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... that after Arlington's Hoover Field and Washington Airport merged to create Washington-Hoover Airport in 1933, a highway bisected the conjoined airfield's main runway (pictured)?
... that in 1729, when his plantation Corotoman was destroyed, Robert "King" Carter I lamented in his diary about the total destruction of his wine cellar?
... that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of?
...that the Pamunkey Indian Tribe Museum displays a combination of artifacts and replicas in order to provide a full and authentic view of the Pamunkey people's lifestyle for the last 12,000 years?
... that authorities believe convicted fraudster Edward Porta escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia, apparently by walking out of its minimum security area?

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