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Virginia: Arlington and Fairfax counties, Alexandria, Falls Church, Fredericksburg, Hampton, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Williamsburg...
...battlewagons as the world's other top two powers combined. In 1918, before the sun commenced to set on British seapower, the Royal Navy boasted 50 battleships. Last week, without ceremony, the navy sailed the last of Her Majesty's battleships, the 44,500 ton Vanguard, from Portsmouth up to the Clyde to be broken up for scrap...
...good and the bad, both of which can be achieved in any style. Ernst Halberstadt's representational (and Oriental-influenced) "Landscape" was fine, as was John Gregoropoulos' abstract "Olympian Landscape"; Yukata Ohashi's "Equilibrium No. 4" was abstractionism at its worst, while William Hardy's representational "Bridge at Portsmouth" couldn't even get the bridge towers in proportion...
Says the Very Rev. Dom Aelred Gra ham, prior of the Portsmouth Priory, a Benedictine monastery whose monks run the exclusive Portsmouth Priory School, which annually sends the majority of its graduates to non-Catholic colleges (top favorite: Harvard) : "Sooner or later, boys are going to have to face the challenge of the unbelieving modern world. The ques tion is: Where are they going to do it? St. Thomas Aquinas stated that an inade quate argument for religion invites the derision of nonbelievers. If a boy at a Catholic college has the impression that his religious problems are not being...
Simple Deduction. In Portsmouth, N.H., a man walked into the office of the Internal Revenue Service, filled out a tax form, sat quietly in a corner, when asked if he needed help, replied: ''No, I'm just waiting for my refund check...