The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, is the library agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It serves as the archival agency and the reference...
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Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...
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Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia is the official seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state. The state flag of Virginia consists of the obverse...
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The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson...
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Barbara Kingsolver (category Novelists from Virginia)
Retrieved 2022-03-29. "Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards". Library of Virginia. Retrieved March 10, 2014. "Virginia Women in History 2018 Barbara...
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Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that the laws banning interracial marriage...
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Richmond (/ˈrɪtʃmənd/ RITCH-mənd) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city...
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House of Burgesses (/ˈbɜːrdʒəsɪz/) was the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the...
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Other information in archives at the Library of Virginia also dates the name to a time long prior to the construction of the Military Highway. In any event...
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coordinates) List of Carnegie libraries in West Virginia List of West Virginia archives West Virginia library consortia include the Eastern Library Network (ELN)...
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The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area...
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John Mitchell Jr. (category African-American history of Virginia)
the Wake of Freedom: John Mitchell Jr., Virginia Newspaper Project, Library of Virginia, 1996, Library of Virginia. Retrieved February 5, 2013 Staples, Brent...
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The Lacuna (category Culture of Asheville, North Carolina)
Kingsolver's sixth novel, and won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Library of Virginia Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin...
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WRVA (AM) (redirect from Voice of Virginia)
Virginia and serving Central Virginia. WRVA airs a news/talk radio format and is owned by Audacy, Inc. Established in 1925, WRVA is one of Virginia's...
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Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is a consortium of nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of the 39 state-assisted...
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Last surviving Confederate veterans (category Aftermath of the American Civil War)
in the Confederate Army. In a post on the Library of Virginia blog on October 6, 2010, Craig Moore, Virginia State Records Appraisal Archivist, wrote that...
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David Baldacci (category University of Virginia School of Law alumni)
org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?64+1999 "Finalists and Winners of the Library of Virginia Annual Literary Awards". www.lva.virginia.gov. Retrieved Jun 11, 2025. "Past Nominees...
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Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Richmond, Virginia: Library of Virginia (1998– ). Bowman, Shearer Davis. "Conditional Unionism and Slavery in Virginia, 1860-1861:...
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Libraries have been in West Virginia for much of its history as a state. Starting with subscription libraries, the early 19th century saw the beginning...
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Library. The CIA Library is a library available only to Central Intelligence Agency personnel, contains approximately 125,000 books and archives of about...
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Adriana Trigiani (category Film directors from Virginia)
University of Virginia at Wise (2001), and The University of New Haven, Connecticut (2005, 2016). She is host of the Library of Virginia Literary Awards...
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the West Virginia Colored Institute. It is one of the original 19 land-grant colleges and universities established by the second Morrill Act of 1890, which...
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George Allen (American politician) (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia)
A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 67th governor of Virginia from 1994 to 1998 and as a United States senator from Virginia from 2001...
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Alexandria Library is the public library in Alexandria, Virginia in the United States. John Wise, a local Alexandria businessman and hotel keeper, hosted...
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(CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is a suburb of Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. It had a population of 73,518, making it the...
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in Culpeper, Virginia, and additional storage facilities at Fort George G. Meade and Cabin Branch in Hyattsville, Maryland. The library's functions are...
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Library of Virginia. October 15, 1911. p. 3. Retrieved October 26, 2015. "Bernier Of V.P.I., Brought to Task". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Library of Virginia...
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Public Library (FCPL) is a public library system in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It includes eight regional libraries, 14 community libraries and...
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list of Carnegie libraries in Virginia provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Virginia, where 3 public libraries were built...
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Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner and abolitionist John Lynch...
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