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Raleigh, Walter. 1554-1618. English colonist in Virginia. Introduced tobacco, potato to Europe. Beheaded.
Richmond, Virginia. US Confederate capital 1861-5.
Roanoke Colony. 1587. English colony of 117 settlers in Virginia disappeared. Raleigh.
Rolfe, John. 1585-1622. English colonist in Virginia. Married Pocahontas.
Santos, Lucia dos. 1907-. Saw visions of Virgin Mary at Fátima.
Sunday School. 1580 Milan. 1780 England. 1786 Virginia. Raikes.
Ten Years’ War. 1868-78. Failed Cuban rebellion vs Spain. Virginius Affair.
Thirteen Colonies. 1776. British colonies in North America which formed the United States: Virginia, Massachussets, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia.
Titian. c1489-1576. Venetian painter of dynamic composition and brilliant color. Assumption of Virgin 1518. Charles V 1548. Rape of Europa 1562. Piéta 1576.
Ursula, St. 4C. Martyred by Huns with 11,000 virgins.
Velázquez, Diego. 1599-1660. Spanish Naturalist court painter. Old Woman Frying Eggs 1618. Coronation of the Virgin 1641. Philip IV 1644. Surrender of Breda. Borrachos. Venus and Mirror 1655.
Vernon, Mt. Washington’s Virginia home.
Vestal Virgins. Chaste Roman guardians of Temple to Vesta, goddess of the hearth.
Virginia. Algonkian, Sioux, Iroquoia. 1587 British settle Roanoke Colony. 1607 First successful colony. 1619 Slaves brought. 1776 Independent. USA.
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. 1798,9. States protest Alien +Sedition Acts limiting freedoms. Nullification.
Virginia Company. London. 1606-24. To colonize North America. Founded Jamestown 1607.
Virginia Declaration of Rights. 1776. Model for US Bill of Rights.
Virginius Affair. 1873. Spain siezes US flagged Cuban ship, Virginius. Executes 53 for smuggling arms to Cuba during Ten Years War. Indemnity paid to US, Great Britain.
West Virginia. 1863. Region refused to secede with Virginia, forming a new state.
Wilderness Road. 1790-1840. Settlers’ route from Virginia to Kentucky.
Woolf, Virginia. 1882-1941. English psychological stream of consciousness writer. Captured transience and subtlety of thought. Bloomsbury Group. Mrs Dalloway 1925. To the Lighthouse 1927. Waves 1931.