* The Virgin Missing Adventures novel Venusian Lullaby established that the First Doctor had a sonic screwdriver.

The Dutch established a settlement on Tortola before 1640 and later on Anegada and Virgin Gorda.

The community was finally established on the third attempt after having been flooded out from the waters of the Virgin River.

By the next century the iconic depiction of the Virgin enthroned carrying the infant Christ was established, as in the example from the only group of icons surviving from this period, at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

R. J. Reynolds ' subsidiary R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Foreign Sales Corporation is established in the British Virgin Islands to minimize its tax liability.

Now, the Roman Catholic tradition has a well established philosophy for the veneration of the Virgin Mary via the field of Mariology with Pontifical schools such as the Marianum specifically devoted to this task.

The sanctuary to this Virgin manifestation was established in 1594, with the first church built between then and 1666.

In 2009, the proposed U. S. Virgin Islands Constitution voted by the Fifth Constitutional Convention established three definitions of U. S. Virgin Islanders: " Ancestral Native Virgin Islander "-those with ancestral ties ( and their descendants ); " Native Virgin Islander "-those born on the island ( and their descendants ); and " Virgin Islander "-any United States citizen who has resided in the territory for five years.

He later studied other large-brained mammals and during the late 1950s he established a facility devoted to fostering human-dolphin communication: the Communication Research Institute on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.

It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the sixth-oldest college in Cambridge.

Since 2006, Virgin Festival has established itself as a hugely popular festival annually held at Pimlico Race Course, drawing in a variety of popular acts.

( see Numbers game, and Peter H. Matthews ) The first modern government-run US lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934, followed by New Hampshire in 1964 ; today, lotteries are established in 43 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands ; The most recent US lottery to be legalized was in Arkansas ; its voters approved a lottery in the 2008 election.

( Paradinas later broke with Virgin and in 1998 established Planet Mu as his own independent label.

Following the pattern established by the 1979 and 1981 shows, separate albums of the comedic and musical performances was released by Virgin Records.

The adoration of the Virgin Mary was already established in the Church, and Fulbert would use this as teaching on her importance.

The Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary was established in 1349 in the hall of the chantry priests.

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.

In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41 % of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

Cranmer's work of simplification and revision was also applied to the Daily Offices, which were to become Morning, and Evening Prayer ; and which he hoped would also serve as a daily form of prayer to be used by the Laity, thus replacing both the late medieval lay observation of the Latin Hours of the Virgin, and its English equivalent, the Primer.

Histories of the Holy Rosary often attribute its origin to Saint Dominic himself through the Blessed Virgin Mary.

* 1984 – Virgin Atlantic Airways launches with its first flight from London Heathrow Airport.

The last campaign of the war ( 1648 ) was uneventful, and shortly after its close he retired to live on the estates which he had bought in the course of his career, and on one of these, Benátky nad Jizerou NE of Prague in Bohemia, a gift from the emperor, he died on September 12, 1652 and was buried in the church of Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Benátky.

* The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Christianity ), and its related observances ( some churches move the observance if March 25 falls on a Sunday or during Holy Week ):

) Puerto Rico has more latitude over its internal affairs than the U. S. territories of Guam, the U. S. Virgin Islands, or American Samoa.

* The Seventh Doctor regained his sonic screwdriver in the Virgin New Adventures novels, with its first reappearance in The Pit.

The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority also uses imported energy to operate its desalination facilities to provide fresh water.

) In spite of the LP's success, soon after its release a contractual dispute with their label, Virgin Records, saw XTC go " on strike " from 1992 through 1998, which finally resulted in the termination of their contract.

The log has to burn all night and it is believed that its warmth and light symbolise the coming of Christ as well as providing a warm welcome to Virgin Mary and the family's ancestors who are believed to be guests at the table according to traditions in some regions.

** Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.

The company changed its policy, and it sought to cede islands such as Tortola and Virgin Gorda to private persons for settlement, and to establish slave pens.

It was not until 1773 that the Virgin Islands actually had its own legislature.

Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes that the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love, might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and its extraordinary power on the board, as might the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.

Denmark responded by slowly acquiring diplomatic agreements recognizing its sovereignty from the parties involved, beginning with the treaty selling the Danish Virgin Islands to the United States in 1917.

Morelos adopted the Virgin as the seal of his Congress of Chilpancingo, inscribing her feast day into the Chilpancingo constitution and declaring that Guadalupe was the power behind his victories: New Spain puts less faith in its own efforts than in the power of God and the intercession of its Blessed Mother, who appeared within the precincts of Tepeyac as the miraculous image of Guadalupe that had come to comfort us, defend us, visibly be our protection.

Fundamentalism is a movement, rather than a denomination or a systematic theology, which gained ascendance after the release of a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by many well-known conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy — covering a wide range of topics, from defenses of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, his Virgin Birth, of the historicity of Biblical narratives, Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and of Biblical inerrancy against the prevalent higher-critical theories of the day, to the falsity of theological systems such as Christian Science, " Millennial Dawnism ", Mormonism, to the errors of " Romanism "— over the course of 1910-1915, called The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, from which the movement receives its eponymous name.

Two years later the monastery received its famous Black Madonna icon of the Virgin Mary and in subsequent years became a centre of pilgrimage, contributing to the growth of the adjacent town.

The outcome of such an experiment has been in due time the acceptance of the Bible as the Word of God inspired in a sense utterly different from any merely human book, and with it the acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, Son of Man by the Virgin Mary, the Saviour of the world.

In the Church of England's Common Worship prayer book, 8 December is designated a Lesser Festival of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( without the adjective " immaculate ").

It ranked No. 40 in the " Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums " book by Colin Larkin, published in 1998.

Some such prayers are provided in the Raccolta Catholic prayer book ( approved by a Decree of 1854, and published by the Holy See in 1898 ) which also includes prayers as Acts of Reparation to the Virgin Mary.

* Bala ( comics ), a comic book character from the Devi comic book by Virgin Comics

This was in fact an unusual inclusion in a Gospel book, and images of the Virgin were slow to appear in large numbers in manuscript art until the book of hours was devised in the 13th century.

Then follow Sermones de omnibus evangeliis dominicalibus for every Sunday in the year ; Sermones de omnibus evangeliis, i. e., a book of discourses on all the Gospels, from Ash Wednesday to the Tuesday after Easter ; and a treatise called Marialis, qui totus est de B. Maria compositus, consisting of about 160 discourses on the attributes, titles, etc., of the Virgin Mary.

Semiramis goes on to become the Blessed Virgin Mary according to Hislop's book.

Some such prayers are provided in the Raccolta Catholic prayer book ( approved by a Decree of 1854, and published by the Holy See in 1898 ) which also includes prayers as Acts of Reparation to the Virgin Mary.

She co-wrote the hardback reference book, Ace, The Inside Story of the End of An Era with Mike Tucker, published by Virgin Publishing in 1996.

* Virgin Comics — comic book producer

* The Virgin Mary, a 1950 book by Giovanni Miegge

A vision reported in the book provided the source for the iconography of the Virgin of Mercy.

Initially Day lived a bohemian life, with one common-law marriage and an abortion, which she later described in her semi-autobiographical novel, The Eleventh Virgin ( 1924 )— a book she later regretted writing.

Ennis has also worked with John Woo on a 5-issue comic book mini-series called Seven Brothers for Virgin Comics.

Neither Brentano nor Emmerich had ever been to Ephesus, and indeed the city had not yet been excavated ; but visions contained in The Life of The Blessed Virgin Mary were used during the discovery of the House of the Virgin Mary, the Blessed Virgin's supposed home before her Assumption, located on a hill near Ephesus, as described in the book Mary's House.

In the classic Roman Catholic Mariology book The Glories of Mary, the author Saint Alphonsus Liguori called the Blessed Virgin Mary the " Gate of Heaven ", relying on the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, another Doctor of the Church.

Virgin Books is a United Kingdom book publisher 90 % owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10 % owned by Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.