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| | Virginia Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Virginia is one of the states that seceded from the Union to become the Confederacy (on April 17, 1861) during the Civil War. |
 | | Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac River) to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky and West Virginia to the west. |
 | | Virginia is served by a network of Interstate Highways, arterial highways, several limited access tollways, bridges, tunnels, and five bridge-tunnel complexes known as the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel, the Elizabeth River Downtown Bridge-Tunnel, the Elizabeth River Midtown Bridge-Tunnel, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. |
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