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unusual facts about Alexandria, VA



AAST

Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, a maritime academy that has its main campus located in Alexandria, Egypt

Abu Darda

He died in 652 AD (AH 32) in Alexandria, before the assassination of the third Rashudin Calip Uthman.

Ally Hilfiger

Alexandria Susan "Ally" Hilfiger (born February 26, 1985) is an American heiress, socialite, model, stylist, film and television producer and former reality show star.

Almohad reforms

He was also well educated, having studied across the Islamic world in Alexandria, Córdoba, Mecca, and Baghdad.

Apiarius of Sicca

The Bishops of Africa, not finding the statement in their copies of Nicene Canons, sought copies of the Nicene Canons from the Archbishops of Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch.

Arlington Ridge, Virginia

To the south of The Ridge, leading the 11th New York Zouave regiment, Col. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was charged with seizing the city of Alexandria.

Billy Montgomery

On January 28, 2012, Montgomery, along with the late Fred Baden, former mayor of Pineville, and the late Adras LaBorde, former managing editor of the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.

Brian E. Carlson

Brian E. Carlson (born 1947 in Alexandria, Virginia) is a public diplomacy specialist.

Campbell County, Kentucky

The Kentucky General Assembly then forced the county to move its seat to Alexandria, closer to the center of the new, smaller Campbell County.

David Bard

He was elected as a Republican to the Eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his death in Alexandria, Pennsylvania; he was interred in Sinking Valley Cemetery, near Arch Spring.

Dirk Obbink

In March 2010 Obbink appeared in Channel 4's series Alexandria: The Greatest City, presented by Bettany Hughes.

Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.

Foo Fighters discography

Following the tour for The Colour and the Shape, Foo Fighters left Capitol and Grohl decided to build a home studio in Alexandria, Virginia wanting a production away from studio interference, given the troubled recording of the previous album led to the departure of Goldsmith and Smear.

Food and Nutrition Service

It administers the programs through its headquarters (HQ) in Alexandria, VA; regional offices (ROs) in San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and Robbinsville (NJ); and field offices throughout the US.

Franz Stahl

In 1981 Franz and Stahl formed they formed Scream in Alexandria, along with Peter and drummer Kent Stax.

Gerald Bruce Lee

Lee worked in private practice in Alexandria, Virginia until 1992, when he became a Circuit court judge on the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, Fairfax Circuit Court.

Great Cities of the Ancient World

The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople.

History of geometry

He was brought to the university at Alexandria by Ptolemy I, King of Egypt.

Jack Verge

He enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps of the Australian Imperial Forces in October 1914 as a captain and embarked from Sydney for Alexandria in December 1914.

Jacob Heerbrand

During the negotiations of the Tübingen theologians with Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople, it was translated by Martin Crusius into Greek, and circulated to Constantinople, Alexandria, Greece, and Asia Minor.

Jean de Thévenot

In January 1659 he sailed from Alexandria in an English ship, visiting Goletta and Tunis (Tunisia) on the way, and, after a sharp engagement with Spanish corsairs, one of which fell a prize to the English merchantman, reached Leghorn (Italy) on 12 April.

Jennifer Griffin

Griffin is a daughter of John W. Griffin, a partner in a Washington law firm, and Carolyn J. Griffin, the producing director of Metrostage, a theater in Alexandria, Va..

K34HO-D

It is one of two such Weather Channel broadcast stations, the other being K50DB-D, an unrelated station in Alexandria.

KARD

Between then, ABC programming was available on local cable systems via Alexandria's KLAX-TV and Shreveport's KTBS-TV.

Kazeboon

Kazeboon screenings began on December 29, 2011, taking place in public squares in El Mansheya, Alexandria and the Cairo districts of Zamalek, Maadi, Nasr City and Giza.

KLAX

KLAX-TV, a television station (channel 31) licensed to Alexandria, Louisiana

KLFY-TV

This marked Media General's return to Louisiana after selling Alexandria NBC affiliate KALB to Hoak Media in 2006.

Minnesota State Highway 114

Minnesota State Highway 114 is a highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highways 28 and 29 in Starbuck and continues north to its northern terminus at its interchange with Interstate 94 near the city of Alexandria.

Highway 114 serves as a north–south route in west-central Minnesota between Starbuck, Lowry, and La Grand Township near Alexandria.

Minnesota State Highway 27

State Highway 27 serves as an east–west route between Browns Valley, Wheaton, Alexandria, Long Prairie, Little Falls, Mille Lacs Lake, and Moose Lake.

Nakhla

Nakhla meteorite, a Mars meteorite that landed in the Nakhla region of Abu Hommos, Alexandria, Egypt

Omar 'The White Sudani' Ramzi

Since then he has been doing shows in all the major cities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt: Jeddah, Riyadh, Khobar, Cairo and Alexandria He has opened for several other world renowned stand-up comedians such as Ahmed Ahmed, Maz Jobrani, Angelo Tsarouchas, Dean Edwards, Jeff Mirza and Erik Griffin.

Ostrožská Lhota

Charles Paul Blahous III (born 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA) – former Special Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Economic Policy – is a fourth generation descendant of Czech ancestry originating from Ostrožská Lhota

Peter VII of Alexandria

Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (1949–2004), Eastern Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria

Philip Richard Fendall I

Born on November 24, 1734 in Charles County, Maryland, Philip Richard Fendall had a profound influence on the socioeconomic and political structure of Alexandria, Virginia society.

Pursuit to Haritan

On 13 October they travelled by train from El Hamman to Alexandria on the Khedivial Railway to reach railhead at Lydda on 15 October.

Qualifying Industrial Zone

USTR has designated three QIZs in Egypt – the Greater Cairo Zone, the Alexandria Zone, and the Suez Canal Zone (69 CFR 78094).

Quintus Caecilius Iucundus

The book then travels back in time to Alexandria, in Roman Egypt, where Quintus frees his slave Clemens and befriends Barbillus, a very rich Roman.

Rajeevnath

The film, made with a minuscule budget of Rs. 6 lakh ($12000 as per 2012 conversion rate) was the Indian entry for Alexandria Film Festival.

Raymond Eddé

Eddé was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father, a native of the town of Edde in the Jbeil District and an opponent of Ottoman control of Lebanon, had taken refuge after being sentenced to death for subversion.

S. Elizabeth Birnbaum

She currently (2013) serves as co-chair of the Arlington County and City of Alexandria Joint Task Force to restore Four Mile Run.

Shady Mohamed

Shady began his career with Alexandria's Club Koroum with the youth team and made his depute with First team in 1997/98 season and spent successful 2 seasons before joining El Ahly.

Stringfellow Barr

Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.

Syrnola thelma

A fragment of the shell of this brackish water species has been found near Alexandria, Louisiana.

Tourism in Libya

Cyrenaica became part of the Ptolemaic empire controlled from Alexandria, and became Roman territory in 96 BC when Ptolemy Apion bequeathed Cirenaica to Rome.

Virginia State Route 400

SR 400 continues north past the Christ Church, the Lloyd House, and the Lee-Fendall House to its northern terminus at 1st Street.

Virginia State Route 402

SR 402 heads north as a four-lane undivided highway that passes to the east of the Virginia Theological Seminary and Episcopal High School.

West End Church of Christ Silver Point

In his book The Souls of Black Folk, author W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of the primitive conditions of a black schoolhouse at nearby Alexandria, where he taught class while a student at Fisk University in the 1880s.


see also

Patrick B. Moran

Patrick Moran was born in Alexandria, VA to US Congressman Jim Moran and Mary Moran.

Paul Stetsenko

In 2009-2011, Paul Stetsenko performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach as part of Bach Vespers at Westminster, in Alexandria, VA.