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22,000 B.C.: 23,482 years before Columbus. It’s the Ice Age ... Off the coast of Virginia someone hunted a mastodon and left a clue that could mean Europeans really were the very first to find America. Mystery Files s2e10: Sitting Bull, National Geographic 2011
In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks, even freemen, could not own guns. Ann Coulter, Negroes with Guns
Today, I offer the Commonwealth’s sincere apology for Virginia’s participation in eugenics. We must remember the Commonwealth’s past mistakes in order to prevent them from recurring. Mark Warner, cited BBC News 3rd May 2002
They’re building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. George C Wallace
My next stop is Petersburg which Appleton’s tells me is a well-built city at the head of navigation. Michael Portillo, Great American Railroad Journeys XV: Petersburg to Jamestown, BBC 2016
And in south-western Virginia … what caused a 47-acre lake to suddenly disappear? Secrets of the Underground s1e4, Sky 2017
For decades families made Mountain Lake a part of their summer tradition. Then, in 2002, something bizarre started happening. The lake levels began to drop dramatically, and by 2008, it had completely vanished. ibid.
It’s a pretty active earthquake zone … A huge hole … water is actively getting sucked out. ibid.
In Huntington, West Virginia, I was spending time with heroin users. The city’s been swept up in the most deadly drug epidemic in US history. For several weeks I’ve been trying to get to grips with why. Louis Theroux: Dark States: Heroin Town I, BBC 2017
‘I’ve used since I was 12.’ ibid. 26-year-old Petty Betty
In Huntington as many as one out of four adults is addicted to heroin or some other form of opiate. ibid.
Last year in Huntington one out of ten babies was born dependent on opiates. ibid.
Heroin addiction notoriously tenacious and treatment very difficult. ibid.
After Charlottesville Frontline and Pro Publica reporter A C Thompson investigates who was behind the violent riot and uncovers a network across America that goes beyond Charlottesville. Frontline: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, PBS 2018
Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12th 2017: Charlottesville was a crime scene … The largest gathering of White Supremacists in a generation: they called it Unite the Right. ibid.
I’m able to identify several more RAM [Rise Above Movement] members. ibid.