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virginia
- N.C.A.A.'S Cavaliers
- Old Dominion
- Atlantic Coast Conference team
- One of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
- One of the British colonies that formed the United States
- One of the original 13 colonies
- A state in the eastern United States
- A town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range
- Birthplace of eight U.S. presidents
- State of W.J.C.'s mom?
- Dare
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virginia \Vir*gin"i*a\, n. One of the States of the United States of America. -- a. Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia.
Virginia cowslip (Bot.), the American lungwort ( Mertensia Virginica).
Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine ( Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U. S.]
Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence.
Virginia nightingale (Zo["o]l.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal.
Virginia quail (Zo["o]l.), the bobwhite.
Virginia reel, an old English contradance; -- so called in
the United States.
--Bartlett.
Virginia stock. (Bot.) See Mahon stock.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
British colony in North America, name appears on a map in 1587, named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. The fem. proper name is from Latin Virginia, fem. of Virginius, earlier Verginius, probably related to Vergilius (see Virgilian). Related: Virginian.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 35
Land area (2000): 0.098497 sq. miles (0.255105 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.098497 sq. miles (0.255105 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50790
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.245197 N, 96.497775 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68458
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Headwords:
Virginia
Housing Units (2000): 794
Land area (2000): 1.084637 sq. miles (2.809197 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.012174 sq. miles (0.031531 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.096811 sq. miles (2.840728 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78201
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.949022 N, 90.211793 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Virginia
Housing Units (2000): 4692
Land area (2000): 18.837848 sq. miles (48.789800 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.366461 sq. miles (0.949129 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 19.204309 sq. miles (49.738929 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67288
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.517213 N, 92.541355 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55792
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Virginia (1913) is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family. This novel, her eleventh, marked a clear departure from Glasgow's previous work—she had written a series of bestsellers before publishing Virginia—in that it attacked, in a subtle yet unmistakable way, the very layer of society that constituted her readership. Also, as its heroine, though virtuous and god-fearing, is denied the happiness she is craving, its plot did not live up to readers' expectations as far as poetic justice is concerned and was bound to upset some of them. Today, Virginia is seen by many as an outstanding achievement in Glasgow's career, exactly because the author defied literary convention by questioning the foundations of American society around the dawn of the 20th century, be it capitalism, religion or racism.
Virginia is one of the fifty states of the United States of America.
Virginia may also refer to:
Virgínia is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. As of 2009 its population is estimated to be 8,544.
Category:Municipalities in Minas Gerais
Virginia (1873) is an opera in four acts with music by Venezuelan composer José Ángel Montero and libretto, in Italian, by Domenico Bancalari. It is believed to be the first opera ever composed in Venezuela, and was first performed in the Teatro Caracas on April 26, 1873. The plot of the opera deals with despotic power and social injustice.
In 1969, the opera was revived in the Teatro Municipal de Caracas with the soprano Fedora Alemán in the title role. Later it was recorded, and revived again in July 2003, in a setting by the Compañía Nacional de Ópera Alfredo Sadel and the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex, with Elizabeth Almenar, Cayito Aponte and Amelia Salazar in the principal roles.
Virginia is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Virginia station is served by the Alum Rock–Santa Teresa line.
Virginia is the name of several ships:
- Virginia (pinnace) or Virginia of Sagadahoc, a pinnace built in 1607-08 by colonists at the Popham Colony
- Virginia (schooner), a wooden replica schooner launched in 2005
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, a 32-gun frigate
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, many ships by the name
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, many ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service
- CSS Virginia was the first Confederate ironclad, built using the hull of the captured USS Merrimack
- CSS Virginia II, an ironclad ram.
Virginia is a song written by Tennesseans Dixie and Tom T. Hall. It is being considered to be made the official state song of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The arrangement that plays on the Halls' website is sung by Stacey York.
Virginia (originally titled What's Wrong With Virginia) is a 2010 film written and directed by Dustin Lance Black, and starring Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Emma Roberts, Carrie Preston, and Toby Jones.
Virginia ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions of the United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" due to its status as the first colonial possession established in mainland British America, and "Mother of Presidents" because eight U.S. presidents were born there, more than any other state. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealth's estimated population is over 8.3 million.
The area's history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony. Slave labor and the land acquired from displaced Native American tribes each played a significant role in the colony's early politics and plantation economy. Virginia was one of the 13 Colonies in the American Revolution and joined the Confederacy in the American Civil War, during which Richmond was made the Confederate capital and Virginia's northwestern counties seceded to form the state of West Virginia. Although the Commonwealth was under one-party rule for nearly a century following Reconstruction, both major national parties are competitive in modern Virginia.
The Virginia General Assembly is the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World. The state government was ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States in both 2005 and 2008. It is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. Virginia's economy has many sectors: agriculture in the Shenandoah Valley; federal agencies in Northern Virginia, including the headquarters of the Department of Defense and CIA; and military facilities in Hampton Roads, the site of the region's main seaport. Virginia's economy changed from primarily agricultural to industrial during the 1960s and 1970s, and in 2002 computer chips became the state's leading export.
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Temple of Hercules]] Virginia was the daughter of Aulus Verginius, a patrician.
Virginia’s new husband in 296 BCE was Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens. He became a novus homo the previous year. That same time the patrician "important ladies" insulted her by forbidding her access to the ceremony at the Patrician Pudicitia honoring the female virtue pudicitia, a public religious function. This chapel is inside the Forum Boarium up against the round temple of Hercules.
The patrician women did not allow her the sacred rites of pudicitia because she had married outside the patriciate. She was unceremoniously removed from the Temple. This led to an altercation in which many other women were involved including women like Virginia wanting to go to the temple for the same purpose.
Virginia protested she had entered the temple of Pudicitia in good faith as a pure woman. She owned a house at Vicus Longus and separated a portion of it to make a modest shrine. She then invited the wives of the plebeian there and told them about the arrogance of the patrician women,
I am dedicating this shrine to the Plebeian Pudicitia and invite you each to compete in a wifely modesty as the men in this City. I beg the patrician women to show the same spirit of emulation on the score of chastity that the men display with regard to courage and valor, so that this shrine may, if possible, have the reputation of being honored with a holier observance manner and by purer worshippers than that of the patrician women.- The Ancient Library - Virginia number 2↩
- Virginia Brown's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women, pp. 129–130; Harvard University Press 2003; ISBN 0-674-01130-9, LVIII↩
- *Livy's History, Book X, 23 "Pudicitia"↩
Virginia is a 1941 American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith. It featured the onscreen debut of Sterling Hayden.
Virginia is a feminine given name derived from the Ancient Roman family name Virginius, a name probably derived from the Latin word virgo, meaning " maiden" or " virgin." According to legend, Virginia was a Roman girl who was killed by her father in order to save her from seduction by the corrupt government official Appius Claudius Crassus.
The name was the 34th most common name for American women and girls, according to the census of 1990. It was the 545th most popular name given to baby girls born in the United States in 2007. Virginia is the name of a state in the United States, derived by an expedition sent by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 who recorded the name of a Native American regional "king", Wingina, and reported to Queen Elizabeth I that he ruled over a land known as Wingandacoa. She was probably influenced by this report to modify the name of the colony to "Virginia", in part alluding to her status as the "Virgin Queen." It is the oldest surviving English place-name in the U.S. not wholly borrowed from a Native American word, and the fourth oldest surviving English place name, though it is Latin in form.
Virginia Dare was the first child born to English parents in North America. Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter that prompted the famous " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun.
Virginia is an opera, a tragedia lirica, in three acts by composer Saverio Mercadante. The Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano is based on Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy of the same name. Alfieri's play was in turn taken from a story in Livy's Ab Urbe condita. Although initially written for performance in 1850 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the subject matter of Mercadante's opera was objected to by the Bourbon government censors and performance was banned outright. That decision was widely ridiculed, not just in Italy, but throughout Europe. After the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1861, the ban on the opera no longer existed.
The work finally had its premiere on 7 April 1866 at the Teatro di San Carlo. Although not the last opera composed by Mercadante, it was the last of his operas to reach the stage. Virginia has been rarely performed since its premiere, but a recent 2009 recording of the work was released on the Opera Rara label.
Usage examples of "virginia".
Finally, very much later, when the heat of the afternoon had dwindled and the lethargy of a well-spent day enveloped the occupants of room 202, the only Absarokee prospecting for gold in Diamond City left the soft bed and warm woman and headed north out of Virginia City to his cabin on the mountaintop.
Lee accepts, understands that he is, after all, a soldier, and Justifies the decision with the fact that his theater of war is still Virginia.
In keeping with his background, Adams was less than dazzled by the Virginia grandees.
The people of Massachusetts were to have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, and in an article intended to prevent the formation of a hereditary monarchy, an expanded version of a similar article in the Virginia constitution, Adams wrote: No man, nor corporation or association of men have any other title to obtain advantages or particular and exclusive privileges distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the public.
But with Jay in Spain, Henry Laurens locked up in the Tower of London, Jefferson unlikely to leave Virginia, and Adams tied down with his assignment in Holland, there remained only Franklin to serve as the American negotiator at Paris, exactly as Vergennes desired.
JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Adams heard again from Benjamin Rush, who wished to remind him of a visit Adams had had the summer before from two young men from Virginia.
It was his creative work that he wished most to be remembered for: Here Was Buried THOMAS JEFFERSON Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia Adams had, however, composed an inscription to be carved into the sarcophagus lid of Henry Adams, the first Adams to arrive in Massachusetts, in 1638.
His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia.
By then, word had come from Moscow via Pittsburgh Central that the Piper had altered course, from a southeasterly heading which would take them to Washington to a course south by west, toward the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia.
Medical Center of Virginia in downtown Richmond and, according to the head of anesthesiology at St.
And when, a half hour later, the coals soaked with water and the half-roasted ankylosaur laid out for the scavengers, they lined up to step through the gate and out into the Crystal Gateway Marriott, Crystal City, Virginia, only he saw Leyster very carefully pick up a rock and slip it in his pocket.
The following day, Sunday, Donny found it necessary to tell McTaggart about antilitter laws as they sped across Virginia.
Public Health Service would pass out an antimalarial preventive called mefloquine to every doctor, health clinic, hospital, and nurse practitioner in Maryland and Virginia.
Afghanistan-seasoned SEAL platoon from Virginia was anything but the number-one choice.
All of which brings us back to the way the media handled the story about the shootout at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, and what seems to be the only plausible reason so much of the media left out the salient fact that the students who finally subdued the gunman also had guns.