* 1919 – Virginia O ' Brien, American actress and singer ( d. 2001 )

Fans in Norfolk, Virginia, chanted " O!

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

The film stars George O ' Brien as the introverted Crown Prince Michael, William Powell as his happy-go-lucky brother and Virginia Valli as Michael's flapper love interest Dolores.

Industrialist Collis P. Huntington ( 1821 – 1900 ) provided crucial funding to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ( C & O ) from Richmond, Virginia to the Ohio River in the early 1870s.

Although originally built for general commerce, this C & O rail link to the midwest was soon also being used to transport bituminous coal from the previously isolated coalfields, adjacent to the New River and the Kanawha River in West Virginia.

In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.

Other stars include Jack Hawkins as General Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond and Dan O ' Herlihy as Marshal Ney.

Virginia O ' Hanlon ( circa 1895 )

In 1897, Dr. Philip O ' Hanlon, a coroner's assistant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was asked by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia ( 1889 – 1971 ), whether Santa Claus really existed.

Virginia O ' Hanlon's full married name was Laura Virginia O ' Hanlon Douglas.

Janet C. Rotter, Head of School, announced the establishment of the Virginia O ' Hanlon Scholarship, speaking passionately about their commitment to offering need-based scholarships for students of merit.

* CBC radio interview of Virginia O ' Hanlon Douglas in 1963

* WBBM Chicago 1968 Mal Bellairs radio interview of Virginia O ' Hanlon Douglas

* WTEN – Albany PBS – video of Virginia O ' Hanlon reading the editorial to children in the 1960s.

On The Dresden Dolls ' album Yes, Virginia ..., the piece " Mrs. O " includes reference to the Story of O.

Written by Frank S. Beresford and directed by John B. O ' Brien, the film tells the story of John Henry Jackson ( William B. Davidson ) and Catherine Kimberly ( Virginia Pearson ).

The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Barbara O ' Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher and June Lockhart.

Four actresses have played Alice: Virginia Davis ( 15 ), Margie Gay ( 31 ), Dawn O ' Day ( 1 ) and Lois Hardwick ( 10 ).

After the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), William Mahone, a civil engineer and hero of the Battle of the Crater, was the driving force in the linkage of 3 railroads, including the V & T, across the southern tier of Virginia to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia in 1870.

As a young man, Raoul was a close friend of Virginia O ' Hanlon of " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " fame.

* 2010: Greg Heffley, Po from Kung Fu Panda, Virginia O ' Hanlon

Harris is married to Ann O ' Hanlon, and lives with their three children in Alexandria, Virginia.

" Virginia Thomas responded that the call had been intended as an " olive branch ".

Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

Three-quarters of grits sold in the U. S. are sold in the South stretching from Texas to Virginia, also known as the " grits belt ".

In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch " one of the few English novels written for grown-up people ".

Though the Virginia Plan was an outline rather than a draft of a possible constitution, and though it was extensively changed during the debate ( especially by John Rutledge and James Wilson in the Committee of Detail ), its use at the convention led many to call Madison the " Father of the Constitution ".

He wasn't from Virginia ".

For instance, Virginia Hopkins stated in 1988 that " Kit Carson was directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Indians ".

As they had been shepherded to passage in the Virginia House of Delegates by John Taylor of Caroline, they became part of the heritage of the " Old Republicans ".

Alexander Hamilton, then building up the army, suggested sending it into Virginia, on some " obvious pretext ".

Measures would be taken, Hamilton hinted to an ally in Congress, " to act upon the laws and put Virginia to the Test of resistance ".

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

A 1992 study by Jeffrey E. Pfeifer of the University of Virginia on " The Psychological Framing of Cults " found that 75. 51 % ( 74 of 98 ) of participating individuals were familiar with the word " Moonies ".

The 16th-century English herbalist John Gerard used the terms " bastard potatoes " and " Virginia potatoes " for this species, and referred to sweet potatoes as " common potatoes ".

Robert and Virginia Heinlein in a 1952 Popular Mechanics article, titled " A House to Make Life Easy ".

Celebrated traditional Southern chef and author Edna Lewis wrote a series of books between 1972 and 2003, including A Taste of Country Cooking ( Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 ) where she weaves stories of her childhood in Freetown, Virginia into her recipes for " real Southern food ".

West Virginia mixes the two ; its highest court is called the " Supreme Court of Appeals ".

" The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

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 strip ends with the husband saying to his wife " Yes Virginia, there is a Father Christmas ".

Some people have questioned the veracity of the letter's authorship, expressing doubt that a young girl such as Virginia would refer to children her own age as " my little friends ".

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 ".

On April 5, 2009, The Washington Post reported that the National Funeral Home, a facility owned by SCI in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County, Virginia which also acts as a central care center for embalming and body preparation for other nearby SCI-owned operations ( Arlington Funeral Home, Danzansky-Goldberg Memorial Chapel and Demaine Funeral Home ), was storing naked bodies in various stages of decomposition in conditions described as " disgusting, degrading and humiliating ".

The other ... is aptly termed phalangium ephemerum virginianum, Soone Fading Spiderwort of Virginia ".