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Topic Page: Philippines
1 Republic of the Philippines (functioning as singular) a republic in SE Asia, occupying an archipelago of about 7100 islands (including Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, and Negros): became a Spanish colony in 1571 but ceded to the US in 1898 after the Spanish-American War; gained independence in 1946. The islands are generally mountainous and volcanic. Official languages: Filipino, based on Tagalog, and English. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Manila. Pop: 105 720 644 (2013 est). Area: 300 076 sq km (115 860 sq miles). Related word: Filipino
Country in southeast Asia, on an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands west of the Pacific Ocean and south of the Southeast Asian mainland.
Government The Philippines is a multiparty liberal democracy with a presidential political executive. Its constitution was approved by plebiscite in February 1987. It provides for a US-style executive president who is elected for a non-renewable six-year term and a two-chamber legislature or Congress: a 24-member upper house, the Senate, and a 297-member lower house, the House of Representatives, with similar respective powers to their counterparts in the USA. Senators are elected in national-level contests for six-year terms, with half elected every three years and restricted to a maximum of two consecutive terms.
Representatives serve three-year terms (a maximum of three consecutive terms), with 238 directly elected at the district level under the first-past-the-post and 59 elected under proportional representation from lists of under-represented 'minority and sectoral groups'. The president appoints an executive cabinet, but, as in the USA, while being unable directly to introduce legislation, may impose vetoes on congressional bills that can only be overridden by two-thirds majorities in each chamber. The vice-president, also elected for a non-renewable six-year term, automatically assumes the presidency for the remainder of the unexpired term in the case of the president's death or resignation. There is also a 'Bill of Rights' and a 15-member Supreme Court.
History The Philippines were populated by the furthest northeastern migration of the Indo-Malay peoples, and was also the furthest eastern area penetrated by Islam, which was brought by Arab traders and missionaries from the late 13th century. The inhabitants were semi-nomadic and lived by hunting and fishing when the first Europeans arrived, led by Ferdinand Magellan, in 1521. Magellan was killed in a fight with the islanders.
Spanish colonial rule Spain took possession in 1565, named the colony after Philip II, and Islam was largely replaced by Roman Catholicism. The Philippines served Spain economically, largely as an entrepôt for trade between China and the Spanish colonies of Latin America, and it was not until the latter half of the 19th century that Philippine products such as sugar, coffee, tobacco, and hemp began to enter world trade to any significant degree. The reactionary nature of Spain's colonial rule led to a series of armed nationalist revolts, culminating in the 1896 revolution.
The US takeover The Filipinos, under the leadership of Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo, were on the verge of securing Philippine independence in 1898 when US forces entered the Philippines during the course of the Spanish–American War. Disregarding the legitimacy of the Aguinaldo government, the USA demanded and obtained the cession of the Philippines from Spain in December 1898 and went on the offensive against Aguinaldo's forces. The ensuing war, which lasted until 1901, was won by the Americans at a cost of some 200,000 Filipino lives (one-fifth of the population), most of them civilians; 4,000 US soldiers also died.
US colonial rule The USA decided not to establish a colonial bureaucracy, and preferred to grant a large measure of autonomy to the Filipino estate-owning elite. Increasing self-government was granted from 1916 to 1935, although the US governor-general reserved the power of veto. In 1935 Manuel Quezon was elected the first president.
In the economic sphere, US trade laws (principally the Payne–Aldrich Tariff of 1909) ensured that the economic development of the Philippines would be confined to agricultural export crops and mining, at the expense of manufacturing or industrialization on any meaningful scale.
During the depression of the 1930s the USA established a commonwealth government in the Philippines with the eventual promise of independence. This was done for internal domestic reasons, largely concerning the US sugar economy and the need to protect sizeable US investments in Cuba.
The Philippines in World War II Plans for granting independence were disrupted by the advent of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines 1942–45. The Japanese attacked in December 1941 and in May 1942 the US forces defending the islands surrendered. A pro-Japanese puppet regime was established, in which many Filipino politicians participated. Quezon escaped to the USA where he set up a government-in-exile. Guerrilla resistance movements were established both by pro-US Filipino officers, and by the communist-led Hukbalahap organization. US forces started the reconquest of the Philippines in October 1944 and Sergio Osmena, who had succeeded Quezon, returned with the liberation force. (For more details see World War II.)
The early years of independence In April 1949 Manuel Roxas finished ahead of Osmena in the presidential election and in July 1946 became president of the Republic of the Philippines, when the USA granted independence. However, the USA insisted upon incorporating a number of economic limitations on Philippine national autonomy. These restrictions were incorporated in the 1946 Philippine Trade Act, which gave the Americans duty-free access to the Philippine market, control over the value of the peso, and special rights for the exploitation of Philippine natural resources. Lack of control over imports soon led to a balance-of-trade crisis as the country was flooded with imports it could not pay for. By 1949 the Philippine government was forced to impose import controls, a move reluctantly agreed to by the USA, which had the final veto right on the policy.
The USA also secured 99-year leases over a number of air and naval bases in the Philippines in return for assistance in rebuilding its infrastructure. In 1954 the Philippines joined the South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
The onerous nature of the economic concessions to the USA, coupled with the sharp divisions between the estate-owning elite and an increasingly impoverished and dispossessed peasantry, gave rise to the Huk rebellion (1946–54), organized by the communist-led Hukbalahap, which had fought the Japanese throughout the occupation. The rebellion was eventually crushed by the combined US and Philippine forces.
Political and economic developments 1946–65 The first presidents of the independent Philippines were largely drawn from the islands' wealthy estate-owning elite. Two major political parties, the Liberals and the Nationalists, vied for political power in these years, the Liberals winning in the presidential elections of 1946, 1949, and 1961, the Nationalists winning in 1953, 1957, and 1965. There were five presidents up to 1965: Manuel Roxas (1946–48), Elpidio Quirino (1948–53), Ramon Magsaysay (1953–57), Carlos Garcia (1957–61), and Diosdado Macapagal (1961–65).
During the 13 years of import controls, 1949–1962, indigenous manufacturers were given a chance to develop their industries without facing crippling competition from US firms. The period did not, however, witness the development of a basic industrial infrastructure. In 1962 the policy of import control was terminated by newly elected President Macapagal who, at the behest of the USA and the International Monetary Fund, eliminated import controls and encouraged foreign investment and participation in the Philippine economy. As a result of these policies, a number of indigenous manufacturing concerns went into liquidation and were taken over by multinational firms.
Marcos comes to power In 1965 President Macapagal was defeated by Ferdinand Marcos, the leader of the Nationalist Party. Marcos initiated rapid economic development and some land reform. He was re-elected in 1969, but encountered growing opposition from communist insurgents and Muslim separatists in the south. A high rate of population growth aggravated poverty and unemployment.
Leftist demands for the Philippines to withdraw from the war in Vietnam and the rapid rise in Philippine nationalism from the mid-1960s placed President Marcos in an increasingly defensive position. Some months before his second term was completed, Marcos declared martial law in September 1972, suspended the constitution, and began to rule by decree.
Marcos justified his imposition of martial law on the grounds of the existence of dissident groups in Philippine society, specifically the growing strength of a pro-Chinese Communist Party. However, his critics charged that martial law was imposed to enable Marcos to remain in power after the 1973 election, in which the constitution would have barred him from standing for a third term as president.
Martial law under Marcos Under martial law, trade unionists, opposition political leaders, students, and journalists were arrested, and constitutional guarantees were suspended indefinitely, ushering in what the government referred to as the 'New Society'. The Marcos government intensified its search for foreign investment, enacting a number of laws to attract multinational firms, including guarantees against nationalization, and severe restrictions on trade-union activity.
Intermittent referenda allowed Marcos to retain power. His authoritarian leadership was criticized for corruption, and in 1977 the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was jailed under sentence of death for alleged subversion. In 1978 martial law was relaxed, the 1972 ban on political parties was lifted, and elections for an interim National Assembly were held, resulting in an overwhelming victory for Marcos. In May 1980 Aquino was released from prison to undergo medical treatment in the USA.
Partial return to democracy In 1981 martial law was lifted completely, and hundreds of political prisoners released. Marcos then won approval, by referendum, for a partial return to democratic government with himself as president, working with a prime minister and executive council. Political and economic conditions deteriorated, communist-guerrilla insurgency escalated, unemployment climbed to over 30%, and the national debt increased. In 1983 Benigno Aquino, returning from exile in the USA, was shot dead at Manila airport. Marcos was widely suspected of involvement in a conspiracy to murder Aquino.
National assembly elections were held in 1984, and although the government party stayed in power, the opposition registered significant gains. Then early in 1986 the main anti-Marcos movement, the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO), chose Corazón Aquino, Benigno's widow, despite her political inexperience, to contest new presidential elections, which Marcos had been persuaded to hold as a means of maintaining vital US economic and diplomatic support. The campaign resulted in over 100 deaths, and large-scale electoral fraud was witnessed by international observers. The National Assembly declared Marcos the winner, a result disputed by an independent electoral watchdog.
'People's power' Corazón Aquino began a non-violent protest, termed 'people's power', which gathered massive popular support, backed by the Roman Catholic Church; President Marcos came under strong international pressure, particularly from the USA, to step down. The army, led by Chief of Staff Lt-Gen Fidel Ramos and defence minister Juan Enrile, declared its support for Aquino, and Marcos fled for exile in Hawaii, where he died in 1989. Aquino received strong support from the USA, which provided $1.5bn in economic and military aid 1985–89.
On becoming president, Corazón Aquino dissolved the pro-Marcos National Assembly. She governed in a conciliatory fashion, working with a coalition cabinet team comprising opposition politicians and senior military figures. Aquino freed 500 political prisoners and granted an amnesty to the New People's Army (NPA) communist guerrillas in an effort to end the 17-year-old insurgency. She also introduced a rural-employment economic programme with some land reforms, though these were opposed by property owners.
Coup attempts In February 1987, a new 'freedom constitution' was overwhelmingly approved in a national plebiscite. This gave Aquino a mandate to rule as president until 30 June 1992. In the subsequent congressional elections, Aquino's People's Power coalition won over 90% of the elected seats.
The new administration endured a series of attempted coups by pro-Marcos supporters and faced serious opposition from Juan Enrile, who had been dismissed in November 1986. An attempted coup in August 1987 by Col Gregorio 'Gringo' Honasan, an army officer closely linked with Enrile, claimed 53 lives. US air support was provided to help foil a further Honasan-planned coup attempt in December 1989, after which Aquino declared a state of emergency, She survived another coup attempt in October 1990.
From 1987, the government's policy shifted to the right, with tougher measures against the NPA and dilution of the Land Reform Act 1988.
The Mount Pinatubo eruption At least 343 people were killed and 100,000–200,000 made homeless when the Mount Pinatubo volcano, dormant for 600 years and situated 90 km/56 mi northwest of Manila, erupted in June 1991. The US Clark Field and Subic Bay military bases, 15 and 40 km/9 and 25 mi away, had to be temporarily evacuated, and much rice-growing land was covered in up to 3 m/10 ft of volcanic ash.
US forces evicted from Subic Bay The Senate of the Philippines voted in September 1991 to terminate the US lease for the Subic Bay naval base on its expiry, rejecting over $2 billion in US aid over a ten-year period and the provision of approximately 45,000 jobs. Although Aquino supported renewal of the lease, opposition was overwhelming. Critics of the base claimed that its existence contravened a clause in the constitution that banned nuclear weapons, and that the presence of military personnel encouraged prostitution.
Ramos elected president Fidel Ramos, Aquino's nominated choice, was elected president in May 1992, representing the centre-right People's Power–National Union of Christian Democrats. He formed a centrist 'rainbow coalition' government and launched a crackdown against corruption, encouraged economic deregulation – with most state industrial assets being privatized 1992–95 – and sought to improve relations with communist and Muslim dissident groups. The anti-corruption drive led to the dismissal in 1993 of more than 60 top-ranking police officers.
Ramos faced continuing challenges from supporters of the late Ferdinand Marcos, whose body was flown home for burial in September 1993. Also that month, his widow, Imelda Marcos – who had returned in November 1991 after almost six years in exile and had stood unsuccessfully for the presidency – was sentenced to 18–24 years' imprisonment for corruption, but remained free on bail.
A National Unification Commission was formed to consult with rebel groups and, during 1993 and 1994, peace talks were held with the communist NPA and Muslim Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) secessionists, and several ceasefires were negotiated. These initiatives were endorsed in the May 1995 mid-term elections when the pro-Ramos coalition won a sweeping majority. Imelda Marcos was herself elected to the House of Representatives by a landslide majority during these elections. In February 1996 the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP: Struggle of Democratic Filipinos) withdrew from the two-party coalition, leaving President Ramos with a minority in the senate although he still had a large majority in the house of representatives.
Peace accord in civil war on Mindanao In September 1996 the government signed a peace agreement with the MNLF, providing for a Muslim autonomous region on Mindanao island, to bring an end to a 25-year insurgency that had claimed 120,000 lives. The peace agreement was seen as an unacceptable compromise by the more radical Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which continued to demand full independence for Mindanao. However, in January 1997 preliminary peace talks were opened between the government and the MILF. A ceasefire was implemented in late January, but failed to hold.
No second term for Ramos In September 1997 the Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking to amend the constitution to allow President Ramos to run for re-election for a second term. In December 1997 Ramos endorsed Jose de Venecia, the speaker of the lower house of Congress, as his successor in the coming presidential election. However, de Venecia faced strong opposition from other candidates, including the populist vice-president, Joseph Estrada (a former film star), former defence secretary Renato de Villa, and senator Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (daughter of former president Diosdado Macapagal), who led in opinion polls.
Estrada becomes president The former vice-president and film star Joseph Estrada, representing the populist right-of-centre Struggle of Nationalist Filipino Masses (LaMMP), won the May 1998 presidential election with 46% of the vote, finishing 29% ahead of de Venecia. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was elected vice-president. Estrada inherited an economy which, after strong growth in the mid-1990s, was deteriorating, with a growing budget deficit and rising unemployment, as a result of the effects of the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis. He pledged to continue with the market-centred reform programme initiated by his predecessor, and appointed the banker, Edgardo Espiritu, as finance secretary. However, during his campaign, Estrada, who did not come from the country's elite and presented himself as a champion of the poor, also promised to alleviate poverty, reduce crime levels, and establish peace and order across all the Philippines, including Mindanao, within six months.
In November 1998 Estrada faced a diplomatic crisis with China, whom the Philippines accused of building naval facilities on Mischief Reef, in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Both countries claimed the reef, which was believed to contain oil and gas deposits. Philippines naval forces were sent to the Reef, but in late November China and the Philippines reached an agreement on joint use of the resources around the Reef.
In September 1999, there were widespread protests in Manila and other cities against plans put forward by President Estrada to amend the constitution. Corazón Aquino, a former president, accused Estrada of eroding the gains of the 1986 revolution by reducing press freedom.
Hostage crisis in southern Philippines In April and May 2000, the southern Philippines saw activity from Muslim rebels fighting for an independent Muslim state in the area. Foreign hostages were taken from holiday resorts in Malaysia to Basilan Island, Philippines, by rebel group Abu Sayyaf, which demanded a $2.4 million ransom and the release of three Muslim extremists from imprisonment in the USA. Some of the hostages were killed when troops attempted to rescue them. On the island of Mindanao, around a hundred people were taken hostage by the separatist MILF. In May and July 2000 government forces seized major MILF bases on Mindanao alongside continuing peace talks.
The hostage crisis continued into September 2000 as hostages held by Muslim rebels on Jolo island were released in small numbers. The Libyan leader, Khaddhafi, seeking to improve his international image, intervened and agreed to pay $4 million for the remaining hostages. However, the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group took further hostages and the Philippine army responded by launching an assault on their bases on Jolo island. A number of civilians were killed in the attacks.
In December 2000, the MILF was implicated in terrorist bombings in Manila which claimed over 20 lives.
Estrada ousted following financial scandal From the autumn of 2000, President Estrada faced increasing pressure, from public demonstrations, to resign as he became engulfed in a financial scandal. He was accused of receiving $11 million in 'kickbacks' from illegal gambling syndicates and the diversion of tobacco taxes. Forty members of congress deserted him for the opposition, led by former vice-president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and in November 2000 he was impeached by congress.
Estrada's trial began in December 2000, but ended with indefinite suspension in January 2001 after pro-Estrada senators blocked the presentation of vital evidence regarding the president's bank accounts. After two days of public demonstrations against Estrada, his senior military commanders and cabinet deserted him. Estrada reluctantly left office in January 2001 and Arroyo was sworn in as president. In April 2001, Estrada was arrested on charges of corruption and plundering the state. Thousands of his supporters tried to storm the presidential palace, and a 'state of rebellion' was declared for five days until public order was restored in early May 2001. Later, in September 2007, Estrada was sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption, but President Arroyo pardoned him a month later.
Arroyo in power Arroyo took over the presidency in January 2001 at a difficult time. After rapid growth in 2000, the economy was slowing, and she faced strong opposition from supporters of the ousted Estrada and a continuing challenge from Muslim separatists and terrorists. She made economic recovery her priority, promoting privatization, economic reform, and reducing the public debt, receiving support from the IMF and World Bank. This had success and between 2002 and 2006 real GDP grew by 5% a year.
President Arroyo also ordered peace talks with the MILF on the status of Mindanao and began preliminary talks with the political wing of the communist New People's Army (NPA). She negotiated an end to separatist fighting in 2003, although there was a temporary breakdown in the ceasefire in early 2005, when 90 people were killed in fighting on the southern island of Jolo, and in August–September 2008 on Mindanao after the supreme court suspended a planned agreement to enlarge the Muslim autonomous area on the island.
Arroyo took a firm line against the Abu Sayyaf Islamic terrorist group, which had links to al-Qaeda. In May 2001, Abu Sayyaf guerrillas kidnapped 17 Filipinos and three US tourists from a luxury holiday resort on Palawan island in the southern Philippines. The Philippines government announced it would not pay ransom money and sent in special troops to fight the terrorists. Nine hostages escaped in early June, but the terrorists responded by executing hostages. Arroyo pledged to wipe out Abu Sayyaf. Its leader was killed in January 2007, but the group still remained active.
Arroyo's return to power In July 2003 President Arroyo faced a military uprising in Manila, led by Ramon Cardenas, a supporter of Estrada. It was defeated and Cardenas arrested. A year later, in May 2004, Arroyo won the presidential election. Standing as the candidate of the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats she won 40% of the vote, finishing just ahead of Fernando Po of the Coalition of United Filipinos with 37% of the vote. The opposition alleged there had been vote-rigging, but she survived attempts to impeach her in September 2005 and August 2006 and an attempted coup in February 2006. She responded by imposing a week-long state of emergency and seeking to amend the constitution to abolish the opposition dominated senate, but relented after popular protests.
The division of the congress between a pro-Arroyo lower house and an opposition-dominated senate was confirmed in parliamentary elections in May 2007, which were unusually violent. She withstood a further attempted coup in November 2007 and sought to rebuild her popularity by pledging to invest in education and health and boost employment, But in 2008 Arroyo continued to face popular demands for her to resign after accusations of corruption. After her term as president ended, Arroyo was arrested in November 2011 on charges of electoral fraud, and in October 2012 for alleged misuse of state funds.
Death of Corazon Aquino – her son becomes president Former president Corazon Aquino died in August 2009, prompting an outpouring of public grief. Her 50-year-old son, senator Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III, who led the Liberal Party, was persuaded to contest the May 2010 presidential election. Promising to bring an end to corruption in government, Aquino won with 42% of the vote to finish well ahead of Joseph Estrada.
In June 2010 Aquino was sworn in as president. During 2012 Aquino secured agreements with the NPA and MILF to end their insurgencies. Under an October 2012 framework peace plan, the government agreed to set up in 2016 an autonomous region (Bangsamoro) in the Muslim majority south. The Muslim-rebel MILF accepted this, signing in March 2014 a formal peace deal. It agreed to disarm and enter the political process, ending a 40-year conflict which had claimed 120,000 lives. However, the al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf extremist group remained outside this agreement and carried out a series of kidnappings and killings of foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Philippines' economy grew strongly from 2010–16, at 6% a year, but poverty remained deep in rural areas and corruption endemic.
Populist Duterte elected president The May 2016 presidential election was won comfortably by the 71-year-old Rodrigo Duterte, from the centre-left Philippine Democratic Party-People's Power (PDP-LABAN), who attracted 39% of the vote, to 23% for Mar Roxas of the Liberal Party. A former prosecutor and longtime mayor of Davao, on Mindanao island, Duterte was a populist strongman from a non-elite background who had transformed Davao from a murder capital into a safe city, but who had also tolerated vigilante groups. During the presidential election campaign, he promised to fix what he described as a broken and elite-dominated political system and to crack down on crime, drug-dealing, and corruption.
In June 2016 Duterte was sworn into office, becoming the country's first president from the country's south.
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Pursuant to a agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 266 dated September 23, 2019, IBEW Local 266 will conduct a new election for the offices of Business Manager/Financial Secretary/International Convention Delegate, Electrical Systems Executive Board Members (2), and International Convention Delegates (4) and Alternate Delegates (4) under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor and in accordance with Title IV of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA), and insofar as lawful and practicable with the IBEW Constitution and IBEW Local 266 Bylaws.
VOTER ELIGIBILITY: A ballot will be mailed to every member of Local 266 on December 2, 2019. In order to have his/her ballot counted, a member must be in good standing at the time of the tally of ballots on December 20, 2019. Members have until December 20, 2019 at 12:00pm to pay their dues to the Local in order to vote. If you have any questions about your eligibility to vote, please contact the election supervisor at (213) 891-6969.
Certain members are not allowed to vote pursuant to Article XV, Section 5 of the IBEW Constitution, which provides that "no LU shall allow any member who becomes an electrical employer, a partner in an electrical employing concern, a general manager, or other managerial position, to hold office in the LU or attend any of its meetings, or vote in any election of a LU." If you have a question about your eligibility to vote under this provision, please contact Election Supervisor Cinthia Gonzalez at (213) 891-6969.
BALLOTS: Voted ballots will be picked up from the Arcadia Post Office located at 3920 E. Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ 85018 at precisely 12:30pm on December 20, 2019 and returned to the Local 266 Union Hall, 1650 N. 36th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85008 for the tally. The Election Committee will tally the ballots under the supervision of OLMS representatives.
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Lung Cancer: Reducing Your Risk| Posted in Medical Conditions
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women, but is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. It kills nearly 163,000 Americans every year. However, there are steps you can take to reduce your risk, so it's important to arm yourself with knowledge about the disease and its causes.
What is Lung Cancer?
There are two main forms of lung cancer: small cell and non-small cell. Small cell accounts for approximately 20 percent of all lung cancer cases, grows rapidly, and is more likely than non-small cell lung cancer to spread to other organs throughout the body. Non small-cell lung cancer is more common, accounting for about 80 percent of lung cancer cases.
What Causes Lung Cancer?
The risk of developing lung cancer is highest in smokers, but many people who do not smoke also develop lung cancer each year. There are a number of factors that can contribute to lung cancer:
- Smoking is by far the most common cause. Tobacco smoke contains thousands of cancer-causing, or carcinogenic, chemicals.
- Asbestos is a tiny, hair-like fiber that was often used in building materials. When inhaled, it can irritate the lungs and eventually cause lung disease.
- Radon is an odorless gas released by some soil and rocks that contain uranium.
- Industrial substances, including arsenic, uranium, beryllium, vinyl chloride, nickel chromates, coal products, mustard gas, chloromethyl ethers, gasoline, and diesel exhaust, are harmful to the lungs.
- Air pollution often contains traces of various industrial substances, which are harmful when inhaled.
- Tuberculosis can cause tissue scarring, which can be a risk factor for developing lung cancer.
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Valley View (Romney, West Virginia)
Valley View is a mid-19th-century Greek Revival residence and farm overlooking the South Branch Potomac River northwest of Romney, West Virginia. Valley View is atop a promontory where Depot Valley joins the South Branch Potomac River valley.
Valley View
Valley View from the southeast, with Mill Creek Mountain in the background
|Depot Valley Road
Romney, West Virginia, United States
|39°21′23.4″N 78°45′35.25″W / 39.356500°N 78.7597917°WCoordinates: 39°21′23.4″N 78°45′35.25″W / 39.356500°N 78.7597917°W
|6.63 acres (2.68 ha)
|Architectural style
|Greek Revival
|NRHP reference #
|December 12, 2012
The Valley View property was part of the South Branch Survey of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a large tract that was inherited by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in 1719. It was settled by John Collins and his family in 1749, and acquired by the Parsons family before 1772. The Valley View house was built by James Parsons Jr. in 1855. After the Civil War, Parsons' widow sold the farm to Charles Harmison. His wife, Elizabeth Harmison, inspired by her childhood Virginia home, Western View, and the scenic South Branch Potomac River views, named the farm Valley View. The most recent of a series of owners, the Mayhew family, bought the property in 1979. Valley View's current proprietors, Robert and Kim Mayhew, have restored the historic residence and grounds.
The house at Valley View is a two-story brick structure with a rectangular architectural plan. The front entrance is covered by a small portico, topped with a pediment supported by wooden Doric columns. The rear of the house, with a two-story wood porch stretching across it, faces the South Branch Potomac River valley and Mill Creek Mountain. Each of the original eight large rooms of the 1855 structure contains a fireplace framed by a wooden trabeated mantelpiece with classical elements. The original windows, wooden trim, and materials in the main section of the house are intact. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 as a locally significant example of Greek Revival architecture.
- 1 Geography and setting
- 2 History
- 3 Architecture
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 Bibliography
- 7 External links
Geography and settingEdit
The Valley View house is about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of downtown Romney, atop a promontory (known locally as the Yellow Banks) where Depot Valley joins the South Branch Potomac River valley. Depot Valley runs 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from West Sioux Lane in Romney to Valley View, and an unnamed tributary of Big Run flows north along its bottom. Depot Valley Road parallels the stream.[2]
Depot Valley is named for Romney Depot, located at the end of a former spur of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) South Branch line near the intersection of present-day West Sioux Lane and Depot Valley Road.[2] The unincorporated area around the depot was once known as Valley.[3][4] A post office operated there from 1928 until 1937, when its mail was routed through Romney; it is assumed that Valley View farm used it, since it was 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of the house.[4]
The Valley View farm property adjoins the Wappocomo farm on the northeast, the corporate limits of Romney on the east and south and the Yellow Banks on the west. As well as Valley View's 6.63-acre (2.68 ha) tract, the Mayhew family owns agricultural land rich in alluvial soils along the South Branch Potomac River west of the house. The South Branch Valley Railroad bisects this farmland, crossing the South Branch Potomac River via a wooden trestle.[2]
Valley View Island, an island in the South Branch Potomac River just north of the mouth of Sulphur Spring Run, is approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) southwest of the Valley View house.[2] Both the house and the island are owned by the Mayhew family.[5] The island is ringed by forests, with agricultural fields in its center.[2] When Lots Number 17 and 19 of the Northern Neck Proprietary South Branch Survey were surveyed in 1749 and resurveyed in 1788, the island belonged to Lot Number 19. At that time, the river flowed east of the island, along the base of the Yellow Banks; its course later changed to run around the west side of the island.[6]
Mill Creek Mountain, a narrow anticlinal mountain ridge, rises westward from the South Branch Potomac River across from Valley View. The western foothills of South Branch Mountain rise to the east.[2][7][8] Both mountains are covered with Appalachian – Blue Ridge forests of hardwoods and pine.[9]
Royal land grant and Collins family ownershipEdit
The land upon which Valley View is located was originally part of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a land grant that the exiled Charles II awarded to seven of his supporters in 1649 during the English Interregnum.[10][11][12] Following the Restoration of Charles II to the throne in 1660,[13] he renewed the Northern Neck Proprietary grant in 1662, revised it in 1669, and again renewed the original grant favoring the original grantees Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper and Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington in 1672.[14] In 1681, Bennet sold his share to Lord Colepeper, and Lord Colepeper received a new charter for the entire land grant from James II in 1688.[10][15][16]
Following the deaths of Lord Colepeper, his wife Margaret, and his daughter Katherine, the Northern Neck Proprietary passed to Katherine's son Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron in 1719,[10][17][18] who selected a portion of it for his manor. This tract, known as the South Branch Survey of the proprietary, extended from the north end of the Trough to the junction of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River.[15] In 1748, Fairfax commissioned James Genn to survey the South Branch Potomac River lowlands for sale and lease, with lots ranging in size from 300 to 400 acres (120 to 160 ha).[15]
In 1749, the tract on which Valley View stands was purchased from Lord Fairfax by John Collins.[19] The 425-acre (172 ha) lot was Lot Number 20 on the South Branch Survey.[19] Collins also owned a large tract of land spanning present-day Hampshire and Hardy counties.[20] His son Thomas Collins is thought to have inherited his father's landholdings as an "heir at law", since there is no record of a will by John Collins dispensing of his properties.[a] By 1772, Thomas Collins acquired Lot Number 20, where he lived with his wife Elizabeth.[19] In 1816, Collins was serving as a magistrate when the town of Romney held a Virginia state election for the Electoral College.[21] One representative from each of Virginia's 25 counties traveled to Romney to cast his vote.[21] Collins and county commissioner William Donaldson certified the convention's election results.[21]
In 1817, Thomas Collins sold Lot Number 20 to James Gregg Parsons. It is unknown whether the Collinses moved from the tract or continued living on it after the sale. Thomas Collins died in 1822, and Elizabeth Collins in 1823.[19]
Parsons familyEdit
The Parsons family members were among the first English settlers in the Thirteen Colonies in 1635; around 1740, they settled in Hampshire County.[19] By 1778, Isaac Parsons (1752–1796), a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, owned 161 acres (65 ha) of Lot Number 16 and all of Lot Number 17 in the Proprietary.[6] James Gregg Parsons, his eldest son,[22] was born in Hampshire County in 1773. In 1795, he married Mary Catherine Casey (1773–1846), whose family owned the adjoining Lot Number 21.[19] After their marriage, they lived in the main house at Wappocomo, which had been built by Mary Catherine's father Nicholas Casey. The couple inherited the house after Nicholas Casey's death in 1833.[19]
James Gregg Parsons died on January 25, 1847, leaving most of his land to his three sons: James (Big Jim) Parsons Jr. (1798–1858), David C. Parsons (1803–1860), and Isaac Parsons (1814–1862).[19][23] James, his eldest son, inherited Lot Number 20 (known as the Collins Tract);[20] his second son David inherited Lot Number 13 south of Romney (on which Hickory Grove was later located);[24][25] and his youngest son Isaac inherited Lot Number 21 (which included Wappocomo).[19][23] His sons also inherited the nearby "Jake Sugar Rum Tract, the McGuire Tract, and five town lots in Romney".[23] According to historian William K. Rice, by 1846 Parsons' sons and their families were all living on the tracts they would eventually inherit. Rice determined that James Parsons Jr. moved to the Collins Tract, around 1826, and was living there when his father died.[19]
James Parsons Jr. was a farmer and cattleman who was born in Hampshire County.[19][20][26] Parsons family genealogist Virginia Parsons MacCabe wrote the following description of James Parsons Jr. in her book Parsons' Family History and Record (1913): "He was square and honorable in business, and had a large circle of friends; he had the urbanity and the gentility of manner which characterizes the true gentleman".[26] Parsons married Elizabeth Miller on January 8, 1829.[20][26] The couple had eleven children, several of whom attended college.[19][20]
In 1855, Parsons began building the present-day Valley View house on the Collins Tract.[20] Although he wrote many letters to his sister Mary Gregg Parsons Stump about farming, cattle, family, health and community events, no letters are known to remain from the time of the house's construction.[19] The Parsons family owned several slaves who are thought to have assisted with construction.[19]
After living in his new house for three years, Big Jim died of tuberculosis on October 14, 1858.[19][26][27] His widow, Elizabeth, lived in the house until after the Civil War.[19][28] In 1867 or 1869,[b] she sold the house, the Collins Tract and the remainder of Lot Number 20 to Charles Harmison (1823–1896) for $8,500, moving with her remaining children to Missouri (where she died in 1883).[19][26][28] The cost of building the house financially strained the Parsons family;[19][27] historian Catherine Snider Long suggests that Elizabeth Miller Parsons sold the house as a result of further, war-related, financial stress from which the family could not recover.[28]
Harmison familyEdit
Charles Harmison was born in Franklin County, Illinois, to Nathaniel and Lydia Harmison, and married Bettie Ann Smith (1827–1903) on May 4, 1854, in Taylor County, West Virginia.[29] Bettie, the daughter of C. C. and Martha W. Smith,[29] was raised at Western View (their Fauquier County, Virginia, home).[19][28][30] By 1867, Harmison and his family were living in Harrison County.[28] His older brother had moved to Romney, where he established and operated the Virginia House hotel.[28] In 1867, Charles Harmison's brother learned that the Parsons farm on the Collins Tract was for sale, and he advised Charles to buy it.[28] Charles' wife, who wanted to live nearer to Virginia, also urged Charles to buy the property.[28] Charles purchased the farm and he, his wife, their seven children, and a young African American boy named Snoden moved from Harrison County to Hampshire County in three days.[19][28] They traveled on the Northwestern Turnpike in an ambulance Charles had bought after the war.[28] Elizabeth Harmison named their new house and farm Valley View, which was influenced by the name of her childhood home, Western View, and the view of the South Branch Potomac River valley from their property.[19][28][30]
Harmison prospered in Hampshire County, acquiring adjacent properties and enlarging his Valley View estate.[28][31] He later gave his acquired lands to his children to establish their own homes when they married.[28] His farm was further changed in 1884, when the B&O Railroad completed its South Branch line between the main B&O line at Green Spring and Romney Depot.[32] The South Branch line bisected the small valley to the immediate east of the house, which became known as Depot Valley.[32]
Charles Harmison died on October 31, 1896 after being thrown from a buggy.[33][34] His son George Edward Harmison (1863–1916) inherited Valley View around 1903 and brought his wife, Carrie Belle Fox (1870–1953), there after their marriage on October 4, 1905.[19][28][35] George demolished the old log kitchen at Valley View, replacing it with a contemporary one.[19]
In June 1909, construction commenced on the Hampshire Southern Railroad between its northern terminus on the B&O Railroad's Romney Depot spur and the South Branch Potomac River within the bottomlands of George Harmison's farm.[36] In October 1909, the first train on the Hampshire Southern line passed over Harmison's bottomlands and crossed the river on an unfinished trestle across the South Branch Potomac River.[37][38] By 1910, the 18-mile (29 km) line from the Romney spur terminus at Valley View to McNeill was in operation.[32] Later that year, freight and passenger service between Romney and Moorefield began, providing a direct rail link between Moorefield and the B&O Railroad main line at Green Spring.[32][39] The Hampshire Southern Railroad Company operated this line until 1911, when it was purchased by the Moorefield and Virginia Railroad Company.[32][39] Moorefield and Virginia transferred the rail line to the B&O Railroad Company in 1913, when it became part of the B&O's South Branch line.[39]
In 1911, George Harmison subdivided the Valley View fields on the Yellow Banks overlooking the South Branch Potomac River. The new development, known as the Valley View Addition to Romney, was south of the Valley View house and west of Romney Depot. Twenty-one lots were sold at public auction on September 27, 1911, and several more were sold privately.[40]
Harmison died in 1916, and Carrie continued to live at Valley View until her death on February 8, 1953.[28][41][42] Harmison's nephew, Paul Cresap Harmison (1893–1972, a grandson of Charles Harmison's brother Jonathan Harmison), and his wife Nancy Parker Harmison (1896–1981) had moved to Valley View to live with her. After Carrie's death, Paul and Nancy Parker Harmison inherited the house and farm.[31] Paul and Nancy's daughter Virginia Helen Harmison was married to Robert Esler in front of the fireplace in the home's living room on May 5, 1957.[43] Valley View remained in the Harmison family until 1963, when it was sold to Philip Newell and his wife Martha.[19][31]
Mayhew familyEdit
During its changes in ownership, the original Lot Number 20 of the South Branch Survey was repeatedly partitioned and sold. By 1976, the original property was divided into five farms and other parcels, including the Valley View Addition.[20] The Valley View residence lies on a 6.63-acre (2.68 ha) tract.[19]
Valley View was purchased by Robert Mayhew's father and a business associate in 1979.[19] Mayhew later bought the house from his father, and he and his wife Kim restored the residence and its grounds.[5] In 1991, the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad began operating on the old B&O South Branch line, which bisects the bottomlands below Valley View.[39][5]
After surveys of historic properties in the county, in 2008 the Hampshire County Historic Landmarks Commission and the Hampshire County Commission began an initiative to place structures and districts on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[44] The county received funding from the State Historic Preservation Office of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History to survey and document the structure's architecture and history.[44] As a result of this initiative, Valley View was one of the first eight historic properties to be considered for placement on the register.[44] The other seven were Capon Chapel, Fort Kuykendall, Hickory Grove, Hook Tavern, North River Mills Historic District, Old Pine Church and Springfield Brick House.[44] The house at Valley View was listed on the NRHP on December 12, 2012.[1][45]
The house at Valley View is significant for its Greek Revival architecture.[45] According to architectural historian Courtney Fint Zimmerman, "Valley View is a characteristic example of the Greek Revival style for more practical residential applications in outlying areas".[19] The Valley View house has several Greek Revival design characteristics, including a symmetrical architectural plan and elevations and "substantial, formal" mass.[45] Zimmerman (who prepared Valley View's registration form for the NRHP) said, "Valley View's applied details in the Greek Revival style, including the front entrance entablature and portico, are more limited, yet the variations that can be seen on Valley View and other estates in the South Branch Valley illustrate the flexibility inherent in the style".[45] According to Zimmerman, large houses like Valley View served as the "centers" of the plantations that formed the "basis of the local economy and social life" in Hampshire County.[46] Valley View was added to the NRHP as a locally significant example of Greek Revival architecture.[47]
Valley View's house consists of the original 1855 brick section and a board-and-batten 1961–1962 kitchen addition.[30] The grounds contain a smokehouse, a water well, the foundations of an ice house, and a summer kitchen.[48]
The bricks from which the house was built were fired in the immediate vicinity (along the banks of the South Branch Potomac River), and the brick walls were reinforced with hand-wrought structural iron angles.[19][49] The nails used in its construction were fabricated by a local blacksmith, and the wooden sills and joists were sawn by hand.[19][50]
Valley View's house is a two-story brick structure with a rectangular architectural plan and exterior dimensions measuring about 49 by 32 feet (14.9 by 9.8 m).[30] The house's exterior brick walls are 9 inches (23 cm) thick and laid in an American bond.[19][30][49] The house is topped with a steep metal gabled roof with standing seam profiles.[30][50] Two sets of double inside chimneys extend above the steep roofline on the northwestern and southeastern ends.[30][50]
The front façade of the house faces a hill to the southwest. It is five bays wide, with the front entrance at the first floor's center bay. Wide double-hung sash windows are uniformly placed on the house's front façade, with four nine-over-six double-hung wooden sashes on the first story and five six-over-six double-hung wooden sash windows on the second.[c] Each window is surrounded by green-painted wooden shutters and white-painted wooden lintels and sills.[30][50]
The front entrance is covered by a small Greek Revival portico measuring about 12 by 12 feet (3.7 by 3.7 m), topped with a pediment supported by wooden Doric columns and engaged columns at the wall.[30][50][54] The front porch is flanked by modest wooden handrails and balusters on its left and right sides.[30] The front entrance is post and lintel (trabeated) construction, with a six-pane transom and two three-pane sidelight windows around the doorway.[30][50] Zimmerman suggests that "Big Jim" Parsons embellished his home's front entrance to assert his "wealth and status" and provide "an honored welcome to visitors".[55]
The rear façade of the house faces northeast, across the South Branch Potomac River valley toward Mill Creek Mountain.[30][50] A two-story (double) wooden porch about 9 feet (2.7 m) deep extends across the rear of the house, topped by a shed roof extending from the main gabled roof at a shallower pitch.[30][50] The first-story porch supports are brown wooden turned posts with no handrail or balusters, and the porch's second story has white painted square wood posts and vertical railings.[30] Like the front façade, the rear façade is five bays wide; access to the double porch is through a door in the central bay on both levels.[30] The other four bays have nine-over-six double-hung wooden sash windows on the first story and six-over-six double-hung wooden sash windows on the second story.[30] The northwestern and southeastern sides of the house have one small square window at attic level, between each pair of inside chimneys.[30][50]
The interior of the Valley View house has a two-room-deep, central-hallway floor plan.[48][50] Its wide central hallway contains a staircase from the first floor to the attic, with a wooden handrail supported with square balusters and a modest wooden turned newel post.[48] The ceilings are 10 feet (3.0 m) high.[48][50] Although the house's foundation is low, the height of the interior walls and the full-sized attic make the house appear tall from the outside.[50]
The original house has eight large rooms, each with a fireplace framed by a wooden geometric trabeated mantelpiece with classical elements.[48][50][55] The four large rooms on the first floor open from either side of the center hallway. They contain simple wide wood trim, including skirting boards and door frame moldings with "subtly demarcated corners".[48][50] The house's living and dining rooms have wide, wooden dado rails.[48] Most of the wooden decorative trim is painted white, and the walls are plaster.[48] The lone exception is the room serving as an office and den, which has dark stained wooden trim and interior brick structural walls (exposed by the removal of its plaster during the 1960s).[48] All rooms have the original wide plank wooden floors.[48] The second floor has four bedrooms, with closets on either side of a fireplace and simple wood skirting boards and door frames.[48] Parsons family members painted signatures and graffiti in the attic around 1856, which remain visible on the stairwell wall.[19]
Kitchen additionEdit
A one-story kitchen addition, built in 1961–1962 and measuring about 21 by 14 feet (6.4 by 4.3 m), extends from the northwest side of the original 1855 house. The addition has a gabled standing seam metal roof, and its exterior is covered in white-painted board-and-batten siding. It has a vinyl bay window on the southwest side, a one-over-one double-hung vinyl window on the northeast side and a door (adjoining the wall of the 1855 house) on the southeast side. An enclosed board-and-batten porch, measuring about 14 by 10 feet (4.3 by 3.0 m), and a shed roof extend from the front (southwest) of the kitchen addition. The original basement under the 1855 house is accessible through this porch extension. A ghost building outline on the northwest side of the 1855 house indicates an earlier structure where the present kitchen addition stands.[30]
Ancillary structuresEdit
There are several ancillary structures near the house at Valley View, including a smokehouse and a water well, and the foundations of an ice house and a summer kitchen.[48] Although the smokehouse, the summer kitchen and the ice house are believed to have been built by the Collinses before Big Jim Parsons built Valley View, the dates of construction are uncertain.[19]
The smokehouse, measuring about 15 by 20 feet (4.6 by 6.1 m), is adjacent to the kitchen addition. It is set into a hillside, allowing at-grade entry to its two levels. Built of square-cut logs with white chinking atop a rubble masonry foundation, the smokehouse is topped with a standing seam metal gabled roof.[48]
South of the smokehouse is the brick foundation of an ice house measuring about 15 by 20 feet (4.6 by 6.1 m) and topped by modern wooden pergola and patio structures. The 15-by-20-foot (4.6 by 6.1 m) brick foundation of Valley View's summer kitchen is north of the smokehouse and topped by a contemporary wooden pavilion with a gabled roof.[48]
In the rear yard of the house is a water well, enclosed by a brick building about 7 by 7 feet (2.1 by 2.1 m) in area and 3.5 feet (1.1 m) in height. In the center of the well cap is a metal hand pump. Although the well cap's bricks are similar to those used in the construction of the main house, the well may date from an earlier residence on the site.[48]
See alsoEdit
Explanatory notesEdit
- ^ Selden Brannon cites the suggestion of historian Catherine Snider Long that this is confirmed in the deed of Lot Number 20, which states that the tract was deeded to John Collins on August 8, 1749, and was subsequently deeded to James Gregg Parsons by Thomas Collins.[20]
- ^ While Brannon states 1867 as the year when Elizabeth Miller Parsons sold the farm to Charles Harmison, Courtney Fint Zimmerman cites Catherine Snider Long's date of sale in 1869.[19][28]
- ^ A sash is a frame consisting of panes of glass. "Nine-over-six" describes a window with two sashes; the top sash contains nine glass panes, and the bottom sash contains six glass panes.[51][52][53]
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/10/12 through 12/14/12. National Park Service. December 21, 2012. Archived from the original on July 9, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
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- ^ "Geographic Names Information System: Feature Detail Report for Valley Post Office (historical) (Feature ID: 1718729)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ^ a b McMaster 2010, p. 47.
- ^ a b c "Owner of Mayhew Chevrolet marks three decades at wheel". Cumberland Times-News. Cumberland, Maryland. March 30, 2008. p. 25. Archived from the original on October 21, 2018. Retrieved October 21, 2018 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
- ^ a b Munske & Kerns 2004, p. 144.
- ^ "Geographic Names Information System: Feature Detail Report for Mill Creek Mountain (Feature ID: 1543330)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ^ "Geographic Names Information System: Feature Detail Report for South Branch Mountain (Feature ID: 1552967)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
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- ^ a b c Munske & Kerns 2004, p. 9.
- ^ Coleman 1951, p. 246.
- ^ Rose 1976, p. 25.
- ^ William and Mary Quarterly 1898, p. 222.
- ^ William and Mary Quarterly 1898, pp. 222–3.
- ^ a b c Brannon 1976, p. 286.
- ^ William and Mary Quarterly 1898, p. 224.
- ^ William and Mary Quarterly 1898, pp. 224–6.
- ^ Rice 2015, p. 23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Zimmerman 2012, p. 9 of the PDF file.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Brannon 1976, p. 309.
- ^ a b c Munske & Kerns 2004, p. 79.
- ^ MacCabe 1913, p. 254.
- ^ a b c MacCabe 1913, p. 255.
- ^ Baker & Riebe 2010, p. 7 of the PDF file.
- ^ Brannon 1976, p. 298.
- ^ a b c d e MacCabe 1913, p. 260.
- ^ a b Brannon 1976, pp. 310–1.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Brannon 1976, p. 311.
- ^ a b "Marriage Record Detail: Charles Harmison". West Virginia Vital Research Records. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original on July 9, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Zimmerman 2012, p. 5 of the PDF file.
- ^ a b c Brannon 1976, p. 312.
- ^ a b c d e Brannon 1976, p. 19.
- ^ "Death Record Detail: Charles Harmison, Sr". West Virginia Vital Research Records. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original on July 9, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
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- ^ "Marriage Record Detail: George Edward Harmison". West Virginia Vital Research Records. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original on July 9, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ^ "Money Raised for Forty Mile Line". Highland Recorder. 31 (22). Monterey, Virginia. June 4, 1909. p. 2. Retrieved October 21, 2018 – via Library of Virginia.
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- ^ "Back in Time: 100 Years Ago". Hampshire Review. Romney, West Virginia. September 28, 2011.
- ^ "Death Record Detail: Carrie B. Harmison (1)". West Virginia Vital Research Records. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original on July 9, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ^ "Death Record Detail: Carrie B. Harmison (2)". West Virginia Vital Research Records. West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Archived from the original on July 9, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
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- ^ a b c d Pisciotta, Marla (May 11, 2011). "Preserving Our History". Hampshire Review. Romney, West Virginia. p. 1B.
- ^ a b c d Zimmerman 2012, p. 8 of the PDF file.
- ^ Zimmerman 2012, p. 11 of the PDF file.
- ^ Zimmerman 2012, p. 3 of the PDF file.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Zimmerman 2012, p. 6 of the PDF file.
- ^ a b Brannon 1976, pp. 309–310.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Brannon 1976, p. 310.
- ^ Ching 2012, pp. 289–290.
- ^ Historic England 2017, pp. 14–15.
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- ^ a b Zimmerman 2012, p. 10 of the PDF file.
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Federal troops or Kadyrov's gunmen: who attempted on life of the commander of Dudayev's battalion in Kiev?
On June 1 in Kiev a killer shot Adam Osmayev, commander of the battalion named after Dzhohar Dudayev. His unit participated in the war in Ukraine against Russian troops. The attempt on Osmayev's life could be undertaken by either Chechen authorities or Russian secret service, as Mikhail Shubin reports.
Two Makarov pistols and Glock
On May 23, a man introducing himself as Alex Verner, a correspondent of the French Le Monde newspaper, called Adam Osmayev and his wife Amina Okuyeva, who also serves in the Dudayev battalion. The journalist referred to the Shuster Live's guest producer Alexei Stukalo. He confirmed to Okuyeva that Verner had actually been a French reporter.
"He video recorded all our meeting, asking provocative questions about Ukrainian policy and warning that we'll be killed as soon as Russian and Ukraine re-establish good relations, citing the Interpol information. We argued with him" Okuyeva recalled later.
After the very first "interviews", Okuyeva started to suspect that the man could not be who he wanted to look like. She said the killer looked like a European intellectual man, speaking lightly accented fluent Russian. "The journalist" told Okuyeva he had learned Russian while studying in St-Petersburg.
The fourth meeting the journalist set up on June 1 in downtown Kiev at 5 p.m. They met in Osmayev's jeep. While talking, Verner produced a box ("a present for the Le Mond"), opened it and drew a Glock from there. He immediately opened fire on Adam.
Okuyeva, who also carried a Makarov pistol with her, also shot four times to the attacker. The Makarov choked up and Okuyeva attacked Verner with her fists. The man pledged for mercy and fell on the ground.
In grave but stable conditions
The wounded men were hospitalized in a Kievan hospital No17. The doctors estimate their conditions as grave but stable. Police are guarding the hospital and watche that the attacker would not commit suicide.
"Verner" carried a Ukrainian passport issued in the name of Alexander Dakar, born 1958. He also has got a travel passport which, in the words of Foreign Ministry's official Anton Gerashchenko, has been forged. The official said the attacker had frequently visited Russia "to obtain instructions".
The passport used by "Verner" belongs to a resident of Odessa who has died in 2001. Police do not comment on Verner's real ID.
"The suspect has been detained, hospitalized and under active investigation. I wouldn't focus on his identity as it will be defined by legal means", police chief Sergei Knyazev said.
The Ukrainian Espresso-TV said the killer was Artur "Dingo" Kurmakayev (Denisultanov). Okuyeva confirms that too.
In 1990, Denisultanov was convicted to two years in prison for extortion. In February 1991 he was released under an amnesty.
In 1998, he and his accomplices attempted to kidnap the director of Kolpino food factory, demanding the ransom of $300,000. When surrounded by police, Denisultanov rammed their cars and escaped to Kharkov, but was extradited back to Russia.
According to one version, he was convoyed to St-Petersburg but the criminal case was closed for some reasons. In 1999, Denisultanov was swapped for a Russian soldier captivated by Chechen rebels thanks to the mediation of Denisultanov's uncle Salman. The exchanged was approved by the Russian Prosecutor General's office, and Demisultanov left for the town of Argun in Chechnya.
According to another version, Demisultanov was arrested on April 21, 2000 in St-Petersburg for kidnapping, extortion and an attempt on a policeman's life. But he was released during the court hearing at the end of 2000 as a person exchanged for a Russian serviceman, and so falling under the amnesty declared in December 1999.
In 2001, Denisultanov married a sister (or a daughter) of a businessman Kiyam Kurmakayev and assumed her family name.
In 2009, Demisultanov was mentioned in the media as a possible accomplice in the murder of Kadyrov's former bodyguard in Austria. In March 2011, Dingo was sentenced to eight years for stealing 7.5 mln rubles from his acquaintance. It remains unknown how he left the prison and made it to Ukraine in 2017.
Soon after the incident in Kiev, journalist Alexander Nevzorov aired a brief news about cars hijackers in St-Petersburg. In that video, Demisultanov (referred as "Artur, a member of a local Chechen group") tells about several car thefts.
Video: Nevzorov. What killers are made from
Attempt on Putin and Kadyrov
Osmayev was born in Grozny to an influential Chechen family. His uncle was a chair of the Chechen Supreme Council in 1995. In 1996-1998 he headed a chamber in the republic's People's Assembly and was a Russian senator the same time.
Since 1999, Osmayev studied in the UK but left the university due to poor results. In Britain, he got acquainted with other Chechens, presumably the Wahhabis, who taught him military mining.
On May 9, 2007, the FSB averted a terror attack in Moscow. The operatives found a car filled with 20 kg of explosives, Kalashnikov, 20-liter can of petrol and boxes filled with destructive agents. The car was designated for a life attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov.
Osmayev and three other suspects were arrested but released due to lack of evidence. He immediately escaped: according to one version, to the UAE, to another - to the UK. In Russia, he was put on the international warrant list and arrested in absentia. In 2009, one of the defendants was pleaded guilty of preparation for a life attempt on a statesman and sentenced to eight years. The second one was sentenced to five years for illegal possession of arms.
In February 2012, Osmayev was detained in Odessa on charges of organizing an explosion which had killed a Russian citizen Ruslan Madayev and wounded Kazakh national Ilya Pyanzin. Pyanzin was later arrested and charged with the preparation of the explosion. The Ukrainian special services claimed they had prevented an attempt on then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Pyanzin was extradited to Russia. He refused to cooperate with investigators and in September 2013 was sentenced to 10 years in a high-security prison for the preparation of the attempt on Putin.
Ukrainian court also ordered the extradition of Osmayev, still his lawyer appealed to the ECHR. The extradition order was suspended and in August 2014 revoked.
Still, Osmayev was sentenced for illegal handling of explosives and destruction of property due to negligence, but he was cleared of terrorism charges. Spending three years behind the bars, he was released on Nov 18, 2014.
Soon after that, he joined the battalion named after Dudayev which took part in an armed conflict with Lugansk and Donetsk self-proclaimed republics on the Ukrainian side. The battalion was manned mostly with the Chechens who had emigrated from Russia. On Feb 1, 2015, the unit's commander Isa Munayev was killed in action. The command was taken over by Osmayev.
Ramzan Kadyrov declared that Munayev's murder had been masterminded by Ukrainian Security service and CIA and implemented by Adam Osmayev and Amina Okuyeva. "(Munayev) was a drunkard incapable for warfare. he 'd never been a warrior and a real man. A real warrior, a Chechen, a man would never fly from a combat leaving his commander behind, like Munayev did", Kadyrov said.
In June 2015, Kadyrov also blamed Osmayev of the murder of Boris Nemtsov and claimed that Osmayev's father "ordered him" yet in 2004.
The Dudayev battalion has still been participating in the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine.
Who ordered a hit of Osmayev
According to Anton Gerashchenko, the investigation will consider all versions of the attempt on Osmayev, including the Chechen trace "which the Russian propaganda and its Ukrainian handymen will whip up".
The other possibility is that the attempt on Osmayev has been a well-thought and organized by the Russian special services, he added.
Gerashchenko's colleague Ivan Varchenko believes that the killer exercised Kadyrov's order, as Osmayev has clearly been exercising the anti-Russian and anti-Putin sentiments.
Two weeks before the incident, Okuyeva said they had constantly been receiving information about preparations to assassinate them by the Russian and Kadyrov's special services. After the incident, she said she has been suspecting the Russian special services of the life attempt.
Video: Kadyrov about Osmayev and Okuyeva
Okuyeva published on Facebook a video showing Kadyrov, who calls Osmayev his personal enemy.
"Let me be blunt: no one in Chechnya wants Mr Osmayev. Perhaps, he needs to be talked about, and the latest events just confirm that. The leadership of Chechnya has more important tasks to implement. This is just another provocation against Russia, Chechnya and Ramzan Kadyrov", Chechnya's information, press and external communications minister Dzambulat Umarov said one of these days.


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June 14, 2012 at 9:46 am EST | by WBadmin
Police log: June 15
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department's Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit participated in the following investigations:
- On June 5, in the 3400 block of 22nd Street, S.E., a woman reported that she made contact with a suspect on an online chat room and made plans to meet. The woman cancelled the plans and the suspect called and threatened her and used homophobic comments during the threat.
- On June 3, in the 1700 block of 17th Street, N.W., two complainants were walking into a local establishment. The suspect followed them into the establishment and assaulted them. The suspect and victim had a prior domestic relationship. The suspect was arrested.
- On June 3, in the 400 block of New York Avenue, N.W., two complainants were in a verbal altercation over fidelity issues. They had a prior domestic relationship. No assault took place and a report was taken.
- On June 3, in the 2400 block of 18th Street, N.W. a complainant reported being threatened by two other individuals. An investigation did not sustain the complainant's allegations.
- On June 3, in the 1200 block of 21st Street, N.W., two complainants reported that they were in a verbal altercation over a dog. They had a prior domestic relationship. No assault took place and a report was taken.
- On June 3, at 17th & R streets, N.W., MPD units responded to a call for an assault. An investigation revealed that there was not sufficient evidence to support the allegations.
- On June 2, in the 1600 block of P Street, N.W., a complainant reported that a former intimate partner texted a threatening message via personal cell phone. The case remains open.
- On May 26, in the 900 block of 3rd Street, N.E., a complainant reports that after a brief conversation with the suspect, the suspect sexually assaulted the complainant. The suspect was arrested.


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Saturday, January 30, 2010
enric ruiz geli: media TIC building, barcelona
media TIC building by enric ruiz geli
all images courtesy enric ruiz geli
currently under construction in barcelona is the media TIC building
by spanish architect enric ruiz geli. the building is designed to be a communications
hub and meeting point for businesses and institutions in information and communication
technologies (ICTs) as well as for the media and audio visual sectors.
the building consists of a main metallic structure, composed of 4 rigid, braced frames,
14.25m apart. the frame type consists of metal fink-type beams made of 7 and 8 section
forged-metal girders. each frame has a support beam that transfers their load to 'galleries',
the rigid support centres.
each of these elements defines a space with a different structural density:
zero density :
ground floor, no structure, public.
free space of 36m x 44m, a historical space .
low density :
office floors.
floors are crossed by structural lines (support beams) of
minimum size thanks to the use of traction. maximum
flexibility. this makes it possible to divide different uses
and different users
high density :
the large support centres define smaller and more inflexible
spaces that correspond to centres of communication,
installation supports, bathrooms, roof terraces and
using 2,500m2 of ETFE cladding, the media tic building will enable energy savings
of 20% and will score 42 points of the maximum 57 points envisaged by the degree
on environmental criteria and energy eco-efficiency for buildings.
ETFE cladding is inflatable, with up to three air chambers. this not only improves
thermal insulation, but also makes it possible to create shade by means of the pneumatic
system. the first layer is transparent, the second (middle) and third layers have a reverse
pattern design which, when inflated and joined together, create shade, or in other words
a single opaque layer. when the second and third layers are joined, creating shade,
the inflatable section only has one air chamber.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Suurupi House Extension located in Estonia, was designed by Arhitektid Muru & Pere. The architectural idea behind the house was to create a simple wooden "matchbox" which had to satisfy the needs of a growing family. The exterior was made to resemble a birds nest, or a ball of hay.
Photos by: Tarvo Varres
Suurupi House Extension by Arhitektid Muru & Pere
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Park Avenue South by Studioctopi
London architects Studioctopi have completed an extension to a Victorian end-of-terrace house in north London that features an angular roof and large triangular skylights.
Called Park Avenue South, the extension is clad entirely with black zinc.
This addition to the original house doubles the size of the kitchen/dining room, which now connects directly to the garden through a section of wall that swings outwards.
Photographs have been taken by Lyndon Douglas.
The extension to this Victorian end of terrace house is located between Crouch End and Muswell Hill.
The original builder was also the house's first resident, and made the most of his triangular plot by allowing the side of the building to fan out to meet the line of the adjacent public footpath.
On the ground floor this resulted in an additional fillet of space splitting the living and dining rooms. It was the divisional nature of this space (used as a utility room) that the client asked studio octopi to resolve.
By relocating the utility room, the plan was reordered and paved the way for an extension that linked the living spaces.
The design was developed through a series of folded paper sketch models exploring the nature of the triangular plot, the geometry and aspect.
The lines of the roof ridges were drawn out from two points on the rear wall of the house, whilst the elevations extend the lines of the living room and the external rear wall of the kitchen.
The structure is clad entirely in black zinc, with standing seams tracing a path across the roof, emphasising its complex topography and echoing the folds created in the paper concept models.
From a distance, the structure reads as a strong geometric form that has grown out from the back of the house, but at closer quarters, its edges appear to soften and the malleability of the zinc and the very slight billows in its surface come into focus.
The impression formed is of a tailored garment turned inside out to reveal a complex structure of pleated seams.
Internally, the smooth planes and sharp facets of the ceiling recall an origami paper lantern, neatly folded and then popped up into three dimensions to form a bright lining to the dark fabric over-garment.
Seemingly in constant motion, the planes shift and tilt, alternating with triangular roof lights that frame views of the sky, trees and distant chimney-tops.
A cantilevered island unit clad in seamless black granite delineates the kitchen from the living space.
Bridging the step down to the kitchen it creates on one side a working surface at waist height, and a seating area on the other.
This monumental feature is echoed in the granite terraces that lead out into the garden.
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These are the first elements of the planned landscaping, with areas of paving and planting that will reflect the form of the structure's openings like patches of light cast by the paper lantern.
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