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  Virginia Reel (solitaire) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Reel is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards mixed together.
Royal Parade is another solitaire card game which is played much the same way as Virginia Reel.
The difference between this game and Virginia Reel is that in Royal Parade when a card is moved from anywhere in the tableau, the gap it leaves behind does not have to be filled right away.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Parade   (528 words)

  
 reel - definition by dict.die.net
Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English ``country dance,'' or contradance (contredanse).
Reel oven, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a horizontal axis.
The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
dict.die.net /reel   (239 words)

  
 Capitol Classroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In eighteenth-century England, the cardinal was called "the Virginia nightingale." The cardinal is part of the finch family.
She is dressed as an Amazon, a sheathed sword in one hand, and a spear in the other, and one foot on the form of Tyranny, who is pictured with a broken chain in his left hand, a scourge in his right, and his fallen crown nearby, implying struggle that has ended in complete victory.
On the reverse side of the seal are the three Roman goddesses, Libertas (Liberty) in the center holding a wand and pileus in her right hand, Aerternitas (Eternity) with a globe and phoenix in her right hand, and Ceres (Fruitfulness) with a cornucopia in her left hand and an ear of wheat in her right.
legis.state.va.us /CapitolClassroom/9-12/9-12Emblems.htm   (1449 words)

  
 D&C May 16, 1914
The Reel was at the extreme west end of the park and extended nearly to the water's edge.
Fire which destroyed the Virginia Reel, the bathhouse, a palmistry booth and the roller toboggan slide, with a loss estimated at from $10,000 to $15,000, threatened destruction of Ontario Beach park last night at 10:30 o'clock.
The Virginia reel was erected a number of years ago by Henry Reel of New York, who named the device for his daughter, Virginia.
home.rochester.rr.com /imagesofroch/obp/n051614.htm   (807 words)

  
 StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Virginia Reel Dance Page - Main1
The Virginia Reel was a country folk and later Square Dance, which was also considered a Contre-Dance in England, it was mainly danced in
The Virginia Reel is a weaving type dance with the reel being the second of the three parts of the Virginia Reel.
The step used in the Virginia reel is an easy, a sort of swinging trot, and exact time should be kept with the music.
www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3vrgrel.htm   (489 words)

  
 Virginia reel --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Brought to Virginia by English colonists, the Sir Roger de Coverley in time became the Virginia reel, the several versions of which range from the polished form danced in the ballrooms of...
Virginia Woolf was born Virginia Stephen in London on Jan. 25, 1882, and was educated by her father, Sir Leslie Stephen.
Virginia married Leonard Woolf in 1912 at the age of thirty.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075485?tocId=9075485   (870 words)

  
 Virginia Reel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Versions of the Virginal Reel can be seen in scores of movies depicting the colonial period in American history on through the great movement to settle the west and even movies depicting today's country settings.
To teach the reel, it is sometimes helpful for the leader to call, "Right to the centre, left to the side').
This is continued, each swinging the next in line until they reach the foot of the lines, where they swing each other half way around with right arms linked, so that the lady finished on her own side and the man on the men's side.
homepages.apci.net /~drdeyne/dances/vareel.htm   (879 words)

  
 FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
[1913 Webster] Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English "country dance," or contradance (contredanse).
Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy.
Virginia reel, an old English contradance; -- so called in the United States.
www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=Virginia+reel   (177 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
Virginia voters have opposed tax increases so often because they realize that the real problem is spending.
Virginia's economy, like the nation's, is on the mend, and state revenue is growing faster than expected.
Warner and his GOP allies are trying to sneak this tax increase into law quickly, before revenues balance the budget without it and they lose their opportunity to establish a permanently larger revenue stream.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110004722   (713 words)

  
 Virginia Reel
The Virginia Reel, named after the state of Virginia, is an American dance in contra formation.
The dance may be done to a live caller, a recorded calller, or according to the dancers' memories to strictly instrumental music.
The Virginia Reel is a "living" dance, and as such, has developed several variations.
www.phantomranch.net /folkdanc/dances/virginia.htm   (676 words)

  
 Press Room
Virginia Beach’s “reel” claim-to-fame is its year-round superior sportfishing and its diversity of species — which results in some of the best sportfishing in the world.
Reel in tuna, white marlin, swordfish and wahoo offshore.
Located in the southeastern corner of the state, Virginia Beach is four hours southeast of Washington, D.C. by car and within a day’s drive or less from two-thirds of the U.S. population.
www.vbfun.com /pressroom/prInstance.asp?documentID=164   (647 words)

  
 virginia-reel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Virginia Reel was designed as a comfortable and seaworthy offshore fishing boat, able to stay out and take heavy weather.
Her cockpit had fighting chairs and the transom had a hinged door.
This basic concept of a motorsailer provided the form for larger boats, Virginia Reel II (1958, 65 feet, design number 689), Saba II (1967, 52 feet, design number 799, and Discoverer (1969, 52 feet in fiberglass, design number 816).
astro.temple.edu /~bstavis/pr/virginia-reel.htm   (141 words)

  
 CD Baby: THE BLUE RIDGE IRISH MUSIC SCHOOL: The Virginia Reel - from evor
We are based in Charlottesville, Virginia and are seeking non-profit status.
BRIMS released The Virginia Reel this year to share the sound of our local Irish music, and real talents of the young local players and their teachers.
By traveling to Ireland, the members of BRIMS discovered the music in its original contexts, learned repertoire, technique, and perspective from local musicians, and returned to Central Virginia able to further enrich the community through performances, session playing, and presentations in the area.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/brims/from/evor   (746 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - folk dance (Dance) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
More elaborate examples are the Spanish fandango, the Bohemian polka, the Hungarian czardas, the Irish jig, the Scottish Highland fling, the Hawaiian hula, and the English morris dance, sword dance, and Maypole dance.
American barn dances, such as the Virginia reel, are largely derived from European sources.
Cecil James Sharp, founder of the English Folk Dance Society, made a notable collection of English folk songs and dances.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/folkdanc.html   (293 words)

  
 Various Artists: The Virginia Reel
The BRIMS cast, which includes Tes and Sara, is joined in this project by talented multi-instrumentalists Aran Olwell, son of famous local flute maker Patrick Olwell, Paddy League (heard here on banjo, mandolin, guitar, and bodhran), and Rob Greenway (flute).
Paddy and Rob were, with Sara and Tes, members of the excellent band Roaring Mary (whose own CD is still available), represented on the CD by an exciting closing track of reels recorded live during their farewell concert at a Charlottesville venue.
There are a lot of recordings released in the US these days which get labeled as Irish traditional music, but few which deserve that label.
celticgrooves.homestead.com /CG_Various_Virginia_Reel.html   (193 words)

  
 Sherwood Forest Plantation - Home of President John Tyler
The house, circa 1720, is a classic example of Virginia Tidewater design: big house, little house, colonnade, and kitchen.
The grounds are 25 acres of terraced gardens and lawn based on the landscape designs of Andrew Jackson Downing of New York and include original outbuildings or dependencies.
Then be sure to come by and take a real-life tour when you're in Virginia.
www.sherwoodforest.org   (443 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
On tangentially-related topics, I note that there is _a_ Virginia Reel in either Morrison or Keller & Sweet, and the notes there indicate that it is one of many, none of which are the familiar-from-elementary-school version, which certainly resembles Sir Roger very closely.
The Virginia Reel is mentioned by name in _Rose in Bloom_ by Louisa May Alcott, better known for having written _Little Women_.
His instructions have a tune sequence of jig, reel, and march for one round of the dance, a six couple longways with corner figures and the "strip the willow" or "reel." (page 82 in the 1943 edition) He also published a recording of the dance with calls.
www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu /ecd_archive/ecd.1997-04   (17836 words)

  
 Dance History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Tap Dance - Main Page
Tap dance and Clog are very similar, mainly because Tap has deep roots into Clog dance.
The most difficult of the Irish clogs are the Irish Jigs, Hornpipes and reels.
In some of these the feet can tap the floor more than seventy times in fifteen seconds.
www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3tap1.htm   (1176 words)

  
 good name for a virginia reel - ThrillNetwork Boards
ok i am working on a new park called Grand River Park and i just built a virginia reel totally inside a warehouse sortof looking building but a lot cleaner and alot nicer looking.
I like the name they used for the Virginia Reel in Sprightly Park, Halitosis.
Halitosis is the best Virginia Reel name, I agree...
www.thrillnetwork.com /boards/showthread.php?t=9560   (429 words)

  
 CDSS: American Dance Catalog
Ninety-two jigs, reels, polkas and more, in a variety of styles (contra, Irish, old-time, klezmer, swing, etc.), penned by Gitlitz, a fiddler from Washington state.
Original dance tunes (reels, marches, jigs, waltzes) "certified fiddle-friendly and dancer approved" by Kruskal, NYC multi-instrumentalist of Grand Picnic and other bands.
Almost 40 new waltzes, 38 reels, 13 jigs, hambos, slow reels, marches, and rags from a proven composer of danceable tunes.
www.cdss.org /sales/american_dance.html   (9149 words)

  
 Former Enota students remember paddlings, Friday fish, Virginia Reel - gainesvilletimes.com
As Gainesville's Enota Elementary School's 50th anniversary celebration accelerates this week, memories are being rummaged through like an old trunk in the attic.
Andrea was a cheerleader and also a band member when director Don Rich would come once a week from Gainesville High School.
In those days, students didn't know who their teacher would be until the first day of school when names were posted on a wall.
www.gainesvilletimes.com /news/stories/20050327/opinion/88977.shtml   (700 words)

  
 Virginia Mayo at Reel Classics
TVNow's monthly Virginia Mayo schedule -when her films will be on TV.
Reel Classics is a registered trademark of Reel Classics, L.L.C. © 1997-2005 Reel Classics, L.L.C. All rights reserved.
No copyright is claimed on non-original or licensed material.
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Mayo/mayo.htm   (64 words)

  
 Virginia Reel @ Holiday World - Theme Park Critic - Nation's Best Theme Parks and Rides
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www.themeparkcritic.com /scripts/ViewRide.asp?RideID=1430   (104 words)

  
 Meet the Virginia Reel
LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of North Carolina — and the world.
Explain that square dancing is a partner dance and that a person calls the dance.
I loved teaching the Virginia Reel to my students.
www.learnnc.org /lessons/JoJames6182002532   (668 words)

  
 - SHOP.COM
Trove.net Posters Prints - Second Virginia reel op 80, no 7 Zweiter Negertanz Art Photographic Print - Artist: Trove.net - Poster Size: 30x40
Title: Second Virginia reel op 80, no 7 Zweiter Negertanz
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 Dancing the Virginia Reel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Sashay 16 beats down the center of the set and back
Top couple "reel the set" (top couple only)
until the top couple has "reeled" all the way down the line.
www.norfolk.folkdancer.com /VAReel.htm   (264 words)

  
 Folk Dancing, Norfolk Virginia; Contra Dance, contradance, Barn Dance, Swing Dance, International Folk Dance, English ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Folk Dancing, Norfolk Virginia; Contra Dance, contradance, Barn Dance, Swing Dance, International Folk Dance, English Country Dance, Israeli dancing, Scottish Dance, Ceili, Morris Dance, contradance Ballroom Dance, community dancing for Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, Norge, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Williamsburg VA & Murfreesboro NC Virginia Reel instructions, Seven Cities of Southeastern Virginia Folk Dance Schedule
Contra Dancing the Virginia Reel at historic Norge hall
Sign up for our free weekly Folk Dance Schedule for the Seven Cities of Southeastern Virginia.
www.norfolk.folkdancer.com   (142 words)

  
 Dancin' the Virginia Reel!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
We are having fun dancing the Virginia Reel.
"I like when Edwin danced the Virginia Reel.
He danced so good and he was smiling."
www.k12.hi.us /~shasincl/Dancing.html   (127 words)

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