Take Me Home | Country Roads | To the Place | I Belong | West Virginia |
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The White House
Home to the President of the United States
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I-95
Running north from Miami to the Canadian border
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The Cliffs of Dover
At a height of 350 feet, this coastline is famous for its chalky, white color
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Henry VIII
This suit of armor belonged to a particularly portly English king, fitting him better in his youth
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Charleston
The capital city, home to just under fifty-thousand
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Buckingham Palace
Home to the Royal Family of the United Kingdom
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Route 66
Running from Chicago west to Santa Monica
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Uluru / Ayers Rock
One of Australia's many UNESCO World Heritage sites, this red plateau features prominently in Aboriginal Folklore
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Oda Nobunaga
Distinctive for its grey mustache, this helmet belonged to the first daimyo to unite Japan under one dynasty
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Shenandoah River
A prominent tributary of the Potomac, running nearly a hundred miles between two forks
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10 Downing Street
Home to the British Prime Minister
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The Autobahn
Abbreviated BAB, this German highway is infamous for its lack of speed limits
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Giant's Causeway
On the northern coast of Ulster, this distinctive patch of land if formed from more than 40,000 interlocking basalt columns; these being the result of an ancient volcanic fissure
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William Wallace
Bloodied at the Battle of Stirling in 1297, this claymore belonged to a particularly tall Scottish knight
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Pearl S. Buck
West Virginian novelist most famous for her Chinese excursions and her 1932: "The Good Earth"
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Mount Vernon
Former home to George Washington
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Route 1
Stretching 2,369 miles from Key West to Fort Kent, this road is the primary inheritor of the Antiquated Boston Post Road
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Zion Canyon
Carved by the North Fork of the Virgin River, this national park played refuge to the Mormons after their Missourian expulsion in 1856
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Thomas Jefferson
This heavily-annotated Quran was held by a certain president, hoping to understand his enemies in the Barbary Wars
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Ethnic Americans (12.9%)
Behind German (18.9%) and Irish (15.1%), this group represents the third-largest ethnic ancestry in West Virginia--nearly exclusive to the region
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24 Sussex Drive
Home to the Canadian Prime Minister
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The Blue Ridge Parkway
This 469-mile scenic highway roughly traces the Appalachian Trail
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Iguacu Falls
These famous waterfalls represent the tri-border between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
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Baldwin IV
Featured popularly in "Kingdom of Heaven," this mask belonged to the infamous Leper King of Jerusalem
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New River Gorge Bridge
Built in 1977, this bridge is featured on the West Virginian State Quarter, the National Register of Historic Places, and centerpiece in Fayette County's "Bridge Day"
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