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Rescue is an unincorporated community in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States. Rescue is located on Jones Creek near its confluence into the James River, 4 miles (6.4 km) east-northeast of Smithfield. Rescue has a post office with ZIP code 23424, which opened on October 21, 1889. [2] [3]
Silverwing, a tabby, rumpy Manx male champion show cat (UK, 1902) Tailless cats, then called stubbin (apparently both singular and plural) in colloquial Manx language, [1] [2] were known by the early 19th century as cats from the Isle of Man, [3] hence the name, where they remain a substantial but declining percentage of the local cat population.
The Manx cat (/ ˈ m æ ŋ k s /, in earlier times often spelled Manks) is a breed of domestic cat (Felis catus) originating on the Isle of Man, with a mutation that shortens the tail. Many Manx have a small stub of a tail, but Manx cats are best known as being entirely tailless; this is the most distinguishing characteristic of the breed ...
Chamblissburg is an unincorporated community in southwestern Bedford County, Virginia, United States. It lies along State Route 24, east of Stewartsville. [1] It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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The state highway passes the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College, whose access road is SR 376 (Lake Drive), before meeting I-495 (Capital Beltway) at a cloverleaf interchange. In the commercial center of Annandale, westbound SR 236 receives the western terminus of SR 244 (Columbia Pike), whose southernmost segment is one-way ...
NARROWS, Va. (AP) — One very lucky dog is recovering at a shelter after a group of cavers said their excursion into a western Virginia cave over the weekend turned into a rescue mission when ...
The family Cuculidae includes cuckoos, roadrunners, and anis. These birds are of variable size with slender bodies, long tails, and strong legs. The Old World cuckoos are brood parasites. Three species have been recorded in Virginia. Groove-billed ani, Crotophaga sulcirostris (A) Yellow-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus