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Portal:Virginia/Did you know

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This page lists all the "Did you know" fact sets that previously randomly displayed on the main page of Portal:Virginia

Guidelines

As a general goal, where possible each set of DYK selections should have a variety of hooks: they set should be from various locations (e.g. Central & Eartern Virginia, Northern Virginia, Western Virginia), various types (e.g. biography, location, historic site) and even time period (e.g. colonial vs. 20th-21st century): in sum, the whole swath of the Virginia experience.

As these DYK will be displayed for a long period of time (rather than the several hours that a normal DYK is), the chosen DYK entries should be enduring (esp. important for facts) as well as interesting; in sum, a curated selection for quality, rather than quantity (A manually-assembled list of unused DYK entries from Virginia may be found at Portal:Virginia/Did you know/Candidates).

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Athenaeum, Old Town Alexandria

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Civil War Unknowns Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery
Civil War Unknowns Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery

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a Renaissance Revival church with two bell towers at the front, and a dome in the middle
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Richmond

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The Varmint of Burkes Garden
The Varmint of Burkes Garden

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Rapidan Camp, Shenandoah National Park
Rapidan Camp, Shenandoah National Park

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portrait of a man with a moustache
Dr. Hunter McGuire

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portrait of an older man in a black robe with a powdered periwig
The Reverend James Blair

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Maggie L. Walker NHS, Jackson Ward, Richmond

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Reconstructed Old Appomattox Court House
Reconstructed Old Appomattox Court House

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Take-off over the highway at Washington-Hoover Airport, 1935

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Excavations at Jamestown
Excavations at Jamestown

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a boxy brick house with a hipped roof
Fall Hill, near Fredericksburg

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Ash Lawn-Highland
Ash Lawn-Highland

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a cannonball lodged in a brick wall
Cannonball with sign

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