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  2. Virginia Women's Monument - Wikipedia

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    [3] [7] Alsop lobbied her state senator, Walter Stosch, who subsequently introduced Senate Joint Resolution No. 11 in the 2010 session of the Virginia General Assembly. [8] The joint resolution, which created the Virginia Women's Monument Commission, was passed unanimously in both the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia. [9]

  3. Women of Colonial Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Colonists choosing wives (Virginia, c1615) In May 1607, one hundred men and young boys were on an expedition where they arrived in what is now known as Virginia. This group were the first permanent English settlers in America. They named the colony of Jamestown, after the English King James. The site was chosen precisely for its location and ...

  4. Virginia Women in History - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Women in History was an annual program sponsored by the Library of Virginia that honored Virginia women, living and dead, for their contributions to their ...

  5. Footman - Wikipedia

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    Royal footmen in the United Kingdom wearing their ceremonial livery at the State Opening of Parliament procession, 2008. A footman is a male domestic worker employed mainly to wait at table or attend a coach or carriage.

  6. List of members of the Virginia House of Burgesses - Wikipedia

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    New York: Published pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed on the Fifth day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight, Printed for the Editor by R. and W. and G. Bartow, 1823 (Second Edition). Leonard, Cynthia Miller. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978, A Bicentennial Register of Members.

  7. Ethel Furman - Wikipedia

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    Ethel Bailey Furman (née Ethel Madison Bailey; July 6, 1893—February 24, 1976) [1] was an American architect who was the earliest known African-American female architect in Virginia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Biography

  8. Virginia elects first-ever female house speaker - AOL

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  9. First Families of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]