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Title page to the Code of 1819, formally titled The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia. The Code of Virginia is the statutory law of the U.S. state of Virginia and consists of the codified legislation of the Virginia General Assembly. The 1950 Code of Virginia is the revision currently in force.
Historical marker at Galax. The area that later became Galax was part of an 800-acre (320 ha) land grant given to James Buchanan in 1756 by the British Crown. The first plat map for Galax is dated December 1903; [5] The town founders selected the site for the city on a wide expanse of meadowland bisected by Chestnut Creek and sitting at an altitude of 2,500 feet (760 m) on a plateau. [6]
McLean is located on the Capital Beltway (Interstate 495) in Northern Virginia, central McLean is 8 miles (13 km) northwest of downtown Washington, D.C., and 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Fairfax, the county seat. [7] The community lies in the Piedmont upland on the west bank of the Potomac River.
White Sulphur Springs is located along Howard Creek and is served by I-64 and US Route 60. [12]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.98 square miles (5.13 km 2), of which 1.95 sq mi (5.05 km 2) is land and 0.03 sq mi (0.08 km 2) is water. [13]
The 2013 Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 2013, to elect the governor of Virginia. The incumbent governor, Republican Bob McDonnell , was not eligible to run for re-election due to term limits established by the Virginia Constitution .
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
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400 year sunspot history, including the Maunder Minimum "The prediction for solar cycle 24 gave a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 69 in the late Summer of 2013. . The smoothed sunspot number reached 68.9 in August 2013 so the official maximum was at least that h