Sir Roger de Coverly, mentioned by Charles Dickens, is the ancestor of America's Virginia Reel.

In 2002, Selleck donated the rifle he used in Quigley Down Under ( a custom 13-pound, single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34-inch barrel ), along with six other firearms from his other films, to the National Rifle Association, as part of the NRA's exhibit " Real Guns of Reel Heroes " at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.

Popular tunes played by fiddlers such as The Sailor's Hornpipe, or " The Virginia Reel " were increasingly divorced from the dances that bore the same names.

Square dances, based on the cotillion, and cakewalks, an African American imitation of white dances and the Virginia Reel arose during the 19th century.

* Virginia Reel ( dance )

The first spinning roller coaster was the Virginia Reel, first built in 1908 by Henry Riehl.

The last full size Virginia Reel closed at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in 1982.

Based on the design of the Wild Mouse roller coaster, the ride features a track layout and cars similar to a Virginia Reel, except the ride is made of steel rather than wood, and the seats face in one direction instead of toward each other.

These coasters have twisted track layouts similar to Maurer Söhne's Xtended SC, but the seats on Gerstlauer Spinning Coasters face towards each other, as with the Virginia Reel.

Virginia Reel at Ontario Beach Amusement Park, Charlotte, Rochester, New York c. 1910

The Virginia Reel roller coaster was an older style of coaster characterized by spinning circular " tubs " that zig-zagged down a flat-bottomed track.

The Virginia Reel was designed by Henry Elmer Riehl, who named the ride after his daughter, Luna Virginia Riehl.

The first Virginia Reel was built in 1908 at Luna Park, Coney Island, where Henry Riehl was superintendent.

The last full-sized Virginia Reel was located at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in England until it closed in 1982.

* Pleasure Beach Postcards-Virginia Reel-Many pictures of the Virginia Reel at Pleasure Beach Blackpool

* YouTube: The Pleasure Beach, Blackpool 1920s Footage includes the Virginia Reel

* The Virginia Reel Gallery-Images documenting the destruction of a classic Blackpool ride on themagiceye at Joyland

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Virginia Reel is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards mixed together.

The starting layout for the game of Virginia Reel.

Royal Parade is another solitaire card game which is played much the same way as Virginia Reel.

The difference between this game and Virginia Reel is that in Royal Parade when a card is moved from anywhere in the tableau, the gap it leaves behind does not have to be filled right away.

Virginia Reel can refer to any of the following:

The built heritage was also at the forefront of the growth of member based organizations in the United States for example, founded in 1889, the Richmond, Virginia-based Preservation Virginia ( formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities ) was the United States ' first statewide historic preservation group.

He based his cast of characters on the authentic mountain-dwellers he met while hitchhiking through rural West Virginia and the Cumberland Valley as a teenager.

* The Howard Gardner School-A small independent school based in the tradition of progressive education, serving college-bound learners in grades 7-12 in Alexandria, Virginia.

At this time, Virginia and other southern colonies had become a slave society, in which slaveholders formed the ruling class and the economy was based on slave labor.

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.

Although the New England states rejected the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 – 99, several years later, the state governments of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island threatened to ignore the Embargo Act of 1807 based on the authority of states to stand up to laws deemed by those states to be unconstitutional.

Joshua Garrison mimicked Chan's " political pseudo-documentary style " in his Virginia Tech Massacre, a controversial Halo 3 – based re-enactment and explanation of the eponymous real-life events.

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Despite that, states like Virginia enacted laws based in eugenics, such as its 1924 Racial Integrity Act, which established the one-drop rule as law.

Traditionally, many U. S. blends are made of American Burley with sweeteners and flavorings added to create an " aromatic " flavor, whereas " English " blends are based on natural Virginia tobaccos enhanced with Oriental and other natural tobaccos.

A specialty platoon of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment ( The Old Guard ), the Presidential Salute Battery is based at Fort Myer, Virginia.

The Science & Environmental Policy Project ( SEPP ) is a research and advocacy group financed by private contributions based in Arlington, Virginia in the United States.

Her wartime activities in German Occupied France were dramatised in the film Carve Her Name with Pride, starring Virginia McKenna and based on the 1956 book of the same name by R. J. Minney.

Macy's, in partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, launched its first Believe campaign in 2008, based on " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ".

For the Macy's 2010 Believe campaign, an animated character based on Virginia was part of and appeared in their 2010 holiday commercials, inviting children to stores to write " Yes Virginia Santa Letters ," and at the Macy's department store on 34th and Broadway in Manhattan as the theme for its 2010 holiday windows.

About half of the SEAL contingent are based at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base and Dam Neck Annex in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

SDVT-2 was based in Virginia ; it was disestablished and merged into SDVT-1.

* Southern: based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Southern Region ( R8 ) covers thirteen states ( Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia ; and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands ), and thirty-four National Forests.

* Eastern: based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Eastern Region ( R9 ) covers twenty states ( Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey ), seventeen National Forests, one Grassland and America ’ s Outdoors Center for Conservation, Recreation, and Resources.

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Altria Group, Inc. ( previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc .) is based in Henrico County, Virginia, and is the parent company of Philip Morris USA, John Middleton, Inc., U. S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, Inc., Philip Morris Capital Corporation, and Chateau Ste.