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  2. Newport News Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...

  3. What-A-Burger - Wikipedia

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    What-A-Burger is the trading name used by a small group of restaurants which were established by entrepreneur brothers Jack Branch and Paul E. Branch Jr. and members of the Branch family beginning in 1957 though the first What-A-Burger was opened in 1950. [ 1] With the first location at a busy traffic circle near Newport News, Virginia, in the ...

  4. USS Newport News (CA-148) - Wikipedia

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    Aviation facilities. 2 × aircraft catapults. Helipad (later conversion) USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines -class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy. She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.

  5. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of the accelerator and the experimental halls after the 12 GeV energy upgrade. /  37.09472°N 76.48167°W  / 37.09472; -76.48167. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility ( TJNAF ), commonly called Jefferson Lab or JLab, is a US Department of Energy National Laboratory located in Newport News, Virginia. [ 1]

  6. Patrick Henry Mall - Wikipedia

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    Patrick Henry Mall is a shopping mall in Newport News, Virginia. It is located on Interstate 64 Westbound and Jefferson Ave ( Virginia State Route 143) at exit 255A. The mall is anchored by Dillard's, Dick's Sporting Goods, J. C. Penney and Macy's. In 2017 Patrick Henry lost Old Navy - a major tenant - when it chose to leave and move to ...

  7. Newport News station - Wikipedia

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    Newport News, VA. / 37.0228; -76.4519. Newport News station is an Amtrak inter-city train station in Newport News, Virginia. The station is the southern terminus of two daily Northeast Regional round trips. It has a single side platform adjacent to a large CSX rail yard.

  8. Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation - Wikipedia

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    Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation (HRPOE or HRPE [ note 2]) was the third largest United States Army Transportation Corps port of embarkation in terms of passengers and second in terms of cargo tonnage on the East Coast of the United States during World War II. [ 13] Until June 1942 Hampton Roads was a sub-port of the New York Port of Embarkation.

  9. The Apprentice School - Wikipedia

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    USCAA, NCWA. Website. www .as .edu. The Apprentice School is a four to eight-year apprenticeship vocational school founded in 1919 and operated by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Newport News in the U.S. state of Virginia. The school trains students for careers in the shipbuilding industry.