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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Virginia Historical Reporter
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Virginia Historical Reporter: Conducted by the Executive Committee of the Virginia Historical Society
Author: Virginia Historical Society
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Vol. 1 contains 3 parts, each part having separate title-page and paging.
Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Vol. 1 contains 3 parts, each part having separate title-page and paging.
Frank Batten
Author: Connie Sage
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393155X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Frank Batten Sr. (1927-2009) created the Weather Channel in 1982, despite mocking by colleagues in the media that around-the-clock weather broadcasts would be as exciting as watching paint dry. The network, and later its companion website, Weather.com, became the largest private weather company in the world and an American cultural icon. Yet few have heard of Batten, a media pioneer whose Virginia newspaper was the only major daily to back school integration. At a time when American corporate greed was making headlines, without fanfare and limelight Batten built a media empire centered on honesty, integrity, and ethics. Starting out in his uncle's newspaper business in Norfolk, Virginia, as a reporter and advertising salesman, he assumed leadership of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star at the age of twenty-seven and grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse. He championed racial equality, a position not often taken in Virginia during the 1950s. His flagship newspaper, the Pilot, was the only daily paper in Virginia to back court-ordered school desegregation. He created two billion-dollar businesses and gave away more than $400 million to charity, nearly all of it to education. As chairman of the Associated Press from 1982 to 1987, he helped guide the news agency back on a sound financial footing. Batten also faced a tremendous personal challenge that would have sidelined many: he lost his vocal cords to cancer two years before starting the Weather Channel. This is the untold story of a man whose name few recognize, yet who helped change the face of the media in the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393155X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Frank Batten Sr. (1927-2009) created the Weather Channel in 1982, despite mocking by colleagues in the media that around-the-clock weather broadcasts would be as exciting as watching paint dry. The network, and later its companion website, Weather.com, became the largest private weather company in the world and an American cultural icon. Yet few have heard of Batten, a media pioneer whose Virginia newspaper was the only major daily to back school integration. At a time when American corporate greed was making headlines, without fanfare and limelight Batten built a media empire centered on honesty, integrity, and ethics. Starting out in his uncle's newspaper business in Norfolk, Virginia, as a reporter and advertising salesman, he assumed leadership of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star at the age of twenty-seven and grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse. He championed racial equality, a position not often taken in Virginia during the 1950s. His flagship newspaper, the Pilot, was the only daily paper in Virginia to back court-ordered school desegregation. He created two billion-dollar businesses and gave away more than $400 million to charity, nearly all of it to education. As chairman of the Associated Press from 1982 to 1987, he helped guide the news agency back on a sound financial footing. Batten also faced a tremendous personal challenge that would have sidelined many: he lost his vocal cords to cancer two years before starting the Weather Channel. This is the untold story of a man whose name few recognize, yet who helped change the face of the media in the twentieth century.
List of Works in the New York Public Library Relating to Virginia
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
The Virginia Convention of 1829-30
Author: Hugh Blair Grigsby
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar
Author: Virginia Vallejo
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525433406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Now a major motion picture! Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media personalities, police, and unarmed citizens. In the 1980s, Virginia Vallejo was Colombia’s most famous television celebrity: a top-rated anchorwoman and a twice-divorced socialite who had been courted by the country’s four wealthiest men. In 1982, she interviewed Pablo Escobar on her news program, and soon after, they began a discreet—albeit stormy—romantic relationship. During their five-year affair, Escobar would show Vallejo the vulnerability of presidents, senators, and military leaders seeking to profit from the drug trade. From Vallejo’s privileged perspective and her ability to navigate the global corridors of wealth and high society, Escobar gained the insight to master his manipulation of Colombia’s powerful elite and media. Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar chronicles the birth of Colombia’s drug cartels: the kidnappers, the guerilla groups, and the paramilitary organizations. It is, above everything, a great love story—a deep and painful journey through a forbidden relationship—that gives us an intimate vision of the legendary drug baron who left his mark on Colombia, Latin America, the United States, and the world forever.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525433406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Now a major motion picture! Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media personalities, police, and unarmed citizens. In the 1980s, Virginia Vallejo was Colombia’s most famous television celebrity: a top-rated anchorwoman and a twice-divorced socialite who had been courted by the country’s four wealthiest men. In 1982, she interviewed Pablo Escobar on her news program, and soon after, they began a discreet—albeit stormy—romantic relationship. During their five-year affair, Escobar would show Vallejo the vulnerability of presidents, senators, and military leaders seeking to profit from the drug trade. From Vallejo’s privileged perspective and her ability to navigate the global corridors of wealth and high society, Escobar gained the insight to master his manipulation of Colombia’s powerful elite and media. Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar chronicles the birth of Colombia’s drug cartels: the kidnappers, the guerilla groups, and the paramilitary organizations. It is, above everything, a great love story—a deep and painful journey through a forbidden relationship—that gives us an intimate vision of the legendary drug baron who left his mark on Colombia, Latin America, the United States, and the world forever.
Colonial Records of Virginia
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806305584
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806305584
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
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Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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