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Punchboards used for gambling in California in the 1910s were a game "where the player puys for the privilege of inserting a disk in a covered hole on a board and punches out a number, which, if it corresponds to a certain number on the board, a prize is awarded the player."
John Punch (c. 1605 – c. 1650) was an Angolan-born resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first legally enslaved person in British colonial America under criminal law. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In contrast, John Casor became the first legally enslaved person of the colonies under civil law, having committed no crime.
Bloody Monday is a name used to describe a series of arrests and attacks that took place during a civil rights protest held on June 10, 1963, in Danville, Virginia. [1] [2] It was held to protest segregation laws and racial inequality and was one of several protests held during the month of June. [3]
The population grew slowly from 700,000 in 1790, to 1 million in 1830, to 1.2 million in 1860. Virginia was the largest state population wise to join the Confederate States in 1861. It became the major theater of war during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Southern Unionists in western Virginia created the separate state of West Virginia in
He represented the 38th district, made up of part of Fairfax County. [1] ... Virginia State Board of Elections. Archived from the original on 2010-06-17.
William Alexander Anderson (May 11, 1842 – June 21, 1930) was a Virginia lawyer, Confederate soldier and Democratic politician, who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, twice won election as Attorney General of Virginia, and also served as rector of his alma mater, Washington & Lee University.
School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – four years after those names had been ...
William H. Fralin, Jr. (born February 8, 1963) is an American politician and lawyer. He was a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates 2004–2010, representing the 17th district in the western part of the state, made up of parts of Botetourt and Roanoke Counties and the city of Roanoke.