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  Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Virginia is one of the states that seceded from the Union to become the Confederacy (on April 17, 1861) during the Civil War.
Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac River) to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky and West Virginia to the west.
Virginia is served by a network of Interstate Highways, arterial highways, several limited access tollways, bridges, tunnels, and five bridge-tunnel complexes known as the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel, the Elizabeth River Downtown Bridge-Tunnel, the Elizabeth River Midtown Bridge-Tunnel, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
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 Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia is one of the states that seceded from the Union (on April 17, 1861) and operated independently until it joined the Confederacy during the Civil War when it turned over its military on June 8 and ratified the Constitution of the Confederate States on June 19.
Virginia does not collect inheritance taxes; however, its estate tax is decoupled from the federal estate tax laws, and therefore the state imposes its own estate tax.
The Virginia Supreme Court, composed of the chief justice and six other judges is the highest court in the Commonwealth (although, as with all the states, the U.S. Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over decisions by the Virginia Supreme Court involving substantial questions of U.S. Constitution law or constitutional rights).
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
In 1790 both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to form the new District of Columbia, but in an Act of Congress dated July 9, 1846, the territory that had been ceded was returned to Virginia, and is now Arlington County and part of the City of Alexandria.
In 2004, Virginia took the step of banning any recognition whatsoever of homosexual relationships, extending even to matters such as private wills and joint ownership of property (the state was one of 13 that still had sodomy laws on their books at the time the United States Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional in 2003).
Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac River) to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky to the west.
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 Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kentucky and West Virginia were part of Virginia at the of the founding of the United States the former was admitted to the Union a separate state in 1792 while the latter broke away from during the American Civil War.
Virginia was given its nickname "The Old by King Charles II of England at the time of the Restoration remaining loyal to the crown during the English Civil War.
In 2004 Virginia took the extraordinary step of any recognition whatsoever of homosexual relationships extending even to matters such private wills and joint ownership of property state was one of 13 that still sodomy laws on their books at the time United States Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional in 2003).
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 Virginia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Virginia a state of the United States which seceded from Virginia (then a "rebel state" which had itself seceded from the United States) during the American Civil War.
Virginia, Queensland, a suburb in the Australian city of Brisbane
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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Virginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is part of the South.
Virginia was the first part of the Americas to be colonized by England.
As of 2004, Virginia's population was estimated to be 7,459,827.
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 About Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Virginia Commonwealth University or VCU for short, is a large American research university with its main campus located in urban Richmond, Virginia.
The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is the first state-supported military college and is located in Lexington, Virginia, USA.
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech for short, is a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, in the New River Valley of western Vi...
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 Virginia -
Image:Wiki virginia.jpg Virginia's economy is well balanced with diverse sources of income.
Today it is still significantly wealthier than the rest of the south, although much of that is from the northern influence around Washington D.C. Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the commonwealth, with Norfolk and Chesapeake second and third, respectively.
Virginia has a number of outstanding golf courses including Upper Cascades, Kingsmill Resortand the new Greg Norman course at Lansdowne Resort.
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 Virginia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
According to the 2004 U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis report, Virginia’s gross state product was $326.6 billion.
From the Hampton Roads area to Richmond and down to Lee County in the southeast it includes military installations, cattle, tobacco and peanut farming in Southside Virginia.
Virginia, Geography, History, Native Americans, Virginia Colony: 1607–1776, A new state, American Civil War, Demographics, Race and ancestry, Religion, Economy, Transportation, Law and government, Politics, Important cities and towns, Education, Colleges and universities, Professional sports teams, Miscellaneous topics, State symbols, See also, External links and Virginia.
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 Bedford County Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though theoriginal earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office.
Virginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted againstBritish rule in the American Revolution and is generallyclassified as part of the South.
Kentucky and WestVirginia were part of Virginia at the time of the founding of the United States, but the former was admitted to the Union asa separate state in 1792 while the latter broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War.
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 Top20Virginia.com - Your Top20 Guide to Virginia!
Jamestown was the original capital of the Virginia Colony, and remained as such until the State House burned (not the first time) in 1698.
Republicans held both seats in the U.S. Senate, 8 of 11 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, held a majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, and a Republican was Virginia's Attorney General.
Virginia is served by a network of Interstate Highways, arterial highways, several limited access tollways, bridges, tunnels, and three bridge-tunnel complexes.
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 The Ultimate Confederate States of America - American History Information Guide and Reference
Some residents in New Mexico and Arizona territories at Mesilla and Tucson also petitioned the Confederate government for annexation of their lands, prompting an expedition in which territory south of the 34th parallel was claimed by the Confederacy.
Also note that West Virginia seceded from Virginia and rejoined the Union or United States as a free state in 1863.
The Confederate officer corps was composed mostly of southern aristocrats, and the Confederacy appointed junior and field grade officers by election from the enlisted ranks.
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 Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Virginia: Employment Commission, your first stop for employment related services in the Commonwealth of VA Virginia: Employment Commission, your first stop for Employment related services in the Commonwealth of VA...
The Virginia Cavaliers, the 2006 ACC Champions, have been invited to play in the 2006 NCAA Championships, the 25th Anniversary of the tournament.
Virginia State Police provide the Commonwealth of Virginia with a responsive statewide police department, independent yet supportive of other law enforcement agencies; to preserve law and order; to enforce criminal, traffic and regulatory...
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 MCI - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The corporation is the result of the merger of WorldCom (formerly known asLDDS) and MCI Communications, and used the name MCIWorldCom before taking its current name on April 14, 2003 as part of the corporation's emergence from bankruptcy.
Under the bankruptcy reorganization agreement, the company paid $750 million to the SEC in cash and stock in the new MCI,which was intended to be paid to wronged investors.
WorldCom changed its name to MCI, and moved the corporate headquarters from Mississippi to Virginia, on April 14, 2003.
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 Osage - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The United States army built Fort Osage in 1808 in Independence, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City.
Osage is also the name of an unincorporated village in northeast West Virginia, northeast of Morgantown, West Virginia.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Ed Kelly's bio
Primary task was to endow the computer with a useful degree of ability to discriminate senses of ambiguous high-frequency English words, in order to improve the power and precision of computer-aided content analysis.
Directed a team of 10-15 Harvard undergraduate and graduate students plus staff support, in creating a "dictionary" of empirically-derived computer routines that remove suffixes, scan the content for critical syntactic and semantic features, and assign senses to words accounting for over 90% of an average running text.
Resulting doctoral dissertation, "A Dictionary-Based Approach to Lexical Disambiguation," summarized the results of this exercise and explored its implications for semantic theory and computer models of human linguistic function.
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/personalitystudies/Edbio.cfm   (2690 words)

  
 Abstracts for Literature and Linguisitics Computing 11/4
Well-known poems from writers who have themselves experimented with textual alteration, as well as works of others who have not, serve to illustrate diverse modalities of textual alteration, which are grouped by the types of transformation carried out by the computer.
The case study analyses the first chapter of Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves and its two French and three German translations with the help of the PALIMPSEST suite of programs.
Created specifically for such tasks, the software provides assistance with viewing the texts in an interlinear format and offers facilities for the automatic generation of multilingual and -textual word and phrase based concordances and statistics.
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 Kentucky - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
West Virginia and Virginia lie to the east; Tennessee to the south; Missouri to the west; and Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north.
In 1790, Kentucky's delegates accepted Virginia's terms of separation, and a state constitution was drafted at the final convention in April 1792.
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the union and Isaac Shelby, a military veteran from Virginia, was elected the first Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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 virginia - OneLook Dictionary Search
Virginia : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include virginia: west virginia, virginia creeper, virginia reel, virginia ham, virginia cowslip, more...
Words similar to virginia: old dominion, old dominion state, more...
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 Virginia Official site state Virginia featuring citizen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Provides an interactive Virginia state highway map, from the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Virginia S Our global bed & breakfast guide provides in-depth information, including pictures of B&Bs in Virginia and 33 countries.
Virginia DEQ Virgini Save up to 70% on hotels, vacation rental homes, car rentals, flights and vacations with RedTagDeals, you one stop gateway to online shopping deals with coupons and special offers.
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 West Virginia Morgantown
1) " West" -- In the context of West Virginia Morgantown
2) " Virginia" -- In the context of West Virginia Morgantown
3) " Morgantown" -- In the context of West Virginia Morgantown
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 Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Official website of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University inBlacksburg, Virginia.
Wide range of publicly-available e-books from the University of Virginia Libraryin Microsoft Reader...
Virginia Historical Society - The Center for Virginia History
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 Improving Instruction-level Parallelism by Loop Unrolling and Dynamic Memory Disambiguation - Davidson, Jinturkar ...
This paper describes and evaluates a software technique, dynamic memory disambiguation, that permits loops containing loads and stores to be scheduled more aggressively, thereby exposing more instruction-level parallelism.
Davidson, J. and Jinturkar, S., "Improving Instructionlevel Parallelism by Loop Unrolling and Dynamic memory Disambiguation", Technical Report CS-95-13, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 1995.
10 Dynamic Memory Disambiguation for Array References (context) - Bernstein, Cohen et al.
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 Virginia Birth Certificates: 2006-03-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Virginia Military Institute, founded in 1839, is the nation's oldest state-supported military college.
Virginia Birth Certificate Virginia Death Certificate Virginia Divorce...
By PETER BACQUE Despite the billions Virginia spends every year on transportation, the state still doesn't have a no-kidding, stick-to- it plan to produce a seamless transportation network, the state auditor of public accounts says.
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 Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Order your free 2006 Virginia is For Lovers Travel Guide and receive an official Virginia Transportation Map.
Get a comfortable Virginia, MN inns, hotel and motel rooms at a great rate.
Virginia information resource links to state homepage, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representitives, songs, birds, flowers, trees.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This report lists publications authored or co-authored by University of Virginia graduate students in Computer Science in 1995.
Included are papers that appeared in journals and conference proceedings in 1995 as well as other works that were finished in 1995 and will appear at a later date.
Natrajan and A. Nguyen-Tuong, "To Disaggregate or Not to Disaggregate, That is Not the Question," University of Virginia Technical Report CS-95-18, March 1995.
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 G7 - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This page should be merged with G8 -- Zscout370 19:45, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
1983 G-7 Economic Summit in Williamsburg, Virginia (left to right) Pierre Trudeau,
The Group of Seven or G7 is a coalition of the major industrial democracies: the
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 Berkley West Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1) " Berkley" -- in the term Berkley West Virginia
3) " Virginia" -- in the term Berkley West Virginia
Its official name is theCommonwealth of Virginia; it is one of four Commonwealths out of thefifty United States.
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 Cheap Hotels Arcinges, France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It is an unincorporated subdivision and census-designated place located in western Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
For other usages, see Lyon (disambiguation) and Lyons (disambiguation).'' '''Lyon''' (often '''Lyons''' in English) (pronounced in French) is a city in east central France.
The third largest French city, it is a major centre of business, situated between Paris and Marseille, and has a reputation as the French capital of gastronomy (...)
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