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What Army nurse from Roane County spent more than three years in an internment camp in the Philippines during World War II?
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In 2018, this Boone County native and six-time chief justice of the state Supreme Court resigned from the bench during an impeachment inquiry involving the entire court.
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In recent years, have the birth rates of women in West Virginia been increasing, decreasing, or staying about the same?
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This Wirt County native made national news after being captured and rescued during the Iraq War in 2003.
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She is the third woman from West Virginia to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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This White Sulphur Springs native wrote of the mythic lumberman Tony Beaver in her book Up Eel River.
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Anne Newport Royall was best known for writing in this genre.
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A cousin of Blanche Lazzell, this Morgantown native was once president of the Mason College of Fine Arts and Music in Charleston.
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Dorothy Thompson of Tucker County was awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship for this skill.
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Following whose election did women hold a majority in the state Supreme Court for the first time?
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