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    Pound is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was recorded as 1,037 in the 2010 United States Census. The Pound area was explored...
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    The pound was the currency of Virginia until 1793. Initially, sterling coin circulated along with foreign currencies, supplemented from 1755 by local paper...
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  • symbol for the pound as a unit of currency Number sign (also pound sign), the symbol # Pound, Virginia, a town Pound, Wisconsin, a village Pound (town), Wisconsin...
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    (Rhode Island) South Carolina pound (South Carolina) Virginia pound (Virginia) Money portal Numismatics portal Green pound, used within the European Union's...
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    Hampshire pound New Jersey pound New York pound North Carolina pound Pennsylvania pound Rhode Island pound South Carolina pound Virginia pound Australia:...
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    The Pound River is a river in the U.S. state of Virginia, running through part of Wise County and through Dickenson County. Its North and South forks join...
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    The Pound Gap of Pine Mountain is on the Virginia/Kentucky border between Jenkins, Kentucky and Pound, Virginia. It served as a passage for early settlers...
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    Napoleon Hill (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    Hill was born in a one-room cabin near the Appalachian town of Pound in southwest Virginia. His parents were James Monroe Hill and Sarah Sylvania (Blair)...
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  • Pound High School was a public high school located in Pound, Virginia. In 2011, Pound High School was closed and consolidated with J. J. Kelly High School...
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    Virginia. The route runs along Norton Road and West Main Street. U.S. Route 23 Business (US 23 Bus.) is a business route of US 23 in Pound, Virginia....
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    Sean Brock (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    specializing in Southern cuisine. Brock is originally from Pound in rural southwest Virginia. His father, who owned a trucking fleet that hauled coal,...
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    West Virginia, to Pound, Virginia, approximately 108 miles (174 km) in length. It is designed to connect Interstate 64 (I-64) and I-77 in West Virginia near...
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    Francis Gary Powers (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    Melinda Powers (née Ford; 1905–1991). His family eventually moved to Pound, Virginia, just across the state border. He was the second-born and only male...
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  • Vatican pound – Vatican City Venetian pound – Venice Virginia poundVirginia West Indian pound – British West Indies Western Samoan pound – Samoa Zambian...
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    III (1917) and cantos I and 47 in the long poem The Cantos by Ezra Pound. Virginia Woolf's Orlando is a modernist novel that uses major events in Tiresias'...
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  • Red Onion State Prison (category 1998 establishments in Virginia)
    state prison located in unincorporated Wise County, Virginia, near Pound. Operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC), it houses about 800...
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  • not dancing in one's private residence. Until 1999, an ordinance in Pound, Virginia required that dance hall permits not be granted "to anyone who is not...
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    Kaitlyn Baker (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    Baker was born and raised in Pound, Virginia. Her father, grandfather and other family members worked in coal mines. Virginia Living magazine referred to...
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    North Fork Pound Reservoir (also known as North Fork of Pound Lake) is a reservoir in Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1966 as authorised by the...
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  • Edith Maxwell (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    with friends at "the Little Ritz" in Wise, Virginia. When she returned home late at night in Pound, Virginia, she had an argument with Trigg Maxwell, her...
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    Glenn Roberts (basketball) (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    first players to put the "jump shot" to practical use. Glenn Roberts' Pound, Virginia high school did not field a basketball team his first two high school...
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  • Orby L. Cantrell (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    General Assembly. Pound High School Radford College Masons Lions Wise County Chamber of Commerce (former president) Peoples Bank of Pound (executive vice...
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    Lorna Gray (redirect from Virginia Pound)
    Virginia Pound (July 26, 1917 – April 30, 2017), known professionally as Lorna Gray and (after 1945) Adrian Booth, was an American film actress known for...
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    four ounces (113.4 g), or one quarter of a pound. It was introduced in 1971. In 2013, the Quarter Pounder was expanded to represent a whole line of hamburgers...
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  • Wallens Ridge State Prison (category 1999 establishments in Virginia)
    Department of Corrections, and is identical to the Red Onion State Prison near Pound. The prison was built for over $70 million. As of 1999 the prison employs...
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  • Tony Mullins (category People from Pound, Virginia)
    Tony Mullins (born in Pound, Virginia) is an American country music songwriter. Mullins moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1992, where he worked with Byron...
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    2022 Appalachian floods (category 2022 in West Virginia)
    Mountain Road, Bold Camp Road, and Main Street in Pound, Virginia, and portions of US 23 in Wise, Virginia. Evacuations were ordered in the downtown areas...
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  • sterling to two pounds. Since decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 pence (minted on coins as new until 1981). Before...
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  • Greg Jones (wrestler) (category West Virginia Mountaineers wrestlers)
    West Virginia University, Jones won three NCAA Division 1 wrestling titles. Shortly after his 5-3 decision of Cornell's Tyler Baier in the 184 pound finals...
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  • Cypriot £C 1 note Fijian £1 note Gambian £1 note Ghanaian £1 note Irish pound Series A IR£1 note Series B IR£1 note Irish IR£1 coin Israeli IL1 note and...
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