Moderate sentiment still held sway through 1860 ; but, early in 1861, increasing tensions forced Virginians to consider secession.

After having contributed four of the first five Presidents and their having held office for thirty-two of the first thirty-six years of the constitution, to date four more Virginians have served as President.

The December following the violence at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the Cavalier Marching Band joined forces with The Marching Virginians of Virginia Tech to host their first annual joint concert, held at John Paul Jones Arena.

The Virginia Tech Marching Virginians perform a version of the Hokie Pokie featuring the sousaphone section putting their sousaphones in, taking their sousaphones out, putting their sousaphones in, and shaking them all about – followed by an all-sousaphone kick line.

The river's lower course began to be settled by Virginians about the middle of the 17th century, in what was known as the Albemarle Settlements.

A rival group of land speculators from Virginia, the Loyal Company of Virginia, was organized about the same time, and included influential Virginians such as Thomas Walker and Peter Jefferson ( father of Thomas Jefferson ).

With about 150 Virginians at Great Meadows, they began to construct a fort, which was completed on June 3.

The Cherokee and Virginians fell to fighting each other, with the Virginians killing and scalping about 20 of them.

Identifying the South ’ s domination of the government as the cause of much of their problems, the proposed amendments included “ the repeal of the three-fifths clause, a requirement that two-thirds of both houses of Congress agree before any new state could be admitted to the Union, limits on the length of embargoes, and the outlawing of the election of a president from the same state to successive terms, clearly aimed at the Virginians .” The war was over before the proposals were submitted to President Madison.

Among the Library's many distinguished publications, exhibitions, and educational programs is the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, a multivolume reference work documenting the contributions of Virginians to four centuries of local, state, and national history.

As he administered the military government in Petersburg, Virginia, he established a reputation of applying more moderate policies than some of the other military governors in Reconstruction, which eased some of the reconciliation pain for white Virginians.

About 4, 000 poor white Virginians were involuntarily sterilized by government order.

White's Virginians and Marylanders had followed the railroad to Hanover from nearby Gettysburg, and taken horses, food, supplies, clothing, shoes, and other desired items from the townspeople, often paying with valueless Confederate money or drafts on the Confederate government.

On June 29, 1776, Virginians declared their independence from Great Britain and wrote the state's first constitution, thereby creating an independent government four days before Congress voted for the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4.

Led by Alexander H. H. Stuart, a former U. S. Presidential Cabinet officer, the group of moderate Conservatives convinced the federal government to allow Virginians to vote on an alternative draft of a new state constitution which did not disenfranchise many white Virginians under the Reconstruction Acts.

Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

Unlike most college-bound Virginians of his day, Madison did not choose the College of William and Mary, because the lowland climate of Williamsburg, where mosquitoes transmitted fevers and other infectious diseases during the summer, might have strained his delicate health.

Most delegates believed that most Virginians opposed the constitution.

The Mud Hens have played in the International League since 1965, when the New York Yankees ' AAA club, the Richmond Virginians, transferred there.

Virginians such as George Mason and Patrick Henry wanted to ensure that this restriction would also be applied as a limitation on Congress.

Virginians began to coordinate their actions with other colonies in 1773, and sent delegates to the Continental Congress the following year.

Virginians were instrumental in writing the United States Constitution.

Not only Esmond but also Barry Lyndon and Catherine are set then, as is the sequel to Esmond, The Virginians, which takes place in America and includes George Washington as a character who nearly kills one of the protagonists in a duel.

After leaving the castle of Bocagrande, the Spanish met at San Felipe de Barajas castle while Washington Virginians were deployed in the nearby hill of La Popa to take positions.

Considerations of white racial and moral purity also influenced many of these antislavery Virginians.

In addition to Virginians, it included regiments from all over the Confederacy, even those as far away as Georgia, Texas and Arkansas.

Enraged, the Loyalist troops charged at the Virginians.

A group of Virginia Quakers living in Accomac County, Virginia on the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula petitioned Lord Baltimore in 1661 to migrate further north on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay to the territory under his governance, and the governor saw the opportunity to fortify the borders of his territory on the Delmarva Peninsula against the pressing encroachment of the Virginians.

Its purpose was ostensibly to oversee the territory and the establishment of new settlements and maintain a detailed recording of all land and civic transactions in the area ; but in fact Lord Baltimore intended to use the commission to reinforce Maryland's claim to the area and to monitor any encroachments by the Virginians.

Their predecessor team, the Richmond Virginians, a New York Yankees International League franchise from 1954 through 1964, played in only one championship.

Dryads are mentioned in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Coleridge, and in Thackeray's work The Virginians.

This time, they sent 41 Virginians to build Fort Prince George.

Fort Prince George ( named for the crown prince, later King George III ) was started in January 1754 by 41 Virginians in 1754.

The library is also home to the " West Virginia Room " which includes books on West Virginia and by West Virginians.

Long a dream of early Virginians such as George Washington, who was a surveyor early in his career, the canal was never completed as envisioned.

Its name came from the Virginians who settled there from Falmouth, Virginia.

Just before and immediately after the Revolution, numerous Virginians and North Carolinians migrated to the frontier of Georgia above Augusta, including the area around Brownsborough.

Her parents, both Virginians, had moved there in 1765.

The enemy had filtered across the river during the night and a full force of 1000 men, armed with Russian machine guns, attacked the position held by Chandler's men.

Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

The seventh and twentieth, the days of the new and full moon, were ever afterwards held sacred to him.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

The election gave Democrats full control of the United States Congress, the first time one party controlled both the executive and legislative branches since Democrats held the 95th United States Congress during the Jimmy Carter presidency in the late 1970s.

-- The king then rose up from amongst the assembly and forthwith directed one of his own messengers to accompany the bishop's messenger, and to tell him that the people were unanimously inclined to accept his proposal and at the same time to tell him that, whilst their action was entirely agreeable to him, he could not give his full consent until, in another assembly, which was to be held in another part of his kingdom, he could announce this resolution to the people who lived in that district.

" The university was not challenged about the origin of its interracial dating policy, and the District Court accepted " on the basis of a full evidentiary record " BJU's argument that the rule was a sincerely held religious conviction, a finding affirmed by all subsequent courts.

And in fact, since the 120 limit was enacted, no conclave has been held with even a full 120 entitled to participate.

At the end of the Conference on 27 January 1960 it was announced that elections would be held in the Congo on 22 May 1960, and full independence granted on 30 June 1960.

Talks between Kabila and the rebel leaders, held in Sun City, lasted a full six weeks, beginning in April 2002.

Like other Wiccans, Dianics may form covens, attend festivals, celebrate the eight major Wiccan holidays, Samhain, Beltane, Imbolc ( or Imbolg ), Lammas, the solstices and equinoxes ( see Wheel of the Year ) and the Esbats, which are rituals usually held at the full moon or dark moon.

Both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church recognise as ecumenical the first seven councils, held from the 4th to the 9th century ; but while the Eastern Orthodox Church accepts no later council or synod as ecumenical, the Roman Catholic Church continues to hold general councils of the bishops in full communion with the Pope, reckoning them as ecumenical, and counting in all, including the seven recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church, twenty-one to date.

A referendum on full independence was held in 1946, which produced a majority in favour.

February was named after the Latin term februum, which means purification, via the purification ritual Februa held on February 15 ( full moon ) in the old lunar Roman calendar.

The dogmatic constitution states that the Pope has " full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole Church " ( chapter 3: 9 ); and that, when he " speaks ex cathedra, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his Church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals " ( chapter 4: 9 ).

Fort William is the home of the Scottish Six Day Motorcycle Trial ( SSDT ), held annually in the first full week of May.

The Demographics of Germany were determined also by a series of full Census in Germany, with the most recent held in 1987.

The full congress was held subsequently in Madrid, bringing together representatives of cities all over the world.

hoplitai ) derives from " hoplon " (, plural hopla ), the type of the shield used by the soldiers, although, as a word, " hopla " could also denote weapons held or even full armament.

Hoover was the last President to have held a full cabinet position.

Sorita d ' Este observes that it is also important to give consideration to the difference between the modern calendar and the lunisolar calendars which would have been in use when these dates were set, giving us a full moon date around the 13th of each month and the date for the August festival originating with the festival of Nemoralia held in honour of Diana.

" I desired a friend to draw with a pencil lines cross the image, or pillar of colours, where every one of the seven aforenamed colours was most full and brisk, and also where he judged the truest confines of them to be, whilst I held the paper so, that the said image might fall within a certain compass marked on it.

The CIA broke into his hotel room and photocopied his passport, which gave them his full name, birth information and passport number for the first time, and alerted them that he held an entry visa to the United States.

Meetings were to be held on the Sunday nearest the full moon, lasting from two o ' clock in the afternoon until eight o ' clock in the evening.