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5 unusual facts about Virginius


Emilio Castelar y Ripoll

The Cuban insurgents gave him much trouble and anxiety, the famous Virginius incident nearly leading to a rupture between Spain and the United States.

John Edward McCullough

Virginius was his greatest success, although even in this part and as Othello he was coldly received in England (1881).

Virginius

Virginius Island, West Virginia, an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

a character in The Physician's Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, written in the 14th century

Virginius Dabney (1901–1995), a U.S. teacher, journalist, writer and editor


Verville VCP

In 1918, Virginius E. Clark, in charge of the Plane Design section of the U.S. Army Air Service's Engineering Division and Alfred V. Verville, who had recently joined the Engineering Division from private industry, started design of a single-seat fighter (known as "pursuit" aircraft to the U.S. Army), the VCP-1 (Verville-Clark Pursuit).


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