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The South > Virginia > Identification

VIRGINIAN IDENTIFICATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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State beverages > Drink Milk
State butterflies > Binomial nomenclature Papilio glaucus
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state beverages
State butterflies > State butterfly Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state butterflies
State fossil > Age Caenozoic
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state butterflies
State fossil > Binomial nomenclature Chesapecten jeffersonius
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state fossils
State fossil > Common name scallop
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state fossils
State fossil > Year 1,993
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state fossils
State mottos > Motto Sic semper tyrannis
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state fossils
State Name Virginia
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state mottos
State shells > Shell Eastern Oyster
Source: John
State shells > Year designated 1,974
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state shells
State soil
Pamunkey
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state shells
State tree Flowering dogwood
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state soils
State tree > Binomial Nomenclature Cornus florida
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state trees
Symbols > State animal
Virginia Big-eared Bat (State bat); American Foxhound (State dog)
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state trees
Symbols > State bird Cardinal
Source: "State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols" by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer.
Symbols > State motto
Sic semper tyrannis (Thus always to tyrants)
Source: "State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols" by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer.
U.S. state beverages > Drink Milk
Source: FirstGov Official Government Website, Wikipedia
U.S. state insects > Binomial name Papilio glaucus
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state beverages
U.S. state insects > State insect
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Source: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state insects

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SOURCES: Wikipedia: List of U.S. state beverages; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state butterflies; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state fossils; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state mottos; John; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state shells; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state soils; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state trees; "State Names, Seals, Flags and Symbols" by Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer.; FirstGov Official Government Website, Wikipedia; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state beverages ; Wikipedia: List of U.S. state insects

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