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Its nickname is "The Star City of the South"
Answer for the clue "Its nickname is "The Star City of the South" ", 7 letters:
roanoke
Alternative clues for the word roanoke
- Ill-fated Virginia colony
- City WSW of Richmond
- First English colony in America
- Island where Virginia Dare was born
- "Lost Colony" of 1580s Virginia
- "Lost Colony" of North Carolina which was settled in 1585, but in 1590 there was no trace of any of the 118 humans except the word "CROATOAN" carved onto a post and still no one knows what the f happe
- Ill-fated colony
- Island where the British first settled America
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Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1994 Housing Units (2000): 809 Land area (2000): 0.909664 sq. miles (2.356018 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.036616 sq. miles (0.094835 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.946280 sq. miles (2.450853 sq. km) FIPS code: 64590 Located within: Illinois ...
Usage examples of roanoke.
She was still smarting over a remark she had overheard that morning down in the deli next to the Roanoke federal building.
She was the only female agent in the Roanoke office, so when the new guy started talking about the cute little redhead in the Violent Crimes Squad, she had naturally paid attention.
Edwin Kreiss waited in the doorway as the FBI car from the Roanoke office ground up the winding drive from the county road down below.
She had just gone to bed when the call came from the Roanoke duty officer to get over to Tech campus security.
At 2:30 that afternoon, the RA of the Roanoke office, Ted Farnsworth, called Janet into his office.
The Roanoke office was subordinate to the larger Richmond office, and, as such, its boss was not called special agent in charge, but, rather, Resident Agent.
Kellermann goes to her boss, who tells her that Roanoke has been told to put the Kreiss matter back in its box.
The homesteaders were FBI employees who had been in the Roanoke office for a long time, people who either had low-level technical jobs or were non-career-path special agents.
He could even plead with the Roanoke RA to keep his intrusion into the arsenal a secret from Washington.
Kreiss is going to actively search for his daughter now that Roanoke here is sending the case to MP?
So what had brought Bambi and Chief Red in the Face to beautiful downtown Roanoke, Virginia, if not something to do with him?
She had had time to go to her townhouse in Roanoke before coming over to Blacksburg, and she was wearing a light wool pantsuit over a plain dark blouse.
He gave her the phone codes that would forward any call she made to the FBI office in Roanoke directly to him wherever he was, twenty-four hours a day.
She thought about looking for the bug, then decided to take the vehicle directly back to the Roanoke office and let someone from the surveillance squad take a look.
Janet got back to the Roanoke federal building and drove her Bureau car into the security-lock parking area.