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Seal in lobby at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, USA
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Virginia gubernatorial hopefuls Republican Ken Cuccinelli, left, and Democrat Terry McAuliffe share a lighter moment after appearing at a luncheon sponsored by the Virginia Public Access Project, Thursday, May 30, 2013 in Richmond, Va. The project tracks political spending in campaigns. (AP Photo/The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Joe Mahoney)
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Virginia gubernatorial hopefuls Republican Ken Cuccinelli, left, and Democrat Terry McAuliffe at a luncheon sponsored by the Virginia Public Access Project, Thursday, May 30, 2013 in Richmond, Va.
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President Barack Obama with Virginia Senator Mark Warner during a campaign rally in Richmond, Virginia October 25, 2012.
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Customers queue for coffee at Starbucks Coffee inside the Dulles International Airport complex on August 30, 2011 in Dulles, Virginia, near Washington, DC. AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
Not originally published in LIFE. Rev. Martin Luther King, Virginia, 1960.
Not originally published in LIFE. Rev. Martin Luther King, Virginia, 1960.
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The Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick poses with her mother, Virginia Wing, in the living room of the home where she grew up in Palo Alto, California in 1970. "We raced out there because she was nine months pregnant," remembers Olson. "And the rest of the story took so long to complete, her daughter was a year old when it finally ran."
Costco was one of the retailers that saw sales rise higher than expected in June. June is the second biggest shopping month of the year. (Larry Downing / Reuters)
Shoppers at Costco in Fairfax, Virginia, January 7, 2010. Costco Wholesale Corp on Thursday reported a better-than-expected nine percent rise in December sales at stores open at least a year, helped by an increase in gasoline prices and stronger foreign currencies. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)
Not originally published in LIFE. Crowd at a speech by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Virginia, 1960.
Not originally published in LIFE. Crowd at a speech by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Virginia, 1960.
Not originally published in LIFE. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (seated) during a gathering prior to non-violent civil disobedience, Virginia, 1960.
Not originally published in LIFE. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (seated) during a gathering prior to non-violent civil disobedience, Virginia, 1960.
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Virginia Davis, the mother of Troy Davis, holds a button in her lap pleading clemency for her son at her Savannah home, July 12, 2007. Georgia executed Troy Davis on September 21, 2011, for the murder of an off-duty police officer, a crime he denied committing.
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Virginia residents wait in line in the pre dawn hours to vote in the 2012 US presidential election at Nottoway Park in Vienna, Virginia November 6 2012.
Richard Loving kisses his wife, Mildred, April 1965. See the gallery, “Love Supreme: An Interracial Romance Triumphs in 1960s Virginia.”
Richard Loving kisses his wife, Mildred, April 1965. See the gallery, "Love Supreme: An Interracial Romance Triumphs in 1960s Virginia."
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U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks after being announced by Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his vice presidential running mate in front of the USS Wisconsin August 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Virginia. Ryan, a seven term congressman, is Chairman of the House Budget Committee and provides a strong contrast to the Obama administration on fiscal policy.
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The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in Virginia. the NCTC has elements of the FBI and CIA where terrorism-related information is shared on a real-time basis.
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Ryan Clark is shown during a Virginia Tech home football game in Blacksburg Va., in 2005. Clark, 22, of Martinez, Ga., was among the students killed in rthe shootings.
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A customer enters Roanoke Firearms in Roanoke, Virginia, April 17, 2007. Cho Seung-Hui bought a Glock 19 handgun from the shop 36 days before going on a shooting rampage that left 33 people dead.
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A victim is carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 16, 2007. At least 31 people were killed in a shooting rampage on the campus
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Virginia State Police stand guard outside Norris Hall, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where at least 33 people died in two shootings on campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, on April 16, 2007.
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Stones draped with flowers and beads at a memorial for shooting victims on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. on April 19, 2007.
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Jr., left, and the University of Virginia
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Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell greets supporters before voting at Rivers Edge Elementary School on November 3, 2009 in Glen Allen, Virginia.
Richard and Mildred Loving, Virginia, April 1965.
Richard and Mildred Loving, Virginia, April 1965.
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Thousands of Virginia Tech students take part in a mass candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the massacre in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Project Mercury astronauts at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia: (top, left to right) Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper; (bottom left to right) Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
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Project Mercury astronauts pose in new pressure suits at Virginia's Langley Air Force Base, 1960.
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Sgt. Pete Damon, Virginia National Guard aviation mechanic.
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Members of the Virginia Tech baseball team bow their heads during a moment of silence prior to the start of their game against the University of Miami April 20, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Teresa Lewis was sentenced to death for plotting to have her husband and stepson killed in 2002. Lewis could become the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years
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Harper Hall at the Virginia Tech campus on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Harper Hall is where shooter Cho Seung-hui lived.
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What dead language? Kids in Virginia practice the ancient tongue
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In this Sept. 18, 2003, photo, Virginia Beach postman Paul Martin delivers mail in Virginia Beach, Va. Massive deficits facing the post office could force the agency to cut out one day of mail delivery per week
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Police gather at the Wytheville Post Office Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. A hostage situation is ongoing at the post office in the southwest Virginia town
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Demolition experts blasted a 100-ft. hole in the Embrey Dam in 2004. Virginia's Rappahannock is now one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the Lower 48
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Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain on the night of the Virginia, Maryland and Washington primary elections at a campaign rally in Alexandria, Virginia, February 12, 2008.
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S. R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, who became famous when Virginia Senator George Allen referred to him as "macaca."
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Engraved portrait of English colonist, pioneer, sailor, and soldier John Smith circa 1580 – 1631. Smith signed on to the Virginia Company's project at Jamestown, which became the first permanent English settlement in America.
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A file picture showing an Austrian 9 bore Glock 19 handgun. Choused a legally puchased Glock 19 semi-automatic in his gun rampage at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
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President Bush, center, speaks to members of the media following his meeting with the Iraq Study Group. From left are former Virginia Sen. Charles S. Robb, National Security Adviser Steven Hadley, Iraq Study Group Co-Chairman Lee Hamilton, President Bush, Iraq Study Group Co-Chairman James A. Baker III and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten.
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Students gather in front of the War Memorial to mourn their fellow students, April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Seal in lobby at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, USA
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Virginia Hawkins shovels snow from her driveway on Feb. 21, 2013, in Hutchinson, Kan.
Shirley MacLaine sings on the TV program Shower of Stars in 1955. The Virginia native took ballet lessons as a kid to compensate for weak ankles. She went to Broadway to try her luck while still in high school.
Shirley MacLaine sings on the TV program Shower of Stars in 1955. The Virginia native took ballet lessons as a kid to compensate for weak ankles. She went to Broadway to try her luck while still in high school.
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University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan, surrounded by supporters and students, sings the "Good Old Song," the university's anthem, on July 26, 2012, after she was reinstated
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Navy SEALs training in July along Virginia's Atlantic coast.
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University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan walks through a crowd of supporters on her way to the Board of Visitors meeting at the Rotunda on Monday, June 18, 2012, in Charlottesville, Va.
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University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan addresses supporters following a Board of Visitors meeting at the Rotunda on Monday, June 18, 2012, in Charlottesville, Va.
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Back Bay, Virginia, photographed from a helicopter, 1952.
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Virginia killed a bill that would have let homeschoolers like Nick Faulconer play on public high school teams
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Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan campaigns in Virginia on August 11, 2012
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Unpublished. Billy and Ruth Graham and their four children in North Carolina in 1956: Franklin (who would become the pastor's designated successor as head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association), Virginia, Anne and Ruth.
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Richard and Mildred Loving at Sumerduck Dragway, Sumerduck, Virginia, April 1965.
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Richard and Mildred Loving sit in their car outside a country store, Virginia, April 1965.
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Republicans U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, right, shakes hands with Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky. They are joined by House whip Eric Cantor of Virginia at the Fancy Farm breakfast in Mayfield, Ky.
Virginia Republican Robert Hurt, left, and Democrat Tom Perriello
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Virginia Republican Scott Rigell, left, and Democrat Glenn Nye
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell
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The Virginia National Guard's 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, readies for take off.
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Mildred Loving greets her husband Richard on their front porch, King and Queen County, Virginia, April 1965.
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Virginia State Police gather while searching for a man that is possibly connected with multiple fatalities outside of a house in Appomattox County, Va. on Jan. 19, 2010
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U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips
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Richard and Mildred Loving laugh while watching television in their living room, King and Queen County, Virginia, April 1965.
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Richard Loving kisses his wife Mildred as he arrives home from work, King and Queen County, Virginia, April 1965.
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Members of the Virginia Tea Party gather in Richmond for a rally on March 8, 2010
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Former Virginia attorney general Robert McDonnell, left, and state senator Robert Creigh Deeds
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Ken Cuccinelli, attorney general of Virginia
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Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine addresses the crowd during the last day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28
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Gun-rights supporters gather in Virginia carrying weapons as a demonstration of their constitutional right to bear arms
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Former Virginia governor Warner speaks at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 26
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Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui in a yearbook photo
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Fred Dalton Thompson, an American lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Republican Senator from Tennessee , still contemplating a run for the white house. McLean, Virginia 2007
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Tiny Virginia Makopo, 27, who faces charges of assault and criminal injury of students at Oprah Winfrey's South African school for disadvantaged girls, appears in court April 21, 2008.
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Virginia Tech President Dr. Charles W. Steger.
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Virginia Tech students comfort one another during during a convocation ceremony at Cassell Coliseum a day after a gunman shot and killed 32 people before turning the gun on himself April 17, 2007, in Blacksburg, Viriginia.
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Richard and Mildred Loving sit in a car celebrating Richard's win in a race at Sumerduck Dragway, Sumerduck, Virginia, April 1965.
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Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore
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Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore
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Richard and Mildred Loving with their children Peggy, Donald and Sidney in their living room, King and Queen County, Virginia, April 1965.
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Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell of Virginia, left, and New Jersey Governor-elect Chris Christie, right
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Bob McDonnell, candidate for Virginia governor, campaigns at a Women for McDonnell rally in Vienna, Va.
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Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe, left, campaigns with former President Bill Clinton, center, in Herndon, Va.
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Virginia's governor Mark Warner, second from left, after a press conference on the shootings
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Students mourn at Virginia Tech University after the shooting rampage that killed 33 people.
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Randy Pausch photographed in Virginia in 2008
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A doctor in Virginia uses a hand-held device to write an e-prescription.
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Aerial view of the CIA headquarters in Virginia.
A book commemorating the Virginia Tech shooting
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Jefferson’s Virginia home, Monticello
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Jim Gilmore, former Virginia Governor
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A gun shop in Virginia.
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In Alexandria, Virginia, just a few of Krispy Kreme's 5 million-a-day output
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Pat Buchanan at home in Virginia, August 18, 2006.
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A gun rights activist in Arlington, Virginia, holds a banner while standing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after the decision was announced on the District of Columbia gun ban in Washington, D.C.
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Carrie and Emma Buck at the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, Lynchburg, VA circa 1924.
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Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
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JUDGING THE JUDGE: Roberts meets Virginia Republican Senator George
Allen
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Bobbie Kilberg, president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council; investment banker George Munoz, and Ira Hall former treasurer of Texaco
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Zacarias Moussaoui is arraigned in Alexandria, Virginia
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From left: Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe at a luncheon sponsored by the Virginia Public Access Project, in Richmond, Va., on May 30, 2013.
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Shopping carts sit inside a Wal-Mart store in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012.
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