While it’s true that there were some disappointing results in Nevada, Colorado, and West Virginia, the fact of the matter is the Republicans won 25 of the 37 contested Senatorial contests. Republicans had to defend 19 of their own seats and then win an additional ten in order to gain ...
Aug 30.” ; an editorial on page 2 of the January 19, 1874 issue of The Democrat in Weston, West Virginia, which saw the Civil Rights legislation as “The Beginning of the End.” I got the Harper’s Weekly article and image from HathiTrust on pages 149 and 150. I put the portrait...
She has experienced mainstream success with the single "American Boy" featuring Kanye West, reaching number 1 in the United Kingdom, and her collaboration with David Guetta in "One Love". Estelle has released several critically acclaimed records and received a Grammy Award. She has collaborated ...
Pawpaw FestivalEndview Plantation,August 26,Historic Endview, 362 Yorktown Rd Suite 1017Newport News, Virginia. Saturday, August 26, 2023 From 10 AM – 4 PM Pawpaw Party in Virginia,Wednesday, September 6, 2023 from · 6 – 7:30pm, Seven Bends State Park 1191 Lupton Rd Woodstock, VA 22...
Lewis Whirlwind Horse was the last living member of a traveling troupe of cowboys and Indians who invented the way we imagine the Old West must have been. “We were playing at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City, which is neither square nor a garden,” Whirlwind Horse said. ...
Now 89 years old, he recently was awarded France’s Legion d’Honneur at a small ceremony for World War II veterans at the French embassy in Washington. The short, soft spoken man stood up to receive the medal and shook hands with a French diplomat. But he has no plans to return to ...
Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, was also born in America but her parents came from El Salvador, so she got a ring emblazoned with her country's flag. "I'm very proud of where I came from," she said. Conflicting loyalties are so close to the surface that some schools ...
In the month of August, 1619, a Dutch man-of-war visited Jamestown and sold the settlers twenty negroes, the first introduced into Virginia. Some time before this, Captain Argall sent out, at the expense of the Earl of Warwick, on a “filibustering” cruise to the West Indies, a ship...
While Lee was a hero during the Mexican American War, a commander at the John Brown raid at Harper’s Ferry and former superintendent of West Point, he could not take up arms against his beloved Virginia. Are you more a member of your race, faith, Georgian or American? Do you “ride ...
’ I could envision other worlds, enter other books, become characters on stage. Everything I needed was in consciousness. All I had to do (have to do even now) is pull it through me. It is all out there. Everything we need to be happy, to create a state of Being. Some people ...