Portal:Virginia/Did you know/2


 * ... that the 1929 film The Virginian (poster pictured) featured "yup and nope" actor Gary Cooper saying "if you wanna call me that – smile"?
 * ...that Norge, an unincorporated town in James City County, Virginia was established by Norwegian-Americans in the late 19th century?
 * ... that Mary Lou Forbes, whose reporting on school integration in Virginia won a 1959 Pulitzer Prize, had been hired as a copy girl by the Washington Star after the accounting spot she wanted was filled?
 * ... that the Bremo Plantation at Bremo Bluff, Virginia, provided refuge to the family of General Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War?

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