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Laura Arnold was the pro-Union sister of which Confederate general?
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Putnam County native Mary Meek Atkeson was a noted author on this subject.
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How many women have served as West Virginia's auditor?
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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 Bluefield native was the first Black female president of the American Medical Association.
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She was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in West Virginia.
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This Huntington native taught art at Marshall University for 30 years and perhaps was the most influential of West Virginia's abstract expressionist painters.
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This Buckhannon native wrote a diverse range of biographies--from Francis Drake to Rachel Carson--before authoring her Newbery Award-winning book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch.
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This Clarksburg native's children's book An Edge of the Forest won the Aurianne Award of the American Library Association.
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Which of the following was NOT a noted jazz singer?
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