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Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.
Martha Jefferson Hospital is a Sentara Healthcare-owned nonprofit community hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia.It was founded in 1903 by eight local physicians. The 176-bed hospital has an employed staff of 1,600 and has 365 affiliated physicians.
Jenna Haze (born 1982) is an American director, model, and former pornographic actress.. Haze has won numerous pornographic industry awards, including the 2003 AVN Award for Best New Starlet and the 2009 AVN Award for Female Performer of the Year, making her the second performer in history to ever win both awards in the course of her career, after Missy.
Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder, by Charles Willson Peale (1791) The Rotunda, as pictured from the South Lawn. In 1802, while serving as president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote to artist Charles Willson Peale that his concept of the new university would be "on the most extensive and liberal scale that our circumstances would call for and our faculties meet," and it ...
The Battle Building of the UVA children's hospital.. The University of Virginia Health System consists of five components: The University of Virginia Medical Center provides primary, specialty and emergency care throughout Central Virginia through a network of clinics as well as a main hospital that has 701 inpatient beds, not including a 71-bed Level 4 neonatal intensive care unit and 20-bed ...
The Colony of Virginia was a British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.
Virginia played its first baseball game, a 13–4 win over Richmond College, in 1889.The Cavaliers had limited success in their first 100 years of play, winning their first ACC regular season title and making their NCAA tournament debut in 1972 under Jim West and returning in 1985 and 1996 under Dennis Womack, failing to advance past regional play.
John Mitchell, President of the UMWA, takes the bull (coal trusts) by the horns. The issues that led to the strike of 1900 were just as pressing in 1902: the union wanted recognition and a degree of control over the industry.