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Hace 2 días · Fairfax County was formed in 1742 from the northern part of Prince William County, and was named after Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, proprietor of the Northern Neck. The Fairfax family name is derived from the Old English phrase for "blond hair", Fæger-feax. The county's initial settlements were along the Potomac River.
- June 19, 1742
Hace 4 días · Nicholas Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, and Lady Annabella will help celebrate the founding of our county from when the area was part of lands owned by his ancestor, the 6th Lord...
Hace 5 días · Fairfax County’s laudable initiative to save Huntley in 1989 contrasts sharply with loss of Mount Eagle, Spring Bank, Mount Zephyr, and Engleside during the unbridled building splurge of the ...
Hace 5 días · Likewise, Lord Fairfax Community College was renamed Laurel Ridge because Lord Fairfax was a slaveholder — yet we still have our most populous county, as well as a city, named after that same slaveholder. Granted, it’s easier to change the name of a single institution than a place name for a county that’s home to more than 1.1 million people.
Hace 5 días · By 1990 the Fairfax County Archeologist had identified 100 sites, believed to be early American, in Great Falls. The oldest of these is considered to be about 9,000 years old, others about 3,000 ...
Hace 5 días · Military Career of John Kourkouas (Before 900-After 946) made using wikipedia and the fantastic book Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in The 10th Century (Georgios Theotokis, 2018) (I have been on a Byzantine history binge and I thought he deserved one) 926/7 – Kourkouas leads the Byzantine army across the Muslim frontier, storms the lower city of Melitene, and subjugates ...
Hace 2 días · See list. Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
