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Who is considered the founder of Mother's Day?
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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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1950s TV star Virginia Ruth Egnor from Lincoln County and Huntington was known to the public by this nickname.
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For 75 years, Catholic nuns ran the DeSales Heights boarding school for women in this city before closing it to open the state's first Montessori school.
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This Logan native starred alongside John Wayne in the classic Westerns Red River and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
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This Monongalia County native and WVU graduate was one America's leading abstract painters and print makers.
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Fayette County native Eleanor Parker was known for performing this style of music.
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This Buckhannon native won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Night Watch, set in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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This poet, who grew up in Bramwell, played a significant role in the Harlem Renaissance and had her work published in the first edition of the prestigious Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
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Who were the lead singers in the Wheeling-based Border Riders?
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