Richmond International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport in Sandston, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community. The airport is about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of downtown Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Richmond International Airport is the busiest airport in central Virginia and the third-busiest in the state behind Washington D.C.'s two major airports, Washington Dulles and Washington National. RIC covers 2,500 acres of land.
The Northeast Regional is a regional rail service operated by Amtrak in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. In the past it has been known as the NortheastDirect, Acela Regional, or Regional. It is the busiest Amtrak route, carrying 8.41 million passengers in fiscal year (FY) 2016, a 2.4% increase over the 8.15 million passengers in FY2015. The Northeast Regional service earned over $613.9 million in gross ticket revenue in FY2016, a 0.4% increase over the $611.7 million earned during FY2015.
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England. It was founded in 1871, and was the sport's international governing body prior to the formation of what is now known as World Rugby (WR) in 1886. It promotes and runs the sport, organises international matches for the England national team, and educates and trains players and officials.
The Middlesex Sevens was a Rugby Sevens tournament held annually at Twickenham stadium in London, England until 2011. It was first held in 1926, and started by Dr J.A. Russell-Cargill, a London-based Scot. The event was held at the end of the rugby union season in May every year for 75 years and moved to August in 2001 due to lack of available stadium dates and players in May. The Middlesex Sevens tournament was last played in 2011, as the new Premiership Rugby 7s Series caused many of the top clubs that previously took part to pull out.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is the agency of the state government responsible for transportation in the state of Virginia in the United States. VDOT is headquartered at the Virginia Department of Highways Building in downtown Richmond. VDOT is responsible for building, maintaining, and operating the roads, bridges, and tunnels in the commonwealth. It is overseen by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, which has the power to fund airports, seaports, rail, and public transportation.
Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places:
The Washington Renegades are a Division III and Division IV rugby union club based in Washington D.C.. Established on October 24, 1998, by Mark Hertzog, the Washington Renegades was the first men's rugby club in the United States to actively recruit gay men and men of color.
Sovran Bank was a US-based regional bank that operated in Virginia between 1983 and 1990, and was the leading subsidiary of Sovran Financial Corporation. It was itself a product of a merger between First & Merchants Bank of Richmond and Virginia National Bankshares of Norfolk, both of which could trace back their history to the 1860s. In 1990 it was merged with Citizens & Southern National Bank to form C&S/Sovran Corp., which in turn merged with NCNB to form NationsBank which became Bank of America in 1998.
A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies.
A Bolivian Americans are Americans of at least partial Bolivian descent.
The 1973 England rugby union tour of Fiji and New Zealand was a series of matches played by the England national rugby union team in Fiji and New Zealand in August and September 1973. England played five games, including a test match against the New Zealand national rugby union team and a match against the Fiji national rugby union team for which England did not award full internationals caps. England beat Fiji by only a single point and lost all three matches against New Zealand provincial teams but completed the tour with their first win against New Zealand since 1936.
The Washington Irish Rugby Football Club is a Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) rugby union team based in Washington, DC. The Washington Irish currently field two competitive mens’ club rugby sides, one in Division I and one in Division III. The Washington Irish compete within the Capital Geographic Union of USA Rugby.
McDonough Bolyard Peck, Inc. (MBP) is a construction management company in the United States with headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. It provides a variety of construction management services such as cost estimating, value engineering, constructibility review, CPM scheduling, inspection, building information modeling, and facilities management. The firm is also active in many forms of Alternative Disputes Resolution (ADR). The firm serves private and governmental owners, designers, contractors, developers and attorneys on a wide range of transportation, building, plant, environmental and utilities projects.
Hove Rugby Club is an English community rugby union club, located in the City of Brighton and Hove, who play in London 1 South following their promotion from London 2 South East via the play-offs at the end of the 2017-18 season. Hove Rugby Club is based at Hove Recreation Ground in Shirley Drive Hove. Hove Rugby Club is affiliated to the English RFU via the Sussex RFU.
Karl Dickson, is an English professional rugby union referee. He is pursuing a career in refereeing and coaches at St. John's school in Leatherhead. He previously played for Harlequins in Premiership Rugby and was a scrum half.
The Capital Geographic Union is the Geographical Union (GU) for rugby union teams playing in the Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It is an association of youth, high school, collegiate, and adult men's and women's rugby teams in the Mid-Atlantic United States under USA Rugby.
