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So, it had to be moved to its current location, no?Woodlawn Plantation on Rt 1 in Alexandria, just south of Ft Belvoir is also home to the Pope-Leighey House, a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house that was saved from being demolished when they were putting in I66.
Also a Virginian (by choice) here. Northern Virginia, though, which is practically a different state than the rest of the Commonwealth.
Why are so many places in Vagina hard to spell?
Writing with your tongue is difficult enough when it's not otherwise occupied..........![]()
Norfolk High cheer squad:I hope I don't turn this thread into a stormfrontfest, but I've always wondered why, after haveing been freed, so many African Americans remained in VA?
Then again, I also blush whenever anyone says, "Norfolk."
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Norfolk High cheer squad:I hope I don't turn this thread into a stormfrontfest, but I've always wondered why, after haveing been freed, so many African Americans remained in VA?
Then again, I also blush whenever anyone says, "Norfolk."
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"We don't smoke!
We don't drink!
Nor-folk! Nor-folk!"
They're good girls, ya know.
I hope I don't turn this thread into a stormfrontfest, but I've always wondered why, after haveing been freed, so many African Americans remained in VA?
Then again, I also blush whenever anyone says, "Norfolk."
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Achmed blew himself and others up and George Washington met him at the entrance to paradise. George slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!"Although I am from Kansas and live in Oklahoma, as any American I see Virginia as a very special place.
George Washington, Yorktown, Williamsburg. Not to mention the men and places of the civil war. Robert E. Lee was a Virginian.
I have been lucky enough to have been to Virginia several times. You have to take good care of it, because Virginia has meaning for all Americans.
True story, so I'm told.
The United States Embassy in London is situated in the borough of Westminster (Grosvenor Square). This borough is unique in that it's all privately owned land, as opposed to belonging to the local authority. Everyone (and I mean everyone) pays a lease to the landowner, the Duke of Westminster. A few years ago the Americans got sick and tired of having to pay such exorbitante rates, so they offered to buy the freehold from the Duke. His immediate - not to mention appropriately flippant - reply was that he'd only consider selling them the freehold if they handed over the land his family had confiscated from them in Virginia after the War of Independence.
And, as we are a swing state this year, our votes count.![]()
True story, so I'm told.
The United States Embassy in London is situated in the borough of Westminster (Grosvenor Square). This borough is unique in that it's all privately owned land, as opposed to belonging to the local authority. Everyone (and I mean everyone) pays a lease to the landowner, the Duke of Westminster. A few years ago the Americans got sick and tired of having to pay such exorbitante rates, so they offered to buy the freehold from the Duke. His immediate - not to mention appropriately flippant - reply was that he'd only consider selling them the freehold if they handed over the land his family had confiscated from them in Virginia after the War of Independence.
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I've noticed for some time that there seems to be a statistically significant higher number of posters from the Commonwealth of Virginia at USMB.
Off the top of my head there is
Si modo (yours truly)
Ringel
Old Navy
DotCom
Warrior102
Navy1960
Emma
ThreeofSeven
pinqy
Now, I'm not a native Virginian, rather a Virginian by choice.
I know I've forgotten several others, but it's interesting that so many Virginians are on this site. I find that pretty cool.
(The next highest represented state is another commonwealth, it seems - Mass. But this is all about Virginia, here. Get your own thread for some wicked bad affiliations.)