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Look up: Virginia

  1. Virginia
    Virginia is a cultivated variety of potato.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Virginia
    [n] - one of the British colonies that formed the United States 2. [n] - a state in the eastern United States 3. [n] - a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Virginia
    One of the `minor planets` of our solar system. Discovered by Ferguson on 4 Oct 1857. Diameter in km: ±88. More data in TABLE 13. THE MINOR PLANETS
    Found on http://www.delscope.demon.co.uk/astronom

  4. Virginia
    Vir·gin'i·a noun One of the States of the United States of America. -- adjective Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia. Virginia cowslip (Botany) , the American lungwort ( Mertensia Virginica ).
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/28

  5. virginia
    One of the States of the United States of America. ... Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia. ... <botany> Virginia cowslip See Mahon stock. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. Virginia
    Old Dominion noun a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Virginia
    • (a.) Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia. • (n.) One of the States of the United States of America.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. Virginia
    (from the article `naval ship`) ...cruiser and the first surface warship to steam under atomic energy. This 14,000-ton ship was followed by a series of nuclear-powered U.S. cruisers ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/28

  9. Virginia
    (from the article `monitor`) On March 9, 1862, `Monitor` engaged the Confederate ironclad `Virginia` (originally named `Merrimack`) in a dramatic, though inconclusive, battle ... ...believing that Maryland would secede from the Union. He tried to recall his resignation but was dismissed the following month ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/28

  10. Virginia
    (from the article `Military Affairs`) The U.S. Navy commissioned the first of a new class of nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines in October. The USS Virginia cost $2.2 billion to build ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/28

  11. Virginia
    town and gold-mining centre, north-central Free State province, South Africa, in one of the world`s richest goldfields. Virginia was a former whistle ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/28

  12. Virginia
    city, St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies in the Mesabi Range, about 60 miles (95 km) northwest of Duluth. Iron ore was discovered ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/28

  13. Virginia
    constituent state of the United States of America, one of the original 13 colonies. It has an area of 40,767 square miles (105,587 square ... [30 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/28

  14. Virginia
    Virginia is a Lat In girl name. The meaning of the name is `chaste, maiden ` Where is it used? The name Virginia is mainly used In English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish and In Ancient Roman.See also In French: Gigi (F) In French: Georgine In English: Virgie (F) In English: Virgee (F) In English: Ginny (F) In English: Ging
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Vir

  15. Virginia
    Virginia One of the fifty states in the eastern United States, named for the 'The Virgin Queen', Elizabeth I, who ruled England from 1558-1608. It was admitted as one of the original Thirteen Colonies in 1788 and its official name is the Commonwealth of Virginia.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  16. Virginia
    Virginia, in Roman legend, daughter of the centurion Virginius. Her father stabbed her to save her from the lust of Appius Claudius Crassus, decemvir. This precipitated the fall of the decemvirs. The story occurs often in literature.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0

  17. Virginia
    Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE).Sections in this article:IntroductionFacts and FiguresGeographyEconomyGovernment, Polit...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A085098

  18. Virginia
    Virginia, city (1990 pop. 9,410), St. Louis co., NE Minn., on the Mesabi range; inc. 1892. In addition to its iron mines—both open-pit and underground—the city has foundries, lumbering, and food-processing and manufacturing plants. Dairy cattle and poultry are raised and oats and alfalfa...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A085098

  19. Virginia
    Virginia, Confederate name for the ironclad Merrimack. See Monitor and Merrimack.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0

  20. Virginia
    State in eastern USA, bordered to the north by Maryland and the District of Columbia, to the west by Kentucky and West Virginia, to the south by North Carolina and Tennessee; area 102,548 sq km/39,594 sq mi; population (2006) 7,642,900; capital Richmond. It was named after Queen Eliza...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  21. Virginia
    (Montero) `Virginia` 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. Th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia

  22. Virginia
    (genus) `Virginia` is a genus of small, terrestrial, colubrid snakes, native to the United States. They are commonly referred to as `earth snakes`. Species: Distribution: Ranges overlap, it is unknown if hybridization occurs. Description: Virginia species are small snakes, rarel...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia

  23. Virginia
    (VTA) `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. Location: `Address`: 362 West Virginia Street, San Jose, California<br> `Nearest cross-street`: State Route 87<br...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia

  24. Virginia
    (song) "Virginia" is a song written by Tennesseans Dixie and Tom T. Hall. It is currently under review to possibly become the official state song of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The arrangement that plays on the Halls` website is sung by Stacey York. <i>She`s felt sorrow, seen t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia

  25. Virginia
    (Volumnius) `Virginia` was the daughter of Aulus Verginius, a patrician. `Verginia` is the usual orthography found in Latin manuscripts. Virginia’s new husband in 296 BCE was Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens. He became a novus homo the previous year. That same time the pat...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia



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