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Panorama northwest, northeast and east from a ridge along West Virginia Route 42 between Elk Garden and Sulphur City in Mineral County, West Virginia (2016)

West Virginia is a state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,793,716 residents. The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055.

West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War. It was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, one of two states (along with Nevada) admitted to the Union during the Civil War, and the second state to separate from another state, after Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820. Some of its residents held slaves, but most were yeoman farmers, and the delegates provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution. The state legislature abolished slavery in the state, and at the same time ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery nationally on February 3, 1865.

West Virginia's northern panhandle extends adjacent to Pennsylvania and Ohio to form a tristate area, with Wheeling, Weirton, and Morgantown just across the border from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Huntington in the southwest is close to Ohio and Kentucky, while Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry in the eastern panhandle region are considered part of the Washington metropolitan area, between Maryland and Virginia. West Virginia is often included in several U.S. geographical regions, including the Mid-Atlantic, the Upland South, and the Southeastern United States. It is the only state entirely within the area served by the Appalachian Regional Commission; the area is commonly defined as "Appalachia". (Full article...)

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Anthony Adamle (May 15, 1924 – October 7, 2000) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker and fullback in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire career for the Cleveland Browns before retiring to pursue a medical degree.

Adamle grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a star fullback on his Collinwood High School football team. He attended Ohio State University in 1942, but his college career was cut short by World War II. After a stint in the United States Army Air Force, Adamle returned to finish his education at Ohio State in 1946. He soon dropped out of school, however, and joined the Browns. Cleveland won AAFC championships in each of Adamle's first three years, after which the league folded and the Browns were absorbed by the more established NFL. Cleveland continued to succeed in the NFL, winning the 1950 championship and advancing to the 1951 championship but losing to the Los Angeles Rams. Adamle left the Browns after the 1951 season to pursue a medical degree, but he came out of retirement briefly in 1954 as the Browns won another NFL championship. (Full article...)

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George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953) is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals.

Brett's 3,154 career hits are second most by any third baseman in major league history (after only Adrián Beltré's 3,166) and rank 18th all-time. He is one of five players in MLB history to accumulate 3,000 hits, 300 home runs, and a career .300 batting average (the others being Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Miguel Cabrera, and Stan Musial). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 on the first ballot and is the only player in MLB history to win a batting title in three different decades. He was also a member of the Royals' 1985 World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. (Full article...)

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Image 1A toll plaza on the West Virginia Turnpike (from West Virginia)
Image 2Child labor in the coal mines of West Virginia, 1908 (from West Virginia)
Image 3The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries US 22 from Weirton WV into Ohio. (from West Virginia)
Image 4From left, Senator Joe Manchin, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and Representative David McKinley (2017) (from West Virginia)
Image 5Turnout by county in the October 24, 1861, West Virginia statehood vote (from History of West Virginia)
Image 6Racial plurality in West Virginia by county, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
(from West Virginia)
Image 7Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County (from West Virginia)
Image 8Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, changed hands a dozen times during the American Civil War. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 9West Virginia population density map (from West Virginia)
Image 10The summit of Spruce Knob is often covered in clouds. (from West Virginia)
Image 11The iconic New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville (from West Virginia)
Image 12John S. Carlile, a leader during the First Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 13Counties (in blue) approving Virginia's secession from the U.S. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 14Harpers Ferry alternated between Confederate and Union rule eight times during the American Civil War, and was finally annexed by West Virginia. (from West Virginia)
Image 151751 Fry-Jefferson map showing early ferries and established colonial borders before the French And Indian War (from History of West Virginia)
Image 16Historical coat of arms of West Virginia (illustrated, 1876) (from West Virginia)
Image 17Francis H. Pierpont, a leader during the Second Wheeling Convention (from West Virginia)
Image 181715 Nicolas de Fer map showing the Native American areas known as Tionontatacaga and Calicuas (from History of West Virginia)
Image 19Escaped slave broadside, Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1845 (from West Virginia)
Image 20The Linsly Institute building in Wheeling, West Virginia, which served as the state's first capitol building from statehood in 1863 until March 28, 1870, when the capitol was transferred to Charleston, West Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
Image 21Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946 (from West Virginia)
Image 22Slave woman tending to a white baby in West Virginia, 1865 (from West Virginia)
Image 23Map of Virginia dated June 13, 1861, featuring the percentage of slave population within each county at the 1860 census and the proposed state of Kanawha (from West Virginia)
Image 24Map of West Virginia counties (from West Virginia)
Image 25Bluefield, a major center for coal mining, in 2014 (from West Virginia)
Image 26Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-valley Appalachians (from West Virginia)
Image 27Köppen climate types of West Virginia, using 1991-2020 climate normals (from West Virginia)
Image 28Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 29State of Westylvania proposed to the U.S. Congress (from West Virginia)
Image 30Bituminous coal seam in southwestern West Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 31Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, a statue on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol (from West Virginia)
Image 32Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote (from West Virginia)
Image 33Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
Image 34West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 35A view of the New River in West Virginia, the world's third-oldest river geologically (from History of West Virginia)
Image 36Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in West Virginia in 2021. (from West Virginia)

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... that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?
... that professor Ruth Ann Davis made the largest-ever single contribution to Potomac State College of West Virginia University to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?
... that after Lew Dickey Sr. broke into the radio business by buying a station in West Virginia, his son would go on to own Cumulus Media?
... that the 1967 Fairmont State Falcons won West Virginia's first national title in football?
... that the China Folk House Retreat dismantled a Chinese folk house and rebuilt it in West Virginia?
... that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?

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^ "Biggest US Cities By Population - West Virginia - 2018 Population". Biggest US Cities. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

[1] "Biggest US Cities By Population - West Virginia - 2018 Population". Biggest US Cities. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

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