query: when did dc give land back to virginia

pos: District of Columbia retrocession District of Columbia retrocession The District of Columbia retrocession was the process of returning to the U.S. state of Virginia a part of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for the purpose of creating Washington, the capital city. The area, formed in 1790 in the District of Columbia, initially consisted of ceded by the states of Maryland and Virginia in accordance with the Residence Act. In 1846, the area of which was ceded by Virginia was returned, leaving of territory originally ceded by Maryland as the current area of the district in

neg: 1972 Chicago–O'Hare runway collision attempted to land back on the runway. When he did, the plane's two remaining landing gear collapsed rearward, and the DC-9 skidded on its belly off Runway 27L, across a grassy area, and onto Runway 32L, where it came to rest. It immediately burst into flames. The crew of Flight 954 apparently were unaware of the approaching DC-9 until hearing it strike their CV-880, and did not see the DC-9 until the first officer observed it crashing on the runway beyond them. The North Central aircraft involved, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 "N954N", had been completed on December 27, 1967. It was

neg: Gallipolis, Ohio French had worked with the Scioto Company, a purported land development company registered in Paris in 1789, paying its agents for land along the Ohio River. They sailed to the United States on several ships, most to Alexandria, Virginia, outside Washington, DC. From there they traveled over land and by the Ohio River to reach Gallipolis. The French were city people and were taken aback by the undeveloped frontier they encountered. When they arrived at the Gallipolis area, they learned their deeds of land were worthless. The Scioto Company did not own the land, for which the Ohio Company had

neg: Jerry Siegel 1959 at the prompting of his second wife. Although he did write some Superman stories, he no longer had any creative control, but instead answered to the direction of his editor. During this time, he wrote extensively about the team the Legion of Super-Heroes, adding many enduring characters to its cast. Siegel's contributions during this time are difficult to determine because DC Comics did not generally give creator bylines. His last work for DC was a short story included in "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen" #89 (December 1965). DC Comics ceased giving him work in 1966, when the company learned Siegel

neg: Samuel Brady to their homes in Virginia. The owner of the Red Front Trading Post, William Wilson and his friend John Hillman accused Brady and his Rangers of "plundering". Pennsylvania issued a warrant for Samuel's arrest. Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Mifflin demanded Samuel's extradition from Virginia Governor Peyton Randolph. There were a lot of documents that passed back and forth between the two new states, but Virginia did not give him up. Pennsylvania offered rewards of $300 and $1000 for his capture, to no avail. Two bounty hunters did try, but failed. These bounty hunters lost their guns in a West Virginia tavern

neg: Fairfax, Virginia as noted on the stone marker at the northwest corner of Gallows Road and Route 123. The courthouse operated there until 1790, when Virginia ceded the land where the courthouse was located for the creation of Washington, DC. The General Assembly specified that the new courthouse should be located in the center of the county, and was established at the corner of what was Old Little River Turnpike and is now Main Street and what was Ox Road and is now Chain Bridge Road on land donated by town founder Richard Ratcliffe. The courthouse changed hands repeatedly during the Civil

neg: History of Virginia Beach, Virginia because Powhatan's priests had warned him that "from the Chesapeake Bay a nation should arise, which should dissolve and give end to his empire. "Local legend has it that an advisor to the Chief of the Powhatan tribe had a vision in which strangers from the East would come and take their land. Having no prior knowledge of the Europeans that would eventually land at Cape Henry, the Powhatans assumed the vision implicated the Chesepians. The Powhatans wiped out the entire Chesepeian tribe in a proactive defensive measure. Little did they know that the vision was correct. In 1607, a

neg: Occaneechi frontier of Virginia and North Carolina as early as the mid-to late 18th century. They migrated and acquired land as did European or English neighbors from the Tidewater areas. 20th century researchers such as Paul Heinegg and Dr. Virginia Easley De Marce have conducted extensive research in colonial records: including court records, deeds of land, wills, etc. to trace back members of families in this area who were listed in the 1790 census. They have found 80 percent of those listed as free people of color, a category that then included Indians, could in fact be traced back to African

neg: Now I'll Tell he kidnap Virginia. When Murray is told about the kidnapping, he races back to the city, but is injured and Peggy is killed in a car crash. Virginia is freed unharmed when the ransom is paid, but she has had enough. She decides to get a divorce. Years later, Murray receives a telegram from Virginia, telling him she is sailing home from Europe and has a "surprise". He is overjoyed, assuming she is coming back to him. However, she tells him that she is going to marry someone else. She asks him for her jewelry. He promises to give it

neg: Sergio Cariello worked on his first comic book, "Dagon, the Worlds of HP Lovecraft," while attending the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. During his second year at the school, Virginia Romita hired him as a Bullpen Letterer at Marvel. While there he was given pencilling assignments on Daredevil and Marvel Comics Presents: Spellbound. When Pat Garrahay moved from Marvel to DC, he offered Cariello pencilling duties on Deathstroke. At DC he also did work on Guy Gardner, Steel, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Young Heroes in Love, Blue Beetle, Batman, and Azrael, among others. When work slowed down,

neg: Gail Halvorsen 'when the weather gets so bad that you can't land, don't worry about us. We can get by on a little food, but if we lose our freedom, we may never get it back.'" Touched, Halvorsen reached into his pocket and took out two sticks of gum to give to the children. The kids broke it into little pieces and shared it; the ones who did not get any sniffed the wrappers. Watching the children, so many of whom had absolutely nothing, Halvorsen regretted not having more to give them. Halvorsen recorded that he wanted to do more for the

neg: 33rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment "Seven Days Battles" including Gaines Mills and Malvern Hill during its land retreat back to Washington DC. At this time McClellan was removed from command of the army by President Lincoln. The regiment missed the second Battle of Bull Run or Manassas. At this time, September, 1862, General Robert E. Lee invaded Maryland with his Army of Northern Virginia. McClellan was placed back in command of the army and they caught up with Lee at Antietam Creek in Western Maryland. The Battle of South Mountain occurred two days before the larger battle of Antietam which took place on September 17,

neg: Virginia–Highland Summerfest between residents and businesses in Virginia–Highland and the festival was a way for businesses to "give back" to the community. In 1988 the Civic Association took over the event, though the businesses stayed involved. Restaurants set up tasting booths in John Howell Park. A Kidsfest was added to bring back the family component in the celebration. In 1999 "Creative Loafing" Atlanta voted Summerfest Atlanta's Best Neighborhood Festival. In 2000, a spat among organizers and a shakeup in the organizing committee made local headlines, but nonetheless Summerfest did continue as usual in 2001. In 2008 Summerfest celebrated its 25th anniversary. In

neg: Dictum of Kenilworth up against the king, were fined at two years' value, while those who had been compelled to fight, or played only a minor part, had to pay one year's value of their land. The proceedings from the fines were awarded to royal supporters, some of whom had already been awarded parts of the rebels' land, and now had to give it back. Hostilities did not end with the publication of the Dictum. The garrison at Kenilworth refused to accept the terms given, and held out until 14 December, when deprivation forced them to surrender. In April 1267, the earl of

neg: Neron (DC Comics) as a prisoner in Hell. Neron is normally portrayed as being one of the most powerful magical beings in the DC Universe; almost invulnerable and able to warp reality and raise the dead. However, despite manifesting great strength and magical powers on occasion, he normally relies on a deal to obtain human souls and only claims them when the deal is up or when his victims fail to keep their side of the deal. He is able to give superheroes and supervillains magic-based powers (as he did with Kid Devil by turning him into Red Devil), can greatly enhance a

neg: Strawberry Vale Manor Vale from Theodorick Lee in 1812, netting Theodorick an $8,000 profit. They lived at Strawberry Vale until 1814 when the property was transferred to the Gantt family. Ann Beale Wilson Gantt ran Strawberry Vale as a seminary until it was closed at the onset of the American Civil War. Strawberry Vale Manor was demolished in 1958 to make way for the Capital Beltway that encircles Washington, DC. Strawberry Vale Manor Strawberry Vale Manor was built in about 1780 on land that later became part of Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States. It was located about 200 yards from Virginia State Highway

neg: Va'eira until he had purchased one; still, he did not murmur at God's ways. God said to Isaac in "Sojourn in this land . . . for to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands." Yet when Isaac sought water to drink, he found none; instead (as reports), "The herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying: ‘The water is ours.'" Still Isaac did not murmur at God's ways. God said to Jacob in "The land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed." Yet when he sought a place to

neg: YVEL 1963, when Isaac was a child. The family was poor, did not speak Hebrew and was new to the local culture. The memories of the family's hardships would later motivate Isaac to create Megemeria. His father co-founded a sausage factory, but his partners stole the company's funds and fled, leaving him broke. Five-year-old Isaac made a vow to get back the factory land. Today, it is the land where the Yvel Design Center stands. Orna and Isaac Levy met in 1986, in their twenties and unemployed. Orna convinced Isaac to give her the $2,000 he had saved up so that

neg: St. John's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Virginia) demand, "give me liberty, or give me death!" The church is designated as a National Historic Landmark. The earliest precursor of St. John's was Henrico Parish Church, initially located at Sir Thomas Dale's progressive development at Henricus (also known as the "Cittie of Henricus", "Henricopolis" or "Henrico Town"). When the colony was organized, the Anglican Church was the established church of the Crown. Founded in the Virginia Colony in 1611, Henricus was notable for a number of "firsts". It was the first to allocate land to individuals and the site of the first "College" in the English colonies, a school

neg: Jerry Siegel for the rights to Superman and Superboy, and was consequently given no more freelance work from the publisher. In 1959, he returned to DC as a writer, and was dropped again in 1967 when he again attempted to take back the copyright to Superman. During his first tenure at DC Comics (1935–1943), Siegel created the following characters: During his second tenure at DC Comics (1959-1966), Siegel created the following characters: During his second tenure as writer at DC Comics, Siegel did not received any byline for his stories, which was the normal policy of DC Comics at the time. Siegel

neg: Clint Peay from 1991 to 1995. During Peay’s four seasons, the Cavaliers won the NCAA championship four consecutive years. Of note, Oakland Mills won the Maryland State Championship and was ranked #1 in the state at the end of Peay's senior year. In Peay's four years at the University of Virginia, his teams also won their respective championships, each time ending the year ranked #1. For his first two years with the DC United, his team won the MLS Championship. Finally in or about 2000, Peay's decade long run of season ending championships came to an end when the DC United did

neg: Virginia Smith Converter Station by conversion to direct current during transmission, and conversion to alternating current in phase with the local line frequency at the delivery point. By the early 21st century, high-power semiconductors began to make the more difficult DC-to-AC conversion technically and economically possible at the high power levels needed in power grids. The Virginia Smith Converter station is significant for being the first interchange between eastern and western United States electrical grids. Virginia Smith Converter Station Virginia Smith Converter Station is a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) back-to-back station near Sidney, Nebraska at named for former Congresswoman Virginia Smith, a Nebraska Republican

neg: Roy Thomas said in 1998, "was four Jack Kirby pages from "Fantastic Four Annual" #2 ... [Stan Lee] had Sol [Brodsky] or someone take out the dialogue. It was just black-and-white. Other people like Denny O'Neil and Gary Friedrich took it. But soon afterwards we stopped using it." The day after taking the test, Thomas was at DC, proofreading a Supergirl story, when Steinberg called asking Thomas to meet with Lee during lunch, where Thomas agreed to work for Marvel. He returned to DC to give "indefinite notice" to Weisinger, but Weisinger ordered him to leave immediately and "I was back at

neg: Sawyers Fight did not last long as reinforcements sent from Connor arrived along the road back to Fort Connor under the command of Captain Albert E. Brown. With Brown’s help Sawyers reasserted his authority over the expedition and turned back toward Virginia City. This third attempt to reach Virginia City encountered almost no hostile Natives. A battlefield monument stands along U.S. Route 14 in Wyoming near Dayton. Doyle, Susan "Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman Trail, 1863-1866" 2000 Johnson, Dorothy M. "The Bloddy Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold" 1983 Sawyers Fight The Sawyers Fight was

neg: Disney's America worry about being politically correct." The location was chosen to tap into the tourist crowds visiting Washington DC and several local attractions, including the battlefield at Manassas, Kings Dominion, Busch Gardens, Jamestown, Yorktown, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Dulles-based Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. Although Disney did not ask for concessions at the announcement in November 1993, the company warned the purchase of land options would not proceed without improvements in roads and infrastructure. Allen proposed in State of Virginia spending, one of the costliest incentive packages offered to-date, to improve roads at the proposed Disney site,

neg: Union, West Virginia Union, West Virginia Union is a town in Monroe County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 565 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Monroe County. Monroe County was established by an act of the Assembly of Virginia on January 14, 1799, occupying land formerly a part of Greenbrier County. Union did not yet exist when the county's first court convened in 1799. However, shortly after Monroe County was created, James Alexander offered 25 acres of land, including a lot for a courthouse which in time became the town of Union. On January 6, 1800, the

neg: Arthur Campbell (Virginia) fortnight's tramp through the pathless wilds reached the British. The British commander was much interested in Campbell's account of his captivity and escape, and with his intelligence, and engaged him to pilot the army, which he did with success. Shortly afterward he returned to Augusta County, Virginia, after an absence of more than three years. For his services in piloting the army he received a grant of of land near Louisville, Kentucky. At the same time Campbell, along with Joseph Martin, began acting as an agent to the Indians, reporting back to Virginia governors Benjamin Harrison V, Edmund Randolph and

neg: Quander family branches of Quanders; those who reside in Maryland and those who reside in the Virginia/Washington DC area. The Quanders of Virginia and Washington DC have been celebrating annual family reunions since 1926. The Quanders of Maryland did not begin the tradition until 1974. The Quanders had their 85th family reunion held at Mount Vernon for the first time in 2010 to return to the grounds their family was once enslaved to. The family placed boxwood twigs and cuttings on the slave memorial in memory and respect to their ancestors who worked the grounds. Many believe that he is one of

neg: Pamunkey tribes to be featured in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. The Commonwealth of Virginia has always recognized the Pamunkey tribe, with formal relations dating back to the treaties of 1646 and 1677. However, since the United States did not exist at the time of those treaties, no formal relations existed between the Pamunkey and the federal government. In 1982, the Pamunkey began the process of applying for federal recognition. Their formal application met with opposition from MGM Casinos, which feared potential competition with its planned casino in Prince George's County, Maryland, and from members of

neg: Coherer an electric bell, operated by an electromagnet powered by the coherer current itself. When the radio wave turned on the coherer, the DC current from the battery flowed through the electromagnet, pulling the arm over to give the coherer a tap. This returned the coherer to the nonconductive state, turning off the electromagnet current, and the arm sprang back. If the radio signal was still present, the coherer would immediately turn on again, pulling the clapper over to give it another tap, which would turn it off again. The result was a constant "trembling" of the clapper during the period

neg: Jonathan Samuel Kent gives it a younger look, and the zipped hoodie… I did that thinking they might make a real version for people to wear. I also think that this aesthetic could make a connection with the younger readers." In the 2015 DC Comics "Convergence" storyline, Brainiac gains access to Vanishing Point, which allows him to gain the ability to look back into the histories of the DC Universe. He collects cities and inhabitants from various timelines that have ended, trapping them in domes on a planet outside of time and space. When the "Flashpoint" resets the DC continuity, Superman and Lois

neg: Yahan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli a taunting labor, and cries in sadness when Vasundara takes her baby. Abha stops Vasundara, who agrees to give her baby back, stating that Abha's affection has won. She then turns back into Yashodara,who threatens to kill the baby unless they give her Swarn Bhawan. However, Vasundara comes back and hands the baby to Karan, then causing Yashodhra to get hit by a truck, finally killing her. Karan tells Priyanka to leave the house, stating that she was the reason that Yashodhara came back. She insists that she only did it to give Yashodhara back her place in the house.

neg: Bairi Piya (serial) her. Then when she comes back to her family, they accept her because of the society. She then leaves the village; This incident makes Amoli very upset and her anger against Thakur increases. Thakur orders his goons to take over Tukaram’s land at any cost, so the goons set fire on to his crops. This breaks Tukaram’s family, and Amoli’s mother, Suman was about to give poison to all the family members because she did not want to see her children die out of hunger. Amoli decides to go to Thakur's wife (Urmila) who is very soft and kind. She

neg: John D. Read for Fairfax County, Virginia lists his occupation as that of a farmer, living with his wife and five children on land near Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia. John Read and his family fled Northern Virginia in July 1861 after the disastrous Union defeat at the Battle of First Manassas and moved to the safety of Washington DC. He returned to Falls Church in 1862 once federal forces had occupied the town and lived in his brother's house on Broad Street. Read remained an outspoken abolitionist and Union supporter in a small Virginia village where many residents had strong secessionist sentiments and family

neg: Marietta, Ohio of the Northwest Territory, to settle issues related to trade, as well as the boundary between their lands and United States settlement. The US did not address the Indians' major grievance about American settlers moving into their lands, particularly in the Western Reserve, where there were disputes over land. Although Congress authorized Governor Arthur St. Clair to give land back to the Indians, he did not do so. Conflict increased as the Indians tried to push the settlers out. After years of warfare in the region, they were defeated. The US signed the Treaty of Greenville (1795) with the Indians,

neg: Jérica army entered the villa utilising the castle and the church that was being erected. Juan Alfonso died without issue in 1369. The villa was then ceded back to Peter IV of Aragon as an estate. The King decided in 1372 to make a "condado" (land which is granted to a Count) and give it to the "Infante" Don Martin as a Fiefdom, with the stipulation that it return to The Crown when Martin would marry María de Luna, señora de Segorbe. The villa's direct attachment to the Royal Crown did not last long; in 1417 King Alfonso V of Aragon

neg: Emily Bavar when she did ask Disney the question, "He looked like I had thrown a bucket of water in his face." Following the press conference, Bavar wired her story back to Orlando. The story, entitled "Disney Hedges Big Question", was run not as a lead story, but rather among many other rumors about the possible use for the land. Upon Bavar's return to Orlando, she was interviewed by newspaper editors and the newspaper decided to give her findings a more prominent place in the paper. On October 21, 1965, Bavar's article 'Is Our "Mystery" Industry Disney?' appeared in "The Sentinel Star".

neg: Husein Madhavji it was a little more stable than a career in theatre. Throughout Madhavji’s hosting career, he never let go of his creative roots. He was cast in the Winnipeg production of Joseph and the Technicolored Dreamcoat, but had to turn it down after his News Director rejected his request for time off. Madhavji did land a few reporter roles during his time working in Winnipeg and Sacramento, most notably in the feature films "The Many Trials of Jane Doe" and "Gone, But Not Forgotten". He decided to give acting a proper shot when he moved back to Toronto. While hosting

neg: Billie Lawless Lawless refused and the American Civil Liberties Union initiated litigation. Justice Ira Gammerman of the New York State Supreme Court ruled that the Manhattan Psychiatric Center did have to exhibit the piece but that it was not required to give Lawless the site which he had requested. The Center offered a piece of land which was not large enough to hold the sculpture which effectively precluded Lawless from exhibiting the piece. No artists from the exhibition voiced any support for Lawless. Years later in a 2014 interview, when Lawless was asked if he would bring the Green Lightning sculpture back

neg: History of slavery in Virginia of people of English and European ancestry. They were not slaves but worked as indentured laborers, as did the approximately 4000 white indentured servants working out their loans for passage money to Virginia. Many Africans had earned their freedom, and they were each granted of land when freed from their indentures, so they could raise their own tobacco or other crops. Although at a disadvantage in that they had to pay to have their newly acquired land surveyed in order to patent it, white indentured servants found themselves in the same predicament. Some black indentured servants patented and bought land

neg: Charles Moran (American politician) jury in Montreal, though they were soon captured by American forces and imprisoned by Thomas Jefferson in Williamsburg, Virginia, so did not face punishment by British authorities. The murder left Marie Ann Campau in charge of a significant land holding—a farm that in present-day Detroit would stretch along the Detroit River for several blocks between St. Antoine and Russell Streets, and extend about three miles back from the river. Charles Moran fought in the War of 1812 after enlisting at the age of fifteen, and was serving under General William Hull when Hull surrendered Detroit to the British. As a

neg: Northern Virginia Culpeper and Henry Earl of Arlington. Lord Culpeper was named the Royal Governor of Virginia from 1677–1683. Culpeper County was later named for him when it was formed in 1749; however, history does not seem to record him as one of the better of Virginia's colonial governors. Although he became governor of Virginia in July 1677, he did not come to Virginia until 1679, and even then seemed more interested in maintaining his land in the "Northern Neck of Virginia" than governing. He soon returned to England. In 1682 rioting in the colony forced him to return, but by the

neg: Rappahannock County, Virginia Farm School. Rappahannock County, Virginia Rappahannock County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, US. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,373. Its county seat is Washington. The name "Rappahannock" comes from the Algonquian word "lappihanne" (also noted as "toppehannock"), meaning "river of quick, rising water" or "where the tide ebbs and flows." Rappahannock County is included in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Rappahannock County was founded by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1833, based on the growing population's need to have better access to a county seat. The county's land was

neg: Rappahannock County, Virginia Rappahannock County, Virginia Rappahannock County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, US. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,373. Its county seat is Washington. The name "Rappahannock" comes from the Algonquian word "lappihanne" (also noted as "toppehannock"), meaning "river of quick, rising water" or "where the tide ebbs and flows." Rappahannock County is included in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Rappahannock County was founded by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1833, based on the growing population's need to have better access to a county seat. The county's land was carved from

neg: Marvel vs. DC Cards contains a single "Artist" attribution, whereas other cards differentiate between who did pencils, inks, and CGI where applicable. Hero cards show heroes from either Marvel or DC and having a red or blue back to the card respectively. Also the text on the back of the cards is written as though it is either Clark Kent (Superman) or Peter Parker (Spider-Man) speaking about the hero. Peter Parker (a Marvel character) talks about DC characters and Clark Kent (a DC character) talks about Marvel characters. The background on the back of a Hero cards is an indistinct explosion of some kind.

neg: American Airlines Flight 28 up during the flight to Palm Springs. Subsequent depositions revealed that Lt Wilson flew his B-34 level with the DC-3 and rocked his wings in greeting to First Officer Reppert. When Flight 28 did not respond in kind, the B-34 crossed over the airliner's line of flight and throttled back to allow the slower DC-3 to catch up. Lt Wilson flew close to the airliner to attempt a second greeting, but misjudged the distance between the aircraft, and when he tried to pull up, the B-34's right propeller sliced through the airliner's tail. The Civil Aeronautics Board determined that the

neg: Captain Marvel (DC Comics) of their 1953 settlement. Looking for new properties to introduce to the DC Comics line, DC publisher Carmine Infantino decided to bring the Captain Marvel property back into print, and in 1972 he licensed the characters from Fawcett. Because Marvel Comics had by this time established "Captain Marvel" as a comic book trademark for their own character, created and first published in 1967, DC published their book under the name "Shazam!" Infantino attempted to give the "Shazam!" book the subtitle "The Original Captain Marvel", but a cease and desist letter from Marvel Comics forced them to change the subtitle to

neg: Gypsies, Tramps and Weed not want television critics to give away too much detail about Jack and Cher's "time together". In a June 2004 interview, actress Megan Mullally, who plays Karen, in regards to Cher's appearance, said: "I wasn't sure about Cher's [appearance]. They flew her in. Like, she was sort of dropped in on a crescent moon, she did the scene, and was, like, airlifted back out. And when I met her she was in her full Cher Land drag, so I didn't get to experience her as a person." In its original American broadcast, "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed" was watched by approximately

neg: Metz, West Virginia Metz, West Virginia Metz is an unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. Metz is located along U.S. Route 250 north-northwest of Mannington. Metz had a post office, which closed on August 27, 2011. Founded by Jacob Metz in the early 1800s well before the state of West Virginia seceded from the Confederacy. The village of Metz was first known as "Bee Hive Station" because Jacob kept many bee hives. In 1850, representatives of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad approached Jacob about buying land for a needed rights-of-way. Jacob agreed to give them the land providing they build

neg: Bluefield, Virginia today's Bluefield, Virginia. Graham continued to hope for development as a major city in the region; it tried to attract a steel refining industry alongside the railyards. The Great Depression of the 1930s caused development in the region to come to a halt. The current Bluefield did not start to expand beyond the downtown area until the 1950s, when it annexed the small town of West Graham, Virginia to the west. It also began to develop land in the more open rural foothills to the south of the city. As the largest town in Tazewell County, Virginia, Bluefield has expanded

neg: Stephens City, Virginia the town, including buildings and homes, covering , is part of the Newtown-Stephensburg Historic District and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Stephens City celebrated its 250th anniversary on October 12, 2008. The town is a part of the Winchester, Virginia-West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, an offshoot of the Washington–Baltimore–Northern Virginia, DC–MD–VA–WV Combined Statistical Area. It is a member of the Winchester–Frederick County Metropolitan Planning Organization. Jost Hite, a German immigrant, purchased a large land grant in the northern Shenandoah Valley in 1731. Peter Stephens and a small party of German Protestants from Heidelberg, in

neg: History of Richmond, Virginia to religious dissenters in Hanover County, Virginia. He eventually helped found the first presbytery in Virginia (the Presbytery of Hanover), evangelized slaves (remarkable in its time), and influenced young Patrick Henry who traveled with his mother to listen to sermons. Richmond was chartered as a town in 1742. By 1768, William Byrd III had squandered the family fortune and resorted to a public lottery to raise money for his debts. He auctioned off large lots of still-undeveloped Byrd family land in the Richmond region. In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his famous "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech in

neg: Harry Penn later also unsuccessfully ran for the Roanoke City Council in 1942, 1944 and 1952. He was also active in Virginia voter registration, and was elected to the "Allied Civic and Political Organization" in order to sponsor a drive to secure 200,000 back voters. Dr. Penn first retired from politics after 1951, but became involved again with the powerful United Citizen's Council of Virginia. He was also a trustee of both the Burrell Memorial Hospital and the First Baptist Church (Roanoke, Virginia). Disgusted with Virginia politicians' attitude toward segregation and the Byrd Organization, Dr. Penn moved to Washington, DC, in 1961,

neg: Native American agriculture in Virginia European arrivals snatched up large land grants made by the English governors of the new colony. Agriculture also impacted the relations between the Jamestown settlers and the nearby native populations. It's commonly known that sympathetic natives helped the agriculturally-ill equipped settlers to feed themselves, but the negative effects of those interactions aren't as widely recognized. Virginia suffered several droughts around the time that the Jamestown settlement was established, which limited the abilities of both the natives and the new settlers to provide for themselves. When the natives weren't able to give any more food to their new neighbors (out of

neg: Mister Atom threatening to cause the destruction of the world using the machinery. By now the world officials had decided to give in to Mr Atom and sent a delegation. But once again he was apparently destroyed, this time in an atomic furnace when the engines were turned on when Marvel disguised himself as part of the delegation to block Mister Atom from the machinery. However, Mister Atom was re-introduced in 1976, by which time DC Comics had purchased the rights to use the Captain Marvel characters; Captain Marvel's enemy King Kull used his advanced scientific acumen to bring Atom back to

neg: Joseph Miller House Joseph Miller House The Joseph Miller House is a historic house located on Buckhart Road in Rochester, Illinois. The Federal style house was built by Joseph Miller in 1867; it is one of the oldest surviving homes in Rochester. A wide verandah along the side and a kitchen addition in the back reflect Miller's Virginia ancestry. The Miller family moved from Virginia to the Rochester area in 1835, when Christian Miller bought enough land to become one of the largest landowners in Sangamon County. Joseph, Christian's son, inherited the land in 1842; his descendants remained a prominent landholding family in

neg: Poplar Forest reacquire land within the original plantation boundaries, and as of 2008 owned 617 acres of the original property. When construction began at Poplar Forest in 1806, Jefferson was still President of the United States and supervised the construction from Washington, DC. Thomas Jefferson was a self-taught architect known for his work at Monticello and the Virginia State Capitol; he frequently borrowed designs from classical sources, and was attracted to Palladio's classical architecture in Rome as well as designs from 16th century France. Jefferson designed Poplar Forest as his personal retreat house, and selected the property because of its distance from

neg: Venetian nationalism and human resources back, to fight against the wild exploitation that has brought emigration, pollution, and rooting out from their culture". European integration through the European Union (EU) was seen as an opportunity to give back to Veneto its autonomy. One of the regional leaders of Christian Democracy (DC), Antonio Bisaglia, early understood Veneto's demand of more autonomy and that his party, the dominant force in Venetian politics since 1946, would have been the main victim of the rise of LV as both parties competed for the support of the middle class. He thus proposed the evolution of the DC

neg: Cabin rights Tomahawk rights were quite generally recognized by the early settlers, and many of them were purchased cheaply by other settlers who did not want to enter into a controversy with the claimants who made them. After 1778, in Virginia, tomahawk rights were put to the test. According to a local historian of northwest Virginia:Virginia gave to every "bona fide" settler who built a log cabin and raised a crop of corn before 1778, a title to 400 acres of land and a pre-emption to 1000 acres more adjoining. These commissioners were appointed to give certificates of these “settlement rights.” The

neg: John Stith her first known marriage to Mr. Gregory (165?). The misunderstanding may have also come from the clerk when she stated her middle (maiden) name that day, but that would be less likely and would still support a phonetic spelling of such a name as Aldridge. Will of John STITH, Sr. of Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia, Gentleman. To oldest son John, all land I live on and my mill lately built, and all other lands belonging to me except my land on eastern branch of Herring Creek, which I give to my son Drury. To my daughter Jane, now

neg: Rescission (contract law) Aboriginal Land Council v Sanpine Pty Ltd". Furthermore, because rescission is supposed to be imposed "mutually" upon both sides to a contract, the party seeking rescission normally must offer to give back all benefits he or she has received under the contract (an "offer of tender"). The US state of Virginia uses the term "cancellation" for equitable rescission. Furthermore, a minority of common law jurisdictions, like South Africa, use the term "rescission" for what other jurisdictions call "reversing", "overturning" or "overruling" a court judgment. In this sense, the term means to be set aside or make void, on application to

neg: Pontiak Pontiak Pontiak is an American neo-psychedelic rock band of three brothers from the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Virginia: Jennings Carney (bass, organ, vocals—born 1978, Washington DC), Van Carney (lead vocals, guitar—born 1980, Washington DC) and Lain Carney (drums, vocals—born 1982, Washington DC). The band officially formed in January 2004. They were part of the Baltimore music scene for four or five years and then moved back to Virginia.Van, Lain, and Jennings Carney initially connected to Baltimore's growing scene as they got their start there. They are still associated with Baltimore bands, including Arbouretum with whom they shared a split

neg: Harry Crandall Harry Crandall Harry Milton Crandall (1879–1937) was an American businessman, who owned a theater empire. At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. His theaters were well regarded in their communities, and many of them featured elegant and opulent designs which were formerly reserved for opera houses. His chain included first-rate movie houses such as the Apollo Theater (WV) theatre in Martinsburg, West Virginia, the Metropolitan, the Apollo Theater (DC), the Tivoli Theatre, the Savoy, the Knickerbocker in Washington, DC. Crandall began building his Washington movie theater empire when he

neg: Virginia Tech–West Virginia football rivalry since I’ve been back here. My wife said everybody stood up and yelled from the start until the finish of that game." In 2004, the Hokies got revenge for their upset the season before. The No. 6-ranked Mountaineers lost 19–13 in Blacksburg to a key field goal block that was taken back 74 yards to give the Hokies a 13–0 lead. In 2005, Virginia Tech, led by Marcus Vick, dominated West Virginia 34–17 and became the only team to top them in the 2005 season. However, in 2004, Virginia Tech officially left the former Big East Conference and joined the

neg: History of Virginia–Highland Hall East. Ponce City Market is slated to become a major multi-use development including a gourmet food hall of national importance. Behind Ponce City Market is the brand new (2011) Historic Fourth Ward Park. History of Virginia–Highland The History of Virginia–Highland, the Intown Atlanta neighborhood, dates back to 1812, when William Zachary bought and built a farm on of land there. At some point between 1888 and 1890 the Nine-Mile Circle streetcar arrived, , making a loop of what are now Ponce de Leon Avenue, North Highland Avenue, Virginia Avenue, and Monroe Drive. Atlantans at first used the line to

neg: History of Virginia–Highland History of Virginia–Highland The History of Virginia–Highland, the Intown Atlanta neighborhood, dates back to 1812, when William Zachary bought and built a farm on of land there. At some point between 1888 and 1890 the Nine-Mile Circle streetcar arrived, , making a loop of what are now Ponce de Leon Avenue, North Highland Avenue, Virginia Avenue, and Monroe Drive. Atlantans at first used the line to visit what was then countryside, including Ponce de Leon Springs, but the line also enabled later development in the area. Residential development began as early as 1893 on St. Charles and Greenwood Avenues, must

neg: Orianna Andrews to the war effort of the Confederate States of America. She was employed as the superintendent of a team of nurses in a makeshift hospital at the University of Virginia. She wrote to Brigadier General Philip St. George Cocke asking to be moved to the front, and her sister Lottie Moon wrote to him in support as well. She was not moved, but instead left the service when she married Dr. John Summerfield Andrews in November 1861. They moved to Richmond, Virginia and worked in a Confederate Army hospital. She went back to Albemarle County to give birth to her

neg: Thomas Cresap to open these possessions for settlement, and give them out under charter in the same old way, through the crown's minister. Cresap also sent traders over the pass and explored personally in Amerindian lands along the Monongahela upriver of Redstone Old Forts. Although Maryland's land grant ended at the crest of the Appalachian mountains, both Pennsylvania and Virginia claimed their land grants continued westward, so the land claimed by Cresap and his traders west of the Appalachians ultimately became part of upper West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. Circa 1744, some Amerindians claimed to sell their rights east of the Appalachians

neg: Montana in the American Civil War the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The Varina Townsite Company, on June 16, 1863, went to confirm the of land as the town of Varina. However, when they applied for the name, the judge—Connecticut native Dr. G.G. Bissell—refused, saying they would be "damned" before he would allow the town to be named for the first lady of the Confederacy. Bissell did say he would allow the company to name the town after the state of Virginia, and they did so, incorporating the town of Virginia City. Charles Dickens even mentioned it in his periodical "All the Year Round". The loyalty towards

neg: Tales of Old Grand Daddy from both Malcolm and Angus, although whose parts are whose is a detail long forgotten. It’s also not known whether one of them was responsible for the album's slide guitar tracks. Some of the tracks were later broken up and reused by AC/DC. For example, the track "Quick Reaction" contains a similar riff to the AC/DC song "T.N.T." and elements of the single "Natural Man" was used for "Live Wire". According to George Young, "It was the first thing Malcolm and Angus did before AC/DC. We didn’t take it very seriously so we thought we’d include them to give them

neg: Corona Satellite Calibration Targets According to Gary Morgan, member of the Cold War Museum in Warrenton, Virginia, the 6 pieces of rebar, which protrude at an equal distance from each other, may have been used to hold laser lighting to give a more accurate fix on each target. The majority of the targets were abandoned when the program ended in 1972. According to Army Map Service, the government considered the targets to be obsolete because the land on which they were situated had subsided because of groundwater extraction. Land lessees were then given the option of having the targets removed and dumped near Eloy,

neg: L'Escargot (TV series) rural area in HK and decided to buy and rebuild the place as his own; he planned to give the flat to Ka-Hong as intended. Long-Kiu decided to move back with Ka-On and agreed to restart life with him in the new house, but things got hard once again when there was a dispute over land ownership. Although they bought the land from the owner, one of the relatives claimed it was not legit and demanded his land back and caused a fight. It resulted with Ka-On suffering a head injury from getting hit by one of his assailants. In

neg: History of Chincoteague, Virginia the land for a year—in the contemporary term, to "seat" the land. Welburn and several employees built a house there and cleared land for a small farm. His employee and tenant, Robert Scott, lived there only for the required year. Once it had expired, the house was abandoned, but Welburn, despite considering the land his own, did not register his efforts to perfect title. Unaware that Welburn had seated the land, the authorities declared Chincoteague Island abandoned and issued another patent for the land in December 1684 to John Clayton, who conveyed it to Colonel William Kendall of Northampton. When

neg: Ephraim Morse not seek any higher office. However, his varied efforts did much to promote San Diego's name throughout the nation and help it mature into a thriving metropolis. In 1870, he organized the city's first bank, the Bank of San Diego, and in 1871 he went to Washington, DC to present information about San Diego's pueblo land interests. Like many local businessmen, he gained much wealth during the city's land boom in the early and mid-1880s, only to lose much of it when the boom collapsed at the end of the decade. He also became a tireless promoter of attracting a

neg: 1989 DC Prostitute Expulsion of the parade on the bridge's approach ramp demonstrated the police officers' intent to make them march into Virginia. After the police left, the women were driven back to Thomas Circle by men in vans, which had been following the parade at a distance, and were back on street corners within half an hour. In "The Washington Post" the next day, Dedman and "Post" police reporter Jeffrey Goldberg recounted the events: The next day, it was reported that Arlington County police officers had sent homeless people across bridges into D.C. in response. Virginia politicians were outraged. Congressman Stanford Parris, who

neg: Pelican (train) Pelican (train) The Pelican was a named train of the Southern Railway which ran from New York City to New Orleans and back until 1970. "The Pelican" (Train #41/42) departed New York's Pennsylvania Station going south via the Pennsylvania Railroad to Washington, DC, then on Southern's line to Lynchburg, Virginia, then to Bristol, Virginia via the Norfolk and Western Railroad with a major stop in Roanoke, Virginia and several stops toward Bristol. From Bristol to New Orleans, the "Pelican" ran on Southern's line with major station stops in Knoxville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Birmingham, Alabama and Meridian, Mississippi. South of Birmingham

neg: Lois Lane Clark for "selling out" to Collin Thornton and running "Newstime" Magazine, but forgave him in a span of mere minutes when he returned to ""grovel for his job back"". Clark elected to repay Lois by finally letting go of his self-imposed inhibitions and passionately kissed her. The two became a couple, and eventually, Lois accepted a proposal of marriage. Clark shortly after revealed to her that he was Superman. DC Comics had planned on Lois and Clark being married in 1993's "Superman vol. 2" #75. With the then-upcoming television show "", DC decided they did not want to have the

neg: Reaper (DC Comics) red glowing eyes. The Reaper also wields two scythe-shaped weapons, with various other lethal implements contained in the spiked shafts of both weapons. The haft contains a very powerful handgun and smoke pellets to help give to the illusion that the Reaper is in fact an incarnation of death. The scythes are stored in two inverted sheaths located on his back, under his cloak. Reaper (DC Comics) Reaper is the name of three characters in the DC Comics universe. The Pre-Crisis Reaper debuted in "Batman" #237 (Dec. 1971) and was created by Denny O'Neil. Created by writer Mike W. Barr,

neg: West Virginia Avenue West Virginia Avenue West Virginia Avenue is an avenue in Washington, DC running from K Street NE to New York Avenue NE. It was named after the State of West Virginia which entered the Union in 1863. West Virginia Avenue is located in the northeast quadrant of Washington DC. It runs from K Street NE to NE York Avenue NE on a south-west to north-east axis. It intersects Florida Avenue as it exits the original design of Washington DC as designed by L'Enfant. It runs in the northern part of the Near North East neighborhood and is the border for

neg: Taylorstown, Virginia "feeder lake". During this time, local vehicles displayed bright red bumper stickers which proclaimed "Don't Dam Taylorstown," which was changed to "Don’t Dam Loudoun" when it became clear that more land was going to be endangered beyond Taylorstown and its surrounding environs. Phil Erenkranz and Miss Anna Hedrick, two lawyers actively involved in the Defense Alliance, went before the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond. It became Virginia state law that one county did not have the right of "eminent domain" over another. No longer could Fairfax County and Washington, D.C. legally take water or anything else from Loudoun County without

neg: Adam Kokesh Police have a vendetta against him, and, when asked if he knew that what he did in the July 4 video was illegal, he responded, "It's called civil disobedience." In a jailhouse interview with Fox 5 DC, Kokesh announced his plans to run for President of the United States in 2020 on a platform of an orderly dissolution of the U.S. Federal Government. On July 26, Kokesh posted bail in Virginia and was immediately rearrested by U.S. Park Police for breaking a D.C. law forbidding bearing arms which carries a penalty of up to five years in jail, in connection

neg: Education in Virginia sports. Virginia's two land grant universities Virginia Tech and Virginia State University receive federal funding to perform agricultural research and to conduct cooperative extension services. Virginia opted to not participate in No Child Left Behind federal funding. Virginia filed an application for the first round of federal Race to the Top funding, but finished 31st out of 41 states in the first round, and did not receive funds. On May 26, 2010, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell withdrew the state from the second round of Race to the Top funding. McDonnell did not believe that Virginia should apply for the second

neg: History of Virginia employment for workers, high wages, and high profits for farmers. It brought in many thousands of soldiers and sailors for training. Virginia sent 300,000 men and 4,000 women to the services. The buildup for the war greatly increased the state's naval and industrial economic base, as did the growth of federal government jobs in Northern Virginia and adjacent Washington, DC. The Pentagon was built in Arlington as the largest office building in the world. Additional installations were added: in 1941, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Pickett opened, and Fort Lee was reactivated. The Newport News shipyard expanded its labor force

neg: Hugh Scott lobbyists for the Gulf Oil Corporation. Scott acknowledged having received $45,000 but claimed that they were legal campaign contributions. He did not run for re-election in 1976 and was succeeded by Republican John Heinz. The same year, he chaired the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican National Convention. Scott was a resident of Washington, DC and then Falls Church, Virginia, Virginia, until his death there. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. His papers are held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. Hugh Scott Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (November 11, 1900 – July

neg: WEZR (defunct) WEZR (defunct) WEZR was an FM radio station licensed to Manassas, Virginia. Fairfax, Virginia. It broadcast on 106.7 MHz was owned by EZ Communications, a company founded by Art Kellar that pioneered "easy-listening" radio in major markets including this station in Washington, DC. The company had common ownership with WEEL an AM radio station licensed to Fairfax which was one of the Washington, DC area's major top 40 stations in the late 60s and early 70s. In 1970, the company took the successful easy listening format to the Richmond market when it acquired classical music station WFMV (FM) and changed

neg: Stamps family and England in the early 1750s. He volunteered as an ensign with the Fauquier County Militia, 1st Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian War and was promoted to captain. One family history states that at one point, he brought a sickly George Washington back to health. After the war, he acquired of Virginia land. When war broke out with Great Britain, he eventually became a major and was noted for supplying the colonial troops with homemade ammunition. Timothy's son, Thomas Stamps (1750–1840), volunteered as an ensign with the Halifax County Militia, 2nd Virginia Regiment during the American Revolution. He

neg: Central Virginia Community College v. Katz Bankruptcy Clause. It noted that in 1800, when concerns for state sovereign immunity ran fervent, Congress, with no recorded objection, gave federal courts power to release debtors from state prison through the writ of habeas corpus. In coming to its conclusion, the Court declined to follow dicta in "Seminole Tribe v. Florida" suggesting a contrary result. Justice Thomas, writing for three other justices, argued the historical record indicated states did not give up their sovereign immunity under the Bankruptcy Clause. The dissenters would have followed the view that nothing in Article I abrogates state sovereign immunity. Central Virginia Community College

neg: George Washington and slavery their side and secured their freedom as a result. Washington opposed this measure, and tried in vain to force the British to give the Pioneers back to their former American owners. In 1782 the Virginia legislature made manumissions easier, while requiring documentation. Slaveholders were allowed to free any adult slave under the age of forty-five, either by executing a deed or adding provisions to a will. So many slaveholders freed slaves in the next two decades that the percentage of free blacks went up to 7.2 percent of all blacks in Virginia by 1810, from less than one percent when

neg: Virginia Hall replaced with a wooden appendage which she named "Cuthbert". The injury foreclosed whatever chance she might have had for a diplomatic career, and she resigned from the Department of State in 1939. Thereafter she attended graduate school at American University in Washington, DC. The coming of war that year found Hall in Paris. She joined the Ambulance Service before the fall of France and ended up in Vichy-controlled territory when the fighting stopped in the summer of 1940. Hall made her way to London and volunteered for Britain's newly formed Special Operations Executive (SOE), which sent her back to Vichy

neg: Cynthia D. Kinser Woodrum, a Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates, said that, though he was not familiar with Kinser's credentials. "Given the source, I would assume that she's no screaming liberal, and that she reflects Governor Allen's point of view." According to news reports at the time of her appointment, Kinser's motto is ""To make the best better"" from 4-H, the youth agricultural organization in which she was active. On June 13, 2014, Kinser announced she would retire from the Virginia Supreme Court, but did not give a date for when her retirement would take effect. She subsequently retired effective

neg: WBQH became one of two Washington, DC area affiliates of the Radio Aahs network for children. (The WNTR call letters are now in use by an FM station in Indianapolis.) As Radio Aahs, the station's call letters became WKDL (in a simulcast with WKDV in Manassas, Virginia). The concept was not successful at the time, and Metro Radio then bought the station, and switched WKDL to a Spanish language format. When that did not succeed, it briefly carried first the Genesis Radio Network of conservative talk, and then a business radio format under the WPLC callsign. Bonneville International then bought the

neg: William S. Hayward then moved up to the delivery department, supplying out-of-town customers. In 1860, Hayward became a member of the firm, and the name was changed to Rice, Hayward & Company. In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, Hayward moved to Washington DC and opened another bakery branch called "Rhode Island Bakery". It supplied biscuits to soldiers stationed in Washington DC. When soldiers moved out of DC into Virginia early in the war, Howard sold the DC location at a loss and returned to Providence. By 1863 Hayward bought out the business and became full owner of Rice Hayward, &

neg: Thomas Law (1756–1834) Virginia, and continued to be active in Washington, DC society. Their daughter Elizabeth Law (19 January 1797 – 9 August 1822) had three children with her husband Lloyd N. Rogers: Edmund Law (1816-1865), Eliza, and Eleanor Rogers. Elizabeth Law Rogers was survived by her husband and children, and both her parents, who at her death had been divorced for more than a decade. Law built several buildings in DC, including a hotel and other properties along New Jersey Avenue, SE, and invested in others. He bought land down to Buzzard's Point, an area along the East Branch of the Potomac,

neg: Jefferson County, West Virginia line, including 10.9% of those under age 18 and 6.9% of those age 65 or over. Jefferson County has been a Republican-leaning county in the 21st century. However, since 2008, it has rivaled Monongalia County (home to West Virginia University) as the most Democratic part of the state, likely due to its status as an exurban county of Washington, DC. For much of the 20th century, the county trended strongly Democratic due to historical sympathies for Confederate Virginia. In contrast to its rock-ribbed Unionist and Republican Eastern Panhandle sister Morgan County, Jefferson did not vote Republican until Dwight D. Eisenhower

neg: Christian Heurich Brewing Company lagering his beer, but also servicing a home delivery ice business. In 1897 he added a bottling line. Heurich also set up bottling plants in Norfolk and Baltimore. His business centered in DC, Virginia, and Maryland and Heurich did not become one of the large shipping breweries like Pabst, Christian Moerlein, Schlitz, or Anheuser-Busch. Heurich did, however, dominate the local market and his brewery was DC's largest. By the mid 1890s Christian Heurich was the largest brewery in the nation's capital. Incorporated in Virginia, it sold Senate Lager, Heurich Lager, and Maerzen Beer as well as a bock beer sold

neg: Bermuda Hundred, Virginia prosperity. Ironically, it did succeed in returning the area to its 17th-century period of mixed economy, thereby allowing the continued survival and slow economic growth of the region. Meanwhile in the town, much as in the countryside, the war caused at least a generational, if not two-generational, economic loss. By the time some of the planter class had restored their infrastructure, trading networks, and crop production back to their antebellum periods, the country and world had changed dramatically. They never recovered their former prosperity from the land and many lost or sold their land. As a result, despite every effort,

neg: Paden City High School the festival's inception in 2013 has participated in the West Virginia Invitational Band Festival in Charleston- which is the "state championship" band festival. In the area of music, Paden City High School offers to students: Marching Band, Concert Band, Jazz/Stage Band, Percussion Ensemble, Basketball Pep Band, Woodwind and Brass Ensembles, and Chorus. The Paden City High School Band is known as the "Biggest Little Band in the Land," a nickname that dates back to the early 1960s originating from Harry Bright of WETZ Radio. The term "biggest little band in the land" did not come from the band being small

neg: Superman right to sue Fawcett for copyright infringement. DC Comics appealed this decision. The appeals court ruled that unintentional mistakes in the copyright notices of the newspaper strips did not invalidate the copyrights. Furthermore, Fawcett knew that DC Comics never intended to abandon the copyrights, and therefore Fawcett's infringement was not an innocent misunderstanding, and therefore Fawcett owed damages to DC Comics. The appeals court remanded the case back to the lower court to determine how much Fawcett owed in damages. At that point, Fawcett Comics decided to settle out of court with DC Comics. Fawcett paid DC Comics $400,000 (AFI

neg: Puttering About in a Small Land Puttering About in a Small Land Puttering About in a Small Land is an early non-science fiction novel by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. It was written sometime in 1957, but remained unpublished until it was released posthumously in 1985. In 1944, Virginia Watson and Roger Lindahl meet in Washington DC. They marry after Roger divorces his first wife Teddy and abandons his daughter by her as well. Their subsequent move to Los Angeles to work in a munitions factory proves extremely profitable. But Roger spends the money far faster than it took them to earn it. By

neg: Ethel Myers Virginia Myers, after an extremely difficult labor. Soon after the baby arrived, Ethel did receive a note from her adoptive mother, who it appears was still willing to have her daughter receive her full inheritance, even after disowning her because of the man she had married. Her one condition was, "If I would leave Jerome and the baby and come back and live with her, she would give me everything. I never answered." Ethel soon made a career decision to move away from doing pictures of the Lower East Side and instead turned to an innovative approach in creating small,

neg: Virginia Cascades did not like to give personal names to scenic features, agreed to the name "Virginia Cascades" because he thought it useful to name park features after states in the union. Virginia Cascades Virginia Cascades (height ), is a cascade type waterfall on the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park. Virginia Cascades is located just south of the Norris-Canyon road approximately east of Norris Junction. A one-way road provides access to the north side of the cascades. Virginia Cascades was named in 1886 to honor Virginia Gibson, the wife of Charles Gibson, the head of the Yellowstone Park Association concessions by