There we’ll be happy and free from all sorrow，
There’s where we’ll meet and we’ll never part no more．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．Virginia was named for England’s “Virgin Queen，”Elizabeth I．
2．The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry．
3．Jamestown，the first of the original 13Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation．Silk to be traded with the Court of King James．After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry（桑树，桑葚）trees（silkworm（蚕）food），sericulturist（养蚕者）planted tobacco as a cash crop．
4．Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U．S．It was also the first capital of Virginia．
5．Virginia is known as “the birthplace of a nation”．
6．Arlington County was originally part of the ten－mile square parcel（小包，包裹）of land surveyed in 1791to be part of Washington，DC．The U．S．Congress returned that portion（一部分）of the land to the “Commonwealth of Virginia”following a referendum（公民投票）among its citizens．
7．Eight United States Presidents were born in Virginia：George Washington，Thomas Jefferson，James Madison，James Monroe，William Harrison，John Tyler，Zachary Taylor，and Woodrow Wilson．
8．Six Presidents’wives were born in Virginia：Martha Washington，Martha Jefferson，Rachel Jackson，Letitia Tyler，Ellen Arthur，Edith Wilson．
9．Seven Presidents are buried in Virginia：Washington，Jefferson，Madison，Monroe，Tyler，Taft and Kennedy．
10．The present state capital in Richmond was also the capital of the Confederacy．
11．The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg（威廉斯堡［美国弗吉尼亚州东南部城市］）is the second oldest in the United States，it was founded in 1693．
12．The State nickname is “Old Dominion”．
13．The State flower is not really a flower，but the blossom of the dogwood tree，which is also the state tree．
14．The first peanuts（花生）grown in the United States were grown in Virginia．
15．The Blue Ridge Mountains are located in Virginia．
16．The American Revolution ended with the surrender of Cornwallis in Yorktown（约克镇［美国弗吉尼亚州东南部城镇］）．
17．On March 9，1862at Hampton Roads，Virginia，the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia（formerly the USS Merrimac）met in one of the most famous naval engagements in US history．Their battle，the first of its kind between metal armored（装甲）vessels，changed for all time the nature of naval warfare．
18．10th of the 13original colonies，Virginia was admitted to the union June 25，1788．
19．The state motto is “Sic Semper Tyrannis”．（Thus always to tyrants）
20．Union Passenger Railway was the first successful electric street railway transit（运输）agency．It was formed in 1888at Richmond．
21．The states of Kentucky &West Virginia were formed from sections of the state of Virginia
22．About 1／2of all the people in the United States live within a 500mile radius of the Capital of Virginia．
23．Virginia has had 3capital cities：Jamestown，Williamsburg，and Richmond．
24．Richmond was also the capital of the Confederate States（（美国南北战争时的）南部邦联）during the Civil War．
25．Over 1／2the battles fought in the civil war were fought in Virginia．Over 2，200of the 4，000battles．
26．In Virginia more people work for the United States government than any other industry．About 1／4of Virginia’s workers．
27．Virginia’s largest private employer is also the world’s largest ship building yard．
28．Virginia is the home base for the United States Navy’s Atlantic Fleet．
29．The tomb of the Unknown Soldier is in Arlington National Cemetery［（美国）阿林顿国家公墓］．
30．The Pentagon building in Arlington is the largest office building in the world．
31．The Pentagon has nearly 68，000miles of internal telephone lines．
32．Dulles International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world．
33．General Thomas Jackson got his nickname “Stonewall”in Manassass［马纳萨斯（美弗吉尼亚洲一镇）］．The site of 2major Civil War Battles．
34．The first Thanksgiving in North America was held in Virginia in 1619．
35．Yorktown is the site of the final victory of the American Revolution．
36．Virginia has been dubbed the “Internet Capital of the world”．
37．The Atlantic headquarters of NATO is located in Norfolk．
38．The Great Dismal Swamp is in Virginia near the North Carolina border．
39．Virginia Beach is the largest city in Virginia．Its population is expected to surpass（超过）500，000residents by 2010．
40．The Chesapeake（切萨皮克［美国弗吉尼亚州东南部城市］）Bay Bridge Tunnel is the world’s largest bridge－tunnel complex．
41．Wild Ponies have roamed（漫游）freely on Assateague Island for centuries．
42．The world’s only oyster（［动］牡蛎，蚝）museum is on Chincoteague Island．
43．Busch Garden’s Old Country Theme Park is located near Williamsburg．
44．President Thomas Jefferson designed his own home and called it Monticello．
45．George Washington’s home，Mount Vernon，is located in Virginia．
46．Robert E．Lee，Commanding General of the Army of Northern Virginia，surrendered his men to Ulysses Grant，General－in－Chief of all United States forces，on April 9，1865at the Appomattox（阿波马托克斯美国弗吉尼亚州中南部一城镇，位于林奇伯格东部。）Court House．
47．Patrick Henry made his “Give me Liberty or Give me Death”speech in St．John’s Church in Richmond．
48．Bristol（布里斯托尔，英国西部的港口）is legally two cities but they share the same main street．One in Virginia and one in Tennessee each with its own government and city services．
49．Waynesboro was the site of the last major battle of the Civil War in central Virginia，the Battle of Waynesboro in 1865between Generals Jubal Early and Philip Sheridan．
50．Colvin Run Mill in Great Falls has an early 19－century wooden water wheel and operating gristmill（磨坊）．The old Miller’s House features an exhibit about the process of milling and the families who operated the mill．
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军事家
华盛顿
华盛顿（1732—1799），美国独立战争时期大陆军总司令，美利坚合众国第一任总统，军事家。生于弗吉尼亚东部威斯特摩兰县一种植园主家庭。11岁丧父，由母亲和异母兄抚养长大，仅受过一些非正规教育。1748—1751年从事土地测量工作，熟谙弗吉尼亚的地理环境。1752年继承其兄的庄园遗产，并递补为英国殖民军民兵少校副官。1754年晋中校，曾率英军小分队在弗吉尼亚西部阻击法军进攻。次年任E．布拉多克将军副官，建议放弃欧洲传统战法，采取适应北美丛林特点的新战术。但英军未采纳他的建议，孤军冒进，大败而归。他由此受到R．丁威迪总督的赏识，被任命为弗吉尼亚民兵司令，领上校衔。1758年当选为弗吉尼亚议会议员，以名誉准将衔辞去军职。1765年因对英国殖民当局的重税和高压法令不满，参加议会反英活动。1773年波士顿“倾茶事件”发生后，投身于北美独立运动。1774年9月作为弗吉尼亚议会代表参加第一届大陆会议，呼吁北美各殖民地联合起来以武力抗击英国。