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	Virgin Lands Campaign - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Virgin Lands Campaign was an initiative by Nikita Khrushchev to open up vast tracts of unplowed (virgin) steppe in the northern Kazakh SSR and the Altay region of the Russian SFSR, started in 1954.
		With all this new land, a vast amount of people would need to be brought in from all over the Soviet Union: the Komsomol was charged with recruiting them.
		Nearly all of the collective farms in the Virgin Lands grew one crop alone: wheat.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Virgin_Lands (483 words)

	Virgin Lands Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Virgin Lands Campaign was an initiative by Nikita Khrushchev to open up vast tracts of unused (virgin) steppe in the northern Kazakh SSR and the Altai region of the Russian SFSR, started in 1954.
		By the end of the mass immigrations to the Virgin Lands, Ukrainians outnumbered Kazakhs inmany areas.
		By the 1960s, the soil had been drained of all its nutrients beneficialto wheat, and before long, due to lack of any measures to prevent erosion, much ofthat soil was simply being blown away by the wind to leave bare, useless steppe behind.
	www.therfcc.org /virgin-lands-campaign-71918.html (378 words)

	Virgin Lands Campaign
		, a romanticised view of the Campaign]] The Virgin Lands Campaign was an initiative by Nikita Khrushchev to open up vast tracts of unused (virgin) steppe in the northern Kazakh SSR and the Altai region of the Russian SFSR, started in 1954.
		In the first year of the programme, 190,000 km² were ploughed up, and in 1955, an extra 14 million were ploughed.
		\nNearly all of the collective farms in the Virgin Lands grew one crop alone: wheat.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/v/vi/virgin_lands_campaign.html (407 words)

	Business \| Virgin lands billion-pound subsidy for west coast line
		Virgin Trains has reversed the industry trend of promising billion-pound windfalls to the government by securing a £1.36bn subsidy for its west coast mainline franchise.
		Virgin will pass the state funding on to Network Rail, the quasi-public body that has spent £8.6bn upgrading the line.
		A Virgin Trains spokesman said it was impossible to run trains on the London-to-Glasgow route without a subsidy because of the steep charges levied by Network Rail to recoup what started out as a £2bn project but soon escalated into a near-£10bn investment.
	business.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329661978-108725,00.html (441 words)

	Virgin Lands Territory - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Created in 1960 by the merger of Kokchetav (Kökshetau), Kustanay (Qostanay), North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, and Akmolinsk (Aqmola) regions to administer the grain-producing areas of the Kazakh steppe, it was abolished in 1965.
		Seeking Virgin territory: British entrepreneur Richard Branson soars across the Atlantic and lands in America.
		Damaged Virgin Mary statue a symbol for Holy Land Christians under attack.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-virginl1a.html (255 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Virgin CEO lands Superman, Bond roles - Wednesday \| July 5, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Virgin Atlantic's chairman, Sir Richard Branson (left), one of the leading ladies in the upcoming James Bond movie 'Casino Royale', Caterina Murino and hotelier Chris Blackwell, owner of Goldeneye, the home where Bond's creator Ian Fleming wrote his series, pose beside a fljack table at the movie launch at Half Moon yesterday morning.
		THE MAN behind the Virgin empire, Sir Richard Branson, has landed cameo roles in two of the world's biggest films, Superman and a remake of the James Bond movie Casino Royale.
		With no acting credit to his name, the billionaire gave members of the press a taste of the 21st James Bond encounter, scheduled for release in theatres on November 17, during a sneak preview at the Half Moon Hotel, Montego Bay, St. James yesterday morning.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060705/lead/lead5.html (340 words)

	Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands Newspaper, A Pulitzer Prize Winning Newspaper, Virgin Islands Guide, Virgin Islands Info
		As developments continue rapidly in the Virgin Islands, on St. John, especially, many people have difficulties holding on to their land because of high taxes, etc. What Jackson preached donkey years ago about land is fulfilling prophesy today.
		In November of 2006, a new Virgin Islands conservation organization was founded known as the Trust for Virgin Islands Land.
		The Trust for Virgin Islands Lands is one way to protect land for future generations.
	www.virginislandsdailynews.com /index.pl/article_editorial?id=17602788 (776 words)

	Committee representing members of People's Parliament elected in the 1990
		They have to neglect their duties on their own land and plough and cultivate crops on Defense Services agricultural land and clear jungles and virgin lands for them without any payment.
		Land which is a country's greatest asset must be utilised as effectively as possible and to that end there should be proper assessment of not only the quality of land and its suitability for the purpose it is used but the ability, knowledge and capability of the
		in such projects for conversion of unoccupied, virgin and wet lands, is a case where lakes and wet lands that are being utilised by the cultivators have been given over to the private entrepreneur.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/crpp1999.24.htm (2699 words)

	Celebrating 35 years in the Olympic Movement
		She became the first female in history to Triple Jump 45 feet...She was a freshmen at the University of Alabama where she went on to lead her alma mater to NCAA Championships and gain All-America honors...
		Many of the top athletes in the Virgin Islands are youngsters who excel in baseball, swimming and tennis...many go on to gain national recognition in the Virgin Islands and the United States, many are rewarded later with scholarships to colleges abroad which cover their expenses toward earning academic degrees...
		Basketball is king in the Virgin Islands these days as dozens of V.I. basketball are now competing in NCAA colleges and universities.
	www.virginislandsolympics.com (728 words)

	Virgin Mobile lands in SA - SouthAfrica.info
		Virgin Mobile launched in South Africa in June with the aim of capturing 10% of the South African market with ten years.
		This is the same model that Virgin Mobile has used in the United Kingdom where they have over 5 million subscribers.
		Virgin's cellular offering will not require mandatory two-year contract and will unbundle handsets from airtime, removing the "clutter and fog in the market" Sajeed Sacranie, Virgin Mobile SA CEO told ITWeb.
	www.southafrica.info /doing_business/investment/virgin_mobile030706.htm (436 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for virgin
		Virgin Gorda one of the British Virgin Islands.
		Virgin Islands National Park 14,689 acres (5,949 hectares), St. John, Virgin Islands; est.
		Virgin Mobile USA Unveils a Brand New Approach to Cellular; New Consumer-Focused Cell Phone Service Is Easy-to-Buy, Easy-to-Use And Will Be Available at More Than 11,000 U.S. Retail Stores, Including Best Buy, Circle K, Circuit City, Follett Higher Education Group, Media Play, Sam Goody, 7-Eleven, Target Stores, Virgin Megastores And Winn-Dixie.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=virgin (417 words)

	Virgin Mobile lands in the US
		Virgin has teamed up with the fourth-largest US wireless operator, Sprint PCS, to form Virgin Mobile USA, the first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) launched in the US.
		But the biggest challenge for Virgin will be having to work harder to establish its brand in the US where it is less well known than in the UK, said Cole.
		Virgin is hoping that its brand, its service and its marketing will appeal to an under-30 market, but in particular those between 13 and 24 years old.
	www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2119201 (365 words)

	Virgin Blue Airlines News - 29 Jul 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Virgin Blue Chief Commercial Officer, Stefan Pichler said, "Virgin Blue was the first carrier to commit to Hervey Bay, prompting the redevelopment and upgrade of the airport to accommodate our Boeing 737 aircraft.
		Virgin Blue First Officer, Paul Stocks, who grew up in Hervey Bay and took his first job flying between Hervey Bay and Fraser Island will be returning to his home town as part of the operating crew on the inaugural flight.
		Virgin Blue will monitor demand for the Hervey Bay services and if support is ongoing, consider increasing the flights to daily.
	www.globenettravel.com.au /virgin_blue_news/290705.htm (528 words)

	Correspondents Report - Propaganda meets reality: Russia confronts history
		The first exhibition on the Virgin Lands Project is now on show in Moscow and it contrasts the propaganda images of happy workers with the harsh reality.
		The Virgin Lands campaign was embraced with zeal by the communist youth branch, the Komsomol.
		EMMA GRIFFITHS: So strong is her connection to the Virgin Lands project, that 50 years on, Vera still remembers the patriotic song of the time.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2004/s1182044.htm (704 words)

	Virgin River Land Preservation Association
		Open Lands and greenway corridors which are readily accessible or are visible from within a city or town provide RELIEF from urban development and help preserve an area's unique HERITAGE.
		Land trusts are local, regional, or statewide nonprofit organizations directly involved in protecting open land resources for the PUBLIC BENEFIT.
		Furthermore, it is land preserved in PERPETUITY, which increases a community's confidence in their ability to plan for the future.
	www.governor.state.ut.us /planning/CriticalLands/OPLAND/VRL.HTM (590 words)

	Virgin Lands Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Virgin Lands campaign was a huge operation designed to open up a vast tract of steppe land, mainly in northern Kazakhstan and the Altai region of the RSFSR, for grain cultivation.
		They would be joined by even larger contingents of students, soldiers, and truck and combine-drivers who were transported to the virgin lands on a seasonal basis.
		Although after 1956 some of these groups were permitted to return to their native regions, authorities considered Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans too valuable to the Virgin Lands program to be released from what was for all intents and purposes internal exile.
	www.soviethistory.org /index.php?action=L2&SubjectID=1954tselina&Year=1954 (354 words)

	Knights of Honor - News: Press Information: Virgin Lands to Develop Knights of Honor Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Developed by Bulgaria’s Black Sea Studios, the empire conquering simulation is due to be released in the 2nd quarter of 2004.
		Virgin Lands’ managing director Tobias Weingärtner was pleased at being given the nod:
		Virgin Lands is one of the leading studios in the field of 3D animation and have an immense amount of experience in the computer games branch.
	www.knights-of-honor.net /english/news/news.php?news=11 (199 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PUBLIC LANDS
		There were, or came to be, three general categories of public lands: (1) the unappropriated public domain, which included all the virgin lands owned by the state prior to their disposition or appropriation, (2) the reserved submerged areas, and (3) the appropriated public lands.
		The estimated off-shore portion of the reserved area, including beach areas, islands, land beneath bays and inlets, and submerged lands to the three-league limit, is 4,045,000 acres.
		Proceeds from the sale of this land have gone into the respective permanent funds of the institutions to which the lands were appropriated.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/PP/gzp2_print.html (901 words)

	Fleischer Museum of California and Russian Impressionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With great sensibility and abounding patriotism, life in the Virgin Lands was painted by hundreds of artists.
		Into a New Life: Virgin Lands, by Erikh I. Rebane captures the anticipation of a young woman about to embark on an adventure full of unknowns.
		Virgin Land artists tended to be drawn to the events of life as lived under these unique and trying circumstances.
	www.fleischer.org /virgin.html (151 words)

	virginal — FactMonster.com
		Virgo - Virgo Virgo [Lat.,=the virgin], constellation lying on the ecliptic (the sun's apparent path...
		Virgin Islands National Park - Virgin Islands National Park Virgin Islands National Park, 14,689 acres (5,949 hectares), St. John,...
		Virgin Lands Territory - Virgin Lands Territory Virgin Lands Territory, Rus.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0920097.html (90 words)

	Emberas: Colombia's Tenacious Indians/Planeta.com
		In the Choco-Uraba area of northwestern Colombia lies the vast Murindo rainforest, one of the largest virgin tracts of jungle left in South America.
		Unable to sustain crops for any length of time the land is usually converted into pasture for cattle, sold and the colonist moves deeper into the jungle to repeat the process.
		The Emberas try and patrol their vast lands, to prevent illegal colonization and logging but there are only a few Indians and colonists have encroached repeatedly on their traditional lands.
	www.planeta.com /planeta/98/1198colombia.html (1722 words)

	Cheap Package Holidays
		Virgin Holidays - Escape the UK for holidays in faraway lands, flying Virgin Atlantic.
		Virgin holidays began by offering packages to New York, Orlando and Miami.
		We still specialise in package holidays to the USA and Canada, but we have now added every continent to our repertoire, so wherever you travel, you will be guaranteed the Virgin service you have come to rely on.
	www.virgin.com /uk/travel/package-holidays.asp (185 words)

	Early Ohio Settlers. Purchasers of Land in Southeastern Ohio, 1800-1840 : Genealogical Publishing Company
		Under an ordinance passed in 1785 the virgin lands of the Northwest Territory were offered for sale to the public, the first public land in the U.S. to be subdivided.
		Four land offices were established in Ohio for the auction and private sale of these lands.
		In an easy-to-use tabular format, there is a complete list of the 7,500 persons who bought land in southeastern Ohio from 1800 to 1840.
	www.genealogical.com /index.php?main_page=product_info&ref=1000&item_number=480 (207 words)

	Torricelli: We Can Win
		While the Congress debates the severity of the loss of American forests, and hundreds of politicians may have their own views, the scientific testimony you are going to hear today should be both decisive and conclusive.
		I noticed on the chart that among the first states in the nation to lose all their virgin forests was the state of New Jersey.
		There is still a chance for the little remaining virgin forests of America to make that decision now, while there are watersheds, while there’s a habitat for endangered species, and before the cost becomes absolutely overwhelming.
	www.saveamericasforests.org /news/WeCanWin.htm (1238 words)

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		This voluntary-forcible displacement to the virgin lands appears to be specifically designed to punish border transgressors and to intimidate all others.
		Khabibulla Durdyiev, who, as a hyakim of Dashoguz velayat, was directly involved in forcible resettling the people to the remote virgin lands, has been sent to one of these districts.
		He was provided with a 2 ha plot of land which is should to be planted with cotton each year with the entire crop to be handed over to the state.
	www.eurasianet.org /turkmenistan.project/files2/040429thi(eng).doc (840 words)

	Knights of Honor - News: Intro wins 2 prestigious Awards at FMX/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The PC game’s cinematic sequence, created by Virgin Lands, not only received first place for "Best Intro" in the category "Professional / Games" of the Animago competition, but also in the category "Cut Scene" of the FMX Echtzeit Film Festival which was held for the first time this year.
		We are especially delighted for Virgin Lands, as we are currently working on the ingame graphics for ANNO 3 (Working Title)", commented Adi Boiko, SUNFLOWERS President, Virgin Lands’ massive success.
		Tobias Weingärtner, CEO of Virgin Lands, had the following to say after receiving the two prestigious awards: "We are immensely proud to have won not only the Animago Award but also the Echtzeit Film Festival this year — a real double whammy.
	www.knights-of-honor.net /english/news/news.php?news=62 (170 words)

	Peter Beattie: Queensland's Persistent Premier Lands Virgin, Red Hat HQs - Site Selection Magazine - July 2000
		But the Virgin Atlantic chairman already had a location short list that was truly short: It included only Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest, best known cities.
		Swayed by Queensland's ceaseless courting, Virgin Australia rerouted its location plan, landing its headquarters in Brisbane, Queensland's capital city, where the airline is also siting a 150-employee call center, and a maintenance base and operations center.
		Landing Virgin typifies Beattie's can-do persistence in creating new jobs in Australia's largest state (2.5 times bigger than Texas, in fact).
	www.siteselection.com /issues/2000/july/p628 (700 words)

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