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Creating Virginia
Creating Virginia is a novel which explores questions of family relationships and memory, and the connections which bind the present to the past. The title character, Virginia Dare Paige, is soon to turn fifty. Her children are grown and life with her husband has become a stale routine. Feeling …
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Gold-silver mineralization at the London-Virginia Mine, Buckingham County, Virginia
The London-Virginia Mine in Buckingham County is one of several abandoned gold mines that are scattered throughout the polydeformed metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Virginia Piedmont. Production began at the London-Virginia in 1853 and continued intermittantly through 1939. Gold …
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Southwest Virginia, the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and the Union, 1816-1865
… Henry Ambler's thesis of antebellum western Virginia depicted the state as divided into two antagonistic geographic sections, with the creation of West Virginia the inevitable result. Ambler did not take into account southwest Virginia, that part of the ""West"" that aligned itself with …
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Legal and institutional barriers to municipal wastewater reuse in Virginia Beach, Virginia
… municipal water demand in the State of Virginia. The objective of this thesis is to explore this preliminary statement and generate some information on the nature of legal and institutional factors in Virginia. The City of Virginia Beach is used as a case study because of the City's …
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Silurian Conodonts from the Wills Mountain Anticline, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
… Gap, northwest of Maysville, Granty Count, West Virginia. Use of the name, Rochester Fornation is restricted to the New York section. The succession of conodont faunas described for these formations range from latest Wenlock through Pridoli in age. The fauna includes 46 form species assignable to …
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Farmer survivability in Virginia
A study focusing on farm financial stress in Virginia was conducted to provide information to educators. The financial situation of Virginia farmers during the 1980's was reviewed. The years 1983, 1984, and 1985 were determined to be the time during the 1980s when farmers' financial situations were …
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The elk in Virginia
… and is known to have occurred throughout most of Virginia, although it was found more abundant in the mountainous regions of the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Ranges. In 1666, twelve years after the discovery of the New River, Henry Batte, with fourteen Indians, started from Appomattox, near the …
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A Villa in Virginia
… site is located in a residential area in McLean, Virginia. It is a relatively flat site as there are no major slopes. The three acre lot is generous in size and was not meant to drive the design of the house by providing limits. Trees on three sides of the site provide a natural barrier between …
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Precipitation and Sea Level Rise Impacts on Groundwater Levels in Virginia Beach, Virginia
… region of Hampton Roads in Southeastern Virginia is one such community, and one where knowledge surrounding SLR is rapidly accumulating. However, most of the research is focused exclusively on surface water processes despite the presence of a shallow groundwater table closely connected to …
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Recollections of Miss Virginia: a Memorial Scrapbook of Dr. Virginia Craig (1878-1976)
… Missouri State University's history--Dr. Virginia Judith Craig (1878-1976). Dr. Craig was the head of the English Department from the founding of the university in 1906 until her retirement in 1952. This work is intended to represent a scrapbook and the memories such a collection evokes. …
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Bark beetles associated with killed Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana Mill.) in Patrick County, Virginia
Killed Virginia pine, (Pinus virginiana Mill.), held in the vertical position, attracted 99.65 percent of the insects in the families Scolytidae, Cerambycidae, Curculionidae, and Buprestidae. The remaining 0.35 percent were collected from nontreated control trees. The dominant insect species were …
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Stratigraphy of the clastic Silurian rocks of central western Virginia and adjacent West Virginia
… place of the "Keefer" Sandstone of southwestern Virginia and intertongues with the Mifflintown Formation containing the true Keefer Sandstone Member of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The basal members of the Mifflintown Formation which were studied occur in two facies. The eastern facies (Keefer …
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Virginia Principals and School Law
… secondary principals and assistant principals in Virginia public schools, including its relationships to the type, length, quantity, and recency of their law-related professional preparation and training, and years of administrative experience. The following questions guided this study: 1) What is …
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Teacher Supervision Methods in Virginia
… supervision methods in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the absence of state mandated requirements. The literature supports the use of formative and summative feedback, multiple data sources and methods, collaboration between teacher and supervisor, professional growth goals linked to school …
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Lifelong Learners Study in Virginia
… post-secondary education in the Commonwealth of Virginia (VA), the resulting academic services and public policy implications. While the aging research to date is overwhelmingly focused upon health issues, financial security, legislative initiatives, care-giving, and assisted living, etc., fewer …
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