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  Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - Virginia Alma Fairfax Johnson
Born in Washington, D.C., to Madeline Johnson, a physical education instructor at Howard University, and James Lee Johnson, a physicist with the Department of the Navy, Virginia Johnson began studying ballet with Therrell Smith when she was three years old and became a scholarship student at the Washington School of Ballet when she was 13.
Mitchell convinced Johnson to commit herself to a professional dance career, and she premiered with DTH at the company's debut in 1971.
Since 1974, when Johnson began performing as a soloist with DTH, she has been able to draw upon her broad training to develop a wide spectrum of dance roles from historical classical to contemporary experimental ballets.
www.pbs.org /wnet/freetodance/biographies/vohnson.html   (318 words)

  
 Fall 1992 Opinion
Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company appeals the order of the Circuit Court of Mercer County holding that the insurance company's potential liability to Randall L. Johnson, the Administrator of the Estate of Regenia Gayle Johnson, was $250,000, an aggregated uninsured motorist benefit, rather than $100,000, the stated policy benefit.
Regenia Johnson, a Virginia resident, died shortly after she was involved in a head on collision on September 17, 1988, at approximately 1:30 a.m.
Johnson's argument that the compulsory insurance section's reference to other states requires the interpretation of the contract under the laws of each state in which the vehicle might be driven to be without merit.
www.state.wv.us /wvsca/docs/spring92/20851.htm   (1472 words)

  
 Antebellum Political Characters from Virginia: Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The "Virginia Governors" of Louisiana filled a void caused by the lack of democratic political skills in the Louisiana population because of the years of rule by the French and Spanish monarchies.
Johnson served as district judge of a parish court in 1811 and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1812.
Johnson was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 1823 and served to almost June of 1824.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/louisiana/86672   (482 words)

  
 Virginia Johnson, Case Nos. VFA-0592 and VFA-0594, August 8, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Johnson notes that “Enclosure 3 [an output of data from the complaints tracking system] contains a total of 231 listed settlement agreements,” and she was provided copies of only “70 settlement agreements from 1992 through 1999.” Third, she requests that she “be provided in writing an explanation of Enclosure 1,.
Johnson argues that releasing the location of the complainant within the DOE complex would be unlikely to identify the complainant.
Johnson states that she was never provided “all discrimination complaints filed by and settled in favor of DOE supervisors and DOE managers,” as she specifically requested.
www.oha.doe.gov /cases/foia/vfa0592.htm   (2031 words)

  
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Thomas Johnson, a citizen of the United States, seeks the return of his minor daughter, Amanda Johnson, a dual citizen of the United States and Sweden, to his physical custody under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
Johnson also seeks to ensure that any future decisions on custody are resolved by the court of the State of Virginia that entered the custody order under which Amanda came to live in Sweden in 1993.
Johnson if he were required to address the custody issues in a Swedish court (in which case neither parent would have the benefit of the Virginia court's prior expertise In the case).
www.hiltonhouse.com /cases/Johnson_001_USCA.txt   (1576 words)

  
 U.S. Small Business Administration - West Virginia District Office - 2001 Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Anita ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In addition to her SBA award, Johnson also was selected as one of four West Virginians featured in the MTV "E-Tour," a program that featured several young entrepreneurs from around the United States.
While at the Clarksburg Academy, Johnson said her focus was in the application of acrylics onto artificial nails.
Currently, Johnson is planning to relocate to a larger facility in Fairmont to accommodate more clients and also expand her services.
www.sba.gov /wv/johnson.html   (1056 words)

  
 Mary Levin MacNamara
Virginia wrote of a ship her father built in 1866 and named for her and a voyage to Puerto Rico when Alward brought her back a parrot for a pet.
Virginia mentions her Grandmother who lives with them on Secretary Creek, Kiturah Moore Johnson, widow of Alward's father Hambleton Johnson.
Kiturah Moore was born in 1791 in Eastville, Virginia and died in 1875 in Dorchester.
jlaschulman.tripod.com /id18.html   (5404 words)

  
 State of West Virginia v. Johnson, No. 28665
Johnson was not limited or inhibited in any manner in conducting cross-examination of the victim because she became available and did testify during the second day of the trial.
Johnson was oddly possessive of W.B. and that W.B. and Mr.
Johnson forced her to have sexual intercourse with him on an almost daily basis between the beginning of October 1997 and the end of January 1998.
www.state.wv.us /wvsca/docs/fall01/28665.htm   (3938 words)

  
 Archives: Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Johnson is running against Graham Boyd in Tuesday's GOP primary for the 13th District, which includes most of Granville County as it stretches north and west from Raleigh to Greensboro along the Virginia border.
Johnson said she would like to use her career experience on the Ways and Means Committee to have input on taxes.
Johnson said it will be tough to find a crop as lucrative as tobacco, but she would encourage farmers to explore other crops to lessen the region's dependency on tobacco.
www.hendersondispatch.com /articles/2004/07/17/news/news04.txt   (886 words)

  
 Speakers Promote Children’s Issues in Va. Governor’s Race
Johnson and Tom LaPointe, a coordinator for the national nonprofit organization Every Child Matters, spoke about the election and its possible impact on Virginia’s children at a Sept. 19 lecture sponsored by the Children’s Legal Group, a new pro bono group at the Law School.
Voices for Virginia’s Children focuses its advocacy on four types of children’s issues: early care and education, foster care and adoption, children’s health (including mental health), and family economic issues.
Johnson said that her organization is not allowed to endorse particular candidates because of its nonprofit tax status.
www.law.virginia.edu /home2002/html/news/2005_fall/children.htm   (368 words)

  
 James Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Johnson (Virginia) (?-1825), U.S. congressman from Virginia
James Johnson (Kentucky) (1774-1826), U.S. congressman from Kentucky
James Johnson (figure skater), British silver medalist in pairs figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Johnson   (218 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: JOHNSON, VIRGINIA KNIGHT
Virginia K. Johnson, religious and social worker, daughter of William F. and Eliza (Woodruff) Knight, was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1843 and reared in Pike County, Missouri.
In 1893 a plea for help from a well-known Dallas prostitute inspired Virginia Johnson to lead the King's Daughters in opening a home called Sheltering Arms, a haven for women under the age of twenty-two and in danger of resorting to prostitution for lack of other means of support.
Virginia Johnson helped to raise money for Virginia K. Johnson Hall at Southern Methodist University, and she successfully solicited funds and the land for Smith-Carroll Hall, the Methodist dormitory at the Texas College for Women (now Texas Woman's University) in Denton.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/JJ/fjoal.html   (528 words)

  
 Dance Magazine: Virginia Johnson: a critic's farewell - ballerina retires - Brief Article
Such inattention is not new in Johnson's career, Between Mitchell's insistence on himself as DTH's sole guiding light and the general public's sentimental-liberal support and neglect, Johnson has gotten more or less lumped together with her company.
Johnson appeared in the middle of the ballet with a partner, who alternately raised her high or enfolded her in a ball.
Johnson's audience didn't get a chance at the tribute to shout out its gratitude for the years of being moved to the core.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n12_v71/ai_20375916   (1190 words)

  
 Ruling Likely to Spare Va. Inmate (washingtonpost.com)
Shermaine A. Johnson's attorney called him at a state prison in Sussex County yesterday with news that relatively few men on Virginia's death row ever get to hear: His life would be spared.
Johnson was identified as her assailant through DNA taken after he was convicted of two unrelated rapes.
Lee, Johnson's attorney, said he expects Johnson's death sentence to be vacated and his case remanded to the Virginia Supreme Court.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A64177-2005Mar1.html   (609 words)

  
 Africans in America/Part 1/Anthony Johnson
In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and undoubtedly become the envy of many colonists.
Virginia's Powhatan Indians, threatened by the encroachments of tobacco planters, staged a carefully-planned attack that took place on Good Friday.
That same year, a court back in Virginia ruled that, because "he was a Negro and by consequence an alien," the land owned by Johnson (in Virginia) rightfully belonged to the Crown.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part1/1p265.html   (392 words)

  
 ESPN Sports Virginia Tech's Johnson focuses on attitude
Blacksburg, Virginia (U-WIRE) -- Emmett Johnson has been waiting for his chance to make the big catches and hear the crowd screaming since he was a young boy watching his idols play on television.
During Johnson's junior year of high school, he took a year off from football to concentrate on track, which he lettered in all four years.
Johnson said he hasn't had any regrets about his decision.
espn.go.com /ncf/news/20000928/00786059.html   (604 words)

  
 Old Dominion University Libraries - Special Collections - Manuscripts
In 1962 and 1964, Johnson ran as the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Tenth District.
Johnson wrote political editorials for the Northern Virginia Sun in the early 1970's, and continued expressing his political views through letters to the editor in the 1990's.
Johnson's biographical material includes a short biography, milestones in his life, a guide to his personal and political papers in the Fairfax County Library, a program to "Celebrate Connie and Gus" in June 1998, and an essay about "Breaking the Byrd Grip".
www.lib.odu.edu /special/manuscripts/johnson.htm   (696 words)

  
 The Robert Johnson Notebooks
The vitality of Robert Johnson's musichas been reaffirmed by the many remakes of his songs, from such diverseartists as Lee Roy Parnell to Eric Clapton to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Moreover, his music influenced artists such as Muddy Waters, who in turnadvanced the birth of rock'n'roll.
But it is not just Johnson's incredibleguitar playing or fantastically expressive singing which deserves homage.His lyrics, which are commonly considered as only context to his music,are actually rich, tightly wrought poems worthy of intense literary examination.
Cabas created the class "as an excuse to teachRobert Johnson," and the class's papers which come out of a periodof listening to and recording observations in a literary notebook on Johnson'ssongs are often the best that he gets for the entire session.
xroads.virginia.edu /~Music/BLUES/rjhome3.html   (279 words)

  
 The Progress-Index - News - 02/04/2003 - Dinwiddie's female wrestler blazing a trail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Johnson decided to try it for two weeks, and if she didn't like it, she would get her proverbial money back.
Johnson has spent the last two seasons on the junior varsity squad, working for a hoped-for promotion to the varsity in her senior season, a move Throckmorton said was "very close" to happening.
Johnson, who also plays for the Generals' girls soccer team, said she'd like to continue wrestling in college, where she plans to major in sports therapy.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=6930797&BRD=2271&PAG=461&dept_id=462945&rfi=6   (547 words)

  
 B.S. Johnson (1933-1973) : Biography
Johnson was an experimental novelist, an admirer of Joyce and Beckett, and his works combine verbal inventiveness with typographical innovations that resemble the techniques of concrete poetry, (fl pages, diagrammatic type etc).
SIDELIGHTS:B.S. Johnson, generally regarded as an experimental writer, utilised his art to probe the structure of the novel by creating new forms of prose and by manipulating the basic conventions of the medium to suit his own avant-garde vision.
"Fiery elephant" is one of the descriptions of Johnson by the kids he taught in Islington, which he used in his book.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/9145/johnson.htm   (386 words)

  
 Virginia Johnson - Tampa Bay's 10 News WTSP
Virginia comes from a Cajun-Creole family-she is number seven of 11 children.
Virginia studied international history and political science at St. Joseph’s College in Northwest Indiana, where she ran cross-country and track and field and was Student Senate President.
When she is not getting up in the middle of the night for the morning show, Virginia likes to run, play on the station’s co-ed softball team, go to any sporting event, hang out with her cool bird Francis the cockatiel, watch movies, and see live theatre and music.
www.wtsp.com /inside10/talent/virginia.asp   (407 words)

  
 Arkansas Valley State Bank | Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Virginia is easily considered one of Broken Arrow's most faithful ambassadors, compiling a list of professional and civic contributions spanning nearly half a century.
Virginia was eventually promoted to bank president in 1984 and Vice Chairman of the Board in 1990.
Virginia's personal philosophy, strong work ethic and endless enthusiasm have made the community of Broken Arrow the fortunate benefactor of her many gifts.
www.avsb.com /press/release?release_id=9   (480 words)

  
 Player Bio: David Johnson :: Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Johnson has coached three steller tight ends at UGA -- in 2001, he coached All-SEC TE Randy McMichael, currently with the Miami Dolphins, and in 2002-03 he coached Ben Watson, 2004 first round draft choice of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots; and in 2004 coached first team All-SEC TE Leonard Pope.
Johnson had served in various capacities at Marshall including recruiting coordinator, tight ends coach, and offensive tackles coach.
Prior to joining the staff at Marshall, Johnson served ten years at Indiana University of Pennsylvania including seven seasons (1990-96) as offensive coordinator, offensive line, and strength and conditioning coach and three years (1987-89) as offensive line, tight ends, and strength and conditioning duties.
georgiadogs.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/johnson_david00.html   (408 words)

  
 Virginia Wales Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Like several other series authors, Virginia Wales Johnson came from distinguished ancestry, in this case the Sewall family (descendants of Judge Samuel Sewall); she was also distantly related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Although her parents (M. Augustus Johnson and Sarah Benson Johnson) are described as Bostonians in several biographical sketches, Virginia Johnson was born in Brooklyn, on 28 December 1849.
Educated at home and in New York City, she began writing while she was still very young -- several sources note she started her first series, the Kettle Club, in 1860, at age ten or eleven, although the first volume was apparently not published until 1866, when she was in her early teens.
readseries.com /auth-dm/johnbio.html   (359 words)

  
 Discovery Health :: Masters and Johnson
Masters and Johnson were a pioneering team in the field of human sexuality, both in the domains of research and therapy.
Virginia Eshelman Johnson, a psychologist, was born in Springfield, Montana in 1925.
Using these tools, Masters and Johnson initiated a project that ultimately included direct laboratory observation and measurement of 700 men and women while they were having intercourse or masturbating.
health.discovery.com /centers/sex/sexpedia/mandj.html   (372 words)

  
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Virginia Johnson was raised in Reidsville, N.C., and went on to attend Duke University, where she majored in Russian and French.
Johnson then attended Wake Forest University School of Law, receiving her law degree in 1985.
Virginia Johnson won the July 2004 Republican primary in the 13th Congressional District with 56 percent of the vote, defeating tobacco lobbyist Graham Boyd.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/294842   (221 words)

  
 The Anglican Church of Virginia
Dateline: Washington, D.C. ACIC bishops requested that Johnson, as the new International Secredary, be a "Voice" in Wahington, D.C. Johnson was an association executive and registered lobbyist in Washington for a number of years.
In a bold step the bishops have moved to establish Virginia as the seat of Anglicanism by their approval of the "Virginia Manifesto." The Bishops "Resolved" that the Jamestown Colony, the first English Colony to survive in America, is recognized as the birth place of Anglicanism in the new world.
Bishop Johnson is reporting that a number of new parishes could be launched in Virginia if priests were available.
www.theanglicanchurch.net /News.html   (1593 words)

  
 VA BEACH WOMAN IS MISS AMERICA 1ST RUNNER-UP
Cullen Johnson's mother was with her in Atlantic City for the final moment as Miss Virginia and Miss Alabama faced each other.
When Miss Alabama was announced as winner, it was Johnson who got the word across, pointing at Whitestone with both hands to make it clear she had won.
Johnson's pageant career began in Virginia Beach in 1988 when she won the Miss Cox High School title.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940918/09180079.htm   (776 words)

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