U. S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Canada, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and a German military base, as well as the United States.

On 12 April 2005 SN Brussels took holding control of Virgin Express and on 31 March 2006 they announced their merger.

In 2005 Culture Convenience Club bought Virgin Megastore's operations ( totalling 22 stores ) in Japan from Marui Co. By November 2008 the number of Virgin Megastores in Japan had lessened to 15.

In 2005, N. E. R. D ended their contract with Virgin and disbanded.

In 2005, N. E. R. D ended their contract with Virgin Records over a label dispute and the band disbanded.

He was part of a failed £ 100m bid backed by private equity firm 3i to buy Virgin Radio from SMG plc in 2005.

The comic strip Plastic Millennium, published in the Doctor Who Magazine Winter 1994 Special ; Craig Hinton's Virgin Missing Adventures novel Millennial Rites ( October 1995 ); Justin Richards's Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock ( May 1999 ), the Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins story " Suitors, Inc ." ( 2005 ) and the Fourth Doctor's segment from the comic The Forgotten ( 2008 ) all take place on those dates, as do elements of the Torchwood episode " Fragments ".