1 July's dry natural gas consumption level was the highest on record for the month, dating back to 2001. 2  This was the sixth consecutive month that saw a record high level of consumption for the given month. 3  Preliminary total natural gas consumption for July 2015 was 2,082 Bcf, or 67.2 Bcf/day.
By Phoebe Farris. As Virginia institutions celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Pocahontas-Rolfe marriage this year, a crucial event in the Commonwealth's venerable self-image, we should recognize that existing Native traditions put it in a very different perspective.
The English who came to Jamestown Island in 1607 resisted his wish that they become another subject community. Pocahontas was directly involved in the relationship between the English and the Powhatan Indians that whipsawed between friendly trade of food and open warfare and kidnapping. She herself was kidnapped from a village on the Potomac River and held in captivity for a year before she announced to Chief Powhatan her conversion to Christianity and her desire to marry English tobacco grower John Rolfe.