The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has stated that '" This Court has repeatedly held that the effect of an appeal to circuit court is to " annul the judgment of the inferior tribunal as completely as if there had been no previous trial.

Doubleday died of heart disease in Mendham, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

* 2011 – A 5. 8 earthquake occurs in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake is felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.

* 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.

In rural tidewater Virginia and eastern New England, ' r ' is non-rhotic in accented ( such as " bird ", " work ", " first ", " birthday ") as well as unaccented syllables, although this is declining among the younger generation of speakers.

Patrick Henry is best known for the speech he made in the House of Burgesses on March 23, 1775, in Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.

The fact of her birth is known because the governor of the settlement, Virginia Dare's grandfather, John White, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.

She is the subject of a poem ( Peregrine White and Virginia Dare ) by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet, and the North Carolina Legend of the White Doe.

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

ARIN is a nonprofit corporation with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia, USA.

A replica of the Wright Brothers ' wind tunnel is on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center.

That is larger by than the combined areas of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

For example, in the U. S. states of California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, barratry is a misdemeanor ; in Texas, a misdemeanor on the first conviction, but a felony on subsequent convictions.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

Forty-eight states ( Texas and West Virginia are the exceptions ) have a model set of instructions, usually called " pattern jury instructions ", which provide the framework for the charge to the jury ; sometimes, only names and circumstances have to be filled in for a particular case.

Virginia is nicknamed the " Old Dominion " and sometimes the " Mother of Presidents " after the eight U. S. presidents born there.

Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".

Old mining camps that have lost most of their population at some stage of their history, such as Aspen, Central City, Crested Butt, Cripple Creek, Deadwood, Marysville, Oatman, Park City, St. Elmo, Tombstone, and Virginia City, are sometimes included in the category, although they are active towns and cities today.

Although the Army of Northern Virginia swelled and shrank over time, its units of organization consisted primarily of the following corps, sometimes referred to as " wings " or " commands ":

One of Patrick County's most prominent early settlers was Col. Abraham Penn ( sometimes written Abram Penn ), born in 1743 in what is today Amherst County, Virginia.

The Town of Hicksford ( also sometimes called Hick's Ford ) was settled in 1710 in the Virginia Colony, where the Fort Road of eastern Virginia crossed the Meherrin River en route to Fort Christanna.

The city is sometimes called the " Smokeless Coal Capital ", " The City of Champions " and the " Gateway To Southern West Virginia.

Soon afterwards the Continental Congress, urged by George Washington, repudiated the treaty and imprisoned the remnants of the army in Massachusetts and Virginia, where they were sometimes maltreated.

The battle, sometimes referred to as the " Waterloo of the Confederacy ," pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

These southern portions of the Great Valley are sometimes grouped into two parts, the Valley of Virginia and the Tennessee Valley.

Because of the extreme hardiness of the species, it is sometimes the only species found in severely polluted and oxygen-deprived streams, such as the Elizabeth River in Virginia, and the Hackensack River and the Arthur Kill in New Jersey during the height of the water pollution problem in the United States.

Marine Corps Base Quantico, sometimes abbreviated MCB Quantico, is a major United States Marine Corps training base located near Triangle, Virginia, covering nearly in southern Prince William County, northern Stafford County, and southeastern Fauquier County.

The southwestern portion of Virginia is, along with western North Carolina, part of the Blue Ridge area, home to a distinctive style of old-time music sometimes called mountain music, which is a vibrant tradition most famously celebrated through an annual series of festivals.

The orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae includes the cave weta, cave crickets, camelback crickets, camel crickets, spider crickets ( sometimes shortened to " criders ", or " sprickets ") and sand treaders, of the suborder Ensifera ; in some regions, such as Missouri and Virginia, these crickets are referred to as " cricket spiders ".

The northeastern United States, from Virginia to the New England coast, Quebec and Atlantic Canada can experience nor ' easters, most often in the winter and early spring but also sometimes during the autumn.

They are dominated by a mix of oak and pine species, most typically chestnut oak ( Quercus prinus ), Virginia pine ( Pinus virginiana ), and white pine, but sometimes white oak or scarlet oak ( Quercus coccinea ).

Richard Bland ( May 6, 1710 – October 26, 1776 ), sometimes referred to as Richard Bland II or Richard Bland of Jordan's Point, was an American planter and statesman from Virginia.

Oney Judge ( sometimes spelled Ona ) was one of Martha Washington's slaves and chambermaids ; she served the Washingtons in Virginia and at the President's House in Philadelphia when Washington was President ; the city was the temporary capital from 1790-1800.

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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 ".

In 1775, George Washington came up from Virginia to take command of fledgling volunteer American soldiers camped on the Cambridge Common — today called the birthplace of the U. S. Army.

There is also an annual dachshund run in Kennywood, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called the Wiener 100, and in Huntington, West Virginia called the Dachshund Dash.

Washington also met with Tanacharison ( also called " Half-King ") and other Iroquois leaders allied to Virginia at Logstown to secure their support in case of conflict with the French ; Washington and Tanacharison became friends and allies.

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 ".

* 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Philippi ( also called the Philippi Races ) – Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War.

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

His father, James Madison, Sr. ( 1723 – 1801 ), was a tobacco planter who grew up on a plantation, then called Mount Pleasant, in Orange County, Virginia, which he had inherited upon reaching adulthood.

The financial database created by these reports is administered by the U. S .’ s Financial Intelligence Unit ( FIU ), called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ), which is located in Vienna, Virginia.

These stories feature Virginia gentleman John Carter mysteriously transported to a Mars ( called Barsoom by the natives ) distinguished by humanoid princesses, fierce warriors of several species, exotic animals, and mixtures of antique with advanced technology.

Aiming toward a first step of resolving interstate commercial antagonisms, Virginia called for a trade conference in Annapolis, Maryland, set for September 1786.

In June 2004, the General Assembly met in Richmond, Virginia and adopted by a vote of 431-62 a resolution that called on the church's committee on Mission Responsibility through Investment ( MRTI ) " to initiate a process of phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.

The character performs a song called " The Lees of Old Virginia ," in which he explains how he knows he will be able to convince the Virginia House of Burgesses to allow him to propose independence.

The oldest known recipe for sweet ice tea was published in 1879 in a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree, who was born in Texas.

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

Following its victory in the war and peace treaty with Great Britain, in 1783 the United States formed a Congress of the Confederation ( informally called the Continental Congress ), to which Jefferson was appointed as a Virginia delegate.

) Jefferson supported efforts to disestablish the Church of England, called the Anglican Church in Virginia after the Revolution, and authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

Jefferson and Madison were deeply upset by the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 ; they secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which called on state legislatures to nullify unconstitutional laws.