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Henry C. Megill Dies at 66; Founded Insurance Agency
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Henry Carroll Megill, 66, the founder and owner of McLean
Insurance Agency Inc., died of cancer April 17 at Fairfax Hospital.
Mr. Megill, who lived in McLean, was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia,
where his father was the U.S. consul. He grew up in Florida, Alabama
and Georgia and attended Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama for
two years before joining the Navy in World War II.
He became a naval aviator, then after the war received a law
degree at the University of Florida.
During the Korean War, Mr. Megill was recalled to active duty,
and he served as a navigator aboard the aircraft carrier ...
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The Tower; New Book Involves Missing Children and Hollywood.
M2 Presswire
; ...1stBooks Library), by Catherine Lane Salter, will take you through a...sinister tower of death! Catherine Lane Salter has lived in eastern North...life. She is a distant relative of Sir Ralph Lane, a historical figure under whose...
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 "Daily Press (Newport News, VA)")
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Authorities probe string of car thefts, break-ins: All 40 vehicles plundered and the four stolen in Poquoson this past week were unlocked.
Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
; ...stolen, Buffington said. On Monday night, 22 vehicles were rifled through along streets such as Little Florida Road, Sir Ralph Lane and White House Drive, Buffington said. Police have boosted night patrols to crack down on the thefts. Eight police...
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A tale of English buccaneers, bloodshed, natives and nicotine
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...from home, were the mixed-blood offspring of Sir Walter Raleigh's failed colonial experiment...concentrates on the stories of Sir Humfrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville, Ralph Lane and the London miniature portraitist John White...
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List of Nobel Peace Prize winners.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...Leon Jouhaux, France. 1950 -- Ralph Bunche, United States. 1949...Henderson, United Kingdom. 1933 -- Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane), United Kingdom. 1932 -- The...Stresemann, Germany. 1925 -- Sir Austen Chamberlain, United Kingdom...
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LIST OF NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...Leon Jouhaux, France. 1950 -- Ralph Bunche, United States. 1949...Henderson, United Kingdom. 1933 -- Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane), United Kingdom. 1932 -- The...Stresemann, Germany. 1925 -- Sir Austen Chamberlain, United Kingdom...
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LATE ARRIVAL LIKELY DOOMED LOST COLONY.(CAROLINA COAST)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...hoeing and sowing. Sir Walter Raleigh's first...gloriously for weeks. Sir Richard Grenville deposited Gov. Ralph Lane and 107 colonists on...natives and the shipping lanes. Besides, it was too...shucked oysters. But Sir Francis Drake's offer...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Archbishop of Canterbury, 1573; Major- General Sir Ralph Abercromby, soldier, 1734; Wilhelm Bernhard...Alfredo Arnold Cocozza), singer, 1959; Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Norman Angell Lane), writer and journalist, 1967. On this day...
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Ralph Lane's 1586 Discourse on the First Colony: The Renaissance Commercial Report as Apologia.(Communication)
Magazine article from: Technical Communication
; Ralph Lane's 1586 Discourse on the First Colony...communication quarterly 12:125-154. "In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh received from Queen Elizabeth...plant a colony under the governorship of Ralph Lane on Roanoke Island near what is now the Outer...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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"Strange wives": Pocahontas in early modern colonial advertisement.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...negative publicity produced by the abject failure of the earlier colonial settlements on Roanoke, namely, the Ralph Lane Colony, founded by Sir Richard Grenville and abandoned in 1586 due to famine and lack of support from England, and the so-called...
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Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ...of prominent Elizabethan figures like Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and Sir Richard Grenville and including gifted characters like Ralph Lane, John White, and Thomas Harriot. A...
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