Born on the fringe of the Virginian planter aristocracy, George Washington became a grandee by marriage, proprietor of thousands of acres and master of hundreds of slaves.
Had Titanic sunk more slowly, it would have been surrounded by the Frankfurt, the Mount Temple, the Birma, the Virginian, the Olympic, the Baltic and the first on the scene, the Carpathia.
Sick animals often have higher white-cell counts as their bodies churn out more ammunition to fight the infection, but those in the Virginian study all came from zoos, and were believed to be hale and hearty.
Robinson in "Little Caesar"...or maybe best of all, Gary Cooper, "The Virginian" -- or Johnny Mack Brown, the Alabama running back (hero of the Rose Bowl in 1926), who now bestrode the screen as Billy the Kid.
Pointing a finger right back at him is Todd, the West Virginian who built Birmingham from a two-mill bolt shop into the top producer of reinforcing bar for concrete.
His selection as head of the army was further assured by his great height and, more important, because choosing a Virginian would secure the support of the richest colony.
That battle's heroes, including four of the first five presidents of the United States, were Virginian gentlemen.
But is it fair for a West Virginian working in the coal mines to have to put in the additional four years?
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In the spring, Markel, a Virginian insurer with a penchant for exotic risks, took over Terra Nova, a British firm that controlled eight syndicates at the time.
" Less reported was that it took the Democrat about the time necessary for your average West Virginian to drive to a ballot box to clarify that statement and to add that he's "so proud of the NRA." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, even with the press's best efforts to parse his remarks, has committed himself to nothing more than a "thoughtful debate.
According to our ranking, Virginian women could (and should) be the most sought-after voters this November.
Multiple local investigations are now underway and a Virginian congressman, Thomas Davis, has asked the Government Accountability Office to audit the district's tax outfit.
The White House party-crashing was the first I--or probably any normal non-Virginian--had heard of Michaele or Tareq Salahi since 2005.
Besides being an NRA member, Manchin ran a campaign ad in 2010 in which he promised to defend West Virginian's Second Amendment rights to bear arms and "take on" the Obama administration all while shooting a hole in a copy of a Democratic bill that would have clamped limits on greenhouse gases another sore spot for a coal-mining state like West Virginia.
Proximity to the Pentagon clearly has a lot to do with why defense companies locate their headquarters in northern Virginian.
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