Red imported fire ants (RIFAs), which have caused trouble in Florida and Texas for decades, are now advancing in Virginia. Colonies of the tiny, highly aggressive insects have been observed in the commonwealth since 1989 and, in recent years, have caught the attention of Virginia Tech scientists who are trying to learn more about the increasing number of fire ant infestations.
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Queen Elizabeth II arrived for the commemoration of Jamestown's 400th anniversary and praised the cultural changes that have occurred since she last visited America's first permanent English settlement 50 years ago.
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Virginia Opera has the distinct honor of hosting its "Cruise the World of Opera" gala at the Half Moone Cruise and Celebration Center on April 14, 2007 - the first major special event to be booked at Norfolk's new $36 million facility, which is located downtown next to Nauticus.
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The Village at Gordon House, an assisted living facility located in Orange County, Virginia, has introduced a new bed-and-breakfast standard of living for the elderly. Less than a two-hour drive from Washington, D.C., the facility is nestled among antebellum homes in historic Gordonsville, in close proximity to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia.
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Palm, Inc. today announced that Judge James R. Spencer of the United States District Court for the Eastern Division of Virginia, Richmond Division, granted a stay of proceedings in the patent infringement litigation brought against the company by NTP.
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Exactly 145 years after the historic clash between the Civil War ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862, The Mariners' Museum and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today opened the doors to one of America's premier maritime Civil War attractions, the new USS Monitor Center.
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The world's most infamous gentlemen of fortune will swing into lively action and music at Virginia Opera's third annual "Family Day at the Opera"Â with performances of a special family version of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" at Norfolk's Harrison Opera House on April 28. Admission is $8 per person with free parking.
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Virginia Opera presents its second-ever "Student Night at the Opera"Â on March 21 in Richmond at the Landmark Theater, featuring a double-bill production of two famous Italian one-act operas - Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Ruggerio Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" - with orchestration provided by the Richmond Symphony.
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For the final performances of its 2006-2007 season in March and April, Virginia Opera brings audiences to Old World Sicily with the double-bill production commonly known as "Cav / Pag,"Â featuring two of Italian opera's most beloved one-act tragedies - Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci.
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Conservators from The Mariners' Museum and historians from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Program drilled and removed a two-inch diameter "core sample" from the wall of the famous Civil War ironclad USS Monitor's turret this week.
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Late on the evening of March 8, 1862, a strange looking craft, which some thought resembled a "cheesebox on a raft," crept slowly into Hampton Roads, Va., after a harrowing trip down the coast from New York. That morning, the massive Confederate ironclad Virginia, constructed atop the hull of the old steam frigate Merrimack, had made its first sortie into the roadstead, destroying two U.S. Navy warships and damaging a third.
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Virginia Opera offers its sincere appreciation to the family of Richmond's Anna Lauder Garner, which is honoring her memory by underwriting the company's current production of G.F. Handel's Agrippina, a statewide premiere that is being performed in Virginia for the first time in the nearly 300 years since its composition.
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