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This Shepherdstown native served as superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.
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What Martinsburg native won a gold medal in women's basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics?
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Buckhannon teenager Sirene Bunten kept a diary during this war.
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What Kanawha County native appeared in the movie Edward Scissorhands and the TV show Two and a Half Men?
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How many women have represented West Virginia in the U.S. Senate?
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According to folklore, Zona Heaster Shue was also known as this.
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Who was the first woman from West Virginia to be elected to Congress?
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This Buckhannon native won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Night Watch, set in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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What Pocahontas County native was known for teaching pottery and sculpture at the Greenbrier.
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In 1782, this woman supposedly saved Fort Henry in Wheeling when it was under attack during the Revolutionary War.
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