Chambéry
Chambéry , town (1990 pop. 55,603), capital of Savoie dept., E France, in the Alpine trough. It is a communications and commerce center as well as a railway and air transport hub. Manufactures include metals and construction materials. An archiepiscopal see from the 5th cent., it was the capital of Savoy from 1232 to 1562. Among its old edifices is a 16th-century cathedral.
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Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services creates the Specialty Food Advisory Committee.
M2 Presswire; 10/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...conference with the support of the Virginia Food and Beverage Association...Willis Logan, President, Virginia Wine of the Month Club, Stanardsville...Integrity Food Group, LLC, West Point - representing small...Food Science and Technology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg - representing...
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VIRGINIA'S ``POWERFUL GOVERNOR'' MYTH HAS NO CLOTHES.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 8/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...get lost because every four years Virginia's executive branch has to reinvent...down the list, I expected to see Virginia ranked No. 1. Imagine my surprise...Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia all topped the Old Dominion, and...
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VIRGINIA ARMY GUARD SOLDIERS ORDERED TO ACTIVE DUTY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/2/2007; 700+ words
; ...Over 2,617 Soldiers of the Virginia Army National Guard have mobilized...Freedom. Over 430 Airmen of the Virginia Air National Guard have mobilized...Expeditionary Force operations in South West Asia. CURRENT VIRGINIA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD ACTIVE FEDERAL...
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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES CREATES SPECIALTY FOOD ADVISORY COMMITTEE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...conference with the support of the Virginia Food and Beverage Association...Willis Logan, President, Virginia Wine of the Month Club, Stanardsville...Integrity Food Group, LLC, West Point - representing small...Food Science and Technology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg - representing...
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VIRGINIA WINS POTOMAC WATER FIGHT
News Wire article from: United Press International; 12/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...Potomac rises in the Appalachian Highlands of Maryland and West Virginia, then flows nearly 400 miles before emptying into Chesapeake...Maryland and the District of Columbia in the north, and West Virginia and Virginia in the south. "Control of the river has...
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Virginia wins Potomac water fight.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 12/9/2003; 700+ words
; ...Potomac rises in the Appalachian Highlands of Maryland and West Virginia, then flows nearly 400 miles before emptying into Chesapeake...Maryland and the District of Columbia in the north, and West Virginia and Virginia in the south. "Control of the river has...
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WEST VIRGINIA 45, CONNECTICUT 13: Uniformly dominant; WVU in control all the way vs. Huskies
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 11/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; West Virginia 45, Connecticut 13 Connecticut 3 0 3 7-13 West Virginia 14 21 3 7-45 First quarter WV-Slaton...minus 5), Brown 14-(minus 28). West Virginia, Slaton 17-71, White 12-63, Colson...
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Virginia's Vanishing Breed; Once Famed for Great Horses, the State Is Losing Large Thoroughbred Farms
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/26/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...offered by states such as Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida. The...Association. A horse in Maryland or West Virginia can "draw in" several times...track venues in Maryland or West Virginia. Petty estimated that Northern...
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VIRGINIA TECH, WEST VIRGINIA 17: Hokies stick it to WVU; Vick leads charge as Virginia Tech goes to 5- 0
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 10/2/2005; ; 700+ words
; Virginia Tech 34, West Virginia 17 Virginia Tech 10 14 3 7-34 West Virginia 0 14 3 0-17 First quarter VT-Vick 10...10, Bell 1-4, team 2-(minus 4). West Virginia, Slaton 11-90, White 11-44, Gwaltney...
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Virginia Tech Proves It Belongs in ACC
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...finishing a disappointing 8-5 last year, Virginia Tech was picked sixth in the preseason ACC...attempt sailed wide. From there, though, Virginia Tech rolled, upsetting then-No. 6 West Virginia to start an eight-game winning streak...
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Virginia
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...In the early nineteenth century Virginia's influence began to decline...western half (later, the state of West Virginia), as eastern aristocrats held...about half its territory when West Virginia seceded in 1863 to side with the...
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Virginia Stephen Woolf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...young and obscure writers. Virginia's older sister Vanessa...Quite early in her career Virginia Woolf's home in Tavistock...Waley, Victoria Sackville-West, John Maynard Keynes, and...of art may have influenced Virginia's technique as a novelist...
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West Virginia
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
West Virginia State of West Virginia ORIGIN OF STATE NAME: The state was originally the western part...Charleston. ENTERED UNION: 20 June 1863 (35th). SONG: "The West Virginia Hills;" "West Virginia, My Home Sweet Home;" "This Is...
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Penn Virginia Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 85
...and Natural Gas Extraction Penn Virginia Corporation is an energy company...natural gas and oil. Through Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (PVR...found in Appalachia (Kentucky and West Virginia), the Illinois Basin in Kentucky...
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Virginia v. West Virginia
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Virginia v. West Virginia, 206 U.S. 290 (1907), argued...from its territory, Virginia v. West Virginia sorely tested the power of the Supreme...enforce decrees against a state. When West Virginia separated from Virginia in 1863 during...
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