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Alexandria, VA (Virginia) - Johnny Bull and the Alexandrians (1814) by William Charles mocked Alexandria citizens (kneeling at left, with hair standing on end) for not putting up more resistance to the British |  | Advertisements: |
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Alexandria, VA (Virginia) - Map of Alexandria County (1878), including what is now Arlington County and the City of Alexandria. Map includes the names of property owners at that time. City boundaries roughly correspond with Old Town. | 
Alexandria, VA (Virginia) - U.S. Geological Survey Map of Alexandria County (1894), including what is now Arlington County and the City of Alexandria. Map also shows the western portion of the District of Columbia and some portions of Montgomery County (Maryland), Prince George's County (Maryland) and Fairfax County (Virginia.) | 
Alexandria, VA (Virginia) - U.S. Geological Survey Map of the "Alexandria Quadrangle" (1945), including what is now the City of Alexandria and surrouding areas. At this time, the City of Alexandria is bounded on the west by Seminary and Quaker Roads, on the north by Four Mile Run and on the south by Little River Turnpike/Duke Street and Hunting Creek. | 
Alexandria, VA (Virginia) - U.S. postage stamp honoring Alexandria's bicentennial in 1949 | 
Alexandria, VA (Virginia) - Old Town Alexandria, viewed from the west, as seen from the observation deck of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial. King Street Station is in the foreground and the Potomac River is in the background |
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07/18/11 The exhibit was inspired by talk that the United States is losing its edge in innovation as other countries spend more on research and export more technology.
07/18/11 ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The American Diabetes Association announces the appointment of Davida F. Kruger, M...
07/18/11 MINERAL WELLS - Organizers are hoping for a big week as the 39th annual West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition kicks off today near Mineral Wells. The fair runs today through Saturday at the fairgrounds on Butcher Bend Road.
07/18/11 On Independence Day weekend, after 81 years, the Jacksons came back to Niagara Falls.
07/12/11 Several Courtland High School FFA members recently earned their state FFA degrees. Alexandria K. Smith, a rising senior, and recent graduates John "Jack" H. Hussar, Ritchie S. Santiago and Dakota N. White received the gold pin and chain recognizing this achievement at the 85th Virginia State FFA Convention at Virginia Tech in late June....
07/12/11 The latest issue of Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research is a Festschrift celebration of the career and life of University of North Carolina (UNC) statistician Gary Grove Koch. The issue features articles written by colleagues and students; the special issue also will the subject of a session at the Joint Statistical Meetings July 30--August 4 in Miami Beach. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) July 11 ...
07/12/11 In a letter to Appropriations Committee leadership, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has requested that the committee reverse cuts to the budgets for the U. S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In addition, the letter signed by ASA President-elect Robert N. Rodriguez, urges full funding of initiatives proposed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Bureau of ...
07/11/11 Amy Myers Police are searching for a man who robbed an Alexandria bank and pedaled away on a bicycle. Armed with a gun, the robber entered the Virginia Commerce Bank on Prince Street at 12:28 p.m. July 5 and demanded money from the teller. After getting the cash, the man fled the scene on a silver mountain bike. Alexandria police did not release the direction in which the man fled. The robbery ...
07/11/11 An Oxon Hill man has been indicted on federal bank-robbery charges after he was found with dye stains and money in his pants following a June hold-up in Virginia.
07/07/11 A judge is slated to hear arguments on whether a New York Times reporter can be forced to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer accused of leaking classified information.
07/06/11 ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Wayne Gray has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award from the Germany-based Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The honor includes a fellowship that will allow Gray, a professor in the Department of Cognitive Science and director of the CogWorks Laboratory at Rensselaer, to pursue research at the Max Planck Institute ...
07/06/11 Timothy P. Carney Senior Political Columnist Follow Him @TPCarney Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., is correct that moving more than 6,000 Defense Department employees from a building right at a Metro subway stop to one just off an already-congested highway is fraught with peril. But Moran's proposed fix -- keeping DOD in its current lease at Crystal City as long as possible -- would also ...
07/06/11 The City Council discussed creating a new position within city government to serve as a business advocate for the community. The recommendation came from a study by the Small Business Task Force.
07/06/11 A Bowie man who owned a College Park auto glass business pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion in a scheme to illegally transport and sell millions of cigarettes across state lines, said the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.
07/06/11 KANSAS CITY, Mo. & GLENVIEW, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMC Theatres® (AMC), a leading theatrical exhibition and entertainment company, and North Shore Films today announced FORDSON: FAITH, FASTING, FOOTBALL will play exclusively at select AMC Theatres starting Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. FORDSON documents an Arab-American high school football team during Ramadan and unearths a community desperately ...
06/30/11 The Associated Press The Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. A man convicted of orchestrating a $3 billion fraud as chairman of one of America's largest private mortgage companies is being sentenced to prison. Federal prosecutors in northern Virginia are seeking a life sentence for Lee. B. Farkas, former chairman of Florida-based Taylor Bean & Whitaker. They call the case against him one of the ...
06/29/11 The Virginia Employment Commission says the city's seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 16.9 percent, up from 16.7 percent in April
06/29/11 The first sign of what would ultimately become a $3 billion fraud surfaced Jan. 11, 2000, when Fannie Mae executive Samuel Smith discovered Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. sold him a loan owned by someone else.
06/29/11 Alexandria Pisarczyk, of Sherman Street, Oneida, the daughter of Donald Pisarczyk and Kimberly Pisarczyk, is a member of the Class of 2011 at Oneida High School.
06/29/11 Several Peninsula golfers advanced to match play with their stroke-play qualifying performances Tuesday and Wednesday at the Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship in Bristol. |
