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How many women have served as West Virginia's attorney general?
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This Morgantown native was the 100th woman to fly in space.
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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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For 75 years, Catholic nuns ran the DeSales Heights boarding school for women in this city before closing it to open the state's first Montessori school.
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This Parkersburg music teacher wrote the 1971 book Singa Hipsy Doodle and Other Folk Songs of West Virginia.
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Which one of these organizations taught and encouraged women to can food in the early 1900s?
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According to folklore, Zona Heaster Shue was also known as this.
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She was captured by Shawnee raiders during an attack on her Randolph County home in 1791.
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This Lincoln County community organizer and educator wrote the labor anthem "One Day More."
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What future first lady of the United States was married at Harewood, a Washington family home, near Charles Town?
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