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5 hours ago · Time zone: UTC−5 • Summer UTC−4 ... In the Virginia State Senate, ... 4,721 houses, about 10% of all stand-alone homes, were worth $1 million or more. By ...
- February 27, 1801
- Arlington House
1 day ago · Website. www.roanokeva.gov. Roanoke ( / ˈroʊ.əˌnoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia– North Carolina border and 250 ...
- 883–1,740 ft (269–530 m)
- Roanoke River
- None (Independent city)
- Virginia
5 hours ago · Etymology Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. As Forbes was a Scotsman, he probably pronounced the name / ˈ p ɪ t s b ər ə / PITS -bər-ə (similar to Edinburgh). Pittsburgh was incorporated as a borough on April 22, 1794, with the following Act: "Be it enacted by the Pennsylvania State Senate and ...
5 hours ago · Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is commonly known as the Twin Cities after the area's two largest cities, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Minnesotans often refer to the two ...
- 1,021.8 sq mi (2,646 km²)
- United States
5 hours ago · Background The vessels that eventually became the Iowa -class battleships were born from the US Navy's War Plan Orange, a Pacific war plan against Japan. War planners anticipated that the US fleet would engage and advance in the Central Pacific, with a long line of communication and logistics that would be vulnerable to high-speed Japanese cruisers and capital ships. The chief concern was that ...
