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Peter Vivian Daniel was born on April 17, 1818, in Henrico County at the country farm of his parents, Peter V. Daniel, then a member of the Council of State and later an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and his first wife, Lucy Randolph Daniel. His maternal grandfather was Edmund Randolph, a former governor and attorney general of the United States. While Daniel was growing up, his cousin Raleigh Travers Daniel, who became a member of the Council of State and attorne...

Scores of women fell in love with Gibran and vice versa, in the US and abroad (France, Egypt and Lebanon) and love letters on both sides kept the post office pretty busy. May Ziadi, a Lebanese author who settled in Egypt and who was a deeply literate, polivalent and a female activist, and respected by the literate Egyptian circles. Gibran and Miss. Ziadi swapped all kinds of letters until his death. She didn’t travel to the US to ever meet with Gibran and she wrote in one of her latest letter...

Florida teen raises $30,000 for homeless veterans by making flags to honor frontline heroes Local teen uses craftmen skills to make handcarved wooden flags. By: WFTS Staff and last updated 2020-12-23 19:22:31-05 LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. — When Lorenzo Liberti met a Vietnam veteran while serving food to the homeless with his church, he says it changed his life. "What mattered was that he was a veteran and now he’s homeless. I’m better off than him and I haven’t ev...

Lakewood Ranch teen raises $30,000 for homeless veterans by making flags to honor frontline heroes Local teen uses craftmen skills to make handcarved wooden flags. and last updated 2020-12-24 11:00:42-05 LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. — When Lorenzo Liberti met a Vietnam veteran while serving food to the homeless with his church, he says it changed his life. "What mattered was that he was a veteran and now he’s homeless. I’m better off than him and I haven’t ever served a day in my li...

Local 16-year-old raises $30,000 for homeless veterans by making wooden handcrafted American flags Local teen uses craftmen skills to make handcarved wooden flags. and last updated 2020-12-23 10:01:50-05 Lorenzo Liberti, a 16-year-old sophomore from Lakewood Ranch High School, just donated $30,000 for homeless veterans in the Turning Points Yellow Ribbon Veterans Program Tuesday. Lorenzo started his journey of giving back when he met a homeless Vietnam Veteran 2 years ago while serving food wit...