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Virginius (film)
Virginius may refer to: * ''Virginius'' Affair, a diplomatic dispute that occurred during the Ten Years' War **, the ship at the center of the Affair *Virginius Island, West Virginia, an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia People *Alan Virginius (born 2003), French footballer *Any of various members of the Roman '' gens Verginia'', also spelled ''Virginia'' * Virginius E. Clark (1886–1948), American aviator and military officer *Virginius Dabney (1901–1995), American educator and writer *Virginius Dabney (American football) (1878–1942), football player and coach Literature * ''Virginius'' (play), an 1820 tragedy by James Sheridan Knowles * A character in ''The Physician's Tale'', one of the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, written in the 14th century *Lucius Verginius, a respected Roman centurion and father of heroine Verginia in Livy's ''Ab Urbe Condita'' See also * Virginia (given name), a feminine name derived from the Roman gens * Vir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginius Affair
The ''Virginius'' Affair was a diplomatic dispute that occurred from October 1873 to February 1875 between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain (then in control of Cuba), during the Ten Years' War. ''Virginius'' was a fast American ship hired by Cuban insurrectionists to land men and munitions in Cuba to attack the Spanish regime there. It was captured by the Spanish, who wanted to try the men onboard (many of whom were American and British citizens) as pirates and execute them. The Spanish executed 53 of the men but stopped when the British government intervened. Throughout the ordeal there was loose talk that the U.S. might declare war on Spain. During the lengthy negotiations the Spanish government had undergone several changes in leadership. US consul Caleb Cushing ended the episode by negotiating $80,000 in reparations to be paid to the families of the Americans who were executed. British families were compensated by the Spanish government through negotiation pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginius Island, West Virginia
Virginius Island is a formerly inhabited island of some , on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The island was created by the Shenandoah Canal, constructed by the Patowmack Company between 1806 and 1807, which separates it from the town of Harpers Ferry. The canal was constructed to enable boats to bypass rapids on the river, and also channel water to drive machinery. In the nineteenth century Virginius Island contained Harpers Ferry's industry (aside from the Arsenal) and working-class housing: a boarding house and row houses. Virginius Island is part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. A thriving industrial town Virginius Island was a thriving industrial town in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Shenandoah was a great source of power by which to operate machinery. There was good access to markets via the Potomac, and even more after the Winchester and Potomac Railroad, which ran through the island, arrived in 1836. Its successor, CSX, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Virginius
Alan Virginius (born 3 January 2003) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Lille. Career Sochaux On 6 July 2020, Virginius signed his first professional contract with Sochaux. Virginius made his professional debut with Sochaux in a 2–2 Ligue 2 tie with Rodez on 19 September 2020. Lille On 17 August 2022, Virginius signed with Ligue 1 side Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref .... References External links * * * 2003 births Living people People from Soisy-sous-Montmorency Black French sportspeople French footballers Footballers from Val-d'Oise Association football forwards France youth international footballers Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 2 players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verginia Gens
The gens Verginia or Virginia was a prominent family at ancient Rome, which from an early period was divided into patrician and plebeian branches. The gens was of great antiquity, and frequently filled the highest honors of the state during the early years of the Republic. The first of the family who obtained the consulship was Opiter Verginius Tricostus in 502 BC, the seventh year of the Republic. The plebeian members of the family were also numbered amongst the early tribunes of the people. Origin The orthography of the nomen ''Verginius'' or ''Virginius'' has been disputed since ancient times; but ''Verginius'' is the form usually found in both manuscripts and inscriptions. Modern writers seem to favor ''Virginius'', perhaps by analogy to ''virgo'', a maiden. A similar instance is presented by the nomen ''Vergilius'', which in modern times is often spelt ''Virgilius''. The gens was likely of Etruscan origins, and may have come to Rome with the Tarquins. Praenomina The ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Virginius may refer to: * ''Virginius'' Affair, a diplomatic dispute that occurred during the Ten Years' War **, the ship at the center of the Affair *Virginius Island, West Virginia, an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia People *Alan Virginius (born 2003), French footballer *Any of various members of the Roman '' gens Verginia'', also spelled ''Virginia'' * Virginius E. Clark (1886–1948), American aviator and military officer *Virginius Dabney (1901–1995), American educator and writer *Virginius Dabney (American football) (1878–1942), football player and coach Literature * ''Virginius'' (play), an 1820 tragedy by James Sheridan Knowles * a character in '' The Physician's Tale'', one of the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, written in the 14th century *Lucius Verginius, a respected Roman centurion and father of Roman heroine Verginia in Livy's ''Ab Urbe Condita'' See also * Virginia (given name) Virginia is a Germanic and Romance Gram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginius Dabney
Virginius Dabney (February 8, 1901 – December 28, 1995) was an American teacher, journalist, and writer, who edited the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch ''from 1936 to 1969 and wrote several historical books. Dabney won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1948 due in part to his opposition to the poll tax. In his later years, he was criticized for not standing against Virginia's massive resistance to school integration. Youth, education Virginius Dabney was born on February 8, 1901 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where his father, Richard Heath Dabney, was a professor of history. His mother was a descendant of Thomas Jefferson. His paternal grandfather (also Virginius Dabney, 1835-1894) was a Confederate veteran and author of collections of tales about the Commonwealth. Dabney graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. He then studied at the University of Virginia, where he was a brother in the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginius Dabney (American Football)
Virginius Dabney (February 2, 1878 – January 17, 1942) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Tulane University in 1902. Playing career Dabney attended the University of Virginia, where he played on the football team as a prominent halfback from 1896 to 1900. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. 1900 Dabney was selected All-Southern by Caspar Whitney in ''Outing''. Virginia had a claim to a Southern championship. The Cavaliers defeated Sewanee 17 to 5 to give the school its first loss since 1897. Dabney ran for two touchdowns that game. An account of one of those reads "Dabney ran twenty yards for a touchdown, the gain being largely due to the splendid interference led by Walker and Haskel. Coaching career 1902 In 1902, he was the head coach of the football team at Tulane University. The Olive and Blue amassed a 1–4–2 record that season. Later life Dabney was later an otolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginius (play)
''Virginius'' is an 1820 tragedy by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles. It was part of a crop of plays set during the Roman Republic, part of a revival of interest in the period.Sachs p.224 The original cast featured William Macready as Virginius and also included Charles Kemble, Maria Foote, William Abbot and Daniel Terry Daniel Terry (1780?–1829) was an English actor and playwright, known also as a close associate of Sir Walter Scott. Life He was born in Bath about 1780, and was educated at the Bath grammar school and subsequently at a private school at Wingf .... References Bibliography *Sachs, Jonathon. ''Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832''. OUP USA, 2010. 1820 plays West End plays Tragedy plays Historical plays Plays by James Sheridan Knowles Plays set in ancient Rome {{19thC-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Physician's Tale
"The Physician's Tale" is one of ''The Canterbury Tales'', written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century. It is a domestic drama about the relationship between a daughter and her father, based on a tale from the Histories of Titus Livius and retold in ''The Romance of the Rose,'' as well as John Gower's ''Confessio Amantis,'' which Chaucer drew on for inspiration, and the biblical story of Jephtha. Although difficult to date like most of Chaucer's tales, the Physician's tale is usually regarded as an early work of Chaucer probably written before much of the rest of the ''Canterbury Tales'' was begun. The long digression on governesses possibly alludes to a historical event and may serve to date it: in 1386 Elizabeth, the daughter of John of Gaunt, eloped to France with John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. Elizabeth's governess was Katherine Swynford, who was also Gaunt's mistress and later wife. Chaucer's words on the virtues of governesses were potentially influenced by this. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Livy)
The work called ( en, From the Founding of the City), sometimes referred to as (''Books from the Founding of the City''), is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by Livy, a Roman historian. The work covers the period from the legends concerning the arrival of Aeneas and the refugees from the fall of Troy, to the city's founding in 753 BC, the expulsion of the Kings in 509 BC, and down to Livy's own time, during the reign of the emperor Augustus. The last event covered by Livy is the death of Drusus in 9 BC. 35 of 142 books, about a quarter of the work, are still extant. The surviving books deal with the events down to 293 BC (books 1–10), and from 219 to 166 BC (books 21–45). Contents Corpus The ''History of Rome'' originally comprised 142 "books", thirty-five of which—Books 1–10 with the Preface and Books 21–45—still exist in reasonably complete form. Damage to a manuscript of the 5th century resulted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia (given Name)
Virginia is a Germanic and Romance Grammatical gender#Personal names, feminine given name derived from the Ancient Roman family name ''Verginia gens, Verginius'' or ''Virginius'', a name widely assumed to derive from the Latin language, Latin word wiktionary:virgo, virgo, meaning ''"maiden"'' or "''virgin''." According to legend, Verginia, Virginia was a Roman girl who was killed by her father in order to save her from seduction by the corrupt government official Appius Claudius Crassus. The name was the 34th most common name for American women and girls, according to the census of 1990. It was the 545th most popular name given to baby girls born in the United States in 2007. Virginia Dare was the first child born to England, English parents in North America. Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter that prompted the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the ''New York Sun''. The most famous Virginia is probably the English modernist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
