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	Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Virginia was given its nickname, "The Old Dominion", by King Charles II of England at the time of the Restoration, because it had remained loyal to the crown during the English Civil War.
		Virginia is one of the states that seceded from the Union to become the Confederacy 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virginia (2788 words)

	Virginia Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Virginia Peninsula is a peninsula in southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay.
		Virginia's first capital was in Williamsburg; much of the historic district of that city has been restored.
		Generally surrounded by water, the Virginia Peninsula The region is linked to other areas across the surrounding water barriers of the James and York Rivers, and the harbor of Hampton Roads by 2 bridge-tunnels, 2 large drawbridges, and a state-operated ferry system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virginia_Peninsula (815 words)

	Encyclopedia: Virginia Peninsula
		Peninsula A peninsula (Latin, literally meaning almost island) is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides.
		Hampton Roads, from state map of pre-civil war Virginia circa 1858 Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water and the land areas which surround it in southeastern Virginia in the United States.
		Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia from space, July 1996 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA is a U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as of June, 2003.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Virginia-Peninsula (649 words)

	Facts about topic: (Virginia Peninsula) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The land portion of Hampton Roads is divided into two regions, the Virginia Peninsula or Peninsula on the north side, and South Hampton Roads (additional info and facts about South Hampton Roads) on the south side.
		The Virginia Peninsula is part of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA (additional info and facts about Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA) (Metropolitan Statistical Area (additional info and facts about Metropolitan Statistical Area)) with a population about 1.6 million.
		Virginia's first capital was in Williamsburg (additional info and facts about Williamsburg) ; much of the historic district of that city has been restored.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/virginia_peninsula.htm (1348 words)

	Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce 1999 Legislative Positions
		The Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce encourages additional state funding of school safety efforts in light of nationally publicized incidents that have increased awareness of this ongoing concern.
		The Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce supports the efforts of the Defense Industry throughout the Commonwealth in its attempt to amend the Virginia Sales and Use Tax as it applies to federal contractors.
		The Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce supports legislation that allows colleges and universities to have the ability to count military dependents as in-state students for admissions enrollment and tuition and fee revenue policy purposes for a grace period of one year.
	www.seva.net /~vpcc/legislat.htm (1119 words)

	Yorktown, Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg, VA Homes, Real Estate and Military Relocation services from Jim Majka ...
		Virginia residents today look at the Peninsula in the same way.
		The General Assembly, Virginia's governing body and the oldest legislature in the Western World, first convened in 1619 at Jamestown.
		The Peninsula is home to the largest municipal park in America, twenty golf courses, tennis centers, beaches and fishing piers and marinas filled with every type of watercraft.
	www.jim2tim.com /relocation.asp (405 words)

	AllRefer.com - Delmarva, Virginia (VA) - (peninsula) - Facts and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Delmarva, peninsula, E Va., E Md., central and S Del., c.180 mi/290 km long, separating Chesapeake Bay on the W from Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean on the E; 38°30'N 75°30'W. Name derived from abbreviations of 3 states that comprise it (Del., Md., and Va.).
		The W coast of the peninsula is jagged and marshy, deeply indented by river estuaries, branches of Chesapeake Bay.
		Dover, Del., and Salisbury, Md., are the main cities of the peninsula.
	reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/D/D01726-delmarva.html (271 words)

	Virginia Waterfront Real Estate, Homes for Sale, Land for sale in Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex County on the ...
		Morgan and Edwards Real Estate offers Virginia waterfront real estate, waterfront homes for sale, homes for sale, waterfront land for sale, and commercial real estate for sale in Mathews, Middlesex, and Gloucester County, as well as throughout the Virginia Chesapeake Bay Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck area.
		We set ourselves apart from other Virginia Realtors by concentrating on your goals and needs first, then by providing you with the market knowledge you need to make the most informed real estate decisions.
		Also, we have a beautiful selection of Virginia Waterfront Vaction Rentals that are wonderful get-aways that are available throughout the year.
	www.morganedwardsrealestate.com (473 words)

	Historic Garden Week in Virginia - Middle Peninsula Tour Information
		Set on a sloping ridge one mile west of Bruington, Greenview exemplifies a mid-19 th century Virginia farmhouse, brought into the 21 st. Built by Moore F. Sale in 1851, the house sits amid 135 acres of fields, woods with riding trails and plentiful hunting game, gardens, fishing pond and orchard.
		Although burned in 1828 and again in 1864, a portion of the colonial courthouse structure remains part of the current building, which is only one of 11 Virginia colonial courthouses to survive in whole or part, and only one of four to still house judicial functions.
		In 1942, The Garden Club of Virginia, with proceeds from Historic Garden Week, donated appropriate wall enclosures, brick walks and simple plantings to enhance the churchyard of this historic church.
	www.vagardenweek.org /schedule-middlepeninsula.htm (1593 words)

	Greater Virginia Peninsula Continuum of Care Council
		Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, Peninsula Chapter is conducting an Advocacy Education Program on November 20th from 2:00-4:30pm at St Paul's Episcopal Church 221 34th Street Newport News.
		Rich Higgins of Williamsburg serves as the Peninsula Chapter’s coordinator with Claire Stephens serving as secretary and Patty Kipps as membership chairman.
		The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy brings together individuals and communities of the Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions around their common concern for social justice.
	www.pnpn.net /advocacy.html (951 words)

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		In addition, says Cahen, "we hope to develop programs of interest to other peninsula research entities, such as the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility [a federal lab in Newport News]." Students from any one of the participating schools may take up to half of their course work from the other consortium members.
		The venture is an addition to the Virginia Cooperative Graduate Engineering Program, a decade-old series of televised courses that allows students to obtain master's degrees in engineering.
		The courses, offered by George Mason University, Old Dominion University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech, are beamed to sites around the Commonwealth and parts of the United States.
	www.virginia.edu /topnews/textonlyarchive/September_1993/93-09-18_Teamwork_Lowers_Cost_of_Higher_Education.txt (898 words)

	Genealogy Directory > U.S.A. > Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The state of Virginia was established as part of the United States on June 25, 1788, making it the 10th to join the union.
		The official bird of Virginia is the Cardinal, and the official flower is the Dogwood.
		History of the Lutheran Church in Virginia and East Tennessee
	dir.genealogytoday.com /usa/va/index.html (129 words)

	The Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The events which took place that Spring along the rivers, swamps and fields of the Virginia Peninsula were initiated to do just that—capture Richmond and end the war.
		The Peninsula Campaign was the strategic concept of Union Army Commander–in–Chief Major General George B. McClellan.
		Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler was the first Union commander to recognize the strategic importance of the Virginia Peninsula.
	www.peninsulacampaign.org /campaign.shtml (1618 words)

	Civil War Traveler \| Virginia \| Peninsula Campaign
		In the early spring of 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac landed at Fort Monroe at the tip of the Virginia "Peninsula" formed by the James and York Rivers.
		A Virginia Civil War Trails driving tour connects some of the most significant sites of the campaign from Fort Monroe to Richmond.
		Congress and Cumberland Overlook (Newport News) - Scene of the March 8, 1862, sinking of the USS Cumberland and USS Congress by the ironclad ram CSS Virginia (Merrimack).
	www.civilwar-va.com /virginia/va-tidewater/peninsula.html (1434 words)

	Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce
		The Virtual Yellowpages are available to members of the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce at an annual rate of $300.00 and to nonmembers at an annual rate of $400.00
		The Virginia Department of Business Assistance is the state agency devoted to the growth and prosperity of Virginia’s business community.
		Volunteers are both working and retired, and donate their time to business owners and potential entrepreneurs.The Peninsula Chapter 100 is located in the offices of the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce in the Coliseum Central area of Hampton, Virginia.
	www.vpcc.org /secondary/bec.html (377 words)

	Campaign: the Virginia Peninsula Spring 1862
		This was the southernmost of three such peninsulas formed by the Virginia coastline, but is called "the" Virginia peninsula because of the antiquity of white settlement there.
		Federal efforts to secure the area around Fort Monroe and Norfolk at the eastern end of the Peninsula was the prelude to the campaign.
		The Peninsula campaign ended with the Federal withdrawal to the coast and transportation back to Washington.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Quad/6460/CW/c/203Pn.html (702 words)

	Peninsula Pilots Home Page
		The Virginia Beach native already has more home runs in his three-month professional career (11) than he had his final two seasons (7) at UVa.
		In the 2003 summer, he led Peninsula in four major offensive categories: batting average (.331), hits (47), slugging percentage (.423) and on-base percentage (.394).
		The 20-year-old’s success didn’t stop in his sophomore and junior seasons at Virginia where he started all 120 games, leading the school in batting average and hits each of his final two seasons.
	peninsulapilots.com (1290 words)

	Welcome to Virginia Peninsula Association of REALTORS®
		The Virginia Peninsula Association of Realtors® is the region's voice for real estate professionals and an information site for those interested in pursuing a real estate career or finding members in good standing in the area.
		Our objectives are to maintain high standards of ethical conduct, to provide educational programs that foster and promote professional development in accordance with state laws and regulations, and to be a resource concerning all aspects of home ownership.
		Then launch your career at the Peninsula Real Estate School, a subsidiary of the Virginia Peninsula Association of REALTORS®.
	www.vpar.com (327 words)

	Civil War Traveler in Tidewater Virginia
		The Tidewater area of Virginia is defined by tidal rivers — primarily the James, York and Potomac — that flow from the Chesapeake Bay into the interior of the state.
		Most of the Civil War sites in this area are related to the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, which was an attempt by a Union army under Gen. George McClellan to march to Richmond using the "Peninsula" created by the York and James Rivers.
		A Virginia Civil War Trails map/brochure is available there and at most visitor centers in Tidewater.
	www.civilwartraveler.com /virginia/va-tidewater (136 words)

	VPCCC Home
		The Virginia Peninsula Car Club Council (VPCCC) was established to support Automobile Clubs and Auto Enthusiasts in the Virginia Peninsula and surrounding region.
		The Virginia Peninsula Car Club Council (VPCCC) is a non-governing body and maintains a not for profit status.
		Virginia Beach has made it unlawful to do any repair work or maintenance on your vehicle on your own residential property unless inside an enclosed building out of sight from the public.
	www.vpccc.org (950 words)

	Divorce - Divorce Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Virginia contested divorce, custody, annulment, complex spousal and...
		Virginia Divorce Lawyer, Divorce Attorneys Virginia ~ Law Offices...
		Virginia weather forecast with local weather reports, conditions...
	www.divorce.resourcepage.info /divorcevirginia (619 words)

	Virginia Peninsula Real Estate - Mid-Atlantic Residential Realty -York County
		We are the exclusive sales agent for numerous new home communities thoughout the Virginia Peninsula.
		Our affiliated development companies are leaders on the Peninsula in land development and are available to discuss the potential for your property.
		Virginia Peninsula cities of Yorktown (York County), Williamsburg, James City County, Poquoson, Newport News, and Hampton.
	www.midatlanticresidential.com (440 words)

	Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation
		The Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation (VBCF) is a grassroots organization committed to the eradication of breast cancer through education and advocacy.
		VBCF is the only grassroots membership organization in Virginia devoted solely to representing the needs of women and family members affected by breast cancer.
		The VBCF goals are to establish the eradication of breast cancer as a state and national priority, to advocate for the collective needs of people affected by breast cancer and to educate all Virginians on the truth about breast cancer.
	www.vbcf.org (283 words)

	Virginia Peninsula Veteran's Forum
		This has been accomplished through the hard work by the staff of the Virginia War Museum in conjunction with the Korean War Commemorative Committee chaired by Michael Neulander, Major USAR Ret.
		Our committee is comprised of Korean War veterans, citizens of Korean heritage, children who lost their fathers in the war, and business leaders from the community.
		The Virginia War Museum will be open free of charge during this program.
	www.warmuseum.org /forum/forum.htm (574 words)

	The Arc of the Virginia Peninsula
		In 2001, the center became affiliated with The Arc of the Virginia Peninsula, Inc. in order to strengthen its base of operations.
		It is the policy of The Arc of the Virginia Peninsula to identify potential or actual barriers to access to our services and community
		The Arc of the Virginia Peninsula envisions a world where people with mental retardation and other disabilities enjoy dignified, productive lives of their choosing as fully accepted members of society.
	www.arcvap.org /puller.html (298 words)

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