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The 2011 Virginia earthquake occurred on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 pm EDT (17:51 UTC) in the Piedmont region of the US state of Virginia.The epicenter, in Louisa County, was 38 mi (61 km) northwest of Richmond and 5 mi (8 km) south-southwest of the town of Mineral.
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Portal:Virginia/Selected biography/17 Grace Sherwood (c. 1660 – c. 1740), known as the "Witch of Pungo", is the last person known to have been convicted of witchcraft in Virginia. A farmer, healer, and midwife, her neighbors accused her of transforming herself into a cat, damaging crops and causing the death of livestock.
As a general goal, where possible each set of DYK selections should have a variety of hooks: they set should be from various locations (e.g. Central & Eartern Virginia, Northern Virginia, Western Virginia), various types (e.g. biography, location, historic site) and even time period (e.g. colonial vs. 20th-21st century): in sum, the whole swath of the Virginia experience.
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and the third President of the United States.
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Portal:Virginia/Selected article/15 The Pittston Coal strike was a United States labor union action led by the United Mine Workers Union (UMWA) against the Pittston Coal Company, nationally headquartered in Pittston, Pennsylvania.