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Virginia City

(Encyclopedia)Virginia City, uninc. village (1990 pop. 920), seat of Storey co., W Nev.; settled 1859. Now largely a tourist center, it was the site of the Comstock Lode and a major hub for the mining of silver and...

Virginia Company

(Encyclopedia)Virginia Company, name of two English colonizing companies, chartered by King James I in 1606. By the terms of the charter, the Virginia Company of London (see London Company) was given permission to ...

Bell, Clive

(Encyclopedia)Bell, Clive, 1881–1964, English critic of art and literature. He was a member of the Bloomsbury group. His works include Art (1914), Since Cézanne (1922), Landmarks in Nineteenth-Century Painting (...

Virginia bluebell

(Encyclopedia)Virginia bluebell: see borage.

Virginia cowslip

(Encyclopedia)Virginia cowslip: see borage.

Stephen, George

(Encyclopedia)Stephen, George: see Mount Stephen, George Stephen, 1st Baron. ...

Virginia, ship

(Encyclopedia)Virginia, Confederate name for the ironclad Merrimack. See Monitor and Merrimack. ...

Mallory, Stephen Russell

(Encyclopedia)Mallory, Stephen Russell, c.1813–73, U.S. Senator, secretary of the navy in the Confederacy, b. Trinidad, West Indies. He was raised in Key West, Fla., where he practiced law and was a customs offic...

Elkins, Stephen Benton

(Encyclopedia)Elkins, Stephen Benton, 1841–1911, American statesman, b. Perry co., Ohio. He grew up in Missouri and after the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted in the Union army, although his father and brother ...

Bocskay, Stephen

(Encyclopedia)Bocskay, Stephen bôchˈkī [key], 1557–1606, Hungarian noble, voivode [governor] (1604–6) and prince (1605–6) of Transylvania. Seeking to secure the independence of Transylvania, he supported h...