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Road incident deaths in West Virginia (4 P) Pages in category "Accidental deaths in West Virginia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
New River Railroad, Mining and Manufacturing Company of West Virginia: N&W: 1874 1881 New River Railroad of West Virginia: New River Railroad of West Virginia: N&W: 1881 1882 Norfolk and Western Railroad: New River Bridge Company: C&O: 1887 1890 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: New York Central Railroad: NYC NYC 1922 1968 Penn Central ...
Clip from John Senex map c. 1710 showing the people Captain Vielle passed by to arrive in Chaouenon's country as the French Jesuit called the Shawnee.. For nearly 15 years, missionaries and "coureurs de bois" confused ideas of a "beautiful River, large, wide, deep, and worthy of comparison . . . with our great river St. Lawrence" that in 1660 and 1662 they were able to describe a river below ...
Twin Branch is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Twin Branch is 1 mile (1.6 km) west-southwest of Davy. It was founded by Henry Ford as a mining community. [2] The community was named for the fact two streams meet at the town site. [3]
A small jet crashed in Virginia Sunday, killing all four adults and one juvenile onboard, state police said. The twin-engine IAI Astra 1125 aircraft crashed around 3 p.m. Sunday near Ingalls Field ...
Climate data for Rupert, West Virginia, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1989–present: 3319ft (1012m) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep