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Virginia Theatre
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Virginia State University
Virginia State University at Petersburg; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1882 as a normal and collegiate institute, opened 1883, became a normal and industrial institute in 1902. The school was renamed Virginia State College for Negroes in 1930 and Virginia State College in... Read more |
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Tim Koogle
Timothy Koogle 1951– Former CEO, Yahoo! Nationality: American. Born: 1951, in Alexandria, Virginia. Education: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, BS, 1973; Stanford University, MS, 1975, PhD, 1977. Family: Son of a machinist and mechanic (name unknown); divorced; ... Read more |
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University of Virginia
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA The University of Virginia, known since its founding in 1819 as "Mr. Jefferson's University," has personified, in past and present, a distinctive approach to public higher education whose integration of academic vision and architectural environment attracts national and... Read more |
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William Barton Rogers
William Barton Rogers 1804-82, American geologist and educator, b. Philadelphia, grad. William and Mary, 1822. He was professor of geology at William and Mary (1828-35) and at the Univ. of Virginia (1835-53) and headed the Virginia geological survey. Rogers was the founder of the Massachusetts... Read more |
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William Strachey
William Strachey 1572-1621, English colonial historian; educated at Cambridge. In 1609 he sailed to Virginia with Sir Thomas Gates . A storm wrecked his ship in the Bermudas, and the party remained there for nearly a year. A letter written by Strachey describing this experience was one of several... Read more |
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Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia
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George Mason
George Mason 1725-92, American political leader, b. Fairfax co., Va. He was one of the most affluent of the colonial Virginia planters. In his triple capacity as trustee of Alexandria (1754-79), justice of the Fairfax county court, and vestryman of Truro parish, Mason exercised great influence in... Read more |
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Atkins v. Virginia
ATKINS V. VIRGINIA In a landmark 6–3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court barred the... Read more |
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James Madison
James Madison 1751-1836, 4th President of the United States (1809-17), b. Port Conway, Va. Early Career A member of the Virginia planter class, he attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Univ.), graduating in 1771. Like George Washington and others, he opposed the colonial measures of... Read more |
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